Tobar said:

SilverWook said:

The way Picard's brother and nephew were killed off still seems incredibly random and cruel to me. (Who the heck dies in a barn fire in the 24th century?) The episode Family has been essentially ruined for me thanks to Generations.

It wasn't that random. They wanted to reinforce/introduce Picard's need for children to carry on the family name. As long as his nephew was around he didn't have to carry that burden.

I still hated it though.

Picard's Nexus reality looks like he's trapped in a Victorian Christmas card tableau, and his nephew is now his son? It's a little weird...

And shouldn't there have been a "echo" of Soran running around in there somewhere?