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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x05 - "Imposters"

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Quick thoughts, because my time is limited:

1. Shaw's always looking for the easy way out, then gets sucked back in!

2. Picard and Ro finding out they really are who they say they are by getting down to the emotional truths was superb.

3. I mentioned this in spoiler code earlier but, never thought I'd see a Gangster Vulcan! (Not including Gangster Spock!) He'll make an offer so logical, you can't refuse. ;)

4. It's all coming together. Picard's been framed and Starfleet's after him. Full-blown Star Trek VI now.

5. They've mentioned Janeway twice this season. There's no way she doesn't appear by the end, hopefully bringing in the Cavalry.
 
That doesn't mean Worf is "Cursed" that any woman he loves will die.
I never said that. It’d take a lot for someone to move on to someone else after losing two people one was passionate with to murder. Yeah, it’s possible. But eh
 
I need a minute. I have thoughts on the episode, obviously. But I'm still dealing with the big one.

When they announced what form S3 would take, with the TNG reunion tour, my brain immediately went to things it wanted to see that it knew would NEVER happen. Ro Laren was the #1 item on that list. Far and away my favorite recurring character from TNG, played by the amazing Michelle Forbes.

And these crazy fools did it! I honestly can't describe how happy this makes me. Melancholy as the ending of the story may be, they did it! Not just a mention, there was Forbes on screen and dealing with the fallout from her last episode.

My lord. I really hope this season sticks the landing, but just for this I will always be grateful. So yeah, I need a minute.
 
I wonder if during his assorted shady dealings around the galaxy, if Jack unintentionally picked up something that retriggered his "problem?" and that's what connected the Changelings to him.
 
No, they did not mess up. As Bev said, these changelings have evolved from the changelings in DS9. They are different.

They "evolved??" Uh, no, the writers fucked up. Riker says, "Surely changelings can't copy an entire person's internal anatomy, just their appearance!"

And everyone else nods along.

OF COURSE changelings copy the entirety of a person, down to the subatomic level. Otherwise, every single internal sensor or tricorder or transporter would be able to detect them.

This is explicitly stated in dialogue in Trek. Odo says, "If you scan me when I'm a rock, you'll detect a rock."

Changelings wouldn't be able to infiltrate a five-year-old's birthday party if their imitations were only surface deep. No one would need blood screenings, you'd just need any one of the quadrillion sensors that are installed on every single bit of Fed technology in existence.
 
Brilliant episode, so good to see Ro again, although it was a shame she died too.

But on his plot, Worf should be one of the most famous Klingons in the Federation - and he certainly was one of the most important political figures in the Empire too - how is it he is so anonymous?
 
OF COURSE changelings copy the entirety of a person, down to the subatomic level. Otherwise, every single internal sensor or tricorder or transporter would be able to detect them.
Apparently, not until the sensors were calibrated to look for Changeling material.
 
So what exactly was Ro's point in transferring the Titan crew to the Intrepid? To save their careers as she sends the Titan into fugitive mode? Yes she might save their careers but it's a possibility she's also doomed their lives. She just gave the Changelings more people to replace, and we still don't know what the Changelings have done to the originals, or if they outright killed them upon replacement.

"that time that someone threw the Prime Directive out the window so they could snog a villager on Ba'ku"

Wasn't the Prime Directive already being thrown out by Admiral Dougherty in the forced Ba'ku relocation and Picard just stopped it from happening? The only way Shaw can claim this is if he viewed the Son'a/Ba'ku feud as an internal matter due to being the same race, but Starfleet had already chosen the Son'a side before Picard came along.

I thought that Ro was transferring so many of the Titan crew in hopes of getting some number of changelings off of the Titan along w/ the legit crew.
 
I thought that Ro was transferring so many of the Titan crew in hopes of getting some number of changelings off of the Titan along w/ the legit crew.
There was never any indication there was more than one changeling aboard the Titan, and if there were why didn't they attack Shaw and Seven en masse?
 
We did get Picard stating that Frontier Day is Starfleet's anniversary. Which takes me back to wondering what year it actually is.

It was supposed to be the launch of the NX-01.
 
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