RetroCora wrote:OK, so the way they've gotten to this development is sloppy as hell, but...I don't hate it? I think that Star Trek is supposed to be hopeful, and optimistic, and if even they can aspire to better then maybe that's not the worst thing? This season has been horribly written and very messy in places, but it has had good ideas, IMO. I just wish they'd been better implemented.
My theory for Q's motives is that he's dying or ascending or moving to a new plane of existence or whatever, and with the last of his time he wanted to finish the "project" he started in Encounter at Farpoint, and also help Picard move past his generational (lol dyswidt) trauma to build relationships better going forward. I like to think that he thinks he's Picard's best mate. And next season will be about rebuilding the relationship between him and the TNG cast.
I think it's been pretty dire. They have needlessly retconned so much stuff. Picard already had massive trauma with the loss of Data, his brother and nephew being burned alive, and being turned into a Borg and forced to massacre his own people. They didn't need to retcon a back story for him as it was already there on a plate.
I also don't see why they need to repair his relationship with the TNG crew. That's been done in All Good Things in an alternate look at the future (which is miles better than this apparently canon future).
I don't see that needing fixing, they all moved on with their careers like everyone in life has to do at some point. But no doubt there will be some more retconning where every character has demons that needs fixing.