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

[IMC Headquarters]

WORF: A Tribble...







WORF: Genetically modified into a Face-Hugger. Ingenious. They make more of themselves in the bodies of their victims. A death without honor. When this is all over, I'm going to destroy this installation. I'll use the Defiant.

 

[Tuskin38]

I honestly expected to see Daystrom station explode as the Shrike flew away.

 

[Yistaan]

WORF: Genetically modified into a Face-Hugger. Ingenious. They make more of themselves in the bodies of their victims. A death without honor. When this is all over, I'm going to destroy this installation. I'll use the Defiant.

Trek already did this to the (SNW spoilers)

Spoiler

Gorn, so why not ruin another beloved TOS alien?

Beverly augmented Jack to stave off irumodic syndrome, and Vadic needs Jack's magical augment healing blood to revive the corpse of his father.

 

[mdtauk]

I also expected the use of one of the older vessels - because it would not be integrated into the network of other ships - but obviously there is not the budget to build (re-build) some of the older sets.

The museum being the old spacedock - was definitely a bit too far on the fan service meter for me. Especially as it wasn't fully taken advantage of in the narrative.

Super Data. Hmm... Not sure what to think of it right now. It makes sense, as Alton Soong's culmination of his work. Some of his personality should have also been in there for completeness IMO.

Will have to wait and see how this character is used going forward.

Daystrom being a collection of oddities feels like an excuse for easter eggs - but I guess it can pass.

Picard Vs Picard seems like an inevitability going on now. Still feels like Sisko would have been the proper target for the Changelings, rather than Picard.

Oh and nice to finally have Irumodic Syndrome name checked. Felt like they skirted around it in Season 1.

 

[Tuskin38]

Some of his personality should have also been in there for completeness IMO.

I think it was.

 

[fireproof78]

The museum being the old spacedock - was definitely a bit too far on the fan service meter for me. Especially as it wasn't fully taken advantage of in the narrative.

How so? Not a fan of it personally, but how is that too far?

 

[cooleddie74]

At this point as long as Bobby Moynihan doesn't show up, look directly into the camera and go "NOW THAT'S A STAR TREK" I'll be fine with the fan service.

It's Trek. At this point a good chunk of both good and bad content is fan service. It's what Trek is.

 

[137th Gebirg]

16 pages in just eight hours. Now we're nerding.

Wanted a watercooler discussion kind of episode? We got it.

All of the episodes this season have generated a metric ass-ton of discussion content. In this way, despite the usual dollops of hate-watching, PIC S3 is an unequivocal success.

 

[Romulan_spy]

Picard Vs Picard seems like an inevitability going on now. Still feels like Sisko would have been the proper target for the Changelings, rather than Picard.

Isn't Sisko still with the Prophets in the Celestial Temple? How would the changelings even get to him?

Also, it depends on what the changelings are planning to do with the body of Picard. It could be that they need the Borg nanites still in his body as part of their plan to destroy Starfleet. Also, we know Picard was supposed to give a big speech on Frontier Day (although not sure how that would work now if Picard is considered a traitor). So it would make sense to use Picard's body to infiltrate and carry out the plan since nobody would suspect the great Picard of being part of a changeling plan.

 

[137th Gebirg]

A theory has been put forward that Pah Wraiths have somehow infected this branch of the Changelings, making them the "rebels" (hence their odd semi-liquid natural appearance and newly-"evolved" ability to mimic internal organs). If Pah Wraiths are still floating around, so too can the Prophets. And The Sisko.

This actually reminds me of the original concept for TOS BSG Cylons. Once a biological race of reptiles, they "sold their collective souls" to Count Iblis (Satan) in exchange for super-advanced "divine" technology, which ultimately led to their extinction. Iblis (Pah Wraiths) was always constantly being chased by the Seraphim (Prophets), both using the mortals as pawns in their cosmic chess game.

 

[cooleddie74]

"Second star to the right. And straight on 'til morning."

 

[eschaton]

Isn't Sisko still with the Prophets in the Celestial Temple? How would the changelings even get to him?

This hasn't been canonically answered has it? I think Boimler may have mentioned once in Lower Decks that he hadn't come back yet, but that was only shortly after Nemesis.

 

[TOMFAN]

Picard didn’t know where his body ended up? There wasn’t a proper funeral or whatever?

Maybe it was buried on the planet of the Synths (can't remember the name), but when Alton Soong died, Starfleet/Section 31, took it when they removed all of his other work.

 

[StewMc]

Kirk wasn't beamed away in the end of Ashes, he was beamed away near the beginning of "The Return" the second Shatnerverse novel. But yeah, my first thought after seeing that scene made me immediately think of "The Return" and how he got resurrected.

I'm sure the beaming away scene in "The Return" did actually appear in some form at the end of "The Ashes of Eden first. An epilogue with Spock on Veridian III. I remember the final line of the book being "there were always possibilities" or something like that.

 

[Yistaan]

Weyoun: May I present Odo, prime minister of the Dominion. And this is Admiral Kathryn Janeway

Odo: I trust you're going to enjoy your stay. Please. And now to business. You will be delighted to hear that we are on schedule. We are ready, with a million more well on the way.

Janeway: That's... good news.

Odo: Please tell Commander Data that his order will be met on time.

Janeway: I'm sorry. Commander--

Odo: Commander Data is still a leading officer of Starfleet, is he not?

Janeway: Commander Data was killed over twenty years ago.

Odo: Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. But I'm sure he would have been proud of the army we've built for him.

Janeway: The army?

Odo: Yes. A clone army of Jean-Luc Picard, and I must say, one of the finest we've ever created.

Janeway: Tell me, Prime Minister, when Commander Data first contacted you about the army, did-- did he say who this army was for?

Odo: Of course he did. This army is for the Federation against renegade changelings. But you must be anxious
to inspect the units for yourself.

Janeway: That's... why I'm here.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

If you squint really hard, you can see this on Geordi's desk:

 

[137th Gebirg]

I remember when they did that. I was amazed at how recognizable such a small structure that was.

 

[cooleddie74]

Strangely enough on that Voyager Harry Kim is a full Lieutenant.

 

[gweeps]

Didn't want the episode to end.

 

[El Maestro]

At this point as long as Bobby Moynihan doesn't show up, look directly into the camera and go "NOW THAT'S A STAR TREK" I'll be fine with the fan service.

It's Trek. At this point a good chunk of both good and bad content is fan service. It's what Trek is.

Plus, it's a decades spanning franchise that has a considerable continuity and canon that a lot of people are quite attached to so the other side of this coin is "where was so and so during this whole thing it doesn't make sense that they weren't there grrrrr...." They're damned if they do and damned if they don't. I enjoyed seeing these things in this episode. I got legitimately emotional when Seven saw the Voyager. I loved hearing the music for each thing. It was a a great little sequence and it's amazing to me that people on a Star Trek fansite hate seeing Star Trek things in their Star Trek. The mind boggles.