> so much time on M’Talas Prime

Especially with Raffi, who just might be the worst spy in the entire galaxy.

Seriously, though, it really has been a significant improvement on season 1 (and miles better than the total dumpster fire that was season 2, but that's hardly a high bar). There have still been some odd bits (like that whole conflict between Picard and Riker on the bridge of the Titan; Picard's insistence on fighting a more powerful and better-armed opponent instead of escaping, even long before it became clear that escape would be all but impossible, was so weirdly out of character than I genuinely thought he must have been replaced by the Changeling for a while there), but for the most part it's been an interesting and coherent storyline and some good character moments.

Not so much these days with the "year or three" breaks between each 8-episode season that are becoming the norm. Usually I'll find a summary of at least the last couple episodes of the prior season to read somewhere, which will usually jog my memory enough that I'm not completely lost when starting the new one.