Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x04 - "Absolute Candor"

[IMC Headquarters]

So the fighting nuns are more formidable than the Jem H'dar?

Picard should have prefaced his description of them with "Don't tell my Klingon friends this, but..."

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I'm going above the curve this week with a 10. Great adventure. Another great flashback. Holograms galore. Seven out of nowhere helping with the slice 'n' dice of that poor BoP.

 

[Saul]

Best episode so far.

Thoughts:

Frakes makes good Trek.

Rangers? is this Babylon 5?

Picard paused his holodeck yet the fire in the fireplace is still burning.

Why were 2 people beamed up when they were only expecting to beam up picard?

Episode and characters are starting to feel a lot more natural now they are together. Stewart is excellent.

Holographic crew is funny.

This whole thing's not getting resolved in six episodes. They'll hit a stopping point at the 10th episode. Leave some for next year, then continue on.

Discovery wraps everything up by the end of the season. Picard doesn't look like the type of series where it will.

Agreed. This is an adventure Picard is not coming back from so I imagine if this goes for 3 seasons it will be 3 seasons of Picard in space. Or either he dies at the end of this season

 

[Timo]

Rangers? is this Babylon 5?

Well, Seven is half Viking. And Elnor is all elf. That's gotta show somehow.

Picard paused his holodeck yet the fire in the fireplace is still burning.

Seems to be how all holosimulations work as a default: Data's Sherlock Holmes fireplace kept burning, too.

Why were 2 people beamed up when they were only expecting to beam up Picard?

This OTOH isn't default. Generally you need to do a surprise hug.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Discofan]

Yeah, the famous transporter hug...

 

[Yistaan]

The implication that Dr. Jurati hasn't been to space before is quite absurd. Other cyberneticists outside the Federation would have invited her to conferences etc.

In-universe, it must have been weird for the Romulans, especially the Senator, to have someone looking like their dead praetor Shinzon promise to save them.

 

[Jayson1]

Trek has had beheadings before. Data lost his head several times including the main story in "TIme's Arrow" being built around it.

Jason

 

[cooleddie74]

Picard recognizing Seven right away means that she was VERY famous when Voyager got home from the Delta Quadrant or at least very famous within Starfleet circles. Being the most famous former Borg drone after Locutus must have had its benefits when wanting people to take notice of you.

She might be even more famous than many of her former shipmates.

 

[Discofan]

The implication that Dr. Jurati hasn't been to space before is quite absurd. Other cyberneticists outside the Federation would have invited her to conferences etc.

In-universe, it must have been weird for the Romulans, especially the Senator, to have someone looking like their dead praetor Shinzon promise to save them.

Well, I am sure that word spread that he was a clone of Picard.

 

[Discofan]

Trek has had beheadings before. Data lost his head several times including the main story in "TIme's Arrow" being built around it.

Jason

Yeah, sometimes the headworks alone, sometimes it doesn't. It's kinda like Shrodinger's cat, he's both dead and alive. Data's head is both active and inactive...

 

[ITDUDE]

10/A+
Old Picard is more like Younger Picard. And the way he was gave commands on bridge
Excellent episode!

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

Trek has had beheadings before. Data lost his head several times including the main story in "TIme's Arrow" being built around it.

Well, yes, technically. From that viewpoint there was one in the backstory to this series as well.

Though I can't really say it feels like the same thing, at least not to me...

 

[Discofan]

I wonder if there's a place with myriads of androids...

 

[DaveyNY]

I'm thinking that one of the reasons (if not a main reason) Jean-Luc brought "The Three Musketeers" to young Elnor to read, is because of the numerous amount of very descriptive sword fights in it.
He was teaching the kid how to do it from the start.

 

[oberth]

I also found it a little odd. These Romulans must have very bad literature if a kid is so excited about 19th century earth stories XD

really? that's probably the strangest and thusly most interesting story that kid has ever seen. until somebody shows me some romulan literature i shall hold the firm belief that it's awfully similar to the cardassian variant

 

[DaveyNY]

Somebody asked back a few pages how I had determined that Dream-Data's Five Queen of Hearts was significant...
I'd suggest going back and listening to Narek & "Lt. Rizzo's" conversation in the hallway.
She very much demands that he find out from SOji where the Other's are hiding. and just how many there are.
Again, we know there are at least Five from Dream-Data and his poker hand.
The Writer's were practically telling us outright with that.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I'm thinking that one of the reasons (if not a main reason) Jean-Luc brought "The Three Musketeers" to young Elnor to read, is because of the numerous amount of very descriptive sword fights in it.
He was teaching the kid how to do it from the start.

Are you sure Picard wasn't afraid Elnor would wind up in one of Barclay's creepy holodeck programs?

 

[Rao Van Tickle]

Stewart doesnt have the energy of even Bernie Sanders (about his age). He is a walking, talking fossil who slows every scene to a crawl and puts any audience to sleep. If he had HALF the energy of nearly 90 yo Shatner, this would be better. Instead we get a retirement home Bingo champ to put us to sleep as he slowly works up the energy to walk in a straight line, let alone make anything happen. Sad to see him so physically limp and flaccid. Give him some pep pills or viagra or something to wake this man UP.

JFC. Is it that inconceivable to at least consider that the character's age might be a vital if not prime ingredient of the storyline?

"An old man trying to use the little time he has to redeem himself." To all fans having an issue with Stewarts / Picards age, try using that as a startpoint. The actual storyline grows more and more rich and complex with each episode, but this point remains at the core.

 

[Reverend]

I don't know if it's so misogynistic. One of the main villains is a woman and she very cunning while for a long time and much later hollywood cast women as damsels in distress whose main role was to cry in fear and faint.

IIRC the main protagonist (aside from committing multiple murders with little consequence, beating a servant for complaining about not being paid and generally acting like a creepy entitled git) he also stalks at least two woman and commits sexual assault by pretending to be the husband of one of the aforementioned women (a deception achieved by coercing another woman with threats to her standing) then proceeds to get her into bed. All perfectly acceptable knavish behaviour for a man of means and standing in the early 1600's when it was set (and probably the mid 1800's when it was written too) but that's still a bloody far cry from the odd swooning "damsel in distress".

 

[DaveyNY]

Are you sure Picard wasn't afraid Elnor would wind up in one of Barclay's creepy holodeck programs?

I get were you're trying to go with the joke, but it's a stretch.
Not seeing any thing on Vashti that would indicate the denizens had access to that kind of technology.
Especially since Jean-Luc actually brought a real book, not a Holo-rod.