Nearly twenty-six years have passed since the completion of the chronologically second Star Trek series, The Next Generation. Eighteen years since Sir Patrick Stewart last played the series' most legendary captain, Jean-Luc Picard. Nineteen years ago, the Star Trek: Voyager team returned home and it was their last gathering with the 24th Century Starfleet.

Star Trek: Picard. The seventh television offshoot of the franchise dates back to the end of the 24th century, following the consequences of the events that set Abrams in the film universe. The supernovae of the Romulan home planet and the transformation of one of the world's most prominent races into refugees.

Jean-Luc Picard is now a retired Admiral of the Starfleet, marginalized after a failed rescue operation of Romulans, failed after an android attack on Mars, and the destruction of the Fleet's largest shipyard, along with a good portion of the army.

The current Federation and Starfleet are therefore no longer the utopian-idealist organizations we know them to be. Paranoia, fear, and xenophobia crept into the ranks. Jean-Luc lives in a family vineyard in France.

The destruction of the Fleet Shipyard led to a ban on the use and creation of androids, or synthetic creatures, which is a sensitive topic for Picard. The central mystery of the series is Data's 'daughter', one of the last remaining androids. Of course, due to a combination of circumstances, her and Picard's destinies are intertwined, and she becomes the key in his mission of searching for the truth about the attack on the Federation's shipyard.

The first eight episodes are quite fragmented and uneven. While the first episodes offer mild optimism with some concerns. Things are being pushed in a better direction by the return of old friends from Voyager and Picard's Enterprise. With only one swoop that built optimism falls into the water by finally unraveling the central mystery.

In the end, Star Trek: Picard, however, quite successfully escapes the trap of flattering fans through numerous guest appearances of old acquaintances and evoking better franchise times. Beneath some nonsense is a beautiful series that returns us to the familiar, dear universe.