Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x07 - "Monsters"
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Matalas implied there may be cameos from other shows in Season 3.
Picard always knew the truth, it was just buried under the trauma.
She used the computer in a previous flashback to play music.
My guess would be that once an El-Aurian becomes assimilated and joins the Borg consciousness they probably lose their innate connection to the universe.
Processing through trauma means reevaluating perceptions of events. Many times victims of trauma interpreted the events one way, including taking a lot of unnecessary blame, which is not accurate to the situation. He's not revealing "new" information; he is perceiving old information in a new way.
Like last week it will be hard to assess this until we see the whole season. I enjoyed Rios and his TVH homage. I love the doctor character but am questioning why he brought her to the ship. Speaking of things I am questioning:
The Borg assimilation process was never shown to need endorphins to be successful/quick (if anything, subjects undergoing assimilation would be quite afraid and in a FFF response). Maybe it's different for a Queen? Seems odd.
The El-Aurian/Q thing is quite strange on its surface. TNG Guinan seems to suggest that her race had dealings with the Q before but a Cold War seems a lot more protracted. That's fine! What is weird is that Guinan would have the bottle. If there were something so dangerous as to be able to summon a Q wouldn't it be kept under lock and key somewhere on the El Aurian homeward or whatever?
As for JLPs psyche....it was better than I had feared it would be but still kind of strange. It didn't make a lot of sense but I guess it isn't really supposed to.
Tallinn being a Romulan: so are all watchers Romulan? Or just this one? How does she relate to (figuratively and literally) Laris?
Not Fox Mulder: fine I guess? It does make sense that there would be surveillance capable of filming someone beaming in in broad daylight in 2024. Not sure where it's meant to go. Seems like another TVH homage: a crew member ends up in custody (but this time after, not before, a head injury).
So I give it a ?. With three episodes left we'll need to see how it all resolves.
The Borg assimilation process was never shown to need endorphins to be successful/quick (if anything, subjects undergoing assimilation would be quite afraid and in a FFF response). Maybe it's different for a Queen? Seems odd.
The El-Aurian/Q thing is quite strange on its surface. TNG Guinan seems to suggest that her race had dealings with the Q before but a Cold War seems a lot more protracted. That's fine! What is weird is that Guinan would have the bottle. If there were something so dangerous as to be able to summon a Q wouldn't it be kept under lock and key somewhere on the El Aurian homeward or whatever?
As for JLPs psyche....it was better than I had feared it would be but still kind of strange. It didn't make a lot of sense but I guess it isn't really supposed to.
Tallinn being a Romulan: so are all watchers Romulan? Or just this one? How does she relate to (figuratively and literally) Laris?
Not Fox Mulder: fine I guess? It does make sense that there would be surveillance capable of filming someone beaming in in broad daylight in 2024. Not sure where it's meant to go. Seems like another TVH homage: a crew member ends up in custody (but this time after, not before, a head injury).
So I give it a ?. With three episodes left we'll need to see how it all resolves.
I'm thinking it's more likely that the Aliens who placed Talin & Gary-7 on Earth probably have tech to cryofreeze people to be used later on when needed.
She's not connected to the Collective. Perhaps that has an impact.
Why?
Talking with psychiatrists makes me stilted. And I'm a professional.
No, all Watchers are not Romulan. Tallinn told us in this episode that most Watchers are assigned to their own planets, to watch over people of their own species. Her being sent to Earth to watch over Renee was unusual.
The Guinan scenes this time around gave me the impression that she is so much more than just a regular El-Aurian citizen.
My guess would be that she's actually from the ruling class if not some kind of Queen.
That would go along way to explain why she is the one with the bottle.
It would also explain why Soran was so different, he was not of the ruling class he was just a scientist.
My guess would be that she's actually from the ruling class if not some kind of Queen.
That would go along way to explain why she is the one with the bottle.
It would also explain why Soran was so different, he was not of the ruling class he was just a scientist.
She explained it in the scene. Normally they send members of the species, but sometimes they'll send members of a sinilar looking species that can be disguised easily (i.e. her ears)
It was discussed in the General Discussion thread.
Tuvix says hi.
Who?
2 reasons mostly:
1. An artifact that could summon the equivalent of a mischievous god with the power to alter the fabric of reality as we know it would be a dangerous artifact in the wrong hands. It's essentially a WMD.
2. The bottle is supposed to contain the essence or whatever of the time the Q and El-Aurians reached a peace to end the Cold War. As such, it would make sense to keep the Trek equivalent of the president's red phone to Moscow with the El-Aurian head of state (is this Guinan?) in case something happens and they need to get int touch with the Q again to keep the peace. It's an issue of "international" (interplanar?) diplomacy. If Guinan is a random/rank and file El Aurian it doesn't make a lot of sense for her to possess such a thing.
Touche. But Janeway was pretty far from Starfleet oversight when she made that choice, the exception to prove the rule. And let's not open that can of worms again here!I must've zoned out....
Unless it is to kept unless there is great need.
Such as time being broken. That might have some urgency and need to it. Maybe. I don't know.