Anika and Liz had such strong feelings about episode 7 of season 2 of Star Trek: Picard, Monster, that they organised a quick out-of-schedule catch-up to rant.
Accordingly, this episode (and its show notes!) contains much fresher spoilers than usual.
We discuss:
- Our concerns about the Yvette Picard plotline came true, with a fun domestic violence fake-out twist!
- Multiple ableist tropes: the tortured artist whose creativity depends on their mental illness; the “having a mentally ill parent is SO traumatic” story
- Imagine being a bipolar Trekkie right now
- Brief mention of suicide from 8:14 to 8:26
- This is not AS egregious, but they got Freud all over our Picard/Crusher