- Title: Star Trek: Picard – The Star Gazer
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Despite his enjoyment in the stars last season, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) has returned home to his vineyard and awkward relationships. But not to fret, a new menace (which just coincidentally involves several of the characters from last season) has happened deep in space and Starfleet pulls the admiral back into action once more. “The Star Gazer” is mostly set-up, focusing on Picard’s life back on Earth and teasing just what the threat may be. The reveal turns out to be something as a red herring as the characters aren’t going to fight what come through the hole in space but instead the new lives in which they find themselves trapped in an alternate timeline far different than they remember.
“The Star Gazer” gives us the same highs and lows as the show’s First Season was known for. There’s a pretty big gap between the end of Season One and how all the characters manage to find themselves in the roles we see here that the show doesn’t even attempt to explain. Bringing back all the characters after going to all the trouble of dispersing them seems a bit weird. And we get another callback to Star Trek: The Next Generation when Picard calls on an old friend for advice in a sequence, like much of the first episode, turns out to be not all that important to the story that will be the primary focus for the rest of the season.
