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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x03 - "Assimilation"

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Yistaan said:
Even considering Jurati was ruled not legally at fault, doesn't the fact that she murdered Maddox under the influence of a Vulcan mind meld show that she's the person least mentally equipped to withstand Borg assimilation? No one brings this up once not even Jurati herself? And even if she was legally cleared of that, she recovered from that way too quickly. Realistically she'd be having lifelong trauma, crying fits, flashbacks, etc. over having killed Maddox from a mindmeld, not unlike the way Picard is forever damaged by the casualties of Wolf 359 from his time as Locutus.
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Agnes just has this mind which can compartmentalize feelings with urgent efficiency. Her subconscious is probably screaming, but she mutes it well enough with many insulating layers.

So many great moments in this episode. I especially enjoy the loving behavior displayed by Seven when she affirms to the little girl who saw her beam in that she does indeed have superpowers. With a wink, no less. I can almost hear her calling her Naomi Wildman.
 
Vale said:
I am very confident that wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff will have Elnor resurrected in some way by the end of the season.
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"In some way" may be right on the money..

https://decider.com/article/star-trek-picard-stars-break-down-episode-3-is-elnor-really-dead/

"Uh… that’s a really good question I don’t know if I’m allowed to answer it,” Evagora said when Decider prodded him for info on Elnor’s final fate. “I know Elnor appears again, I just can’t say in what capacity or how. But, I don’t even know if I’m allowed to say that, but I did, so there we go!”
 
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Is Rick & Morty the first media property created after TOS aired that has been explicitly referenced in Trek?
 
I just noticed the forward consoles on La Sirena, no holographic interfaces anymore. At least they haven’t used them
 
This had that 'act two' feel to it, which is a common problem amongst serialized shows with lesser writers. While it was still 100x more engaging than that other show, it was still a huge step-down from the first two.

And the stuff with the clinic doctor was really trite.
 
New phaser setting: "ANNULMENT".

Rios bonds with the boy over cookies.
Jurati bonds with Maddox over cookies.
This won't end well.

Europa also gets refrerenced in the season finale of Discovery.

Good job avoiding scrutiny, Rios. Top of the class...

Was there a line I missed explaining why the Queen just doesn't take over the ship again?
 
Trekker4747 said:
Don't you kinda mean that the other way around?
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Literally? No, can't see how that would work without time traveling to 2014 or something. I mean that Rios is going to choose to stay in the past, settle down with that woman, and be a stepfather to that boy.

If nothing else, that kid is clearly going to have a role next episode. His mother was arrested, and he's all alone - plus the communicator is right there. He's going to get in contact with the Discovery crew.
 
In the opening credits before Picard appears at the end there's a brief view of the borg queen from behind which looks kinda like Agnes.
 
Good stuff overall, still very entertaining, yet the inevitable plot cracks are beginning to show themselves.

When every one comes on here and starts saying stuff like: "Well if this happened, then why didn't he/she/it/they just..." That's a signal of little spatial plot anomalies that happen when you begin writing yourself into a corner with convenient, hand-wavy things.

Sort of like the fight between Ashoka and the magistrate in The Mandalorian. Why did Ahsoka bother with the melee combat when she could have levitated the baddie 40 ft up with the Force and then face-planted her real hard, immobilized her, and questioned her? ANS: because it wouldn't be as cool, obviously, but it does pull one out of the story.

So yeah, why hasn't the Borg Queen with her swift tentacles just retaken the ship and effortlessly assimilated Jurati and Picard? Plot armor, baby- that wouldn't be cool. And story wise, it's a problem.
 
Oh, and I did feel some evil satisfaction at seeing the Magistrate disintegrated. Smarmy little f--k. Hard to imagine any version of Annika wanting to marry that tool.
 
Jedi Marso said:
So yeah, why hasn't the Borg Queen with her swift tentacles just retaken the ship and effortlessly assimilated Jurati and Picard? Plot armor, baby- that wouldn't be cool.
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This didn't seem like a plot hole to me, because we don't actually know how much the Confederation neutered her prior to her escape with Picard & company. She might not even have functional nanoprobes for assimilation any longer.
 
eschaton said:
This didn't seem like a plot hole to me, because we don't actually know how much the Confederation neutered her prior to her escape with Picard & company. She might not even have functional nanoprobes for assimilation any longer.
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This is very true, and one of the things the first episode of this season did so well- it answered questions like that before they were asked with brevity and panache. We aren't seeing that here.

Plus, the implication is that she does have that ability, the way Picard plugged her into Jurati for the Bord mind-meld session.
 
The Borg Queen was essentially off-line once they got to 2024 with no way to fix it.
That's why Agnus had to go in and reset her.
But, Agnus is obviously very savvy in ways to avoid being mentally compromised.
She's spent her whole life doing it to herself, so the Borg Queen hasn't got a chance of beating Juarti.
 
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