I suppose today I can only repeat what I wrote at about this time last week. I just watched the latest episode of Picard: it was practically the very first thing I did after turning on my computer this morning, I was so eager to watch it. I know I mustn’t spoil it for anyone else, but what I just saw really was incredible. It was an episode full of excitement and tension, with moments of great humour, rounded off with a truly touching ending. In short it was everything we could once expect from a Star Trek episode. More to the point though, it was a truly incredible farewell to a group of characters many of us grew up with, and whom we have watched grow through countless adventures over the last forty years. Characters we have come to know, admire and respect; treasuring their past appearances and looking forward to their next ones. To watch them at last bow out like this, in such a poignant homage to what went before, is truly incredible.

Knowing that this was their final appearance, and that we’ll probably never see these actors in these roles again, makes me sad of course; but something tells me we haven’t seen thee last of the Picards.