Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x03 - "Assimilation"

[NCC-73515]

NASA must've seen the ship go down, that could be where the earpieces and Ducane get involved.
The queen is oddly bitchy/sassy XD

Rick and Morty. That’s not child friendly

Ah, I thought you meant the watcher shouldn't be at 5th & Hill XD

La Sirena crashed somewhere south of Palmdale, north of Los Angeles in one of those forests

Close to Vasquez Rocks, that's why he said home

 

[IMC Headquarters]

"Computer, dictate the file logged, "Shit I stole from the Borg Queen."

Pill is knocking it out of the park.

Poor Elnor...

 

[Precious Tritium]

Really don't think enough credit can be given to Annie Wersching who's absolutely killing it. Despite being basically immobile and cut off from the collective, she rules every scene she's in and feels like a genuine threat. Which just makes the moment when Jurati pulls the rug out from under her so satisfying to watch.

Definitely the highlight of the episode.

 

[Gov Kodos]

"Computer, dictate the file logged, "Shit I stole from the Borg Queen."

Pill is knocking it out of the park.

Poor Elnor...

Q will probably put everyone back in place when his game with Picard is finished but even getting back with a corpse isn't too much trouble because Seven brought Neelix from the dead. They could do the same nanoprobe business with Elnor. More likely, another Seven plot power to be forgotten.

 

[NCC-73515]

Pill's acting was great, when she is overtaken by the queen you see her range (reminded me of Sarek in Picard)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

2026 has been the canon date of WW3 for years

And they're gonna have to ignore that, because there's no way World War III could possibly last 27 fucking years.

Now, if 2026 was the beginning of a 'cold war' that eventually led to WW III in 2053, I can totally buy that. 2026 could be the year when the ECON begins to rise - it has to come from somewhere, right?

But there is literally no way that a global nuclear war could last 27 years. Hell, it couldn't even last 27 hours!

 

[gweeps]

Q will probably put everyone back in place when his game with Picard is finished but even getting back with a corpse isn't too much trouble because Seven brought Neelix from the dead. They could do the same nanoprobe business with Elnor. More likely, another Seven plot power to be forgotten.

Wouldn't it be quicker to let Q fix things then wait for Seven to find some nanobots?

 

[The Old Mixer]

I liked that little bit of Rios backstory that we got.

Notice that the Magistrate's name never having been dropped last episode became a plot point?

 

[Gov Kodos]

Wouldn't it be quicker to let Q fix things then wait for Seven to find some nanobots?

Did you read the first eight words?

 

[gweeps]

Did you read the first eight words?

Yes, and I guess I was... agreeing with you? I'm tired.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

I liked that little bit of Rios backstory that we got.

Notice that the Magistrate's name never having been dropped last episode became a plot point?

Now we know his full name:. Redd Shurtt.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Yes, and I guess I was... agreeing with you? I'm tired.

No, that was an over brusque response on my part, my apologies. I'd like more for Seven to embrace her Borgness which is a problem for her this season. She gets the insults in the first episode about her Borg face, for instance. Last season had its own statements about prejudice toward people severed from the Borg. Learning that the prejudices are other people's problems, not hers, would be a good step for her. One such step could be reengaging the Borg systems in her that could save Elnor.

 

[The Old Mixer]

And is it really such a great idea to disintegrate the enemy that one of your allies is holding...?

 

[Markonian]

Surprised Magistrate Hansen died early.
I wonder if the two eps are all we see of the Confederation, or if it's revisited at some point. Problem is that it originates in a timeline alteration rather than being a parallel universe.

Also, do we see the Nova- and Steamrunner-class ships from the trailers in this episode? If they do, they're the Eaglemoss models and might still be labelled USS Equinox and USS Appalachia.

 

[Spike730]

Also, do we see the Nova- and Steamrunner-class ships from the trailers in this episode? If they do, they're the Eaglemoss models and might still be labelled USS Equinox and USS Appalachia.

Yes, we do but judging by the attention to detail so far I‘m pretty sure they were properly renamed.

 

[StarMan]

Rick and Morty is now canon. Brilliant.

I liked it. Looking forward to the meat of the story now that we're all set up.

"What you have just done here is more difficult and vastly more dangerous than you realise - you've impressed me." - I'm sure that's a good night's sleep down the drain for Jurati.

 

[hxclespaulplayer]

What are these filming locations? Griffith observatory was pretty obvious, and I'm guessing the one with the beach is somewhere along the pacific coast highway, probably north of Santa Monica...

 

[hxclespaulplayer]

I think Picard’s console had coordinates on it when he was doing the crash landing

Doesn't the queen say coordinates at some point?

 

[Spike730]

Why wasn’t Space Legolas vaporised when he was hit?

It wouldn't have made as much impact.

 

[Romulan_spy]

That was pretty good. The parts on Earth with Rios, Seven and Raffi were very reminiscent of The Voyage Home. Same concept with our characters stuck in present day Earth, having to figure things out. And both had one character in a hospital. Although TVH played the fish out of water scenario for laughs, whereas Picard played it more serious.

The Borg queen scenes were the best parts of the episode IMO. Annie Hershing is fantastic. And the director did a great job of creating horror and dread. The opening scene with the Borg queen crawling on her hands towards Jurati was great. I also really appreciated how they shot the scene when Jurati is inside the Borg Queen's mind. When we see Jurati on one side, Picard on the other side, and the Borg Queen in between, elevated, with her arms out like on a cross, the scene was just beautifully shot, with great music to create the creepy atmosphere. Oh and I love when Jurati starts talking like the Borg Queen and the Queen starts talking like Jurati. And the Borg queen's line "I am impressed" was great.

I know there has been some speculation that Jurati is the masked Borg Queen we see on the Stargazer in ep 1. I think this episode gives more support to that theory, now that Jurati has been inside the Borg Queen's mind and perhaps the Queen did start to assimilate her. I suspect the Borg Queen still has some tricks up her sleeve, as it were.

I am curious about Q only appearing to Picard. Last episode, Q only appeared to Picard and now in this episode, on the bridge, Q only appears to Picard. I wonder if Q is only choosing to appear to Picard or if maybe Q is a figment of Picard's imagination.