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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x05 - "Imposters"

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Did anyone notice something unusual...La forges hair style is different 43 minutes exactly into episode, compared to it all the way up until that point..new hair day...or something else....
 
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.
I concur. Down in MD/VA the bay confounds everything. We talk about the Eastern Shore of the bay and the Coast or Atlantic Coast. Not sure about NC to Georgia, but Florida has the Gulf Coast, The Atlantic Coast, and the biggest piece of trash Governor.
 
Did anyone notice something unusual...La forges hair style is different 43 minutes exactly into episode, compared to it all the way up until that point..new hair day...or something else....
I'm gonna speculate that the new hair came after they shut down production for covid for a week or so last January.
 
Late to the party. Very good episode; the only things which really took me out were the absurdly slow bomb and the unlikelihood that Picard would have no idea of Ro's status (both no doubt discussed and headcannoned, but they didn't work for me). Still no idea where the Jack thing is going; it'll be a tricky one to land.
 
Well, if anything the evolutionary changeling trait is probably their ability to retain the last form they assumed prior to death. During the DS9 series era, Changelings would revert to liquid when unconscious, or some type of black, sandy material when they died.

It didn't happen often, but pretty sure Odo got knocked unconcious or passed out a couple of times without reverting.
 
So for him to have registered as human in that DS9 example, presumably he had blood and organs that the tricorder would have registered to make the determination that he was human. How else would he have registered as human if he was goo on the inside? Well, if we take Beverly's comment at face value and try to incorporate that into DS9 then they had some other way of tricking the sensors. May be a small goof by the writers. We can always head canon it away...maybe the changelings were able to trick the sensors some other way? Or maybe Beverly was just wrong?

Beverly wasn't wrong. The writers of Picard were wrong. It happens. It's annoying, but there it is. The changelings didn't have a magical, never-referenced ability to trick sensors. They simply had the one ability that the show DID discuss at great length, a skill they were very, very good at. The ability to mimic things. They become the object they're morphing into. Not just "on the skin", all the way through.

It's also was an easily-avoidable error. They could simply have said what I suggested, "Oh, after the war, we knew more about changelings and figured how to detect them thanks to [tech babble tech babble.] But these new ones avoid even our more advanced methods." Period. Done. No gaffes or goofs necessary.
 
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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.

Yup. "Mid-Atlantic" was never below Delaware. VA, DC, etc. are "the South."
 
Beverly wasn't wrong. The writers of Picard were wrong. It happens. It's annoying, but there it is.

It's also was an easily-avoidable error. They could simply have said what I suggested, "Oh, after the war, we knew more about changelings and figured how to detect them thanks to [tech babble tech babble.] But these new ones avoid even our more advanced methods." Period. Done. No gaffes or goofs necessary.
YATI. Not just for Jainism any more.
 
Regarding Picard not being aware of Ro's reinstatement...

She did say Starfleet Intelligence brought her back. Maybe they simply never reported to Picard that they did, either because it wasn't necessary or they didn't report to him. Or both.


Regarding Changelings and organs...

Obviously if a tricorder can register someone as human, Klingon, Trill, etc., it means that it detects the organs inside them to make that determination. How else do you think McCoy was able to tell Darvin was a Klingon agent in "THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES"? Tricorders would certainly be even more advanced after a century. (Never mind the fact Odo and Bashir's dialogue from "THE ADVERSARY" have already been quoted.)
 
Regarding Changelings and organs...

Obviously if a tricorder can register someone as human, Klingon, Trill, etc., it means that it detects the organs inside them to make that determination. How else do you think McCoy was able to tell Darvin was a Klingon agent in "THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES"? Tricorders would certainly be even more advanced after a century. (Never mind the fact Odo and Bashir's dialogue from "THE ADVERSARY" have already been quoted.)

You know, I used to think that way, but other posters in this thread have convinced me that, unless he explicitly uses the word "organs", Bashir only scans people up to the epidermis and no deeper as a matter of course.
 
I feel like it would have been better if the opposing Starfleet ship was something we know and is stronger than the Titan. A Sovereign perhaps.
 
Funny story: I actually have had to explain that phrase to my wife... multiple times in our marriage. She thought it didn't make sense when I said, "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."

The horseshoes aspect is the part she always gets hung up about. :lol:
Not a big fan of horseshoes I see...someone needs to get out more ;)
 
Not a big fan of horseshoes I see...someone needs to get out more ;)

Being the phrase guy that I am, it's been sort of my duty to explain older phrases. In turn, she informs me of some of the new lingo that is circulating in internetland.

Honestly, I am a bit stuck in the past because a lot of the newer catchphrases and phrases just make no sense.
 
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