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

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Seems a bit nonsensical to keep Picard's body for resurrection when Section 31 can just appropriate Picard's synth body when he "dies" and forcibly reactivate that. Starfleet must have known something dangerous about Picard's original body. But what could that possibly be?

And why would Starfleet want to resurrect Kirk? TOS Kirk who made speeches about the beauty of natural humanity and the evils of artificially trying to control people? That Kirk? He'd probably refuse to do what Starfleet wanted in disgust the minute he was resurrected and realized what happened.

As a test for resurrection? It doesn't necessarily need to be they want more Kirks or Picards. They just want a tool.
 
Ok, so we all guessed wrong. The weapon stolen wasn't Moriarty or Lore, but Picard's dead human body. I have no idea what the changelings could want with it. 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.

So Jack has early onset irumodic syndrome? How does that explain his augment style powers in killing the changelings? How come Jack isn't wondering about that and no one is talking about it? Did Beverly augment Jack to try to overcome the irumodic syndrome?

How long has Vadic had Deanna? It must've been between the battle of the Ryton Nebula and the current raid on Daystrom, otherwise she would've used Deanna as a bargaining chip in the nebula. Why didn't she get Kestra too? I guess we'll find out next week.

I know we have to take into account the speed advances introduced in Prodigy, but the instantaneous speed times here were a bit unbelievable, and also that the installation of a century old Klingon cloaking device can also take place within that timeframe. 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.

It's pretty obvious to me at least given Shaw's speech to Picard about Locutus they want to re-create Locutus. Why else would they educate non hardcore fans about Locutus.
 
This was my least favorite episode so far UNTIL THE LAST 12 minutes. Holy crap Terry has perfected the BOBW cliffhangers.
 
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Reactions in roughly chronological order:

- I am extremely dubious that Jack's visions are because he inherited Picard's syndrome thingie. Thinking that's either a well-cloaked surprise for the third act, or that's not Beverly Crusher giving the diagnosis.
- They broke Seven and Raffi up off-screen? Again? FFS...
- Yesss Beverly hugs.
- Worf remains the highlight of this season. Michael Dorn's delivery is just -chef's kiss!-
- I feel like I missed something wrt to the fleet all "speaking" to each other now. I get why Picard would be in the dark about why the ship was so easy to track, but not Shaw and Titan's crew.
- Oh, Daniel Davis, you still chew the scenery magnificently! :luvlove:
- Thanks, Alton. Still glad you're dead. May you be the last of the Soongs.
- Not digging the dialogue between Geordi and Sydney. I wish they'd drop the pilot vs engineer bits; Geordi was flying the ship before he was an engineer, after all.
- The family theme is just so heavy-handed; again, this is an area where I just can't seem to find any emotional purchase.
- I am so here for the kids causing mischief. These three have ridiculously good chemistry together.
- DAMMIT, RIKER, DON'T YOU DARE TURN THAT THING ON!
- "Jack." "Sydney." Fucking. Perfect.
- Back to not really caring about Jack Picard. I get what they were going for in this scene, but I wish they'd phrased Jack's growing admiration for his dad in a way that didn't make it sound like an insult to Bev.
- I'm very interested in why the Changelings wanted Picard's fleshy castoffs. If nothing else, it feels like they're going to try and do something substantial with the fact that he's a synth now.

Overall, feeling like it's a step or two down from last week. The reunions were nice and I liked the kids conspiring to tick off the veteran crew in good cause, but the heist portion of the episode wasn't as strong as I was hoping for, the Jack and Jean-Luc bits generally don't do a lot for me, and the name drops were so thick on the ground that it was distracting. On Lower Decks, to contrast, the show is paced so quickly most of their callbacks are blink-and-you'll-miss-it jokes; here, it felt like they lingered too long on most them.

So I guess it's radical marriage counseling for Will and Deanna next week? :D
 
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They should have kept it that Riker didn’t know what Section 31 is. Make him the last person to know.
I saw the NX Refit. That’s either the Enterprise or the Endeavour. I like that they kept it vague to preserve the novels.
 
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It's pretty obvious to me at least given Shaw's speech to Picard about Locutus they want to re-create Locutus. Why else would they educate non hardcore fans about Locutus.
Yeah, I don't think any amount of money could convince Patrick to get back into that Borg makeup again so this is unlikely. Furthermore to stage a fake Borg attack when the Changelings want revenge and recognition for their grievances just seems nonsensical.
 
Yeah, I don't think any amount of money could convince Patrick to get back into that Borg makeup again so this is unlikely. Furthermore to stage a fake Borg attack when the Changelings want revenge and recognition for their grievances just seems nonsensical.

But I am sure Jack Crusher would gladly step into the role of Locutus, into the makeup.
 
I enjoyed all the fan service in this one plus the footage from farpoint was incorporated well. Wasn’t one of the big rumours for this season they recreated the D bridge set? That’s going to be ultimate fan service. Can’t wait to see it.

Maybe Geordi holds the D in special reserve as his private tour. lol
 
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