It doesn’t matter if Star Trek: Picard wins an Emmy in 2023

Star Trek: Picard doesn’t need an Emmy or any other award.

Award shows are dumb. They’re nothing but a small group of people who vote on properties that help make their award more prestigious, not necessarily for the shows, films, or music that most deserve the accolade. Why they even exist is beyond me, as all of these mediums are art and art is subjective. So how can you really decide if a show or film is better than one another on a factual basis? What matters most is if the fans like a show, film, album, etc.

Star Trek: Picard was a show that did not have the hearts and minds of the fans. The first two seasons were torn to ash by most of the fandom and the ratings and review scores back that up. They just weren’t well-liked. Then season three came around, and fans fell in love with the nostalgia-infused final season. After all, if you couldn’t have a compelling plot, you might as well just dive deep into the pool of fan service, which is what they did.

And hey, it worked and it’s good that it did. Picard, who as of press times is the latest Trek show to air, capped up an upward tick of interest in the franchise that started with Strange New Worlds. Thanks to Picard’s final season which saw the entire core cast of the Nex Generation reunite, older fans of the franchise returned, and with them, came a new crop of fans.

Yes, older fans were brought back for the nostalgia of it all, but Picard also did very well with the younger demo and now the final season is among the highest-rated seasons in Star Trek season.

This is why it doesn’t matter if Picard wins an Emmy or any other award, they’ve already won.

Fans support and not industry awards should be all that Star Trek cares about

The folks behind Picard are trying to get their show nominated by the Emmys, and frankly, who cares? Award shows are bogus. What is their purpose? It’d be one thing if they just revealed the list of films or series that were the best of the year, but to try and bestow a winner? It’s subjective, there can’t be a winner with a subjective medium.

I think it’s weird fans care so much about these things. Who cares what a bunch of 80-year-old, blowhards think is good? Everyone has a different opinion and everyone is allowed to like or dislike whatever they want for whatever reason they want.

Treating entertainment like it’s a sport, where there is an obvious winner, isn’t helping things. It’s a toxic idea and one that has fallen out of favor with fans over the years. With each passing year interest and ratings decline for these award shows, and why wouldn’t they?

When you have blockbuster films that are making grown adults cry not getting nominated, why would you think these industry “experts” know better than you? Picard doesn’t need a group of voters to determine if their show was a success, they need the fans to determine that

And they have. For 10 straight weeks, the fans made Picard a success.