Picard 3x04- 'No-Win Scenario' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

I watched this again yesterday on Amazon Prime and while it was still pretty dark, it was a lot brighter than whatever "HD" copy I got on early Thursday morning. And it was much more enjoyable as a result.

I'll have to watch out for that in future.

Easily the best episode so far and the one that felt the most like TNG with the crew working together to overcome a problem. The holodeck/flashback scenes did feel like a cheap way to just reuse the 10 Forward bar set but on the other hand it gave Picard, Jack & Shaw some nice emotional development. I did enjoy the scene of Shaw demonstrating how to detect a changeling to Seven by apologising to her. It does feel odd to make the changelings the villains as they have no strong connection to Picard but we're still only 4 episodes into the series.

Whats with the Hirogen flashback, how does that make any sense?

One of the cadets asked him how they even got that far so it was a shock in universe too.

Probably a transwarp conduit or a caretaker or a Q or a wormhole.

And that network was ancient so it's not unreasonable to assume ships or hunting packs had spread further.

Was watching on a MacBook screen. Apparently there were issues with the brightness levels when it was first released on Disney+ and that's the copy I watched. I watched it again on Amazon Prime and it looked a lot better.

I think the issue on Disney+ has since been corrected too.

I know Picard gets a lot of flack on here but the last two episodes have been utterly brilliant (watched this last night). Some of the best Trek I've ever watched and I've watched 'em all.

Cannot wait to see what happens when the two boyo's get back to Starfleet. That scene in the bar with Captain Shaw recalling the Borg cube fight, my jaw was hanging open, wow just wow. And throwing that asteroid at the end, joy just joy, I was cheering them on!