It is no exaggeration to say this is one of the most disappointing TV shows I have seen in a long time. Looking past the return of Picard and the interesting premise, its flaws are legion.

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- Allegiances shift on a dime for some characters
- For a show which is basically a race against time, as well as a chase thriller, the show has a terribly glacial pace, rendering it completely unexciting.
- huge gaps in logic. A borg cube, 10,000 the size of the piramid of Gyzeh, crashes into a planet and does not create so much as a crater. In fact, it looks fairly intact when we see it moments later.
- Why are fistfights in Star Trek always so stilted and shoddily shot?
- Plot points which occured earlier are completely abandoned
- Silly gadgets which are entirely implausible but dictated by the plot, since, otherwise there would be no way out.
- The show totally botches the return of Hugh and Seven of Nine. The latter parachutes conveniently into the plot whenever the characters need a break. and Hugh, man that shoulda been a big deal, Locutus meeting Hugh, but feels like an afterthought.
- It also botches the return of character Bruce Maddox from TNG's 'Measure of a Man' episode, who's barely seen, and then dies unceremoniously.
- The show doesn't botch the return of Riker and Troi, until that too goes out the window in the final episode. This is actually really hilarious. Picard and allies need a break as they're about to be destroyed by a humongous fleet of Romulan ships. The sky is literally ablaze with green specks of light. And then suddenly, squillions of Starfleet ships materialize out of thin air, and they literally all look the same (!). The Romulans are hailed by Starfleet's flagship vessel (which makes no sense since they all look the same), and it is piloted by Riker, who 5 episodes earlier was retired and baking pizza's. Sure, it's great to see the beard again behind the 'wheel', and of course he gets to say some really badass things, but being the pilot of the Starship copy&paste is nothing to be proud of. The stakes at this moment are gigantic, complete fucking annihilation of organic life, and it's less exciting than an episode of the A-team.
- And oh boy, the actual thing that would bring about armageddon is glimpsed briefly as it emerges from a wormhole: a, well, sort of huge mechanoid squid. Hugh - H = ugh.
- special effects fail to convince. Ugly space ship designs, garish colors, make this universe feel lived in for a fucking change.
- Data dies again, or a virtual version of Data, in an admittedly good scene, but he already died in Star Trek Nemesis.
- there are some more