`Picard` slowly goes into its second season aboard a starship filled with nostalgia
(CNN.com Entertainment)

Although `Star Wars`` current TV standard-bearers have been accused of what`s sometimes derisively known as `fan service,` it`s hard to imagine a more brazen practitioner than `Star Trek: Picard,` a show that exists primarily to rekindle nostalgia for `Star Trek: The Next Generation.` That`s not all bad, but season two once again finds the Paramount+ series moving at a warp factor of slow speed ahead.