Did anyone else hear the reference to Galactic treaty? Its entirely possible that in Picards time the Federation includes members in the Gamma and Delta quadrant and that the borg or the founders are no longer a force.
That's not what they were talking about. They were theorizing all of data's memories could be recovered from a single neuron. Feel free to discuss how people can be cloned in the real world into duplicates who have the same memories.
They said "positronic neuron", which is not a real thing, so who the hell knows how it works. It could dbe incredibly information-dense, with lots of redundancy and error correction, in which case why not?
While I did give the show a 'good' rating, i found it fell down a bit on the oversentimentalizing of Picard that verges on melodrama at times. His Romulan 'house workers' for instance, seemed like at some level to serve as stand ins for all the Picard fans out there, there to speak for that audience to a certain extent.
Yeah, the dates are a bit iffy. In the movie, Romulus blew up in 2387 so the attack must have been just before that.
I'm not saying they don't have a good reason, its made clear that they are alive because of him. I'm saying that their use in the story for people who are watching also has that obvious level of Picard fan stand ins, expecially the fact that they appear to are now devoting their lives to being in his service.
On my second viewing, I realized he bit down on something (probably like a futuristic equivalent of a cyanide capsule) to avoid being identifiable. He then spit that on Dahj and the rifle.
Is it me, or does the Mars death total (92,000+) seem really low for what looked like a planet wide attack?
Depends on if the attack was actually aimed at killing people or not. Based on those numbers, likely casualties wasn't the main goal of the attack.