Star Trek: Picard, S3.4: “No Win Scenario” gets its ship together…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** After a decent season opener (“The Next Generation”), the second and third episodes (“Disengage,” “Seventeen Seconds” ) of Star Trek: Picard’s third season were in danger of slipping into the same kind of story morass that defined the unsuccessful second season. However, this week’s episode turns near-death “into a fighting chance to live.”…

Star Trek: Picard warps into its third season with “The Next Generation”…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Star Trek: Picard (PIC) has been an uneven ride, to put it mildly. The first season had some interesting ideas, and a (more or less) satisfying conclusion, saddled with a meandering middle section, and some ill-conceived characters (looking at you, Narek and Narissa). What could’ve ended as a decent miniseries pushed its luck…