Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x03 - "Assimilation"

[cooleddie74]

The owners of that vineyard must have been out of town or on vacation.

 

[Lord Garth]

The owners of that vineyard must have been out of town or on vacation.

"Looks like a airplane! Without wings!"

 

[cooleddie74]

They must have gone to town to shop at Twin Grapes Mall.

 

[starfleettanner]

So um....Teresa and Rios....are we gonna get some kind of predestination paradox here with these two?

 

[Tuskin38]

Maybe at this point in history the property isn't owned, or maintained.

 

[El Maestro]

Hollywood sure love making Immigration officers the bad guys

guys I found Stephen Miller’s account

 

[Caretaker]

Lots of fun and interesting elements for this episode, but - so far, this season, overall, is leaving me cold. We've seen this same plot a dozen time before. Now, if they utilize some twist or twists that give it (greater) importance in Trek history, I'd warm up to it or do something new with it. But so far it is a rehashed time travel story.

I wonder if Rios is going to Phil J. Fry himself (Is the doctor an ancestor and he is going to end up being his own great many times over grandfather?)?

Someone I was watching with said, "I hope the whole season doesn't take place in 2024." I agree - I hope they don't drag it out for seven more episodes.

I liked the Sanctuary District sign, plus Seven's inability to use the proper 21st century terminology for photography. And Raffi pretty easily disabling the mugger. Loved Jurati turning the tables on the Borg Queen.

I had the thought that The Watcher is

Spoiler: only a spoiler if I end up being correct

Mestral

. Whether that character has advanced technology (either left behind or created "The City On The Edge Of Forever" Spock-style), I don't know.

Am I the only one who finds it weird that they seem to be using a traditional act structure? There are these brief areas of blank/back screen clearly where commercial breaks would seem to be placed.

 

[cooleddie74]

The UHC card was a nice tie-in to "Past Tense, Parts I and II(DS9)." I was hoping we'd get more than just the Sanctuary District poster hanging out in the open when Raffi is held up by the mugger.

 

[El Maestro]

On the slingshot thing, the only aspect I didn't like was that it showed it actually disappearing "then" and appearing "now" by going through an actual tunnel or something, and that's not how I ever thought of it working or looking.

I thought of it being more like how you could theoretically time-travel to the future by going around a black hole (well, really, any object with high mass but a black hole would make the change more significant) and you wouldn't even need to be going the speed of light or any major speed to do it, just fast enough to stay out of the black hole's event horizon. Time moves faster closer to a massive object so if you spent a few minutes around a black hole days, months or years could pass outside of it, you wouldn't disappear around the hole and show up in the future you'd just spend time around the hole, come out and it'd be the future. Relativity 101.

With the slingshot around the sun thing, that's how I thought of it working, only because they're going warp speeds, subspace and all that nonsense they're able to control whether they're going to the future or past and at least with ST:IV there was a "breakaway from orbit" moment that was apparently critical to getting you to arrive when you wanted to.

But, again, I'm thinking about it more than Kurtzman and Co. did and I guess make the ship disappear and reappear through an actual portal hand-feeds things to audiences watching this on their phones better.

If you were observing the ship as it was departing the future to go to the past it would disappear, though. And if you were camped at the arrival point in the past it would just show up out of nowhere.

 

[thribs]

They must have gone to town to shop at Twin Grapes Mall.

Those jokes are very fitting, considering who the director was

 

[cooleddie74]

She is our density.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The owners of that vineyard must have been out of town or on vacation.

It's owned by Picard's distant American ancestor. Jim Bob Picard

 

[Quinton]

Lea Thompson will always be Caroline Duffy to me.

And nine-year-old 1996 me will always think that she and I were ships passing in the night.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Am I the only one who finds it weird that they seem to be using a traditional act structure? There are these brief areas of blank/back screen clearly where commercial breaks would seem to be placed

Those are actual commercial breaks.

 

[cooleddie74]

And I'm glad they're still there. They give the series a syndicated or network TV telecast feel.

 

[Nerys Myk]

And I'm glad they're still there. They give the series a syndicated or network TV telecast feel.

Whirlpool, proud sponsor of Star Trek Discovery.

 

[cooleddie74]

"Stay tuned for The New WKRP in Cincinnati, following the 11 news!!"

 

[thribs]

I wonder if we will learn about the Irish unification that should be happening at this time

 

[Quinton]

"UPN Friiiiiiday..."

 

[Lord Exor]

The final scene when the Queen is fully awake...this is the kind of Borg Queen I hate, TBH - the kind that reminds me of Voyager. Not creepy and alien, but relatable and a bit catty. It diminishes the Borg seeing them so personified like this. Though I understand she's cut off from the collective, thus effectively an individual at the moment.

You relate to psychopaths? And the Queen was always portrayed this way, even during her debut in First Contact.