Star Trek: Picard Gets Lost in Its Hero’s Head

The past few episodes of Star Trek: Picard have been a bit chaotic, but in a largely fun way — a little dash of the absurd to make the strange ideas it was hastily setting up in the background go down smoothly, so you could have a bit of a chuckle when that setup came crashing down in similarly absurd fashion. This week, however, got into a much messier kind of chaos.
“Monsters” picks up, literally and proverbially, inside Jean-Luc’s head, after his dance with the vehicul