I think we should all go on strike from Star Trek until someone explains to us how it got from stupid idea in writer's room all the way to the screen that Guinan's bar on Earth in 2024 was at 10 Forward St. That pretty much falls into the unforgiveable zone of mistakes.
A lot of stuff can be hand-waved away when it comes to canon goofs but that one is so stupid it is in its own category of dumb we've possibly never seen before.
Here's the best hand waving you could do: "drrr, somehow her timey-wimey El Aurian subconscious knew one day she'd have a bar in the forward compartment of deck 10 on a starship, and this drove her to successfully lobby city authorities to create Forward St so she could sleep at night."
I can understand their argument for why she doesn't remember any events from Time's Arrow. I can allow them the leeway to decide for some reason she was operating a bar on Earth in 2024 Los Angeles. I can forgive the dumb punk rocker thing. This thing with the bar address, however, is unforgiveable and will come to be the most oft-cited example of how this current era of Trek creatives don't understand what they are doing beyond the memes they saw on the Internet.
And it's so, SO unforgiveable because as I have seen reviewers point out, and as we all know, any of this stuff is now a memory-alpha search away from any writer trying to plug a Trek concept into a script.
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But having said that, Picard is probably still the show I'm most OK with out of current-gen Trek (I'm sort of expecting Strange New Worlds will maybe steal that title once it arrives). While it's trying to be like TVH, it's nowhere near as fun. The ICE subplot is going to prevent that. I feel like they are drawing that subplot out way too long -- there's no way they are going to pull off landing that as cleverly as they think they are, which would be forgivable if it had only lasted an episode or two, but it's setting up to go all the way to the end. By the way, the special effects and physics of Rios's transporter fail were quite poorly executed. I'm also thinking they're getting a bit too off the wall with their treatment of the Borg queen, like, every episode just pushes it that much further over the line of what's not insulting to our intelligence and that of everyone who put thought into the Borg before these creatives.
Anyway while it sounds like I'm being negative here, as I always sound like, I am still excited to keep watching it. But I think we all have to admit at this point that it's clear these shows could easily be a few tiers above where they are if they had better people working on them.
I was trying to summarize everything that's happened on Discovery to a friend the other day in an in-person conversation, and after that experience, I think it should be required for all the writers to go home and explain this stuff out loud to a friend, because in the process I think they might realize how stupid some of it is.