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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x05 - "Stardust City Rag"

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The Fenris Rangers are Seven's new support group. By now, she'll have a whole bunch of new friends and new confidantes that have nothing to do with Voyager. I mean, come on, she's been with the Rangers for, what, fifteen years now? She was only onboard Voyager for four years. Realistically, Fenris would mean more to Seven than Voyager.

"Make new friends but keep the old
One is silver and the other gold"

Clearly you were never a Girl Scout :)

The Voyager crew were her foundational friends, there from her birth, so to speak, and the witnesses of her transformation and reclamation. I'm sure she could make new friends (like Bjayzl? not sure about her taste) but I doubt if they'd ever be more important, even if they are currently more available.
 
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Some Ferengi went out of their way to alter the programming of a hologram of Reginald Barclay just to get their hands on Seven of Nine's nanoprobes from clear across the galaxy. Borg technology has been a hot commodity for at least 21 or 22 years at this point and people as well as alien races are willing to go out of their way to acquire it.

Even "deborgified" Seven's remaining implants allowed her to walk through force fields, I'd imagine alone that'd be worth a goldmine.
 
The part I had trouble believing is that the parts were that valuable. I mean I guess “nanites”.

Yeah, I mean, I know Trek has been kinda inconsistent with replicators, but I was always under the assumption basically anything could be replicated once its pattern has been scanned.

Hell, just transport a box of Borg junk and keep on making transporter clones. Problem solved.
 
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At some point we may have to realize its a Frake thing going back over 20 years. A lot of people felt way back in First Contact that the eye poke scene at the beginning was unnecessary. And completely out of continuity too as Picard had no ocular eyepiece.

That we know of ...

Who is to say that his eye did not get fixed?

Frakes seems really proud of the scene where Picard apparently informs us he feels his humanity is still incomplete: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...k-creator-gene-roddenberry-would-hate-1280569 . I can honestly say that Picard on this show (and especially Picard of the first episode, where he was infinitely compassionate with Dahj) has more humanity than some people I know in real life, so Picard saying his humanity feels incomplete falls flat.

Picard was talking about his own personal perceptions. Is there any reason to think that someone marked by a great trauma might see differences, feel things, that an outsider might not have imagined? No one, I would also argue, thinks that he is right.

Also, I get now why Jeri had trouble finding out who Seven was. So much of her character was informed by her friendship with the Voyager crew. Of course if you take them away you have no idea who she is anymore! Especially as there's no clue how/if they helped her through her grief with Icheb etc. In real life, people's support groups don't just magically disappear via plot device. No wonder Jeri had trouble with the jump from a Seven who had support and love to lone vigilante. I would too.

IMHO that would have been inevitable regardless of whatever Seven would have become. Two decades is a lot of time.
 
Yeah, I mean, I know Trek has been kinda inconsistent with replicators, but I was always under the assumption basically anything could be replicated once it's pattern has been scanned.

Hell, just transport a box of Borg junk and keep on making transporter clones. Problem solved.
We don't mention that. It's top secret, like Genesis Devices and Spore Drives.
 
Offenhouse seemed to think his money would be sitting right where he left it, as if institutions and governments wouldn't have risen and fallen in 400 years under even the best of circumstances. That bit of utter cluelessness is why I don't give him much credit, as many do, for his little redemptive moment when he made a good call on the bridge. So they let him fill Troi's shoes and tell the captain something really obvious...whoopdy-doo.

Hmm. I am not sure about that. Ignoring that he might be legitimately disoriented after four centuries of death, Offenhouse found himself revived in a far future setting that had connections with his own. The English-speaking civilization centered on the United States that he lived in on late 20th century Earth had progressed to the point of becoming a starfaring civilization. If there was that much continuity, why might the financial institutions of Earth not have also survived? Post-capitalist economic systems would have been highly speculative in Offenhouse's time, after all.
 
Also the collapse of the Romulan Neutral Zone and the federation pulling out of the area makes no sense compared to what we've seen in the past. The neutral zone is from a 250 year old treaty. If it collapsed the federation would probably expand out into the neutral zone further. The Romulan Empire wouldn't be that weakened by the supernova of their main system with years to evacuate.

The western Balkans have become, after the 2007 expansion of the EU to Romania and Bulgaria, effectively a multinational enclave surrounded by the EU. Despite some progress, and even though Croatia did join the EU in 2013, the core of the western Balkans has remained outside the EU, economically depressed and politically questionable.

Would it make sense to bring the western Balkans into the EU? I would say "yes," assuming that they could be brought in without harming the cohesion of the post-Brexit EU. That, though, depends critically on what Europeans themselves think of the idea, and Europeans for their own reasons (some of which I think are good, some of which I think are not) are deeply skeptical of the idea. They do not want to take the possible risks and the known costs onto themselves.

How much more implausible would be the idea of the expansion of the Federation, whether into the Neutral Zone or even beyond into former Romulan space?
 
Some Ferengi went out of their way to alter the programming of a hologram of Reginald Barclay just to get their hands on Seven of Nine's nanoprobes from clear across the galaxy. Borg technology has been a hot commodity for at least 21 or 22 years at this point and people as well as alien races are willing to go out of their way to acquire it.

Yes, but it would be far more profitable to get the whatchamacallum that creates the nanoprobes than the nanoprobes themselves.
 
Yeah, I mean, I know Trek has been kinda inconsistent with replicators, but I was always under the assumption basically anything could be replicated once it's pattern has been scanned..

Actually, Trek has been perfectly consistent with replicators. A replicatior can manufacture anything which advances the current plot, and will always fail to manufacture anything which would disrupt said plot.
 
He was replicating cookie ingredients! Replicating!!!!! A cheap date to be sure.

With replicators all around most people likely don't bother buying four, eggs...etc... Consequently, the genuine ingredients must be hard to come by and cost a fortune.
 
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