Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x03 - "Seventeen Seconds"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
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I don't think they see themselves as gods, they just engineered everyone else to think that. I also think there are way more Changelings than people thought there were, I think there are hundreds of thousands of Changelings at least. Otherwise it never made sense how they would be so brazen when operating in the AQ.
The Bashir changeling was gonna suicide bomb the sun - I doubt he was going to be able to escape with how close he had to get and a giant fleet right there. Then there was the one Odo killed on the Defiant who had been little chance of survival, even if he was completely successful.
One of my biggest questions now is why exactly did the changelings there take on the shape of this birdlike species the whole time?
And does this species, if they really exist(ed) and aren't something the founders came up with on their own, have any special advantages, compared to other humanoids?
Paramount+ in the States doesn't caption that scene according to a friend.
I can see that caption here in Canada.
To hide that they're changelings.
Worf reserves Thursdays for pacifism.
It's nice to finally see that there's a captain who remembers that ships come with windows.
Perhaps I’m mis-remembering the episode, b ur I thought his mother was comforting him at one point because they were moving into the chateau when he was a boy.
They could still move within the same city.
They might be able to detain the changeling during this time. Even if they have to store him in a transporter buffer a la M'Benga/Scotty. Once they do that they'll have leverage over Vadic.
The fact that said Changeling is in a Federation prison as part of the Treaty agreement ending the Dominion War?...
(Of course we could find out she escaped; but that would be pretty big news, an with all the other news Federation reports the have in the episode, that would be a pretty big event NOT to mention if that turns out to be the case.)
I must have missed it. What is the significance of the episode title.
How long it took Riker to get to sickbay when Troi was giving Birth. There is also a later scene of Picard getting to sickbay when Jack is injured that also took 17 seconds.
Except, according to the BBS ships should not have windows.
Good lord what would be the point of being able to explore the universe and not be able to actually SEE anything? What kind of paucity of spirit would you need to not want to look?
Sensors are apparently what is needed. Not windows or transparent medium or a viewscreen which offers the benefits of both.
I highly doubt Beverly lost romantic interest in Jean-Luc because he was losing power. She cared for him but it just never worked, It was as she said, that he always put Star Fleet and his career ahead and said he didn’t want a family. By that point she had effectively lost Wesley and may have blamed Picard on some level for that too. The danger he was in was a deciding factor when she found out she was pregnant. She wasn’t willing to take any chances on losing this son too.
Now I am imagining the movie Contact, where Ellie is looking at a beautiful universe and instead of thinking that they “should’ve sent a poet,” thinking, “boy this is useless without sensors.”
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I call hypocrisy on this. She put Jack in dangerous situations outside Fed space where he had to turn to lawbreaking to survive. She took the understandable violence after Shinzon's death (incidents in the Donatra sector etc.) out of context and completely ignored Picard's safe and stable life in France for 15 years (she could've just visited with Jack, he'd have been 6 years old or younger after Picard's retirement began).
She just didn't want to be with him anymore and lied about the reason. Practically every failed attempt at a date did this to me also so I find it very realistic to be honest.