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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x06 - "The Bounty"

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Since the whole heist took about an hour, this episode presumably played out in real time like in the tv show 24, which makes the amount of events that supposedly happened in this hour even more unbelievable.

The whole heist and clandestine visit to the museum had an oddly lackadaisical quality. It didn't play like they were in a hurry. It felt like they spent a day or more just kinda wandering around in there.
 
I felt that was too fan servicy for it's own good. There were a few good scenes, like Seven talking about Voyager or LaForge and Sidney's relationship, but it felt like chess pieces being moved around. Actually I would say this episode felt like what last weeks episode could have been, the transitional episode between act 1 and the next act. While last week gave me some great emotions, this week was a bit distracting with all the fan service and basically bringing the entire TNG cast back on screen at once. I also feel like the plot has become even more muddled (What are they doing with Picard's remains, and why) and the Moriarty bit ended up being a lot smaller than I was led to believe. I still think it was a pretty good transitional episode, but I don't need to worry about overhyping it this week.

This episode gets a 6.5, but I'll generously round up because the character work, especially for Seven, did get an emotion out of me.

7

Yeah I gave it a 7 as well. For fan service-y reasons.

I'm glad that Geordi is happily espoused with grown kids and whatnot. The Data stuff was only cool right at the end for me, but up until that point I was wincing with embarrassment, glad nobody was watching with me. I thought the acting was actually pretty great though, even if the writing seemed uneven and/or cliched. The reveal of Vadic was properly creepy. And I guess I'm glad the gang's back together so we can stop anticipating that and get on with the story.
 
I hate to be one of those people, but wouldn't a 120-year-old cloaking device be easily detectable? That should be like a baby cloak. I know, I know, "go with the flow!" But you'd think how to detect something that old would've been cracked after Starfleet probably reverse-engineered everything inside the Bounty for intelligence.
 
Also, it seems unlikely that Starfleet would let Daystrom be be guarded by an unstable android.

So are we to assume now that Picard's mother had irumodic syndrome, and it passed to Jean-Luc and now Jack? Also, Picard said he "lived with irumodic syndrome for decades" which would mean from 2379 (Nemesis) to his human body death in 2399. The problem is, Dr. Benayoun in Season 1 in 2399 outright said that Picard had a defect in his brain that could turn into irumodic syndrome, not that he had irumodic syndrome already (much less for decades). Seems like a rather major continuity error.
It's guarded by the voice in the first room with the green lasers.
He lived with the diagnosis for decades.

What time frame was the NX-Refit cause my eyes must have glossed over it.
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Re: Picard's body: my guess is an idea I thought of before when trying to figure out who Jack was. They are trying to weaponize Irumodic syndrome. And now that we know it's changelings, they probably want a plague to wipe out the UFP as a poetic justice for how they were defeated in the war.
 
Yeah I gave it a 7 as well. For fan service-y reasons.

I'm glad that Geordi is happily espoused with grown kids and whatnot. The Data stuff was only cool right at the end for me, but up until that point I was wincing with embarrassment and glad nobody was watching with me because a lot of people do not understand why I like this show. I thought the acting was actually pretty great though even if the writing seemed uneven and/or cliched. The reveal of Vadic was properly creepy. And I guess I'm glad the gang's back together so we can stop anticipating that and get on with the story.

the flashbacks to Encounter at Farpoint actually was distracting for me because of the vast difference in color. This season is darker (and I have said it is sometimes hard to see what it going on) but to shift from the dark look to the pretty bright look of Farpoint gave me a bit of whiplash. I would have been impressed if they had redone the scene in the same contrast as the rest of the episode.
 
I hate to be one of those people, but wouldn't a 120-year-old cloaking device be easily detectable? That should be like a baby cloak. I know, I know, "go with the flow!" But you'd think how to detect something that old would've been cracked after Starfleet probably reverse-engineered everything inside the Bounty for intelligence.

So old nobody knows to look for it.
 
Wasn't a bad episode. Loved seeing those old ships, and finally get to see the NX-01 Refit behind the D-7 when we see the scene of the ships panned over. Not exactly the best episode by far, but it definitely was great to get most of the TNG family back together after so long. Memberberries a plenty! 8/10.
 
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The fact that Daystrom has James T. Kirk's body in storage was one of the biggest geek-out moments I've had in a long time.

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And Picard's. Isn't that just kind of creepy? Although in light of events of this episode we have to assume Starfleet may have known something dangerous about Picard's body that obviously Picard himself wasn't aware of. It's strange that Picard never apparently asked what was done with his original body, or it's possible he was lied to and they told him they buried or cremated it.
Is it really Troi?
Probably. Trailers show her saying things to Riker that likely only she would say, akin to Ro and Picard last week.
 
Was anyone else hoping that the line about how all the new Starfleet ships are more linked together than ever before would lead to the crew taking that cloaking device and installing it on an older, disconnected-from-the-Fleet ship like, say...the Enterprise-D? It would have bordered on fan service to the extreme but...wouldn't have been pretty cool.
 
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