Yesterday the new episode of Picard was released.

In this episode Picard encounters Guinan in Los Angeles, on Forward Street, here.

However, despite a pivotal moment in both of their lives having been the occasion when Picard saved Guinan's life in 1893,

Somehow, Guinan... had no idea who Picard was.

It must be some intentionally plotted messing with the timeline thing - surely Picard was surprised that Guinan didn't already recognize him from 1893.

Actually, sir...

We're pretty certain the writers just had no freaking clue that Time's Arrow was a thing.

Anyone who didn't wonder at least once where the hell Lore was in Season 1 of Picard, leave the room now.

It makes no fucking sense! Can these writers even spell "continuity"?

We already know from Yesterday's Enterprise that Guinan retains memories when the timeline changes. She knew Tasha and she'd never even met her in the other timeline!

That episode didn't turn her into an embittered shotgun-toting jerk who doesn't wear a hat.

And she didn't get fucking "af-kelt"!

And I know exactly how this will go, some smartasses on Reddit will come up with some bullshit theory about how the timeline is broken so Picard could never come to the past in the first place.

Then who the fuck stopped the Devidians? What about the temporal Cold War? Who was the real Gabriel Bell?

But sir, they brought back the punk rock guy...

I didn't even like Star Trek IV!

Fucking whales, they give me the creeps!

Sir, we must have confidence that the writers have a bigger plan that we don't yet appreciate...

They've never even watched Star Trek. For all you know their plan is to bring in a Mandalorian in the next episode.

New Star Trek! You'll love it, they told me.

It was bad enough when they made Picard an irrelevant, incompetent asshole everyone hated in the first season.

Or didn't know that Ten Forward means fucking Deck Ten, Forward.

Now it's not even internally consistent! If there's no continuity, there's no logic to the story!

You might as well give Picard magic powers and let him turn Elnor into a fucking pony by tapping his knees together!

If there's no rules anyway, it makes as much sense as anything else!

I'd rather watch Threshold. At least it was only an hour long and used established characters.

Maybe they can kill Picard again this season too!

If Picard and Guinan couldn't meet because the future timeline was all erased anyway than what was the point of going back before the divergence?

And if it was erased then why are Picard and his crew even still there at all?

In First Contact at least you had chroniton radiation. Here they have...

But who am I kidding? I've already spent more time thinking this through than the writers did.

JJ Abrams already broke both TOS and Star Wars.

Is there any sci-fi franchise left that his cronies can't fuck up?

I just pray he's never heard of fucking Battlestar Galactica!

There's nothing else left!

So say we all.

From now on, I'll just need to rely on the very few things left that I can count on as being true.

Han shot first...

Q is an omnipotent being immune to diseases...

And Master Chief.

We'll always have Master Chief.

They will never compromise his artistic integrity.