Yea.....that was dumb. Though I enjoyed maybe 10-20% of it? I dunno.
Spoilers below.
So they ended the penultimate episode with the ultimate trek orgasm. The original crew of the D back on the D. They knew all of us wanted the D and they put their big fat D all over our eager faces.
So how do they follow that up? Immediately split them up. Weird call.
The entire Borg story was just terribly thought out. There was nothing offensively bad about this episode, but none of it (plot/story wise) was even the slightest bit well written or thought out. It was just disappointing silliness. Stacks of it. At some point writers will realize that stacking mystery boxes will always lead to a boring conclusion because the answers are almost never as interesting as the mysteries. So while you have stacks of mystery boxes to keep us guessing and curious, the stacks of boring answers is just a huge let down. Jack and the Borg, blah. I didn't care. Not even for a second. The Titan vs the entire star fleet...fleet? Didn't care because it was just handled so boringly. The transporter guns made no sense but were used well, though they already introduced that general technology (or a version of it) in Insurrection.
It was surprisingly light on cameos. I enjoyed seeing the real Tuvok. But no Janeway? Weird to keep name dropping her then. And no DS9 stuff at all. Also odd, but sure. Don't care much.
The Chekov thing took me off guard. I forgot his name was Pavel in ToS and was wondering how the old bastard was alive, until he mentioned being the son. Naming him Anton was a classy move, but the entire cameo just felt silly. President Chekov is about as fan-fic as you can possibly get.
The character moments were great as always. Loved seeing the crew do their thing. A season of that would've been nice. Ending on poker was obvious but nice. I enjoyed that. Saying that Guinan was just off screen was a very weird move to make. Whoopi not available?
And yes, the post-credits scene was incredibly stupid. Didn't hate it. Just kind of nothinged it.
So yea, very anti-climactic ending. Nice to see the OG crew. Genuinely enjoyed them.
Kind of wish they got Ron Moore or ever Berman/Behr to come write this season. I looked at most of the writers for this season and it seems they're largely generic sci-fi/action writers. It shows.
As noted above, better send off than Nemesis but I'm not sure the show as a whole was actually much better than Nemesis. A bit. But not much.
Farewell to the crew of the D.
Edit: Also it was SO god damn dark visually. I honestly had no idea what was happening on a lot of the sets. The D bridge was lit around 25% compared to the TNG show and THAT was the most well-lit set on the show. Do people not accidentally bump into things when it's so dark? Jesus.