Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x10 - "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2"

Out of all the comments, this one frightens me the most.

Star Trek doesn't have a "cool"- or "it"-factor, and it's definitely hit-and-miss on the character drama stuff. "Being made for over-thinkers" is literally what one of Star Trek's uniqe selling point was. There's a reason so many scientists and engineers were big into Trek.

 

Oh. My. God. This was one of the greatest things I've ever seen in the decades I've been a Star Trek fan... I now realise this whole season wasn't really about an Admonition, about Synths, about Romulans or a Borg Artifact… It was all about Picard and Data getting the opportunity to say goodbye… It started with Blue Skies, and ended with it... It was perfect... Seeing the journey of a beaten, sorrow, sick man regaining his passion was heart-warmingly awesome… Thank you cast and crew for putting together another brilliant chapter of the Star Trek Legacy. A solid 10 for me!

 

Kirk kicking ass and getting space girls?

 

If that. I'm still not sure what the show wants us to think of Picard. If the writers wanted us to think he was in some way out of touch, it would have helped to contrast him with some other character(s) who was in touch. Instead what we got were a ragtag crew of misfits who all agree with him, some one-scene-wonder assholes, and moustache-twirling villains.

 

Absolutely loved the character beats, but hated the “magical device”, and really really dislike seeing fleets of the same style of ships. The last is mere window dressing. Also disliked Oh scenes, and Riker seemed way over the top, not like someone leading a fleet of ships into combat.

Seriously Oh, just fire already.

The ending little montage of interactions on the ship seemed really out of nowhere. Unless some time has passed, it seems rather odd for the kiss. She sought solace from the murder she committed and visions of the future with Rios. Why now? Certainly I would think he would have some minor reservations after her actions and now knowing her mental state. Then Seven and Raffi, seems rather quick for two characters we haven’t seen interact much. And if either are trying just to have a bit of escapism their interaction seemed a little to playful for how I see these two handle issues.

I do want to see Narek again, if it makes sense as I do like the actor.

But overall disliked about 8 minutes and enjoyed to loved the rest.

8.5 in my book.

I do think the episode still had sections (the part I disliked) that seemed rushed. Yet other parts of the episode are giving so much time to breathe, it makes it feel a bit disjointed.

 

The only real plot hole for me is, if Soong was capable of creating a new body then how come he didn't make one for Data. Or if he had to give that body to Picard, he could've been like, Yo Data, let's hold off on the assisted suicide stuff for a little while so I can make you a new body too.

But I get the emotional part of it and it makes me really happy that they got to say goodbye.

 

I didn't tell that poster how to react at all.

I was asking why they were being so analytical about something that is obviously very emotional and commented about how thinking that way a lot must make for a dismal outlook on life.

And yes, some Trek episodes are great in that they can be analytically explored, but most of the really good ones played heavily on the viewers emotions.

PICARD really isn't that kind of show, nor is this episode in particular.
This is a very emotions based story.

 

Technically, yes. But the manipulations should be invisible. If you the viewer notice the strings being pulled, something has gone wrong.

 

Why does it need to have a "function"? Why can't it just be a setting, like Earth or the android planet, or the interior of La Sirena. It's a place where some shit happened, that's all it ever needed to be.

 

You're obviously not Jean-Luc Picard.

 

"I didnt tell them how to react, I just decided that anyone who doesnt see this as I do (I, DaveyNY being the Gold Standard for normal, enjoyable human reactions to things) must have a dismal outlook on life."

I think it is better to leave out the psychoanalysis or life commentary regarding fellow posters, DaveyNY. It's almost certainly wrong and highly likely to be resented.

 

The matchy-matchy uniforms at the end were odd to me. It's almost like there was supposed to be a scene explaining what they were going to be up to next and that they were going out as a crew on missions together, but it got cut or something.

 

Mainly because Data told Jean-Luc that he didn't desire a new body.
He desired to be mortal and end his life the way he chose... By saving Jean-Luc's.

 

I hope Picard got a good burial on that world. First he buries James T. Kirk, then another impulsive ship captain helps to bury him.

 

Because they raised all this stuff about the xBs and harvesting them for parts and then just crashed the Cube for no reason and then walked away from it. Why even have it follow them? There were lots of potential thematic crossovers with the synths and yet they did nothing with it.

No, you were telling them how to watch it.

 

He said he didn't want to keep on floating around in quantum robot heaven or whatever that was. He wasn't presented the option of going out and living in the physical world again. I can't imagine that he would have turned that down.

 

I think if that were something he desired he probably would have inquired about it though.

He knew that Jean-Luc was going back.

 

That's not what Data wanted.

 

Without enough Borg crew the thing might be little more than a hulk in space. if Seven wanted to plug in and get a full regeneration/assimilation process going it might be flyable but then do the Borg come back full force when they detect one of their Cubes running about or does she become the near defacto superpower of the quadrant? The situation they dropped in on in #9 was probably akin to Kirk's Enterprise in Trek III, mostly automated and not up to real combat or defense because I doubt those orchids could really bother a fully active Borg Cube.

 

Many amazing observations here!
Some spoiler tags cause it's really amazing stuff!

"To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination."

The synth tool reminds me of the exocomps who could replicate whatever tool was required

Funny how Soong says dahdahstream instead of daydastream XD

Another eye (missing muscles) ripped out. They should focus on a different organ getting ripped out in each season.

Ancestors arrived on Vulcan instead of originating there. I guess that's Sargon's people?

A football bomb XD

Turok 2 music! XD

"Yes, they have life. But no one is teaching them what it's for! To be alive is a responsibility as well as a right!"

Picard finally manages to fly the ship, and Aggie says "Make it so!"

Aggie knows the Picard Maneuver!

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Too bad all the new Starfleet ships are only 2 very similar classes... and they have the Disco Captain's chair XD

I loooove Riker back in uniform! He cites the treaty of Algeron which he broke back then XD
"I'm supposed to sit around in the woods making pizza while you have all the fun?"

Nice TNG style hypospray!

"That's why were here - to save each other!"

Seven acknowledges killing Bejeweled was wrong!

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What an amazing fireplace scene! I'm so glad they didn't just end the episode after the action, but gave it another 15 min of quiet character scenes! And they discuss (and correct) Nemesis, ending Data's story properly! Picard even asks if he has to go back to life and leave Data behind again! That whole scene was very well written and acted!

"You haven't made me immortal!?" XD

And then Data dies (again!) to Blue Skies in a robe similar to the one in AGT! And he and a Picard simulation turn into stardust...

People wondering about Seven's orientation also know about Raffi's now XD

And Seven remains on board for S2 it seems! Wow it's gonna be hard to wait now...