Beverly had a secret affair with First Minister Shakaar?
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x03 - "Seventeen Seconds"
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Sacré Blimey!
In Ep1 Riker’s description of the ship mentions Metaphasic shields. If they can work in a star it’s likely they can work in a nebula.
Even if this wasn’t mentioned though and had background I don’t think we can count it as a goof that it was mentioned that shields don’t work in a nebula and then nearly 150 years later they do.
I never had a problem with Picard being French with an English accent, if anything it was always kind of amusing. But his son having the same accent after going to school in a different country? Just say he went to school in Paris.
Still surprising that he has had that many attempts on his life.
I know JLP is important, but how many times can people be attempting to kill you within your life time?
Nebulae being sensor destroyers was a plot device to get a naval submarine style fight in Wrath of khan 40 years ago. It's like the mysterious radioactive chamber that can restore warp drive that seemingly only exists for Spock and later Kelvin Kirk to make a heroic sacrifice and basically doesn't exist in other Trek works (and with the retcon of DOT droids supposedly existing offscreen since the 23rd century, another wrench is put in wondering why they don't enter these radioactive rooms).
It really should've been done away with as its increasingly improbable all these super advanced starships would suddenly be crippled so severely by what's basically a dust cloud. Star Wars has gotten through multiple tv shows and movies and books without resorting to this plot device once but I'm losing count of how often they resort to it in Trek (I know they also went there in Nemesis)
Do these assassination attempts happen? Sure, as seen most recently and tragically with Shinzo Abe. But real life ex-military and ex-politicians don't go around living in fear to the extent that Beverly described. (Some have even gone too far in the opposite direction, I believe the soldier who took part in the take down of bin Laden wrote a book against the advice of many)
The simplest answer is Beverly is lying, or basically exaggerating and taking isolated incidents out of context because she doesn't want to have a relationship with Picard or live with him, etc. She's creeped out by him now and the attraction was fading once he was on his way out of power and basically an old man (he arguably could've been seen as a 'has been' by the time of the later movies honestly) and that's why she ditched him. But instead of just saying that she makes it seem like it was his fault. Strangely enough this is actually pretty realistic as people do this all the time in the real world.
It really should've been done away with as its increasingly improbable all these super advanced starships would suddenly be crippled so severely by what's basically a dust cloud. Star Wars has gotten through multiple tv shows and movies and books without resorting to this plot device once but I'm losing count of how often they resort to it in Trek (I know they also went there in Nemesis)
It is kind of implausible. Note that Beverly didn't even bring up any actual TNG/movie incidents but a bunch of unusually violent isolated scenarios written solely for this episode to justify what she did. Always a bad sign.
Do these assassination attempts happen? Sure, as seen most recently and tragically with Shinzo Abe. But real life ex-military and ex-politicians don't go around living in fear to the extent that Beverly described. (Some have even gone too far in the opposite direction, I believe the soldier who took part in the take down of bin Laden wrote a book against the advice of many)
The simplest answer is Beverly is lying, or basically exaggerating and taking isolated incidents out of context because she doesn't want to have a relationship with Picard or live with him, etc. She's creeped out by him now and the attraction was fading once he was on his way out of power and basically an old man (he arguably could've been seen as a 'has been' by the time of the later movies honestly) and that's why she ditched him. But instead of just saying that she makes it seem like it was his fault. Strangely enough this is actually pretty realistic as people do this all the time in the real world.
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I'd say Picard and Jack's accents aren't really the same. Picard sounds a lot more RP, and Jack has a more common accent. Estuary is a term I think I heard for it?
We retook our rightful Angevin lands!
Well, not necessarily. I know some couples that are on again / off again with incredible turnover. All Bev said was something along the lines of "when I left the Enterprise". That could have been years after Nemesis. Maybe Riker and Troi's wedding inspired them to start pushing the envelope...
Jack should have a Yorkshire accent. For reasons.
All this British accent stuff reminds me of the Marvel fans quibbling about Agent Carter vs Agent Simmons accents at SHIELD. Fans didn't believe Elizabeth Henstridge's British accent in Agents of SHIELD as Simmons was genuine (despite Henstridge being from England) and one episode even joined in on the joke by having a character tell Simmons she has the worst fake British accent he ever heard. 
Well, it was a training cruise, so the cadets were to be learning how to maintain it themselves. Which is pretty standard in training cruises.
And since DOT robots were a form of AI it's possible other Federation starships disposed of them and no longer used such devices after the defeat of AI and Control. We don't see any in Season 1 of SNW.
That animated short Trek showed 1701 had at least one spanning TOS to its destruction in Star Trek 3.
(I hate that we don’t get this released on the same day in the UK.) I’ve only just watched it so am always late to the party. I have to say this was my favourite episode by far. It felt far smoother, more assured, confident. Worf and Raffi make a wonderful team—and I am thoroughly excited we have FINALLY got some further exploration of the aftermath of the Dominion war. Changelings on the loose too! Fantastic. The Dominion was one of the absolute finest villains in Trek history.
The scenes on the Titan were compelling too. Beverly’s justification for what she did to Jean-Luc was weak and fucked up, but I guess that’s being human for you. Hard not to feel for Jean-Luc. I feel incredibly protective of him throughout this series and he takes a remarkable amount of shit from others. Riker’s final admonishment was a real punch to the gut.
Ed Speelers is a great addition to the series; nice, engaging performance. Vadic was thankfully toned down a notch or twelve. Some cool special effects. Good pace. Solid 9.
The scenes on the Titan were compelling too. Beverly’s justification for what she did to Jean-Luc was weak and fucked up, but I guess that’s being human for you. Hard not to feel for Jean-Luc. I feel incredibly protective of him throughout this series and he takes a remarkable amount of shit from others. Riker’s final admonishment was a real punch to the gut.
Ed Speelers is a great addition to the series; nice, engaging performance. Vadic was thankfully toned down a notch or twelve. Some cool special effects. Good pace. Solid 9.
I don't know if disposed of, if more they limited their use, reduced their deployment and didn't replace aging models. Especially after the M5 disaster.