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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x06 - "Two of One"

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I mean considering the 2024 they're in isn't really the same '2024' that was in their original timeline I'm not sure how things play out. Doesn't it just get erased once the 'future' is repaired and it allows the 'future' to have altered the past which then changes 2024? Star Trek has never really looked at altered timelines via time-travel like say MCU/Loki... It's always been more like being rewritten, although people from a time-line that is to be "re-written" are able to continue to exist if they escape it before it is re-written (like Tasha in Yesterday's Enterprise
not necessarily, it’s pretty unclear what will happen right now.

By the way, if Rios is planning on staying I hope he is prepared to face WW3!
 
Renee Picard standing in front of a Mercury capsule is one of the finest visual portraits ever shot for any Trek series. The promise of the grand future in space travel to come extending a shadow into the past where thin sheets of metal and insulation were all that lie between failure and success, between death on Earth and life among the stars... The history of how we actually got there balanced with the promise of what could be...if only...

I was excited to see original Nomad represented, but that capsule...we were all there.
I didnt notice that scene but what a beautiful post
 
I had to chuckle at the scene where Rios is expounding on the 21st Century cigars and food, after having watched and read Stephen King's 11/22/63. One of the things in that story is how the character is warned that everything in the 60's is going to taste so much better that it's ridiculous.

So when Rios was mooning over 21st Century food, I was laughing and saying: "if you think that processed crap we have to eat is good, replicators must suck way harder than we all thought. You should try the pie in 1963!!"
 
At the very least, you might stop with the insinuations that I don't care about rehearsals and scores, since it's bullshit and utterly fucking unnecessary. Who the fuck gets mad at someone for experiencing something they haven't? Goddamn, unclench.
since you evidently don’t understand that what you heard was *written* and not impromptu your competence is quite questionable.
You two are in separate corners now, right? Cuz this was getting a little too personal.
 
I mean considering the 2024 they're in isn't really the same '2024' that was in their original timeline I'm not sure how things play out. Doesn't it just get erased once the 'future' is repaired and it allows the 'future' to have altered the past which then changes 2024? Star Trek has never really looked at altered timelines via time-travel like say MCU/Loki... It's always been more like being rewritten, although people from a time-line that is to be "re-written" are able to continue to exist if they escape it before it is re-written (like Tasha in Yesterday's Enterprise)

BTW, this Borg Queen stuff is just bonkers. It feels less like a Borg Queen and more like Harvey (The version of Scoripus in Crichton's head in Farscape)

On one hand Earth has nothing worth assimilating.

On the other hand she has to have some resources if she wants to assimilate the ancient cave Borg in the Delta Quadrant.

Of Course as we have seen from Agness, all the queen has to do is submit to assimilation, and she can over come the larger organism from the inside.
 
I have repeatedly stated that if band mates know each other well enough, and are competent, they can do this. I can't explain to you something you don't even think exists.

Bless you, @Amaris . At least this exchange doesn't have the dark edge of that thread where you kept having to explain that, in fact, ICE detention centers are not 5-star hotels, or whatever craziness that was...
 
Just a thought, and apologies and credit to whoever already thought of this as I have not been regularly reading anything here or any where, I think the trauma Picard is remembering is the Romulans harvesting his DNA for the Shinzon clone. I swear I saw a Reman in some of Picards flashback memories. And the trailer had a kid being approached by Vulcans, but maybe they were Romulans (and assuming the kid is Picard). l also wonder if we are going to discover Laris was involved, she was Tal Shiar and I think Romulans have longer life spans like Vulcans. Or this is bilge ; )
 
Just a thought, and apologies and credit to whoever already thought of this as I have not been regularly reading anything here or any where, I think the trauma Picard is remembering is the Romulans harvesting his DNA for the Shinzon clone.
But if he's just a kid when the Romulans harvest his DNA how do they know he'll be important enough to clone 40+ years down the line? Timey wimey stuff?
 
But if he's just a kid when the Romulans harvest his DNA how do they know he'll be important enough to clone 40+ years down the line? Timey wimey stuff?

Totally good point, and no idea. It was one of those gotta get it out ideas :confused:
 
It's as good a guess as any. The kid getting approached by Vulcans in the trailers is a huge question mark for me at the moment too. Absolutely no idea how that will tie into the story we've seen so far. Tallin speaking Romulan and knowing about mind melds might be a hint but who knows?
 
Jerry-rigged mind meld? She’s Romulan in this timeline?

sub 40 minute ep again way too short.
I've a feeking she's Romulan in all timelines,.

've never seen that spelling of "Corey" until this show. That must be a rare spelling of the same name.
Or as pointed out it's a different name.
I liked it more than last week. My only thing was……you kill the power, but the spotlights still work for the band?
The Borg Queen controlled the lighting and has a flair for the dramatic,
Kind of funny that Rios seems more enamored with the 21st century than anyone else in the group, despite being the one person who's spent pretty much the whole season detained by ICE. You'd think that would leave a bad taste in the mouth.
Obsessed with a certain doctor is more like it,
I'm sorry but evil Picard would not have built his synth body to be so vulnerable, I don't care what the writers say here. Looking the same age, maybe having a mortal lifespan, etc. but synth Picard should have just shrugged over that car collision. And if the Confed didn't want anyone too powerful etc. honestly they wouldn't have saved evil Picard by putting him in a synth body to begin with.
Evil Picard didn't build it. He took it from someone else.
That and the band knew exactly what to do to follow her improvised plan!
A well used trope. My guess is the Borg Queen tapped into the band's setlist and picked a song. They knew the song and the arrangement.

People's obsession over runtimes is weird to me. Like they were cheated or something, :lol:
 
I've a feeking she's Romulan in all timelines,.


Or as pointed out it's a different name.

The Borg Queen controlled the lighting and has a flair for the dramatic,

Obsessed with a certain doctor is more like it,

Evil Picard didn't build it. He took it from someone else.
A well used trope. My guess is the Borg Queen tapped into the band's setlist and picked a song. They knew the song and the arrangement.

People's obsession over runtimes is weird to me. Like they were cheated or something, :lol:
In fairness, I've been complaining the episodes end too soon, but then again I would say that if it was two hours long. I won't be satisfied until I see how the story works out. :D
 
A well used trope. My guess is the Borg Queen tapped into the band's setlist and picked a song. They knew the song and the arrangement.
A most plausible answer.
The fact that she killed the lights, tapped into the sound system and turned on the spotlights can also be used to confirms this.
 
I have to say, while there are a lot of good elements about this season, and I think the writing for the characters has improved over season 1, I am done with the 20th/21st century. I never want to see Star Trek go back in time to or have an alternate reality or holodeck program set at any time between, lets say, 1960 and First Contact. I am so beyond sick of it at this point. TOS sometimes got away with it, but even Star Trek IV I think was a bit overrated, and the Gary Seven TOS episode was, in my opinion, one of the worst, you can barely even call it a Trek episode.

At this point, as excited as I am for season 3, if we didn't have the Borg queen to add some actual Star Trek stuff into the show and some brief bits with Q, I'd probably skip the next few episodes and come back in for episode 10 just to see the conclusion, and based off of this episode I wouldn't even miss much plot. Even the Borg Queen stuff is kind of annoying, because Agnes is an idiot and probably my least favorite member of the main cast.

A middle of the road snooze fest episode, which is unfortunately an accurate description fo rmost of the season once they landed in the past.
 
That Jurati (or should the Queen get the credit?) musical number was DELIGHTFUL. Been stuck in my head all day. One of my favorite things ever on this show.

Though, the construction of this episode was a goddamn mess. The number of ADRed lines required just to create basic sense out of it was, on a craft level, appalling.

But, having said that, I am choosing just to set that all aside and enjoy the ride. I love this cast, I love this updated Queen, and I love this seasons scathing indictment of LA specifically. There's a lot of untapped potential being left on the table, but there's also plenty there that does satisfy!
 
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Just a thought, and apologies and credit to whoever already thought of this as I have not been regularly reading anything here or any where, I think the trauma Picard is remembering is the Romulans harvesting his DNA for the Shinzon clone. I swear I saw a Reman in some of Picards flashback memories. And the trailer had a kid being approached by Vulcans, but maybe they were Romulans (and assuming the kid is Picard). l also wonder if we are going to discover Laris was involved, she was Tal Shiar and I think Romulans have longer life spans like Vulcans. Or this is bilge ; )

thanks I hate it

(it is a good theory and my objection is that it legitimizes Nemesis, a crime against all that is good and holy)
 
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