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

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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.
Replicators existed as far back as catspaw when the aliens tried to bribe kirk with gold and jewels and kirk replied he could just make a ton of those on the Enterprise if he wanted
 
Picard's brother could afford non-replicated food because he was stinking rich but I bet most people would have to make do with the replicated stuff. That's how they stopped world hunger.
 
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Star Trek has always had a horrific element to it. After all, space is disease and darkness wrapped up in despair. But for me, the eye plucking was a bit too much gore for the sake of gore. I get the directorial and production decision to do it, but I still feel it was overboard.

Less is more. Horror is more effective when you let the viewer fill in the gaps, imho.
 
....But for me, the eye plucking was a bit too much gore for the sake of gore.....

Not to mention stupid. Why she couldn't scan him to see where the technology was!!!

Unless the borg elements are somewhat "cloaked" in the body that kind of "exploratory surgery" is just imbecilic!!!

Do you realize that exploratory surgery is practically obsolete NOW!!!
 
I watched the episode a second time. Is it just me, or did Picard realize what she was up to when she asked him for two phasers? Did anyone get the same impression?
I'd considered bringing up the same thing. The intent of the scene seems to be that Seven genuinely thought she was keeping Picard's hands clean...but Picard ain't that naive. He's now in a situation where he doesn't exercise any authority to speak of and is dealing with the fringes of society. He's shrewd enough in a situation like that to step aside and let locals be locals. And he probably knew that Seven was going to go back with or without his Rios's guns.
 
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