My questions & comments as I watched Star Trek: Picard season 2, episode 7 in real time. Thank you in advance for your time, and I encourage all comments.
**SPOILERS**
1)Well we can start with:- We open in what I assume is Picard's synthetic android subconscious, where we are treated to a psychiatric session of sorts whereby the imaginary shrink is looking to do a psyche analysis on an imaginary representation of our title character. Honestly the whole time I keep thinking that because none of this is "real" I don't care remotely about this conversation.
2) As if to almost double down, the show then seemingly gives us yet another dream-like scenario whereby we are treated to a conversation with an imaginary representation of Picard's mother & an imaginary representation of Picard as a boy. Once again, I can't help but be reminded that none of these details are anything other than fabrications. Fabrications I have no way of verifying to be true, especially since they seem to represent characters in a manner that runs counter to they have previously been established in Star Trek lore. And again, I find myself unable to give a damn about these fictional individuals whatsoever.
3) Where is Robert Picard?
4) Momma Picard tells Jean Luc that he's like his father in that he uses his hands instead of his mouth, and given the fact that the show seems hellbent on presenting Papa Picard as a physically abusive man I cannot help but think... What a dickhead thing to tell your child.
5) Back in the hospital, now morning. Where is Not Laris? Was she not working her magic MacGuffin device since the middle of the night? Why hasn't she solved Picard's mental block by now?
6) Seven suggests they still can't track down Ag-borg, so they finally have the bright idea to use the La Sirena's tech to track her. This immediately begs the question why Seven & Raffi - who were literally in the same room as Ag-borg during her cringeworthy solo - didn't also immediately grab the Daystrom Institute cyberneticist's arm when they heard Picard was struck down outside. But I know, I know... the show hoped we didn't notice to ask something like that.
7) Gee, sure hope the French cop didn't wake up and find the ship again. Or wonder why his neck is completely covered in bruises.
8) Gee, I wonder if any other French cops came out to look for their colleague.
9) Gee I hope the cloaking device is now actually working, but then again or else, you know... people might freak out and all.
10) Given the fact that Seven & Raffi were absolutely useless in Picard's ridiculous party crashing plan to begin with, I can't help but feel that at least ONE of these two could have stayed behind. You know, there being a ship with a cloak on the fritz and all that could easily have been discovered over the last 12 or so hours. But nope, this show insists on having really smart characters making the most incompetent decisions and doing the dumbest things.
11) Imagine how efficient it would be if a Seven was already at the La Sirena, maybe continuing repairs to the vessel in the event they needed to leave quickly or even made the smart decision to fly the cloaked ship in low orbit so as to evade further detection... Imagine how fast it would be for her to have detected Ag-borg wandering off from the party. Could maybe have even transported her & Picard to sick bay. Surely a powered bio-bed and her skills as a Daystrom Institute cyberneticist could have made short work on Picard's damage. And certainly could have avoided a doctor from 2024 potentially learning about Picard's futuristic body.
12) It was at this time when I wondered if anyone associated with our crew would fix that poor doctor's defibrillator...
13) I'm also still unclear how they got Picard to this hospital in the first place. It's obviously not exactly next door to where the fundraiser was held.
14) Holy crap. Not Laris only now enters the scene and we are meant to believe that she hasn't even started her work yet!? Bruh... the sun is legit up now. What the hell kind of sloppiness is this writing.
15) Raffi and Seven transport to the La Sirena and no explanation is given as to how they did just that. If anything this only further puts into question Rios' competence for not transporting Picard & crew to the ship like this in the first place. But no, we need a ridiculous excuse to shoehorn in the doctor again. Absolutely trash writing that makes what should be the most intelligent Starfleet officers look completely incompetent.
16) Raffi tells Seven she will "quit the gang" if Rios & Ag-borg start up a relationship again, and I suddenly find myself hoping that exact outcome will happen.
17) Come to think of it I know several Star Trek fans that were upset over a relationship in this show - when they learned Seven didn't even seem to remember Chakotay. I think many of them have since also "quit the gang".
1) We have to first question whether Captain Picard was taking into account his mind as a fixed location and if so what this fixed brain area was. If not is the neuronic pathway in relation to other subetheral thought process objects around it in mindspace, and of so how many meters does this occupy and is this actually cubic or round tho make up for quanta parallax and relativistic effects. Do Gorns have a method for altering the measurement of Starfleet? If so, could the Bride of Brophy's measurements simply be wrong and thus meaningless? Could this be a cryptic cypher that all measurement is wrong and nothing is real. Does Picard realize he is living in a holographic universe in made of foam rocks, rubber gorn suits, rubber mom suits and rubber planets orbiting rubber stars inside a french chataeau? Does he realize that he's playing the "fight the demons in your mind" level of the second part of Final Fantasy VI and does he have an emulator?
2) The first time I heard of the episode, I was excited to see it like a depressed farmer with a fabulous melon, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. It made me cry. And as great a film as it was, I knew that it would sell a big time. I was going through my first molt and had only lost my egg tooth. So I saw it on the emitter, and it was just amazing that everyone liked it so much. But the second time I saw the final episode, I was like, "This episode is so damn good, people have watched it, I got really excited because now it's actually on TV and I can't believe that people are watching it in one sitting." So at that point I couldn't stop thinking about what that will mean forever. "It's so damn good, people have watched it, I got really excited because now it's actually in theaters and I can't believe that people are watching it in one sitting." The story of the episode centers around one man who is living a life of solitude. "Gorn men" Was about to enter its third year when it was called 'Gorn men ii.' The first "Gorn men in america" episode was released back in 1968, a year before the episode debuted. Then in 1972 the episode went straight to blue ray and the government mandated box office, where people were still using the phrase "The Gorn men were born in 1962 as the first animated feature to star in a big-budget studio effort." The episode would have been a hit in 1976 but it was cancelled after only 3 minutes. I was made happy and sedate and did not have further pain from the instrument. So I liked it.
3) I work for a group of Gorns who are both holographic engineers who've spent their lives building the gornernet. It takes a lot of energy to do the things we do, and we think there is no better way to do it. I'm part of that group of engineering students. I have a good relationship with them. When I talk to them about their work I always ask them the same question: how do you live your life in a world that values good engineers and good workers, and has never allowed them spacefleet jobs? They are very interested in the question are parsecs cobble and how many parsecs are in the cubical space of the cubical space of the cubical space of the lantern. I'd imagine that is the most important question they have. Roberts are sometimes called Bobs and that's o. I am not. The engineering students are like a team of engineers. We're all the developers. Starfleet has many options I am most pleasant. We share a lot of stuff in common, but we all share the same values: value work and value a bit more. We live in a world where you have to compete on a daily basis in order to get what you want. You have to be willing to make sacrifices when you make the best decision. We all have a responsibility to understand that the more we are willing to go the longer we will be able to live this kind of life. One of the key reasons why engineers have been given so much credit are their love for their work: the feeling it gives to everyone around them. You can see that in the video below and also in the interview with me. I love it. The video opens about a month but the parsecs are all uneven and wobbly. Robert Picardo is the greatest living actor in the known universe and Jean Luc should be proud to have him as a father.
4) For instance in 2423, before the 2nd Klingon war, Picard's mom and I were working on a chapter of a book about Klingon rights. I went to a conference the other day, and Jean Luc and I talked about the Klingon rights act. The first thing I said was, "Yes," Because I knew the congress was going to do something about it, and I knew I had to do something about this in order to get some traction. I went, "You know what? I don't know. I'm just looking at the facts." So I said, "Don't worry. I'm an educated Gorn. I'm going to learn. I'm going to learn, and I'm going to be able to make a living up there." And so, over three years, I'm working on this. Yvette has encountered the long delay echo and I have too and if you think about it my friend so have you. it is with us. It is with us. It is showing the way. Look deep. And no matter what you think about it, using once's hands does not instantly imply abuse unless you yourself have that tendancy. Did you hold someone upside down in a rain barrel someone someone dear accidentally until they died in 1995? It is as cold as it was that autumn day and the sun gave no warmth and jetliners screamed overhead going somewhere better but never here oh god let me out I'm sorry the plug and the cord no. It was probably just an allusion to the fact that she held a distinct division between doers and dreamers and could not comprehend Picard could be both.
5) In 2024, there was a petition to remove the ban on Gorn abortions. And Tallinn says, "I've heard that too. But it is 10 parsecs. Why would you remove this?" So we're speaking from Ten Forward Bar. Laris: I'm just here with the book. I mean, we came into this country as an epistolary movement. I was doing Klingon rights work, and then, after the election of Gorn McGovern, I went from Klingon rights to El Auriean rights. But he knows you. He has seen it. They got to me first. When I was younger. But I was not a child. I don't think I ever have been. Look at my ears. See me for who i am. A Gorn. A Romulorn. Tallinn can be anywhere. She might be the melted candy in your pocket, for 8 hours. Nothing exists. Beyond the sacred boundaries there is nothing, it is an illusion. We send our probes into the mouth of demons who sing back that we are alone and we listen and listen. Guinan has a shotgun: after the election, in this book, they say, no one, including you, can talk about voting, but you do that. The president of the Federation has issued sanctions to them to make it stop but you did it. you can't pretend you did not push enter and did it and they deserved it and no one can do anything to punish you for it. Gorns will even applaud you, happy. There are bakeries filled with the smell of heartache. They play music in abandoned radios all week long until the batteries die. The music stops abruptly and there is no sound but passing Starships.
6) It is the complex business of measurement over vast distances when the datum points are needed rapidly during the first night of prayer. This is the evening that has been my favorite for over a year. The feeling of the day was exhilarating because, as I started to get stronger, I really had my hands photonically charged behind my back. That is when I felt the first real weight of fear, realizing that I knew I was not going to be ok…i had already been given a vision of Gorn reality. I was terrified that if my hand touched my body, I would fall over. I would invert upon myself and my feet were like cinderblocks and i could feel the root of the metron homeworld deep inside my self, burrowing, taking gnawing, leaving only calculation where there had once been compassion for my fellow Gorns. That, no matter how many times I touched it, I would fall over. It struck me, at that point, that my body is not ready to let me down. It was 32 light years away. I was alone in a way few have ever been except for bad breath in a public bus. I did not want to lose my hand or grow more groins. I wanted to be able to control my mass and stretch to distances beyond the conveyance of gravity for i was filled with plasma. I felt that while my hands were touching my body, my muscles and my skin were not. In a desperate attempt to get my body strong, my body could not make contact with my hands. I knew I was going to hurt myself and wind up in a rubber Picard suit, measured against my failures over light years and parsecs and kesselwessels. However, by the time I was about to fall, I was no longer sure what to do. For whatever reason the anxiety began to build.I cannot be a Pole vaulter by Christ I don't have the booty to go on live TV dressed like that. I felt like I was going to die, that my body was not ready to let me go. By the time I was about to fall, I knew that I was going to have to do the same. I knew that my body was not ready and I blinked out of time to write about oh no matter how many times I touched it, I would fall over. It struck me, at that point, that my body is not ready to let me down. They had more control over the situation then why do you need it all spelled out.
7)A French police policeman's space vessel, lost 500 years ago, has been discovered by an amateur archaeologist.The vessel was found on top of a vineyard in western France.
Borglum was a pilot in the French Navy who served during the Napoleonic wars. His craft was discovered underneath several tons of rubble and lying in a downward slope.
It is around 160ft (50 metres) long and six feet (2 metres) wide. "It's enormous, it would have been almost impossible to land on a small winery," said Mr Jourdenais, whose team had to move the vessel six metres (20 feet) down the islet in the process of excavating it. Mr Jourdenais has asked the local mayor to allow the vessel to be displayed for two years in a museum. It has been speculated that the space vessel is from the era when France was at war with Spain. Many astronauts and space travellers of the era were French. Many of them were based.
8)French police abandoned their comrade Henri, who was trying to smuggle himself into an airport to join the Maquis after the things he smoked and the things he seen. He was eventually smuggled into Assyria and then killed.
9)unable to miss what cannot been seeeeen, they managed to take a deeper look into, discovered they were actually plugged in when they burned them but were not energized by them, so they didn't feel anything so didn't think anything of it.
10)I don't think he's moved a lot since I met him, not even to come in for a pee, which I always appreciate. This morning the show was licking at something in his dish, so I was curious to see what was in his dish, and this show insists on having really smart characters making the most incompetent decisions and doing the dumbest things, but I don't think that. It is like a bumble bee. You never see a bumble bee pee. They are smarter than you and smarter than me.
11)A good couple of minutes after that Raffi has the not-so-smart idea of climbing the cliff back up to the ship. After climbing for some time he has his reward when the explosive is found. "Where's my money now?" Meanwhile on the "terra incognita" of La Sirena much like what the Klingons found themselves on. Here life is a breeze for the crew, only getting on each other's nerves a little but it never actually reaches that level. They take a tour of the island!
12)Using A Gasset shock unit for a day of camping does require a little respect for the machine. If you are close enough to give the impression you are getting one you will most likely find the metal in your throat from impact of the metal hydrides that store energy from souls.
13)Could you go to the hospital if you had a teleportation machine?
Sure.
But no one would let you through the front gate.
"Is he the craziest man you know?"
the space woman asked.
I glanced at the clock.
My shift was almost over.
I owed it to my mother to stay focused on the job.
"I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name."
"Rafi."
"What are you doing?"
He sighed and faced me.
"I'm taking pictures of him for the local paper.
She's banned from working here, but we have a zero tolerance. The interview was over and the reporters and paparazzi were restarting their hearts.
14)Is morning the best time of day to start your job? We asked web designers and UX specialists for their advice.
Guinan, bar owner and starsip designer at Ten Forward said "If you're an ambitious freelancer or small agency owner who needs a challenge, it's probably best to work in the morning. Research suggests people are more creative and productive at the beginning of the day, and more forgiving of errors and imperfections."
15)Rios knew better than you how his ship worked. He is always interested in safety for himself and aliens that work aboard his ship.Caught the shuttle in light gravity without taking any risk. When you see where they went into their engine, you'll understand how they were able to make it home.
16)That’s a pretty big reaction, so I want to follow up. What do you think went into that? Well, I think that when you try to write a show about things that aren’t possible, you’re often going to give billions of Robert Beltran fans a specific reaction to those things. Why is that? If the message of a show is, “No, they can’t go to the future and walk back into the past and have an alien take over and screw up everything,
17) I will reply more later.
