Season Two of 'Picard' makes a highly logical return to its Star Trek roots, with more episodic adventures and a couple of old arch-nemeses. Read sepinwall's review.
, the new season has not wholly returned to episodic values, but it’s closer. Season One ended with Picard and his new friends — rogue starship captain Cristóbal Rios , Picard’s former protégé Raffi Musiker , cybernetics expert Agnes Jurati , android Sohji , Romulan warrior Elnor , and former Borg drone Seven of Nine — teaming up to go boldly off in search of adventure together.
These early scenes are used to set up a flirtatious relationship between Picard and his Romulan employee, Laris , and to examine exactly how and why Jean-Luc got from the French countryside to the captain’s chair of the Federation flagship. This is surprisingly untilled soil for the franchise. We saw the vineyard a few times on, and knew that Jean-Luc had a difficult relationship with his older brother, but that was largely it in terms of backstory.
There are other promising improvements along the way. Sohji and Elnor, the two most earnest and kinda dull members of the ensemble, both get sidelined early on, leaving even more room for the characters who pop. The show leans more on its actors’ facility with comedy — Alison Pill in particular is a damned delight as a more confident and loose version of Agnes than the one from last season — without undercutting the dramatic stakes.
If hearing Stewart say unexpected words and phrases is your particular comedy fetish, get ready to hear “L’chaim,” “hooch,” and “bullshit” escape his lips. (Though in general, the profanity doesn’t add nearly enough value to be worth it, especially since that’s really the show’s only tangibly “adult” difference from
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