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This is turning out just like season 1, increasingly bad writing, boring storytelling and silly character development. WHY?!? Do the writers really not have enough imagination to come up with a worthy Star Trek storyline? After the disaster that ST Discovery turned into, my last hope is on now 'Strange New Worlds'...

I always like episodes when Star Trek travel back into the past. Problem is since they've been in the past, nothing much interesting has happened.

I had forgotten that Guinan had actually met Picard back on the TNG show when he had traveled into the past. This is a massive plot hole that writers should have not missed and only explanation is maybe the future alteration by Q changed the past by creating an alternate timeline or universe.

I have still have no idea if this season will pay off, so far things aren't going anywhere fast. Sucks when you watch a couple hours and it seems to be going nowhere. The first two episodes had more going on. Limited ideas it seems like, stretching out to an entire season.

Still this is a million times better than Discovery, that show is unwatchable. Yeah this episode had a bit too much obvious political things in it but not so bad as DIscovery, that show made me feel sick to watch it, that show felt like it was made only for the .01% of the far left.

Seriously - ICE agents "disappearing" people? Every barrel has a few rotten apples, but to depict ICE officers as twisted and sadistic villains is disappointing. Old Trek was about universal truths and morality, not ideological-driven stereotypes. Discovery has already gone down this rabbit hole and probably will never re-surface from it. I hope Picard isn't tagging along for the ride. Not all law enforcement are bad guys and not all immigrants are good guys. To imply anything else is lazy and cliche. With TOS, even if the effects were a little campy, for the most part you could always count in well written, thoughtful stories. Why can't we have that again?

I guess we'll have to watch all of Season 2 before we can understand why Episodes 3 and 4 were not condensed to just one episode.

Also, if you don't want to have a "Wait! What?" moment, better forget that you ever watched TNG Season 5 finale and Season 6 opener Episodes, titled Time's Arrow. If you never watched those, so much the better to enjoy Picard S2E4...

I am referring to an extremely important moment that could have been written completely differently to acknowledge events in Time's Arrow. No idea why they opted to go the way they did with it. It would have changed nothing of what happened with that meeting in S2E4 and might have even made it better.

I do enjoy the in-jokes, though, as in reversing the outcome of the brief boom-box bus scene from The Voyage Home...

Don't you wish you had a transporter whenever the cops are after you?

First off the stupidity with the whole ice thing is ridiculous.

And now they're just recasting characters I mean are we that dumb?

I am so sick and tired of all the politics thrown in the show that's just supposed to be for entertainment.