I don't think that it will age well as a result of yet again returning to the borg, the plot contrivance and the unrealistic fantasy mess the fan service elements left it in.
- the fleet abandoned all planets other than earth for federation day. Pretty sure if you're any other federation member or on a border outpost, you're pretty pissed off right about now.
- every senior officer in a star ship over the age of 25 is dead about now. You don't recover from those losses easily.
- the discs dock battle and amount of time it withstood the barrage was implausible. Ships should have run out of torpedoes.
- after the AI fiasco in series 1, the idea of handing over the fleet to AI seems implausible
- wondering how no one has whiplash after throwing the 1701-D around like that
- Troi and Riker seemed completely oblivious to the fact that they have a daughter
- christening the 1701-G when they have a bigger, more powerful 1701-F in service was unnecessary and unrealistic.
- Worf survived three direct borg disrupter shots so did Shelby survive her two phaser shots?
- Renaming the Titan the Picard would have been perhaps more meaningful
That said, so nice to see Worf, Crusher, Troi and Laforge get some long overdue respect from the writers.
The fan in me thinks the idea of a captain Seven series would be amazing. More opportunities to see other DS9 and voyager cameos
(like Michelle Forbes and Tim Russ et al goodness
). The rational part of me however wonders what it would bring to the table that SNW isn't already doing most capably and that Discovery hasn't already ruined through trauma for anyone over the age of 27.
I like the idea of a micro series approach where we get to see more of a wide gamut of past characters that can lead to new series, soft tie-in or just sort few episode character arc stories. More than a cameo, standalone, but perhaps not a full series.
Anyway, despite my plot gripes, I was gripped and it gave me the send off that I wanted to reedit these characters. Though I'm bitter that it had to end and my heart would like a series 4, I appreciate that getting them all together again would itself be contrived. It's this the last that we see of these characters? Perhaps not, but may be, in a way, it would be best if it were and this is how history and we as fans forever get to remember them.
