Star Trek: Picard,’ With Its Refugee Crisis and Anti-Trump Messaging, May Be the Most Political Show on TV
More than 25 years after that series’ final episode aired, Stewart, Picard, and the Enterprise are going where seemingly everybody has already gone: the TV reboot.
The new take on the character boasts a striking elevation in visuals and production value from the original series, and with it an even more mature tone.
There’s a certain reassuring comfort in seeing Stewart back in space and once again channeling Picard, the stately Starfleet captain so noble as to make it entirely believable that he could be a moral compass for an entire galaxy, and then some.
Star Trek: Picard, which debuts Thursday on CBS All Access, revives the most successful iteration of the TV franchise for the first time since a string of four The Next Generation films ended with the maligned Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002.