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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x06 - "The Impossible Box"

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So she an MD and a doctor in cybernetics!! That's quite an achievement given that even today an MD has to study nine years (post Highschool) and a Ph.D. too, given the two to four or even five years necessary for their thesis. She must be a genius.
Nine years for an MD? In the current US school system, maybe, but not in other parts of the world even today. In the UK, for instance, you don't have to do a degree before moving onto the MD, you can just go straight into medical school from high school - it is a five year course from there, generally, but my high achieving cousin did hers in four years.

And this is the Federation and the future, of course - we've seen that what today would be advanced university studies are routinely taught at high school level in Star Trek.
 
Not yet.
If the USS Defiant from TOS can end up 100 years in the past of the mirror Universe in Enterprise then who knows where Lorca might end up. TV finds a way.

Yes, but the thing is that we don't know what he would be like. Mirror Lorca was a very complex guy, he had many prime universe aspects, that's why it was so easy for him to pretend to be from this universe. I mean most MU characters we know would not know how to behave in this Universe. Creating a believable Lorca from this universe would not be an easy task.
 
Yes, but the thing is that we don't know what he would be like. Mirror Lorca was a very complex guy, he had many prime universe aspects, that's why it was so easy for him to pretend to be from this universe. I mean most MU characters we know would not know how to behave in this Universe. Creating a believable Lorca from this universe would not be an easy task.

What? How would creating a Prime Lorca be any harder than creating a MU Lorca? You know creating characters is what television writers do on like a daily basis, right?
 
What? How would creating a Prime Lorca be any harder than creating a MU Lorca? You know creating characters is what television writers do on like a daily basis, right?

I am talking about creating a believable Lorca, one that would be a natural counterpart to the Lorca we know. Remember that MU Kirk, for example, was arrested the moment he stepped from the transporter pad because he was totally inept in OUR Universe. Lorca was a genius compared to that Kirk. Prime Lorca should reflect that as well.
 
I am talking about creating a believable Lorca, one that would be a natural counterpart to the Lorca we know. Remember that MU Kirk, for example, was arrested the moment he stepped from the transporter pad because he was totally inept in OUR Universe. Lorca was a genius compared to that Kirk. Prime Lorca should reflect that as well.

Not really. Burnham seemed to get through the MU without being detected, even by Emperor Georgiou. Prime Lorca doesn't need to be a genius, he just needs to be a good man, who isn't an expert manipulator.
 
I never cared for the MU because it was different every time we've seen it. The characters range from cartoonishly evil to just darker versions of what we know. I feel that you can't really compare the TOS MU to the DS9 MU to the ENT MU to the DSC MU. They're all really different thanks to the various groups of writers.
 
Not really. Burnham seemed to get through the MU without being detected, even by Emperor Georgiou. Prime Lorca doesn't need to be a genius, he just needs to be a good man, who isn't an expert manipulator.

It was always easier for a prime Universe Character to fit in the MU than the reverse. As I said before MU Kirk was completely inept in OUR Universe while Prime Kirk was able to fool almost everyone in the MU. I am guessing that if MU Burnham had moved in OUR universe she would have been spotted pretty quick as well. Her insane ruthlessness would have given her away. That's what makes MU Lorca so unique. He really had a gift. He was able to destroy his ship and everyone but himself and still managed not to get blamed for it and get the exact assignment and crew he wanted. I suspect it wasn't a coincidence if Burnham's prison ship was disabled when and where it was. Lorca was a master of manipulation, unmatched.
 
It was always easier for a prime Universe Character to fit in the MU than the reverse. As I said before MU Kirk was completely inept in OUR Universe while Prime Kirk was able to fool almost everyone in the MU. I am guessing that if MU Burnham had moved in OUR universe she would have been spotted pretty quick as well. Her insane ruthlessness would have given her away. That's what makes MU Lorca so unique. He really had a gift. He was able to destroy his ship and everyone but himself and still managed not to get blamed for it and get the exact assignment and crew he wanted. I suspect it wasn't a coincidence if Burnham's prison ship was disabled when and where it was. Lorca was a master of manipulation, unmatched.
Emperor Lorca would have been interesting.
 
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