I was at least impressed that
It seems they've really drawn a line under the whole Data thing and avoided the temptation to bring him back beyond the manner in which he appeared in this season.
But then they go and
do a fake Picard death and resurrect him in the same episode for the feels. I didn't really buy it coming from these new characters. I don't feel they've personally known Picard for long enough to care as much as they seemed to - with exception of Rafi (sp?) but even
there it's somewhat of a fake history between the characters as far as we the audience is concerned. We've only seen what they've shown us in these 10 episodes.
The biggest genuine feels naturally derive from interactions with actual legacy characters from ST:TNG - thus the Data scenes and the Riker/Troi stuff
I also think the bonds between the various other characters seem forced. I don't know why Romulan Elrond appeared to care about Hugh or Seven for example. Is it just his nature to latch onto people he has known for all of 5 minutes?
As far as the story details of Episode 10 - really looking forward to RLM's take on it, I can see them absolutely destroying it. To me, so much seemed wrong with it - I mentioned hot evil romulan girl - I'm struggling to remember why and how she was even in this episode? I actually thought she was killed by some of the Borg in a previous one. What purpose did she serve here?
was she really brought back just so she could be killed by Seven? What's her brother going to think of that? In fact, where was he by episode's end? I can't even remember.
Oh and cliched Skybeam finale plot device ahoy!