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Post Mortem – Star Trek: Picard

A spinoff of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Picard debuted in 2020 on the CBS All Access streaming service.  Isa Briones, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, and Jeri Ryan joined Patrick Stewart for the first two seasons, telling the adventures of retired Starfleet admiral Jean-Luc Picard twenty years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis.

For the third and final season, released this spring on Paramount +, the show pivoted to a full-on reunion of the Next Gen cast.  The crew of the Enterprise D reunite for a final mission, saving the Federation, and the universe, from one more attack.  The season gives a proper sendoff to this generation of Star Trek and leaves the door open for a new future, with Seven of Nine commanding a new crew of the USS Enterprise.

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Post Mortem – Body Of Proof

BOD_Twitter_Profile-1With tonight’s series finale of Body of Proof on tap, it seems like as good a place as any to kick off our annual look back at the shows I watched that came to an end this past season.  Body of Proof debuted on ABC in March of 2011 and took the House formula and slapped a new, female coat of paint on it, with Dana Delaney in the driver’s seat.  Rather than surround her with doctors to question her, she had police officers who didn’t trust her until they did.

To me, Body of Proof never really clicked.  That’s not to say that it was a bad show, but it never had that transcendent moment where it became a really good show.  The crew of the medical examiner’s office, including Delaney and Jeri Ryan, were not the real problem with the show.  The police side of things were where the show needed some work, and that was addressed somewhat in this third season with the addition of Mark Valley.  I fear that it was too little, too late, though.