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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x05 - "Stardust City Rag"
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30 new pages again in just 24 h 
Gore and Borg go well together, though.
Is there a good source to read what exactly he wrote or said, with context?
Conspiracy was my first Trek episode, and I was 7 or 8. If they hadn't cut that scene, I wouldn't have become a fan that day and would've avoided Trek for years...
Gore and Borg go well together, though.
The Ferengi even went through some insane geodesic-fold-on-a-red-giant-technotrouble (easily topping any deflector polarity reversals) to get her nanoprobes XD
Did Paris work with Armstrong and Cochrane? Did Stamets work with Musk?
And she doesn't wanna smell like a smoker when she meets her son to tell him she's clean!
It only saddens me cause I live and work close to him and would wanna talk to him about it :/
I noticed it in the previous episode as well, when Raffi was working on something at her station
He said he's not much of an actor when Bev wanted him to act in her play on TNG
Maybe someone realized the main theme is Batai's melody XD
Yes, his response seems to have been genuine. Was kinda sad to see him feeling left out, I was hoping he's just pretending :/
Who did they hate and still offer something?
All consenting adults have the right to fall in love and act on their emotions. "What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other?" - Soren, The Outcast
You would prefer her to show up for no reason and disappear again with no further contribution? Imagine the outrage here XD
Since the authorities covered up the previous attacks, he can't trust them. They would've erased that evidence as well.
As the sinistairrre frenchman? That's cause he's acting the part of a bad actor having to act.
How did you feel about Picard and Riker murdering Remmick, Picard murdering Soran and the Borg queen, Sisko murdering Dukat, Janeway murdering the Borg queen, Picard murdering Shinzon?
Possibly the music from the Inner Light that is in the intro?
George Lazenby.
Built in AI according to the episode.
but that credit was only in this episode
It's possible that Chattaway was made aware that a portion of a piece he wrote is being used in the opening and his people contacted CBS and his credit had to be added starting with this episode. We'll see if it continues from now on.
Thanks for replying to my reply and expounding on your thoughts. Off the top of my head, the love interests of the captains in general were not that diverse.
If you look at Pike, he might have been enticed by an Orion 'animal woman' (which is problematic in and of itself), while being tempted by a Talosian fantasy of him being a slave trader basically. However, it was just Vina in green paint and that's what I think was also part of the attraction. The Talosians also gave him the options of Number One and Yeoman Colt.
For Kirk, I could be wrong here, but every non-white woman he was involved with on TOS was due to him not being in his right mind. He was being coerced or had lost his memory. Picard also had all white love interests, excepting Lily Sloane though I would be remiss to really call her a love interest. I can't remember if he even kissed Lily Sloane in First Contact. Janeway, from what I saw of the show, almost all of her romantic interests, save Chakotay (if we consider their very close friendship romantic) were white men, or white actors playing aliens. Archer is the only one that had a non-white love interest that he had been in a serious relationship with, Captain Hernandez, though that was mostly conveniently in the past, so we didn't get to see a fully fleshed out relationship there. So, Captain Sisko isn't that much out of the norm when it comes to his romantic partners, not counting his tryst with Mirror Jadzia, and that was while he was pretending to be Mirror Sisko. I doubt very much it would've happened otherwise.
I had to look up Jake, but there was one non-black (or she looks that way to me) love interest, with Mardah. When it comes to skin tones and use of makeup, I think that CBS Trek really wants to promote acceptance and diversity and I can see them not using makeup, darkening or lightening actors' skin. That can lead to some places they don't want to go, especially if not done correctly or consciously of offense enough. Having the actors in their natural hues helps promote the variety of hues of the human family. I can't see CBS Trek ever using a word like 'pink skins' to describe all of humankind like they did on Enterprise, without them using that word to mock or chide the character who utters it.
I won't discount any argument that how the Trek creators have picked love interests over the decades has not been immune to bias, from themselves, the studios, or their concerns about how far ahead they could go from the audience. So the concern about miscegenation fears could very well be a factor or the case, but that would largely be across the board with Trek. Certainly, with some of the supporting and guest characters (Harry Kim, Mayweather, Gannett Brooks, Worf, Ba'el, K'Ehleyr, Ezri, Bashir, Torres, Paris, O'Brien, Keiko, Troi, Chakotay, Seska, "Endgame" Seven of Nine, Jake, Stamets, Culber, Ash Tyler, Mirror Georgiou, Mirror Lorca, Mirror Sisko, Mirror Archer, Mirror Hoshi, Mirror Mayweather, Intendant Kira, Dahj and Soji Asha, Narek, Dahj's boyfriend Caler, assuming Raffi) we saw some racial mixing, but the Prime Universe lead characters, with the exceptions of Michael Burnham and Archer, have all mostly been partnered with love interests from their same racial group.
I was very pleased to see Sisko involved with Jennifer, Nidell,and eventually Kassidy because at the time seeing positive black romantic relationships on mainstream television, in a drama and not a comedy, was very rare. I was also okay with many of Jake's choices, though I wasn't paying that much attention to them except for Korena who I thought was very attractive. I was also happy to see Aquiel and Geordi, and it was the first time Geordi got to have the makings of a real relationship. I never bought him and Leah Brahms, but Aquiel had an opposites attract kind of thing going on, she had more edges than he did and wouldn't play by the rules like he did, so I thought there was something interesting to be had there. Before Aquiel, I would've been interested to see what would've happened if they had developed a Geordi-Sonya Gomez relationship. He also had more chemistry with Gomez than Brahms.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mardah
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I wonder if there are aliens who see white, black, brown, and Asian humans, and cry foul that three of them are canon violations?
They brought back Del Arco, so I figure, why not.
And Ales didn't look like Brophy's Maddox or have his smug arrogance. May as well have been a different character.
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Most of the forum suspected as soon as she just happened to appear at the chateau in time to shoot that Romulan in the back.
True but that is only because we were led to believe that it was a huge secret and that the Zhat Vash have no qualms at killing to keep it hidden, so we had no reason to think she was there to kill him.
Laris made it out to be some huge secret that no one but a very select few is permitted to know, even the Zhaban was sceptical although he could be in the know and was just trying to deflect.
Then all of a sudden we find out that the Commodore told Jurati who is not what I would call a reliable confidant, the only reason it could force her to keep quiet is if it is a prime directive issue, to do with time travel or most likely her work with Maddox, even then its a bit of a stretch to go from sharing cookies to offing him the way she did with no hesitation whatsoever.
There was no real need to tell Jurati, the Commodore already knows where Soji is (with Narek) and all she has gained is Jurati's help in killing him which could have been achieved far more easily in other ways without exposing the secret, they could have sent in a kill team to wipe him out and any trace he was ever there.
Its almost like the Commodore wants Picard to be involved, did she send Rizzo in after Dahj knowing that she would make a mess, exactly what kind of game is the Commodore playing.
Does knowing the secret automatically make you Zhat Vash or whatever the Federation equivalent would be, is it literally the knowing that does it, it certainly would seem so based on Jurati's actions in the episode.
The "nobody here seemed to" was meant to apply only to the second part, that they wouldn't have seen her murder coming.
I think that Jurati feeling personally responsible for her role in Maddox's work is a major factor here. It's not necessarily a secret that would drive anyone to take such drastic measures.
I would argue that there’s this big issue, it relates to artificial life, Tal Shiar and the Eight want it stopped, and Maddox was just a mad scientist on the wrong side of this. They destroyed his lab and want his twins dead also (and there is a “nest” which apparently is not the lab). He’s reinventing the a-bomb but he’s not the subject of the hunt, more collateral damage.
They don't want the twins dead. Killing Dahj was a foul-up.
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Fair enough but they should have been watching her after what happened at the chateau and Maddox should not have been left alone knowing what he knows.
All of this is fine if they confront her in the next episode and it all comes out, someone has to tell Picard whats going on and plot wise it will make sense, I just get the feeling it may be glossed over which is a bit off if you ask me.
I am starting to wonder about the nature of the secret though, rather than the secret being passed on to those who pass certain tests to prove they are able to handle it, it seems that just the transfer itself is enough.
For someone like Jurati to be willing to kill without hesitation is a red flag, it doesn't matter that she was crying while doing it she didn't hesitate, not even once, as soon as she had him in her sights it was all over.
Even if Maddox is a prime instigator that could trigger a repeat of some terrible event why didn't she just tell him or better still have the Commodore show him.
There is true and then there is TRUTH and it seems Jurati has been given a TRUTH, if someone like Jurati can be pushed to kill just by knowing what would it do to Picard, then look at Rizzo and Narek, the sister is willing to kill without remorse yet Narek will not even though they both supposedly know the same thing that Jurati knows.
Its making me wonder if Rizzo, Narek and Jurati know the same thing or not, presumably it was the Commodore who showed all three of them but perhaps Rizzo's experience was more personal than Narek's and Jurati's guilt is driving her, but even so killing Maddox will not atone for anything.
As I have said previously it does scream Borg Queen origin to me, perhaps Rizzo was on board that Romulan ship but Narek was not.
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Would Dahj have lived if Narek had been sent instead.
I am not so sure that Dahj's death was really a mistake at all, something is really eating at Rizzo but not Narek.
I don't think he'd have started shooting at her right off the bat. Rizzo does have Oh threatening to fry her butt if she doesn't get her mission accomplished.
He could have knocked on her door and said:
Hi, I'm a student working to raise awareness and get help for the Romulan Relief Fund. Can you spare a minute of your time? The Tal Shiar bozos might have tried that, too but subtlety is a lost art in the 24th century, ebvidently.