That entire sequence was piss poor writing and the character jumping the shark. That's my issue.I get it now. Telepathy, not teleportation. That was throwing me off. Seems a weird thing to complain about in a Star Trek show,
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x08 - "Mercy"
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Superman loses his Kryptonian powers and gets his ass kicked, because he just assumes he can still fight well, despite less strength, less durability and less speed.
Seven loses her Borg powers and holds her own in a fight, despite less strength, less durability and less speed.
Why exactly? What was poor about it? The dialog? The pacing? The structure?
How is Guinan being some sort of low level telepath "jumping the shark"? Make sense since her people are listeners and empathetic.
Supes should learn to fight. Maybe Batman can teach him a judo move or two. I hear jujitsu is a good style too.
Raffi the ex-Special-Forces-soldier wasn't much better (The Borg Queen was ready to strangle her before Jurati stepped in).
Superman knows how to fight with super strength against a normal person.
He hits his opponent as softly as he can so that their heads are not cleared off their body.
In Superman Two he didn't know how hard to hit that bully, or what would happen if he was hit hard by a regular human when he did not have super invulnerability.
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precisely. Martial arts depend a lot on knowing your body, even being out of shape because you haven’t practiced in a few months mean you could struggle doing stuff you used to do easily.
I guess this depends on how different her new body is. Also, she might have inherited some sort of muscle memory from confederation annika, perhaps
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telepathy. Which guinan never seemed to have before on TNG (I think she even says so when troi loses her). And the scene was quite cheesy, yes.
I think the Vulcans were on Earth trying to jam ET's spambot generator.
Entertainment Tonight does put out a lot of spam.
I agree that this season has been a disappointment overall. But we haven't gotten to Shades of Gray level yet.
The first two episodes this season were utterly fantastic. Some of the best Trek we've seen since the 90s. Maybe including the 90s. But since then it's gone downhill fast. And Monsters was especially terrible and one of the worst episodes of Trek since the 90s.
But Shades of Gray? No.
"Shades of Grey(TNG)" is so much worse than what we're getting the comparison is ridiculous. Unless these episodes contain a lot of flashbacks and stock footage from the previous two seasons and we find out they were looking to use the smallest budget possible then I don't even remotely put them in similar categories.
Yeah, it would have made more sense for Picard to figure out Wells was a "haunted man" then to have Guinan sync her telepathy with the power outage (cause it?). Besides, Guinan said Wells was on a "personal" mission beforehand anyway.
Both the 'Q Summoning" nonsense and this were steps back for me. They add nothing to my appreciation of Guinan/El-Aurians. They're tacky, tropey scenes that don't fit.
Both the 'Q Summoning" nonsense and this were steps back for me. They add nothing to my appreciation of Guinan/El-Aurians. They're tacky, tropey scenes that don't fit.
I'm still getting over the whip lash. The first two episodes were some of the best Trek I've ever seen, after that the season fell off a cliff. I'm sure this sort of thing happened in 90s Trek but it wasn't as noticeable because each episode was stand-alone. It's a lot more jarring in a serialized season.
I just don't understand why they thought spending 6 episodes and counting in the present was a good idea. Nothing's happening! It feels like the creative team came up with a concept / plot for the season that didn't have enough meat to it and then delegated filling in the rest down to junior writers. I wonder if folks over at Paramount are getting stretched too thin with all the new Trek shows going on at the same time.
I continue to wish for them to honor "Shades Of Gray" by making a similar clipshow episode now. Just to rile everyone up (even more). 
Really? That's an interesting statement seeing as how Shades of Grey had no connection to any past story, consisted of Riker looking bored or pained, and added nothing to actual character movement.
Shades of Grey level, eh? There must be nothing redeemable in this drek. Why bother finishing it out?
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agreed.
For me, it isn't the thinly stretched plot that's the problem. It's the failure to give anyone but Picard an actual character story that's truly about them, as individuals, picking up from where we left them last season. If the character journeys for the rest of the cast felt more organic, if more of the threads of who they were last season had been picked up and moved forward, everything else would be falling into place a lot better, I think. It wouldn't even have taken very much, I don't think. Take Rios, for example. He's had two character stories this season - the ICE arrest and the romance with Theresa - and both have been generic in the extreme, with no connection whatsoever to anything we learned of him in season one. Cabrera said in interviews that we'd see a different side of Rios this season, which at this point I am reading as a very diplomatic way of saying he'd been written almost as a different character entirely. Yet it would have taken very little to form a bit of connective tissue between the grumpy, depressive recluse we met last year and the Rios we're seeing this year. All it would have taken was for Theresa to recognise him as forces/ex-forces, leading to a few meaningful conversations about his discharge and reinstatement, an opportunity to tease out how he truly feels about it all, whether or not he has any regrets, any difficulties he's had adjusting. Throw in a mention or two of his having just got out of a semi-serious relationship and how he's still worried about his ex, and you've got a character story that's actually personal to him, developing out of what we already knew of him, which would make the arrest and romance stories feel more grounded and meaningful, less generic. And we could make similar arguments for the repetitive material Seven and Raffi have had, running around LA thrashing out their relationship issues while searching for missing crewmates - material that's much more personal to them, but it's been very circular with no real progress being made, and there's not much connective tissue to anything that came before to keep their story grounded - especially given the emphasis on Raffi's grief for Elnor, who she bonded with off-screen between seasons.
The biggest issue the season has, mind - well, apart from the fact that the most interesting stories the show has to tell all happened off-screen between seasons - is the impact of the covid shooting bubbles, keeping most of the cast apart for much of the season.
Exactly which fight do you think Seven held her own in? Because in the fight I saw in this episode, Borg-Jurati took her down immediately with one kick.
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Which is why some martial arts training would be useful. Dude loses his power like once or twice a year. Plus it would come in handy when facing opponents of equal or greater strength,.
Who the Hell voted for Robert Chen anyway? 
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