It's pure speculation of course. But, if a Borg Queen is on the Romulan held Cube ship, hurting the Romulans might help her free herself. She'd have an incentive. And, if she's locked away or hiding, that might be her only option. Again, pure speculation but there's a logic there.
They should have just said, "German" implying that German was Federation standard in the 24th Century.
See, I'm the opposite. I never got used to the bumpy-headed Romulans in the latter-day shows. Romulans and Vulcans are are supposed to look just like each other; that was the whole point of "Balance of Terror." Romulans are supposed to look like Mark Lenard, damn it. And I loved that the female caretaker in PICARD looked very reminiscent of the original female Romulan in "The Enterprise Incident."
I say both bumpy and non-bumpy Romulans should coexist. Beta canon suggests Rommie and Klingon ties go back millennia. It's reasonable to assume that the bumpy headed ones simply have a bit of Klink DNA.
I agree. To the point that I basically just pretend the bumpy-head Romulans don't look that way. Never made sense to me.
VERY minor Spoiler You see ridged Rommies in subsequent episodes. They have all varieties in "Picard"!
Just rewatched. I am very inclined towards Dahj not being dead. I am *almost* inclined to Data not being dead anymore either. What is interesting is that Data’s mother is still a secret. Because she absolutely was indistinguishable from human, that was the point. It’s possible this has been forgotten, at the very least by Picard, if not the writers but...I think he is just keeping the secret. He already knows it is possible, he needed to know if Dahj came out of Daystrom. I keep coming back to the necklace and the Thalaron weapon too. This could be why Picards eye was first drawn to it. I have a few theories around that, but they are all too silly tbh.
Loved it. But, I almost turned it off during the aggressive interviewer exposition scene. Where were her evolved sensibilities then? How did a hack like that even get time with Picard? Independently, it held up well, but in the wider trek continuity, it jars a bit. Federation resources are effectively infinite. Class M planets are ten a penny. Trek doesn’t feel like the right vehicle to tell stories of prejudice when it’s founding theme was that we were past all that nonsense in the future. I’m also interested to see where the holographic rights thing went, with the rise of the synthetics. I hated that particular bit of trek, but I don’t want it ignored. I could pick this apart. Dissect every line and nuance, breaking it down by wonderful homage and canon aberration, and I will because I’m a Trekkie.
Well, she's not truly "indistinguishable" from humans - only superficially. She looks more human than Data, but so did Lal. And she has an "aging" program in her. Below the skin, she's pure android. Dahj/Soji, though, have human bodies.
But . . . but TREK has always done stories about overcoming prejudice. "Balance of Terror," "Devil in the Dark," "Duet," "The Drumhead," The Undiscovered Country, etc. As for the reporter, she was just doing her job. What would be scary and dystopian was if 24th-century reporters only did softball, puff pieces. Reporters are supposed to get in people's face and ask tough questions, even interviewing our beloved Jean-Luc Picard. To paraphrase George Orwell, journalism consists of printing what people don't want printed. Anything else is just public relations.
Did anyone else notice that the Ten Forward windows are a different size, shape and spacing on the into zoom-in to the subsequent interior shot? Considering how botched the scale on Ten Forward is, and that they had 2 different Enterprise models with very different saucer rims, I am actually amazed they got it as good as they did though. And hearing music playing in Ten Forward had made me really notice it's absence throughout TNG.