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

[Saul]

I think the Cochrane statue on Geordi's desk is a 3D print of or based off STO's model

Didn't Archer have one of those too?

Didn’t Lorca get atomized?

Looked like it. But there could have been something else happening there. Prime Lorca still around too.

True. Since we have not gotten a canonical answer yet, I am assuming Sisko is still with the Prophets. Otherwise, it would be a plot hole that the characters have not asked for Sisko's help, especially since a changeling threat directly connects to Sisko from DS9.

IMHO it completely, 100% ruins the finale of DS9 if Sisko never came back and Kasidy had to raise their child alone.

Sisko was nothing if not a devoted father. He would return for that, Prophets be damned.

And he said he would only be gone a year too.

He wasn't really a villain, he parted on good terms from both Picard and Sisko. Then Chakotay blew him up in the Badlands.

Not blew him up. The ship was damaged. He might have even ended up in the delta quadrant. In the Voyager conspiracy I think there was a photo of a Cardassian ship brought to the delta quadrant by the caretaker.

 

[Prometheus59650]

Seems pretty clear at this point, given how Matalas wants this show to work is that Jack is a Changeling.

 

[The Commander]

Had the same thought...I just can't buy the character being upset or having a strained relationship with his daughter because she didn't choose to become an engineer.

They explained it in the Ready Room. It was not her job choice per se, more the fact that she moved away from him. It's a daddy thing. He is overprotective.

 

[drt]

I just want to know why no one seemed to be doing any research at/on Daystrom.

It was mentioned that the station was evacuated after the break-in.

The missing section of this is that these changelings are...meatier...than the O.G. ones. They're closer in physiology to humans, arguably more compatible. And they don't actually lose their form when they die.

I think, even discounting the "evolution" angle, the production slightly retconned the Changelings. The characters seemed surprised that they could now simulate actual internal organs at all, it was expected that they could only mimic surface details. Also it seems they can no longer change mass or into inanimate objects, since the worry is always that a person is being mimicked, not that a glass, barrel or deck plating might be a Changeling.

 

[Tomalak]

Not blew him up. The ship was damaged. He might have even ended up in the delta quadrant. In the Voyager conspiracy I think there was a photo of a Cardassian ship brought to the delta quadrant by the caretaker.

I think that Cardassian ship was months prior to Caretaker and was sent back, because the records came from Neelix's ship.

Evek never gets seen again, despite being a recurring character up until then, so I just assumed his ship was lost.

But yes, he may have survived. Though I doubt he's going to reappear this season, but I wouldn't have believed a few other people would have returned a few weeks ago.

 

[Phily B]

As much as I'd like it, they are not going to mention Sisko or his status because it locks them out of future story telling possibilities in the unlikely event they could bring him back.

 

[Tomalak]

They explained it in the Ready Room. It was not her job choice per se, more the fact that she moved away from him. It's a daddy thing. He is overprotective.

Yes, her being a pilot simply underlines that she wants to travel and fly away to danger. He'd rather she just stayed close to home like Alandra, but Sydney helps him to remember why it's worth the risk, and the new family she now has.

 

[J. Frank Doobie]

An entertaining watch, but despite moving the plot a bit, this one felt a little filler-y to me and several things felt a little rushed or unearned. Dialogue was a bit on-the-nose in this one, too.

Still good! But probably the coolest reaction I've had to an episode this season.

 

[Yistaan]

As much as I'd like it, they are not going to mention Sisko or his status because it locks them out of future story telling possibilities in the unlikely event they could bring him back.

In-universe, what would Sisko do anyway? Jokes aside, Vadic isn't going to run fleeing in terror at the mention of his name (if anything she'd relish the opportunity to avenge the Dominion on him). Sisko would have no more clue than the characters or the audience about why Vadic wants Jack or Picard's corpse for Frontier Day. Realistically the guy they should be asking is Odo. Isn't the next episode called Dominion? Maybe they'll visit Odo, played by someone else (possibly Rene's son)

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Four episodes left to explain everything, right?

Why did the Changelings steal Picard's body?
What do they want with Jack?
What is the threat on Frontier Day?
How will the Rikers escape the Shrike?
Why does Daystrom have such a curious inventory?
Will "More" default to Data permanently?
Will Laris and Jean-Luc marry?

 

[Yistaan]

Four episodes left to explain everything, right?

Why did the Changelings steal Picard's body?
What do they want with Jack?
What is the threat on Frontier Day?
How will the Rikers escape the Shrike?
Why does Daystrom have such a curious inventory?
Will "More" default to Data permanently?
Will Laris and Jean-Luc marry?

Who is Vadic's boss?

 

[CPT Baldwin]

And he said he would only be gone a year too.

His exact words were "Maybe a year, maybe yesterday; but I will be back."

 

[The Old Mixer]

Imagine if they could splice genes and develop the flying wall kick barrel roll. Enemies of the Federation would have no choice but to just surrender from that point forward.

That sounds like something I might have seen in a video game or something...

 

[GulBahana]

What kind of ship is Worf using to go after Riker? I missed it, I guess.

 

[captainkirk]

They say that all the new Starfleet ships are networked, surely after the events of Prodigy they know that's a terrible idea?

 

[FreezeC77]

Outside of his Irumodic Syndrome, the only other notable thing about Picard's original body is that he could sense/hear the Borg Collective without any implants. Could his Irumodic Syndrome have been brought on by the alterations the Borg made to his brain?

That's actually my speculation as to why the changelings would want his body and also want Jack. Something about the unique genetic makeup plus the Irumodic Syndrome and the ability to interact with the Borg.

Either
A)The changelings think its a key to being able to somehow exert 'control' over the borg and perhaps create a changeling ability to control people

or
B)The changelings are always waxing poetically about the Great Link and the combined consciousness. That's something the Borg has... Perhaps they want to use Picard/Jack's biological ability to somehow replicate within themselves the ability to connect as a whole without physically joining.

 

[Tuskin38]

Didn't Archer have one of those too?

Yes, but the one in this episode has more similarities to the STO one than that one, like the longer ascot, the exact shape of the rolls of paper under his arm. Like literally, the rolls have the exact same hard edges in the same places.

 

[FreezeC77]

Damn he does look like his old man.

When that alien with the phaser pointed at Riker shot the others and begin to shapeshift I really thought for a second it was going to be Odo. (Obviously wouldn't be Rene, but having seen those pics before and reading people thinking he could play a 'fully human form' of Odo... I actually thought it was about to happen for a split second.

 

[drt]

When that alien with the phaser pointed at Riker shot the others and begin to shapeshift I really thought for a second it was going to be Odo. (Obviously wouldn't be Rene, but having seen those pics before and reading people thinking he could play a 'fully human form' of Odo... I actually thought it was about to happen for a split second.

Heh, I thought the same...

 

[Lord Garth]

Four episodes left to explain everything, right?

Why did the Changelings steal Picard's body?
What do they want with Jack?
What is the threat on Frontier Day?
How will the Rikers escape the Shrike?
Why does Daystrom have such a curious inventory?
Will "More" default to Data permanently?
Will Laris and Jean-Luc marry?

While reading this post, I had theme from Soap going on in the back of my mind.