Red Alert! Assume your battle stations! Actually, it looks like it’s too late to defend ourselves. We may all have been effectively Punk’d.

Has April Fools Day gone into warp overdrive for the producers of Star Trek: Picard? Are we being played? Perhaps Patrick Stewart is laughing all the way to his Ferengi run bank. I pulled the wool over their bloody eyes!, he screeches.

Maybe it’s an all too long too bad joke. Are these writers sniffing Galaxy Glue? What the f**k is happening on this sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation. C’mon disillusioned Trekkers. We’ll discuss - or try to discuss - the ways in which ST:Picard has become one the most insanely bizarre TV shows ever produced. Guest Star Trek scholar, Mr. Eddie Steak, weighs in on it all.

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