Spoilers Star Trek: Picard General Discussion Thread

[picardjean-luc]

I did wonder if she’d be a reimagined lal. I do hope they at least mention Lore and Lal

Wasn't Lore blamed as the chief culprit of the Synth attack on Mars in the recently released Short Trek episode? Someone (Bruce Maddox, perhaps?) must have reassembled him in order to produce the new android prototypes en masse. They probably have never read Picard's mission logs filled after the events of 'DataLore,' 'Descent,' etc .

Am getting a *very* strong Dahj is Data’s ‘daughter’ feeling.

Dahj is likely an android/Synth prototype who was deactivated and imprisoned in the Borg cube occupied by the Romulan refugees. She was deactivated for quite sometime that she has forgotten her origins and the mission she was tasked to do (something related to her being called 'the end of all and the destroyer').

As she's the latest Soong-type android created from B4, who has Data's memories, she's technically Data's new 'daughter.'

 

[JoeZhang]

I suspect the synths are not android but Synthetic humans who look entirely human and are likely biological in basis.

 

[NCC-73515]

she has a red wound on her forehead, blood instead of circuits

 

[eschaton]

I suspect the synths are not android but Synthetic humans who look entirely human and are likely biological in basis.

Given Federation taboos on genetic engineering, it's hard to see them doing this.

Conversely, anyone could "assemble" a biological synthetic human with a transporter clone, but everyone in the Federation would agree they were humans.

 

[NCC-73515]

Blade Runner replicants? I hope not...

 

[Datasbeard]

Fascinating interview with Patrick Stewart on NPR this morning. It features several audio excerpts that I haven’t heard in any trailer. Well worth listening to!

 

[jaime]

she has a red wound on her forehead, blood instead of circuits

Do we know it’s hers?

 

[Danlav05]

Fascinating interview with Patrick Stewart on NPR this morning. It features several audio excerpts that I haven’t heard in any trailer. Well worth listening to!

He also revealed the 'backstory' of the years since Nemesis with gradually be revealed through the course of the first season.

 

[Paul Weaver]

The information we have between tos and tng took years to come out, and even then it’s sketchy. I hope people won’t be disappointed we don’t have a 30 minute exposition dump in episode 1.

 

[BillJ]

Given Federation taboos on genetic engineering, it's hard to see them doing this.

Fear can change things.

 

[eschaton]

I caught a bit of a short interview with Stewart on NPR today. Some highlights:

• It was very clear the interviewer had already seen the first episode - though there was no review.
• Sir Patrick wouldn't give away anything about the status of the Federation since Nemesis, saying the backstory is revealed over the course of the entire season. So those hoping for a quick infodump bringing us up to speed and then the show to concentrate on the future will be disappointed.
• They played a brief audio clip with a woman asking Picard why he left Starfleet, to which he replied (first as a whisper, then again as a shout) that "Starfleet isn't Starfleet anymore." That said, Stewart himself said that Picard made "a number of bad judgement calls."

 

[Alexander Corrino]

^
You can listen to that interview over here.

 

[locborg]

He also revealed the 'backstory' of the years since Nemesis with gradually be revealed through the course of the first season.

I like and hate that idea at the same time. Privily i hoped that there would be a 20 minute recap of all the events since nemesis, narrated by Patrick Stewart of course.

Gradually disclosing infos on the backstory however is also a viable approach as long as it is well executed. Releasing Countdown #3 after Picard S01E01 makes much more sense now...

 

[Noname Given]

Given Federation taboos on genetic engineering, it's hard to see them doing this.

Conversely, anyone could "assemble" a biological synthetic human with a transporter clone, but everyone in the Federation would agree they were humans.

Such taboos come and go in Trek. Go back and rewatch the TNG season 2 episode "Unnatural Selection"where the entire story revolves around a group of Federation scientists who genetically engineer a group of human children with immune systems that actively hunt and destroy viruses but have a disastrous effect on normal humans.

Their research seems to have been conducted with the Federation's blessing as they were retainedly visited and resupplied by Federation ships, which is how the Enterprise got involved in this story.

 

[Tuskin38]

Wasn't Lore blamed as the chief culprit of the Synth attack on Mars in the recently released Short Trek episode?

I don't recall that.

Also new twitter video thing
https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1216419745232125952

 

[BillJ]

I don't recall that.

Same here.

 

[KennyB]

I don't recall that.

Me either, maybe one of those craaaaaaaaazy YouTube channels.

Also new twitter video thing
https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1216419745232125952

Nice Borgified Starfleet Delta behind her

 

[F. King Daniel]

Pics from the first few episodes

 

[Nerys Myk]

Pics from the first few episodes

I think I saw...A DOOR HANDLE!!!! Isn't this the FUTURE???????

 

[eschaton]

The biggest thing these still indicate is that two of the Romulans seen in the trailers are almost certainly the two Romulans who live on the vineyard with him.