which can only mean one thing in 80s drama tropes...she's pregnant!
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x05 - "Stardust City Rag"
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As I posted earlier, it's more likely she doesn't want/need the temptation.
Smoking was one of her drug habits, albeit it involved some kind of opioid.
She also reacted very badly to the "Snakeweed" ad that popped up in her face when they first arrived at Freecloud.
Engineering is a science.If Icheb was a science officer, why was he wearing a red uniform?
Because he wouldn't be caught dead in blueIf Icheb was a science officer, why was he wearing a red uniform?
So.. Had a thought... If bruce was at the bar for the past 2 weeks... Who in the hell is the wonder twins mom in the phone?? Thought it was Bruce.. But nope..
He could be in a high enough rank that he's in some level of command and got a red uniform for it.If Icheb was a science officer, why was he wearing a red uniform?
Maddox mentioned the mother AI.
Why not launch it for the other captains too? Captain coupling isn't something that I think about too often, so I'll leave it to someone else to point out which captain had the most diverse love interests, but even Pike was tempted by a green woman in the pilot, and Kirk got flirty with a number of different races, including having the first interracial kiss (big for its time). Geordi presumably married a white woman and Worf a white Trill. The thing that stands out for Sisko and Jake is that although we don't know how many black aliens there are in the universe, there are fewer black actresses and it strikes me as icky having to pair them with black actresses if the concern is something as odious as miscegenation. It wouldn't be a problem for me if Jennifer or Cassidy or Fenna or Korena or Leanne or Kesha or maybe others too were black, or most if most of them were, but that all of them were? And that in the cases of Korena and Kesha, they were maybe the only black Bajorans with speaking parts? It doesn't seem right.
What got me wondering about this whole train of thought was that it seemed like all three characters were the identical or near identical color. It isn't that the actors were of the same or different racial backgrounds, and I appreciated his last name being Hwang and that Pel was Romulan (and further I appreciate the diversity of Romulans in this series in their different races and accents), but that the makeup department either didn't spring for different shades of makeup, or if someone chose to make their marriage more 'palatable' by suggesting hey they're of the same kind, well, that didn't sit right with me.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it and it was complete chance that all three actors were very similar in color, or that the makeup department is just cheap and actors of other races too are mis-shaded here and there. But I'm Greek and am slightly more beige than say a Frenchman who might me slightly darker than say a Norwegian, and we'd all need different makeup. At least if we're in more significant speaking roles.
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If Icheb was a science officer, why was he wearing a red uniform?
The better question is: if he was "on leave" from Starfleet, why was he still wearing a Starfleet uniform and not a Standard Issue 24th Century Mud-Colored Maquis Outlaw Attire (TM) like Seven and every other Starfleet outlaw of the 24th century? Seven said he was captured on a recon mission for the Fenris, that doesn't sound like a two-weeks holiday leave.
She's likely a simple AI designed to respond to certain stimuli like a more advanced chatbot but not on the level of an EMH. That's why she glitched with Dahj mentioned the attack, it was waiting for that and then played the message to find Picard.
Maybe Icheb was transferring out of science and into Command like Janeway.
Janeway was originally on the Science path.
He WAS a Lieutenant ... so there may be some truth to that.
True. I was really annoyed that they went again with a young woman loving some guy old enough to be her father trope. Those kinds of relationships are totally overrepresented in series and movies for sexist reasons and they already had one on DIS with Mudd and his girlfriend recently. And it was so unnecessary here, too. They should have just kept it as a close mentor/pupil relationship or maybe added a bit of a father/daughter vibe to them if they wanted to make the betrayal at the end more surprising and harsh.
Cool episode, liked it a lot.
I expected a light fun episode, but it was actually a pretty dark episode.
Probably the best Vegas Trek episode, which is not saying much since the previous one was TNG's "The Royale".
Nice Quark name drop.
Writer Kirsten Beyer sure knows her Voyager stuff.
Disappointed that Data or his neurons were not mentioned when Picard talked to Maddox.
Glad we got a little break from Soji/Narek this week. That storyline has been kind of a drag but seems like there will be some big movement on it next week.
Jerry Goldsmith got credited for TMP theme but not the VOY theme.
Berman Trek composer Jay Chattaway got music credit for "Lullaby #2". Not sure what that is
I expected a light fun episode, but it was actually a pretty dark episode.
Probably the best Vegas Trek episode, which is not saying much since the previous one was TNG's "The Royale".
Nice Quark name drop.
Writer Kirsten Beyer sure knows her Voyager stuff.
Disappointed that Data or his neurons were not mentioned when Picard talked to Maddox.
Glad we got a little break from Soji/Narek this week. That storyline has been kind of a drag but seems like there will be some big movement on it next week.
Jerry Goldsmith got credited for TMP theme but not the VOY theme.
Berman Trek composer Jay Chattaway got music credit for "Lullaby #2". Not sure what that is
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That's such a "Age-ist" view, especially in the 24-25th century.
I'd be right with you if it was, say, Tarantino's promised ultra-violent R-rated Trek. And generally speaking I won't even touch a show with an MA rating. It's the stuff I mentioned in my previous post—repeated promises by the current producers that they won't include R-rated material, marketing using 7-year-olds watching the show, etc.—that makes this feel like a very uncomfortable bait-and-switch to me.
I can (and do) respect that.
I really hope she appears again when Picard and everyone else deals more with the Borg part of the series, because otherwise I agree that it would be weird that she is used for this plot, but not for the other.
Outraged fandom rewrite of opening scene...
SEVEN OF NINE: "Oh, poor Bob, you've always been like a son to me ever since you tried to steal a shuttlecraft from Deep Space Four and I caught you and discovered you had a talent for Parrises Squares and then for the next five years we grew closer as I took you from tournament to tournament and then you wanted to join Starfleet and I couldn't have been more proud of you to become Admiral Bishop's understudy and you two proved a theory about dark matter. Now I'm sad that you're dying and it's all my fault."