Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x10 - "Farewell"

[TimeIsAPredator]

Generally seemed pretty weak. Looking back I struggle to see what the plot or story of this season actually was
Also Trek just lost its best non memberberry Kurtztrek character

 

[Norad]

As others have said, I'm pretty sure that this was a predestination paradox.

Yeah, I think Picard even said that the bullet holes in the walls after the shooting at Chateau Picard are the same he remembers.
Which probably means that in the episode before, when Seven transported the guards into the wall directly aside of Picard, Picard's content face was probably because of the thought "Oh, that's how my favorite wall statues came here in the first place. That feels like home now."

 

[XCV330]

If time is a tableau instead of a cause-and-effect equation, everything simply IS, at the moment that it is. Causation is just a characteristic of existence, not a force in and of itself.

 

[Dee1891]

When he said that he would die alone, I yelled, "You have a girlfriend and a son!"

So did I. And a friend named "Kathy" with whom he had better relations than with Picard.

 

[Tuskin38]

whom he had better relations than with Picard.

Not really.

 

[gweeps]

Not really.

Exactly. He was using her. Or trying to.

 

[Char Kais]

There are so many sloppy errors in this episode (and in this season as a whole).

Unfinished and bad CGI shots:
Even Jörg 'I love everything Star Trek' Hillebrand from Ex Astris Scientia is complaining about it (even though he is making up excuses for the show):

https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1522664268386160643

Continuity error in the editing:
Raffi is using the controls, then a direct cut, no transition, to her tampering with some wires.

BTW, that's a Korg nanoKONTROL, a small budget digital audio workstation mixing control surface:

Romulan blood is green:

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

It's not really an error for a sci-fi series to use a real world object as a prop in a quick shot. And it's arguably not an error for a modern day mad scientist to use a modern day control device that plugs into a computer as a control device for his computer. I mean people use PC typing devices to play video games with all the time.

Plus Romulans and Vulcans have always had red blood vessels in their eyes. It's weird, but they're aliens so who knows how it works.

I'm with Jörg though, that last shot was just bizarre.

 

[Tuskin38]

Romulan blood is green:

Please go re-watch every episode/movie in pre-Kurtzman trek where we see a Vulcan/Romulan (crying or otherwise). You'll see red veins in their eyes, because they’re played by humans.

You’re just complaining for the sake of complaining here with actually thinking.

 

[fireproof78]

Romulan blood is green:

Perfect illustration of why I can't take any continuity complaints seriously. This level of hyperfocused detailed nitpicking would have destroyed TOS.

It's schadenfreude not love of the franchise.

 

[DaveyNY]

Could it be that the stuff Soong poisoned her with, reacted badly with her Romulan blood and turned it red?
Thus killing her.

 

[cooleddie74]

Vulcan and Romulan lips and gums should be a different color, too, if we take the eye blood argument seriously. I mean, let's be consistent across the board with the ridiculousness!

 

[DaveyNY]

Don't forget Orion's.

 

[cooleddie74]

And technically if some Klingons have lavender-colored blood shouldn't they look like they have pink lips and pink eyes?

 

[Char Kais]

Please go re-watch every episode/movie in pre-Kurtzman trek where we see a Vulcan/Romulan (crying or otherwise). You'll see red veins in their eyes, because they’re played by humans.

1) Those aren't just normal veins in the eyes of a human actor in a standard scene. That's an SFX scene.
It's a CGI effect. They could have made the veins in any color they wanted, including the correct color of Romulans/Vulcans.
But they didn't know or they didn't care because they, the people in the entire post-production chain, are sloppy.

2)

 

[gweeps]

Unless that huge energy wave was Q actually dying, I refuse to believe he's gone. We never saw him die or at least fade away.

 

[Lord Garth]

To be very brutally honest, Rios staying behind in the 21st Century isn't something I can argue with. As much as I'll miss the character.

Rios didn't seem like he fit into the 25th Century. Him having a cigar on the bridge of Stargazer looked ridiculously out-of-place. Hell, having a cigar in a public place today -- especially where you work -- would look ridiculously out-of-place. It's more of a 20th Century thing. But it's still less out of place in 2024 than in 2401.

The only really weird thing is "I want to live in the 21st Century! Nuclear winter! World War III! The risk of getting deported? Yeah! That's where I want to live!" But, if you like to live dangerous, which he does, then why not? Not something I would do, if it were me, but it's about what he'd do. And he's blinded by love.

 

[captainkirk]

So does anyone else remember that Tallin had the ability to temporarily possess people? She used that power to bring Picard to her and then never again even though it seems like it would have been useful on multiple occasions.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

So does anyone else remember that Tallin had the ability to temporarily possess people? She used that power to bring Picard to her and then never again even though it seems like it would have been useful on multiple occasions.

Also why did she hate Guinan. I get that Guinan has an interesting past but it would have been interesting to know.

 

[NCC-73515]

Romulan blood is green:

An observant person sees the eyebrows and realizes that the human look is still intact on the face and only failed on the ears.

Ridiculous and chidlish as it may sound, this season made me feel dumb - literally dumb. And it's goddamn frustrating.

In the end, I truly don't understand what the point of this entire season even was. I don't know what the reason for Picard's flashbacks to his childhood were supposed to mean nor I don't know what Q was ultimately trying to prove to Picard. And I sat there for all ten episodes, but, I guess I either wasn't paying close enough attention or I'm just not smart enough to get it.

The show seems to be trying to operate on some elevated and artful level that I'm just not getting.

The key was leaving the key. That's the key.

No way this is the worst season of a Trek series. Early Enterprise, a year of Voyager (6 or 2), TOS3, TNG1, and most of DISCO are in the running.

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