When Agnes started singing, my wife (not a trekky at all, but she is willing to watch Picard for me) turned to me and said WTF is this? Is this a joke episode like in Lucifer?
I explained to her that singing and campiness is pretty typical of trek episodes, but the more i thought about it the more mad it made me. I accept and actually come to appreciate the campy, silly, character building moments that might included singing main cast characters in old star trek. The main reason I can accept it is that there is like 30+ episodes of 1 hour in each season of these shows. The actors put their souls into it, they deserve to have some fun in the roles and do weird silly things like holodeck episdoes where they're all spies or running a heist or whatever.
The characters in a 9-10 episode 35 minute run time "movie", how I currently see the series, don't have the depth to have a random singing outburst (even controlled by the borg queen).
Also, how could Picard not know and be extremely wary of Agnes post original borg queen encounter? The characters are acting far stupider than they should about the threat that single encounter posed.
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