He says "This is not a lesson, it's A penance". He doesn't say whose.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x09 - "Hide and Seek"
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He says "This is not a lesson, it's A penance". He doesn't say whose.
Because Seven is efficient,
Man, John de Lancie is the MVP of the season.
My thoughts exactly. I don't want to belabor this point so I'll try to make this my last post on the topic, but I really think the Queen's turn would have been more believable had they spent time establishing some history for the character. If the premise is that the Borg exist to tame her feelings of isolation, then discovering how such an idea was perverted into something cynical, oppressive, and megalomaniacal would have helped. Did she start out like Jurati? Did something darken her path? Trauma perhaps? What makes this juncture in time the "right" moment to finally convince her she's wrong? Does the Queen recognize in Jurati a part of herself she's lost? This deserved more development to ground the whole thing. One friendship speech doing the trick on its own is a stretch.
Perhaps the conceit is a non-linear time travel plot with branching timelines rather than resets.
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Drexler is happy.
JEAN-LUC: Father? Can we have a dog like Captain Archer did? I want a dog.
MAURICE: When you're older, son.
JEAN-LUC: Father? Mother's cooking is awful. I wish we had Chef.
MAURICE: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
JEAN-LUC: Father? Can we have a horse like Captain Pike? I want a horse.
MAURICE: Next week. I hear they're making an XL version of the Bonaventure...
JEAN-LUC: Oh Father!!!
ROBERT: My brother sucks.
MAURICE: Go to your room, Robert. Now!
MAURICE: Go to your room, Robert. Now!
I kinda doubt that BQ and AJ are appearing to each other and speaking in words at this point. It’s just a way of giving the audience a basic idea of what’s going on in the BQ/AJ combined mind.
Right, and didn't BQJ say she wasn't quite ready to be friends when Raffi or Seven asked?
I don't think so unless they intentionally modified it. The original Warp Governor is still between the impulse engines but mounted backwards. The colours also don't match the Eaglemoss model, I have it right next to me.
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Jurati intervened to stop the Queen from killing Seven and there's clearly interplay between two personalities. Physical speech, thought speech... same thing really.
I don't believe so.
I've never been a fan of the Borg. I always felt the Romulans were sidelined in TNG in favor of them for a newer, shiner antagonist. Part of me wonders if we're going to experience another formidable opponent being turned into a neutered ally like the Klingons were. On the other hand, I loved the new potential for the Borg to grow and repair/ help, so I'd like to see it. That being said, the queen just snatching the ship at the last minute seemed pretty stupid story wise when we still have an episode to go.
I continue to get more any more frustrated with how Elnor's potential has been wasted this season. After watching The Ready Room this afternoon, I'm wondering if this is the last we'll see of him. Another Romulan potential squandered by Trek. Fool me once, shame on them. At this point, it's shame on me.
It annoyed me how easily Rios could pick up Tallin's tablet and read the Romulan. It called back to STIV when Scotty couldn't read the written Klingon on the Bird of Prey. And a human from the 21st century has no problem picking up a Romulan tricorder and using it? I didn't like it the last time she just used part of Tallin's tech so easily, and it annoyed me even further.
It also disturbed me when i realized young JL had to "look up" to see his mother's body hanging in the conservatory. Given how much they've used the phrase this season, that just made me cringe when I saw it.
I continue to get more any more frustrated with how Elnor's potential has been wasted this season. After watching The Ready Room this afternoon, I'm wondering if this is the last we'll see of him. Another Romulan potential squandered by Trek. Fool me once, shame on them. At this point, it's shame on me.
It annoyed me how easily Rios could pick up Tallin's tablet and read the Romulan. It called back to STIV when Scotty couldn't read the written Klingon on the Bird of Prey. And a human from the 21st century has no problem picking up a Romulan tricorder and using it? I didn't like it the last time she just used part of Tallin's tech so easily, and it annoyed me even further.
It also disturbed me when i realized young JL had to "look up" to see his mother's body hanging in the conservatory. Given how much they've used the phrase this season, that just made me cringe when I saw it.
Repaint for photography?I don't think so unless they intentionally modified it. The original Warp Governor is still between the impulse engines but mounted backwards. The colours also don't match the Eaglemoss model, I have it right next to me.
Well, perhaps seeing the borg virtually on the brink of extinction, with herself the sole survivor helped, especially if it’s true they inevitably end that way.
yes, teak rarely did justice to the romulans for some reason.
that was it?! I realise just now. Cringe indeed.
Like this season or not nobody's ever accused this series of having some of the best writing in the franchise. Even in episodes I like there are some cringeworthy scenes that make me wonder if the series even uses script doctors or a test audience.
I was also thinking that if the queen in episode 1 really is Jurati she suffered some major loss of communication skills: she is pretty coherent in this episode and gets her points across quite well. Well, maybe she is 400 years old by then…
Trek is fun. I would not give it any awards for writing.
Yeah, I have to agree. Trek as a whole sure has its moments where the writing shines, but I wouldn't even try to compare it to shows like Better Call Saul - now THAT is superb writing all the way through. Trek is... somehwat inconsistent.
