Open Speculation about "Star Trek: Picard"

[NCC-73515]

It would be a great cliffhanger if S1 ended with Picard's implants reactivating - Locutus is back! - To be continued...

 

[Unimatrix Q]

Yeah, so far the only people we've seen her interacting with are people who are most likely going to end up member of La Sirena's crew, so I can't see her disappearing.
I've got a new theory about the overall story for the first season at least.
After Hobus, the Romulans pretty much lose all of their power and most of them end up living as refugees other planets. Elnor (Evan Evagor's Romulan) and some others end up on Earth working for Picard, because he helped save them.
Another group of Romulans are desperate to recapture their old power, so they start experimenting with Borg and Soong-type androids. Perhaps they are trying to create some kind of Borg/Soong-type cyborg army, and Dahj (Isa Briones, the girl looking for Picard's help) is a test subject, perhaps they're first successful prototype.
Data comes into play because it turns out some of his programing was involved in the Romulan's experiment, and that programming combing with the Borg stuff makes Picard start to dream about him.
I noticed in the second trailer that the red outfits the androids are wearing is the same thing we see the people wearing in the scene with the sign about xxxx days since last assimilation, which is possibly on the Borg cube we see. So it looks like the androids are on the cube.
Seven, Hugh, and a bunch of other ex-Borg are going around trying to liberate other drones, and when they find out about the Romulans are up to they attack the cube they are on. This is where we see Seven shooting the two guns, and holding someone, possibly Hugh, in the new trailer. This is also where we see Hugh looking around the corner.
While there they stumble across Dahj and free her, after which she goes to Picard because her Borg bits are connecting them. Seven eventually tracks Dahj down to the Picard vineyard and that is where we see her talking to Jean-Luc in the first trailer. She eventually convinces him to protect Dahj. After finds out about the Romulan experiments, and that they involved Data's programming and the Borg, he decides to stop them.
He visits Dr. Jurati (Alison Pill) to check on Data's remains, which we see them doing in the first trailer, and she joins him on his mission once she finds out what's going on.
He then visits Starfleet Command, but when the admiral we see in the trailers refuses to help, he goes to the Rikers for help instead. Riker recommends Rio (Santiago Cabrera), the captain of La Sirena, and Musiker (Michelle Hurd), an ex-Starfleet special forces operative with experience dealing with the Borg and Romulans.
Picard, Dahj, Elnor, Musiker, Rio, and Jurati then all set out together on La Sirena to try to stop whatever the Romulans are up to.
Personally, I'm holding out hope that it will turn out the mastermind behind the whole Romulan/Borg/android plot will be Sela with a surprised appearance by Denise Crosby, but we've gotten no real evidence or rumors for that.

Think you might be onto something with this. I could actually see that happen.

 

[DaveyNY]

Is it possible that Data somehow, also become part of the Borg Collective while 'dancing the light fantastic' with the Borg Queen?

Perhaps that's why Picard is having such vivid dreams about him.

 

[JD]

I never really got the impression that she connected him to the Collective, and I'm pretty sure something like that would have been clearly addressed at some point during the movie.

 

[Danja]

This is where we see Seven shooting the two guns

Seven may have had a vendetta. She may have been out for revenge for (Hugh's) death (those guns looked awfully large -- they didn't appear to have holsters).

She may have been thinking, "You killed Hugh ... and so help me, I'm making sure that as many of you as possible are going with him! "

She raided the place.



(FWIW, I'm happy for Seven and Jeri Ryan. After all these years, Seven FINALLY gets to be who she is -- a soldier. )

and holding someone, possibly Hugh, in the new trailer.

I'm assuming that Seven and Hugh are Mother and son (it's the only reason I can think of for stoic Seven to flip out the way she did in the trailer).

 

[Danja]

As I stated in my previous post, I'm assuming that Seven and Hugh are Mother and son.

At first, Seven doesn't want to get involved with Picard and Dahj. She's older, tired of fighting and bloodshed, and is looking to (semi-)retire from The Game (hence the line, "I fight for those who have no one to fight for them").

Hugh, OTOH, is young, brash, and impulsive. He injects himself into the situation (and pays the ultimate price for it ). It's Hugh's death that finally forces Seven off the sidelines.

 

[StewMc]

I'm assuming that Seven and Hugh are Mother and son (it's the only reason I can think of for stoic Seven to flip out the way she did in the trailer).

Not sure if you're joking or not, but Seven and Hugh are probably the same age (roughly). We don't even know if Hugh is human (he probably isn't since they never mentioned it in "I, Borg").

Hugh, OTOH, is young, brash, and impulsive. He injects himself into the situation (and pays the ultimate price for it ). It's Hugh's death that finally forces Seven off the sidelines.

Hugh would be around 50 years old at the time PIC is set.

 

[Danja]

Not sure if you're joking or not, but Seven and Hugh are probably the same age (roughly).

We won't know until the show begins in January.

On Voyager, Seven shed tears, but she's always been restrained. She never wailed or went quite as OTT as she did in the trailer.

I'm assuming that she and Hugh were REALLY close. It's the only reason I can think of for her to behave the way she did in the trailer.

We don't even know if Hugh is human (he probably isn't since they never mentioned it in "I, Borg").

This is a completely new continuity. TPTB may or may not hew to past canon.

We know nothing about Hugh's origins other than the fact that he's Borg. He's essentially a blank canvas. You can sketch in whatever details about his background you want.

 

[Paul Weaver]

This is a completely new continuity

Sigh

 

[StewMc]

Sigh

Yeah.

We don’t even know if Hugh dies, the body Seven is holding doesn’t look like del Arco.

And, we haven’t seen Seven in over 20 years (in universe), all the “out of character” stuff can go out the window, that’s a long time for people to change.

 

[Nenya]

Why does it even have to be a character we know that Seven is holding? They could easily have a scene or two with a new character that establishes a relationship with Seven so when they die, it can have some impact. This show doesn't have to have EVERYONE from past shows in it.

 

[Danja]

Hugh would be around 50 years old at the time PIC is set.

Appearances can be deceiving.

The Borg have maturation tanks (Seven herself spent time in one -- she was assimilated when she was a child). A Borg can have the body of a grown adult while at the same time being a twelve-year-old emotionally (it reminds me of some people I know IRL ).

we haven’t seen Seven in over 20 years (in universe), all the “out of character” stuff can go out the window, that’s a long time for people to change.

True.

Something pretty extreme must've happened to her to cause her to do a 180 like that.

 

[Tuskin38]

Seven may have had a vendetta. She may have been out for revenge for (Hugh's) death (those guns looked awfully large -- they didn't appear to have holsters).

She may have been thinking, "You killed Hugh ... and so help me, I'm making sure that as many of you as possible are going with him! "

She raided the place.



(FWIW, I'm happy for Seven and Jeri Ryan. After all these years, Seven FINALLY gets to be who she is -- a soldier. )




I'm assuming that Seven and Hugh are Mother and son (it's the only reason I can think of for stoic Seven to flip out the way she did in the trailer).

Where are you getting this Hugh is going to die part?

 

[Nenya]

Where are you getting this Hugh is going to die part?

Its just wild speculation at this point.

 

[Tuskin38]

We see her crying over a body in the trailer, that doesn’t have Hugh’s hair

 

[eschaton]

We see her crying over a body in the trailer, that doesn’t have Hugh’s hair

Yep. The hair is clearly curly on top, which doesn't work for Hugh, Chakotay, or Ichib.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

This is a completely new continuity.

No it's not. It's set in the same continuity as TNG.

 

[Paul Weaver]

which doesn't work for Hugh, Chakotay, or Ichib

Hugh sure, we've seen how he looks in 2399

Chuckles and Icheb though could well have had some new hair. Heck maybe it's the EMH!

(I agree it's neither of those characters though)

 

[Danja]

It's set in the same continuity as TNG.

You're right. I keep forgetting this series follows Star Trek: Nemesis.

 

[Prax]

By the finale of Voyager, Seven is smiling and joking, having warm conversations with Neelix, etc. She's already accomplished most of that 180, and is not the same person she was when she first joined the ship