'Star Trek: Picard' Episode 3: Jean-Luc Picard utters his iconic catchphrase 'engage' and fans get teary-eyed
The moment we've all been waiting for finally arrived in 'Star Trek: Picard'. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is back where he belongs and is off for what could probably be his final mission.
In the third episode of the CBS-All Access show, Picard assembles a crew and a spaceship and is off to find Bruce Maddox. Picard says the words we've been dying to hear for a long time: "engage!" This famous word has been associated with Picard, since 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Days.
While fans have mixed reactions about the episode itself, the word "engage" was a bittersweet nostalgic throwback for all Trekkies. A fan wrote, "Hearing Picard say 'Engage' brought so much nostalgia to me I started to tear up. #StarTrekPicard #allstartrek CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT WEEKS EPISODE!!!"
Another tweeted, "Hearing Jean Luc Picard say 'Engage' again makes my heart happy. #StarTrekPicard," while a fan said, "Engage!!! Great episode!!!!! Bed time...". "Also, the last word of the ep was just >chef’s kiss," a fan tweeted.
Picard's old First Officer Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) is back on the ship, along with Dr Agnes Jurati from the Daystrom Institute and Pilot Rios.
Fans are exciting about this new crew and one wrote, "#StarTrekPicard And we're finally off... on a grand adventure with a bunch of cool new characters. I don't know about you but this is beginning to feel a lot like #StarTrek! #Engage." Some fans were quite happy with the episode and can't wait for the next.
"#StarTrekPicard Ep 3 was great & just what I needed. It just keeps getting better & better! Thanks to @SirPatStew& the rest of the cast, the crew, the producers, & the director for another great installment to this 10 hr movie edited into 10 one hour TV episodes," a fan wrote.
"Man, another compelling episode! I love how for every question that gets answered, every bit of trivia that’s offered, every tip of the hat to canon, there’s always a new facet to be revealed, always something still behind the curtain . So good job," wrote one.
Other were not pleased and said it was "too slow". "Episode 3 was yet again WEAK! but look new shuttles, new shuttles, new shuttles, we can learn from being lazy, who the hell is writing this show! they should of made it 3-4 episodes if its this WEAK," one wrote.
'Star Trek: Picard' airs on CBS-All Access on Thursdays at 12.01 am ET.
