Star Trek: Picard is a show that, for its first two seasons, vacillated wildly between whether or not it wanted to be a self-serious look at how time had changed and wounded Jean-Luc Picard, or a daring, often unhinged heroic adventure for its titular hero.
While Worf was never quite the always-angry kind of Klingon in Star Trek—to give him that push and pull between his people’s warrior culture and his place within Starfleet—the version of him we’ve now met in Picard’s
Star Trek: Picard season three has so far been, even with the promise of greater stakes to come, something of a relaxing, almost idealistic venture.
Over two wildly different seasons so far, Star Trek: Picard has tried to navigate just what it wants to say about its titular legend.
