Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x05 - "Stardust City Rag"
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Essentially, a consistent element across all of the Federation stories is that there's a large colonization effort of humans who want to leave the Federation's perfection because they want a sense of accomplishment from doing labor that means something versus living on Earth's nanny state. There's also "wild cat settlements" that exist on non-Federation worlds that are complete ****holes.
See Ezri's world and Tasha Yar's.
The Federation IS paradasical but most of its colonies aren't by design. They're places you work hard because you don't want to just lounge around the holodeck in.
I was getting more of a Cher vibe out of Bejeezus myself.
Icheb: Admiral Janeway will get you, you villain!
Bjayzl: Oh, you mean her?
Icheb looks on in horror at the corpses of Janeway, Torres, and Tuvok while hardcore fans recall they were briefly assimilated in "Unimatrix Zero".
Admiral Janeway: I went through time to make sure everyone lived.
7 of 9: Icheb was horribly torn apart by cybernetics harvesters.
Admiral Janeway: Just Icheb?
7 of 9: Yes.
Admiral Janeway: Eh, close enough.
My feelings regarding this episode is kind of similar to how I felt about the Discovery "Magic to make the sanest man" episode. For its first 6 episodes Discovery established it's own style that was different than previous Trek series. Then came the "Magic" episode which could have been done as an episode of any of the previous series. It was a very popular episode, with many Discovery detractor liking it. But, while I liked it, it was my least favorite episode of Discovery first season, and I was happy for Discovery to go back to its own style.
I feel the same way about "Stardust". I liked it and was entertained, but I prefer the first 4 episodes. They may have been too slow moving for some people, but they established Picard's own style of storytelling, different from previous Trek series, which I liked a lot. "Stardust" probably is more tied in to the Picard main story arc than "magic" was to Discovery, so it was better in that regard. But I will be happy if Picard goes back to its own style next week.
I feel the same way about "Stardust". I liked it and was entertained, but I prefer the first 4 episodes. They may have been too slow moving for some people, but they established Picard's own style of storytelling, different from previous Trek series, which I liked a lot. "Stardust" probably is more tied in to the Picard main story arc than "magic" was to Discovery, so it was better in that regard. But I will be happy if Picard goes back to its own style next week.
OMG OMG OMG!
This big secret had better be damn good, but what a turn at the end! Holy shit!
This big secret had better be damn good, but what a turn at the end! Holy shit!
What an ending, indeed.
Next episode:
Picard: What happened, Dr Jurati!
Jurati: I don't know, I panicked, I don't do well under pressure. He was dying, the hologram came on and was pressuring me I just tried to make it stop talking but I hit the puree his arterial system button instead of the fixit button.
Picard: We all make mistakes, Doctor... me most of all. Let's move past this.
[Entire Crew] WTF JL!
Next episode:
Picard: What happened, Dr Jurati!
Jurati: I don't know, I panicked, I don't do well under pressure. He was dying, the hologram came on and was pressuring me I just tried to make it stop talking but I hit the puree his arterial system button instead of the fixit button.
Picard: We all make mistakes, Doctor... me most of all. Let's move past this.
[Entire Crew] WTF JL!
I read that those parasites were intended to be the Borg originally (as in a primary, powerful antagonist), but not only was the technical budget high, they looked terrible so it was (thankfully) scrapped.
Exactly, how does she really expect to get away with that?
Or what if she didn't brainwash her? What if she just told her the truth? And the truth, whatever it is, is just THAT bad. That would be way more interesting. I hope that's the way it goes.
What could possibly be bad enough to kill her friend/mentor/lover for? Plus, he already told Picard where Soji is, that was the main purpose of Picard tracking him down in the first place.
I immediately thought she was Romulan. A Vulcan wouldn't be nearly as controversial considering Raffi was/is on a mission against the Romulans (although specifically the Tal Shiar).
He planned to re-create Taco Bell.
That would be justifiable homicide then.
Well, we're doing a Twin thing already, maybe there are two of them in there.