A simple handshake would have sufficed.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x07 - "Monsters"
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I have watched all of the Expanse and its good. i also watched all of dark matter and its good.
Rios should have used it.
Theresa was panicking and did not trust Rios. If he'd kept the device himself and advanced on her critical patient with it, she'd have panicked all the more - she'd already accused him of approaching her like a serial killer when all he was doing was trying to calm her down. Giving her the device to use allowed him to hook into her instincts as a caregiver, focused all her attention on the patient, and gave her the opportunity to be the one to fix him, demonstrating clearly that the device was a tool for good rather than evil. It calmed her as possibly nothing else could have, at that moment.
I'll just observe here that he made the decision to take Theresa and Ricardo to La Sirena in a moment when Theresa was expressing doubt again. She wanted to trust him but feared she was making a big mistake - if she continued to waver like that, she could easily call the authorities while he wasn't looking. Rios is well established as being impulsive, so he made an impulsive decision to let her see with her own eyes that he was telling the truth.
Where that story goes from here, though, we won't find out until this week's ep!
Sigh, it's been a long week so I'm just now getting too the episode. About 20 minutes in and I'm just not feeling it.
I mean, first of all, the show runners know that stars aren't balls of fire, right? So they don't sound like burning blazes? Right? ... Right?
The dungeon stuff, ugh. It's not working. At the point where the woman is in the clinic, in the dreamscape poorly make-up monster.
Not working.
It's not abandon the series levels like what took me out if S1, but this is just an ugly episode.
I mean, first of all, the show runners know that stars aren't balls of fire, right? So they don't sound like burning blazes? Right? ... Right?
The dungeon stuff, ugh. It's not working. At the point where the woman is in the clinic, in the dreamscape poorly make-up monster.
Not working.
It's not abandon the series levels like what took me out if S1, but this is just an ugly episode.
Would have been much more interesting if Q was the psychiatrist. You're right, sadly, most of this episode was typical dream fantasy stuff. A real slog.
And Raffi's rant to Seven? Was she drunk? Awful, melodramatic nonsense. Speaking of Seven, why has there been really no exploration of her this season? She's fully human, yet retains memories of being in the Borg Collective. I guess seeing her chit chat with those folks at the gala and Raffi's exposition about it is enough?
Did you laugh at the attempted "summoning" of a Q? Schlocky and out-of-place imho.
Orla Brady was the best part of the episode, especially because she had to handle some truly boring scenes, and did it with gravitas.
Oh, and what has happened to Rios? Guess one of them had to go native.
this is definitely only possible if the device has some sort of internet connection, be it with built in cellular or using the patient’s phone via Bluetooth. Still, I hope nobody is mad enough to have it *receive* settings over the Internet. Even so, we’re still talking about a device whose IP address would constantly be behind a NAT, not exposed directly on the Internet, so hacking into it would still be extremely difficult.
perhaps they want to keep the population small.
We make allowances for their being sound in space, the universe seemingly having an "up", spaceships moving either like jet fighters or galleons which is 100% not how spaceships would move... but stars blazing? Too far.
I'm sorry, but criticizing the show for featuring stars that have a burning sound effect in a dream sequence is an extremely petty, substanceless complaint.
Agreed. And besides, even without dreams, the show is filled with metaphors and symbolism. Every detail might mean something later on... or simply be a "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" moment. I kinda like that approach. It keeps people guessing. I'd do the same if I wrote the show.
Stars burning in space, how could Picard do that? Only starships make noise in space. And phasers. And disruptor bolts. And...
Stars, grrr...
Arguably, they just used the wrong sound.
Learn more from NASA.
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1516/symphony-of-stars-the-science-of-stellar-sound-waves/
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That’s not what happened. The cube didn’t go to sleep because locutus went to sleep. The cube went to sleep because they used him to send to the cube the command to go to sleep.
You know that ships should make no sound in space right? Right?
But I suspect that there is sound in subspace.
Or at least there's are subspace distortions moving through space on the subspace radio bands.
If they are scanning for shit ftl, then there are seeing everything around them subspacially.
That sounds substantial.
