Cause God forbid anyone take personal responsibility for getting spoiled while poking around on a message board in a thread about a topic THEY don't want to know about!
Star Trek IX was rumoured to be Q with Riker as Captain of the Enterprise and Picard promoted to Admiral but then they came up with Insurrection! Two out of three ain't bad...
I'm getting a distinctly sinister vibe from all of those red Starfleet banners. In fact it's beginning to look like deLancie's comic "The Gift". (Look it up.)
Here's a thought: Raffi and Seven are sent back to 21st century LA to replace Michelle Hurd and Jeri Ryan. Their task is to sneak a peak at the scripts for Picard Season 3 in order to solve a riddle Q gives them (and of course to save the universe). It writes itself!
...Is it 21st century LA? Buses with ads for trips to Europa could date back to the 1980s in the standard timeline! Alas, we're not gonna get that. But we really should. Timo Saloniemi
How does the rest of the meeting go: Q: Well, Jean-Luc, what do you think of this vintage? We Q age, for lack of a better word in your dictionary of unintelligible grunts, with infinite grace, a killer wardrobe, and sweetness of being finer than any of the broken bottles of unfulfilled dreams and pissed away opportunities turning to mildew in your cellars. PICARD: What? Why are you here? What do you want? Q: Moi want? I don't want anything. I lack for nothing! I was just in the neighborhood and thought I'd drop in on an old friend. PICARD: Another trial? The same trial? The one that never ends? Doesn't the Continuum have better things to do than bother humanity? And don't you have a son to look after or something? Q: Mmm...nope. And think of it less a trial and more of an audition. The stage is set! The players in their place! All the world's a stage! The lights are lit! All five of them! PICARD: Who's in the audience? The Continuum? Q: Not this time. You simply wouldn't believe who's paid at the box office for this production. PICARD: More riddles. I'm too old for riddles, Q. Q: Let me do something about that, Jean-Luc. (SNAPS FINGERS)
Picard: You think an all powerful being would already know, but I'm a synth now so your trial of humanity no longer applies to me. Also Q, you better have a good explanation to Seven on why you didn't save your son's friend Icheb. I don't think removing her Borg implants is going to be enough for her
Q: So what does it matter if you're a walking mug of lukewarm Earl Grey tea buzzed out of a replicator?
Beautiful job screen shotting from the trailer. Picard's looks like a very small child's depiction of a tree and Rios, apologies, looks like a dildo to me. I don't know if that makes me channelling the little gay boy I was or the 40-something gay man I am is Somme equally unflattering combination of both
Ooooh, good point that Seven could be married to AltTimelineJay.Shocker! The symbol of her badge (and on the flags) looks somewhat sinister. I still think it could depict the wormhole/ Dominion. Maybe she's an opponent of the Federation/ our other heroes? The forum is acting up on me, so more later, except for... So Jurati is, of course, not in jail. Oh well.