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  • Pretty much nothing you said is true, it was not "designed from the ground up to be frustrating" and the other statements are too vague to even bother attacking. "Not even wrong" is the phrase that comes to mind.

    You didn't even mention an example of a game which would count as "something good".

  • No and no. I was disappointed and a bit upset, but not traumatized. Though if someone told me that the beginning of S1E5 was traumatic for them, I'd believe it.

    I do believe people when they say they enjoy S3. Even though the story was just a bunch of reheated plot elements from other Treks, there is some joy to be had viewing it as a TNG reunion special. It's "Return to Mayberry" to the tune of BSG 2003, nothing more and nothing less.

    (In contrast, Star Trek IV is the best TV reunion special ever made. Everyone's playing an exaggerated version of their 1960's personas and having a blast. It too is a bunch of reheated plot elements - the probe is awfully similar to Nomad and V'Ger at first glance, and "let's time travel to insert current year" was already the plot of two different TOS episodes. I'm trying to think of how a hypothetical good Picard season could've tapped into the same energy that STIV did.)

  • The deaths of ::: spoiler spoiler Hugh and Icheb ::: were particularly upsetting for me, personally (especially the graphic nature of the latter). PIC S1 had way too much "let's kill people for no good reason" events.

    I'd be perfectly happy if the dead PIC characters just showed up alive and well in a later show, no reason given. (They already did this with Q, right?)

  • I have two reasons to not write this off:

    1. Picard S2 would have been just fine as a 2-or-3-part episode, and not a 10-episode full season.
    2. The first 4 episodes of Picard S3, watched together by themselves, become the second-best TNG movie (after First Contact of course).

    If they were announcing Picard season 4 I'd just groan and ignore it. But I think the cast and crew could actually pull off a decent 1.5-2 hours of good entertainment.

  • I have an inexplicable fondness for the Excelsior class. Both NX-2000 and NCC-1701-B are fun to watch. I would've liked to see more of them.

    (I know there's a bunch in the Dominion War battle scenes, but never for very long.)

  • Good to know! I've been using local testing and fortunately haven't run into a case where the tests pass local and fail on their servers. Yet.

    My most intense solution so far had been a very multi-core Knapsack solution. The tests they provided are pretty minuscule, which probably helped.