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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8997239" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Well, Episode 10. Once again I'll do the spoiler thing just because it only premiered a little over 2 hours ago, but I will say there is a post credit sequence unlike the other episodes, so make sure you stick around for that.[SPOILER]The basic structure of the climax was Return of the Jedi, and there's nothing wrong with that, Return of the Jedi has a great structure for the climax of a grand space opera with an ensemble cast but also a clear main character. So Picard had to go do the Luke thing redeeming a family member in front of the cackling ultimate villain while the Enterprise did the Millennium Falcon thing of flying into the core of a Death Star. I guess the retaking of the Titan doesn't really map onto the business on Endor, so I won't carry this analogy any further. Mostly I'll just say, in terms of a climactic saving of the day it pulled it off as well as they could given the runtime, the situation, and given that the characters established in the prior 9 episodes were going to be the ones doing all the day saving. Whether or not it was my ideal climax for the series, having accepted where things were left off at the end of the prior episode it was a way more satisfying ending than I worried it would be. My biggest quibble would be just this whole "Changeling to the Borg villain switcheroo surprise structure" of the series meant that the very credible threat built up all season of Changeling infiltration was basically handwaved with a couple passing mentions.The last third was a Return of the King scale of endings and goodbyes, and whatever, I'm sure someone will complain that it was too many endings and goodbyes but I was on board all of them. If they'd thrown in another 5 minutes of the TNG crew hugging and bantering I'd have been there for that too. I loved all that stuff. Goodbye TNG crew.They basically pitched a Captain Seven and the Enterprise G show. I don't know if that's something we'll actually see (for one thing, two shows simultaneously running centering around Starships Enterprise seems improbable). But I'd say that while that, and the post credit scene set up a series or whatever, they also just sort of imply that there will be ongoing adventures for this nexter generation that rhyme with those of the prior one, and maybe we don't necessarily need to see them. Still, if they weren't trying to pitch another series they probably wouldn't have spent that much time on the business about what Jack's job would be./[SPOILER][/SPOILER][/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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