In Which I Discuss Star Trek

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As I've said before I don't pay for any subscription services but I do have other ways to see shows and have been watching both Discovery and Picard.

While my favorite of the two is Discovery, I've been enjoying Season 2 of Picard quite a lot.  Picard's first season just felt really slow for my taste, especially in the beginning.  I also didn't connect very well with a lot of the characters, as it often takes me a while to gain an interest in a new character, and there are quite a few major new characters.  But Season 2 is a lot zippier, and it has Q, who's one of my favorites.  It's also the most fun the borg have ever been.  Love the borg queen in this.  Well, there are two borg queens who appear, actually, but the first one we don't get much time with.  The second one we see a lot more of, and it's in a quite intriguing and unusual context.  Don't know how it's going to all end, but it's been really enjoyable so far.

Picard and Discovery are very different shows, and because of that, I feel they're quite complementary.  Discovery has a cast of entirely new characters taking center stage, and I really enjoy how they've developed the main cast, though their development of secondary characters is quite uneven.  Like there are secondary characters I absolutely love on the show, but there's also a number of the secondary crew members who I don't even recognize or remember names for.