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I Love the Final Season of “Star Trek: Picard” — Except for the Part Where They Swear and Take the Lord’s Name In Vain
It’s Not Anything “Star Trek” Creator Gene Roddenberry Would Be Proud Of
I love the final season of Picard, now streaming on Paramount+. I love it except for the part where they swear and take the Lord’s Name in vain.
I don’t even mind when the unending arc storyline that stretches over ten episodes. That’s how all TV shows do it today (although Star Trek: The Next Generation was the first to do that beginning in that show’s second season. I’d prefer the one-story-per-episode way, with a self-contained beginning, middle, and end).
I don’t even mind that Admiral Picard is now positronic (essentially, he’s the same, but rebuilt and different). I don’t even mind that the show’s imagery is still too dark, from a visual, aesthetic, and storytelling point of view. I don’t even mind that the 21st Century dialogue (the way everyone talks today in real life) is out of place in the 25th Century of the show. I don’t even mind that the “cool” use of 21st music is over-used throughout the episodes. I don’t even mind any of that.
But the swearing; the cursing; the constant use of vulgarity and four-letter words? That bugs me. For several reasons. It’s used just because…just because…
