Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x07 - "Monsters"

[Lord Garth]

I guess that's why Guinan is a bartender. Lots of bottles might mean lots of connections and lots of things that probably keep the fabric of the universe together.

Booze keeps the world together. You heard it here first!

Al Capone had the right idea.

 

[Gov Kodos]

I guess that's why Guinan is a bartender. Lots of bottles might mean lots of connections and lots of things that probably keep the fabric of the universe together.

Scotty will tell you any decent brand of Scotch will do that.

 

[Alexander Corrino]

I didn't say the bottles were empty. Of course Guinan knows that a bar needs booze to work.

 

[GNDN18]

 

[Gov Kodos]

I always imagined Scotty down in the engine room handing out that cure in the Tholian Web mixed with Scotch. Probably mixed in and then passed around in a large Scottish quaich.

 

[cooleddie74]

"Aye, lads. Drink up. Let the automated system take over."

 

[captainmkb]

Get Suzie Plakson then, Or Olivia d'Abo.

Or, remember when Q de Lancie called himself as an expert witness? That opened up all sorts of insane possibilities.

in the early comics, before Corbin Bernsen had played the second Q, there were indeed an entire Continuum of de Lancie Q's

 

[Gov Kodos]

"Aye, lads. Drink up. Let the automated system take over."

With Scotland the Brave playing while they're at it.

 

[DEWLine]

Guinan, Scotty, Mike Callahan and Jake Stonebender in their better moments...

 

[Tuskin38]

Concept models for Tallin's props. Designed by Daren Dochterman. Funny enough, his portfolio website is called Beta Five.

 

[johnjm22]

These recent episodes of Picard have dropped it down to the worst Star Trek show ever made thus far.

Very little faith that they'll turn it around.

 

[cooleddie74]

Did we see Tallinn use the Gary Seven-like servo device? If she did I missed it.

 

[fireproof78]

I take a bi-polar ex of mine as an example. Once she forgot to take her meds and had a total meltdown in the middle of a tourist town road. And she wasn't happy about it. Is it possible that in 4 centuries there is nothing more reliable than "I recommend that you take these pills after meals"? And I'm not talking about "genetic therapies" or similar. If certain mental disorders are caused by biochemical imbalances, why shouldn't they be permanently cured? I've never seen a character in Star Trek take insulin and I'm pretty sure it's a non-existent disease in the future, even without having to resort to genetic manipulation.

And? Adjusting the biochemistry of the brain can impact more than just symptoms.

 

[Tuskin38]

Did we see Tallinn use the Gary Seven-like servo device? If she did I missed it.

Yeah, the weapon she aims at Picard in her office has the servo attached (as shown in that concept art) and she also uses it to scan Picard's brain in the episode before this one.

 

[Skipper]

And? Adjusting the biochemistry of the brain can impact more than just symptoms.

My ex when she was on the meds she was a well adjusted individual. When she wasn't, she believed she was the reincarnation of a 14th saint (really). If there had been a permanent cure for her condition, she would have gladly taken it. Or are you saying that since being someone with delirium of omnipotence and visions is the "natural" condition of her, nothing should be done about it?

 

[fireproof78]

My ex when she was on the meds she was a well adjusted individual. When she wasn't, she believed she was the reincarnation of a 14th saint (really). If there had been a permanent cure for her condition, she would have gladly taken it. Or are you saying that since being someone with delirium of omnipotence and visions is the "natural" condition of her, nothing should be done about it?

I think it would depend on the individual and to give them choice. To declare a one size fits all treatment will always give me pause.

 

[Skipper]

To declare a one size fits all treatment will always give me pause.

Who said that?!?!

 

[Vale]

My ex when she was on the meds she was a well adjusted individual. When she wasn't, she believed she was the reincarnation of a 14th saint (really). If there had been a permanent cure for her condition, she would have gladly taken it. Or are you saying that since being someone with delirium of omnipotence and visions is the "natural" condition of her, nothing should be done about it?

As someone who's been on antidepressants for several years, I always enjoy those hot takes from people with no direct experience of mental illness who believe it can be fixed with good old-fashioned common sense. I'm also diabetic – maybe I should just pull my socks up and go out for a walk and just jolly well get on with things to deal with my blood sugar too

 

[Skipper]

As someone who's been on antidepressants for several years, I always enjoy those hot takes from people with no direct experience of mental illness who believe it can be fixed with good old-fashioned common sense. I'm also diabetic – maybe I should just pull my socks up and go out for a walk and just jolly well get on with things to deal with my blood sugar too

Yep! Why destroy the natural order of the universe with some diabolical chemical concoction? If the Lord wanted us to be diabetic or schizophrenic, who are we to say He is wrong?

 

[fireproof78]

Who said that?!?!

Thinking that the future is depressing because they can't cure mental illness with a flip of a button seems to imply such. Even in the 24th century counseling is still employed? Why? If it's just biochemical then just adjust the brain. Simple.