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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x05 - "Imposters"

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speaking of lighting: was this episode brighter? As opposed to the previous episodes (and especially the last one) I don’t remember finding the darkness annoying.
Perhaps a bit more than others. It's still darkly lit overall, but not as bad as that one weird situation in Ep 2 where the saturation levels were boosted through the roof. I'll take dark and moody over that any day.
 
But it's worth noting that it was said that if you scan a Changeling when they're a rock, your scan will say it's a rock. Changelings were all about becoming a thing. I think it would be a mistake to assume that they were always just golden goo inside when pretending to be a person. A species that can become fog or fire can surely whip up copies of some internal organs.
Ahhh, nope. We call it the East Coast. And NYC is NOT the entire East Coast (nor "the Atlantic Coast").
MID-Atlantic Coast is used often, but that refers mainly to the area from Delaware down to South Carolina. (and a bit of Georgia)
East Coast usually is referring to Maine to the Jersey Shore.
 
MID-Atlantic Coast is used often, but that refers mainly to the area from Delaware down to South Carolina. (and a bit of Georgia)
East Coast usually is referring to Maine to the Jersey Shore.

Eh, the term "Mid-Atlantic" changed over the decades. I distinctly remember as a kid leaning the "Mid-Atlantic states" were the parts of the Northeast south of New England (So NY, NY, PA, sometimes MD and DE, though they were still sometimes called South Atlantic).

Mid-Atlantic now seems to mean the area right around DC.
 
I hear my accent referred to as "Midatlantic" since it's not really a very pronounced Southern one nor even like many in my corner of Virginia.
 
Great episode. I’m definitely hooked, even if the season is basically a mix of several past storylines: we have ‘Conspiracy’ now, in addition to ‘Bloodlines’, ‘Wrath of Khan’, ‘The Adversary’, ‘Inquisition’ and so on. I don’t care when it’s this fun.

Being in the UK I have to wait for over a day to watch this and while I try to avoid spoilers, I was spoiled about Ro’s appearance and death. It was the highlight of the episode and Michelle Forbes was fantastic.
 
Berman Trek also used phrases like "edge/border of the Alpha Quadrant." This isn't even close to the first time in the franchise. Complaining now is like suddenly being upset that even good and helpful Ferengi seem obsessed with profit.
Didn't the enterprise go to the end/ center of the galaxy?
And don't forget how you can pop into a Klingon war bird, fly round the sun without burning up and travel back in time.
 
I wonder if these super changelings are an experiment that got out of control?
And the jack we see is one of them?
 
Didn't the enterprise go to the end/ center of the galaxy?
And don't forget how you can pop into a Klingon war bird, fly round the sun without burning up and travel back in time.
Strange New Worlds Season 2 will have a running joke about Sybok claiming to have invented warp drive advances to reach the center of the galaxy, and no one believes him. The Fed only start taking it seriously long after Sybok's death just before Star Trek Prodigy. :lol:

I wonder if these super changelings are an experiment that got out of control?
And the jack we see is one of them?
Picard: I'm just going to say it--you were way too old to have naturally conceived without some kind of modern fertility treatment!

Crusher: Finally figured it out, didn't you? With the genetic advances in Jack and the support of Section 31, the age of the backwards Federation is over! The age of the augment has begun!

Shaw: Now I don't know whether I should side with the Changelings or with Starfleet. Blast.
 
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I don't recall from DS9 that a changeling was stated to be able to mimic someone's internal physiology.



I wouldn’t be too sure about this. Sure, odo tells about how when he’s in the shape of an eagle he “is” an eagle, yet bashir was quite surprise to see his tricorder reading actual internal organs once he’s turned human.

Your comment proves my point. He was turned into a human. And Odo's mimicry skills were limited. He was never trying to impersonate a human.

Whereas, all of the changeling infiltrators WERE trying to impersonate those people.

Odo explicitly states, "when you scan me when I'm a rock, you detect a rock."

Starfleet has oodles of sensors that work passively on a constant basis. They have tricorders, they have transporters. They have a million ways to determine what is actually "beneath the surface." If a changeling could only change their outer appearance, their deception would last less than five minutes.

So it's easier for Starfleet to attempt blood screenings (which aren't successful, btw) and phaser sweeps, but not just use ordinary sensors? Ridiculous. Changelings become perfect copies, always have.
 
Sure Starfleet sensors couldn't detect changelings, but that could be for a multitude of reasons.

No, it couldn't be. There aren't a "multitude of reasons" why every single sensors, tricorder and transporter across the entire alpha quadrant would fail to recognize a changeling's innards. They do perfect mimicry, always have.
 
No, it couldn't be. There aren't a "multitude of reasons" why every single sensors, tricorder and transporter across the entire alpha quadrant would fail to recognize a changeling's innards. They do perfect mimicry, always have.
Well according to this episode they eventually made scanners that could, so these new changelings had to adapt even further.
 
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