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

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I don't know. He's got to be close to retirement. So, think of him as an older guy working on older cars in his garage, but instead, it's his job!

Yeah. Maybe it's his dream job, and as a commodore he can probably do pretty much whatever he wants. Also, Geordi's only 67 – Picard was 68 in Star Trek: First Contact. Plenty of years of active duty left!
 
I give this show a 9 I certainly liked saeeing levar and his real life daughter in the show and all the unexpected Easter eggs from the movies and different series when it comes to the ships and the Daystrom station. I'm glad we finally find out what was causing Jack Crusher's vision and the scen with seven of nine looking at the ships was one of my favorites. I'm glad we get to see Moriarty and Data again. I certainly didn't expect the changelings to steal Picard's body .I was suprsied after Riker was captured who Vadic kidnapped wasn't expecting that all. I watched the Ready room sneak peak for next weeks show the that talking head thing talking to Vadic is really creepy and it threatened for not getting Jack crusher again.I look forward to seeing how Worf was going to try and rescue Riker from Vadic next week.
 
Wow, just wow. The best episode of the season yet? And the best of anything Star Trek since perhaps "In a Mirror, Darkly"?

Fan service done well!

20/10... just showing a TOS Connie with no Discoprise in sight... I can see why Robert Meyer Burnett was so happy describing this one. Plus the Kirk remains potentially referencing The Return novel...
Well, this shows all the Disco-prize versions were eventually refitted to the TOS -> Refit Connies, et. al.

And remember, that means Pike's Disco Connie became Kirk's TOS Connie, became the TMP Connie and was blown up at bthe Genesis planet in STIII:TSFS - ergo, it's not around to be part of any Fleet museum.

The HMS Bounty cloaking device!

Is Irumodic Syndrome really the only way to explain Jack's visions? Genesis spotted, but not the target of the theft... Picard's original body is. Ahh must be the theorized Borg connection?

Nice development of "the next generation" with even some potential shipping... 7/Raffi reunion not painful. Geordi! Riker and Troi captured by Vadic!

Data + Lore + Lal(!!!) + B4 + Soong... that's a great way to bring Data back in a different way.

Moriarty but not ~that~ Moriarty. Interesting way to do it.

Gotta put the subtitles on for the rewatch to nail down what exactly they said about Section 31.

BTW, the TOS Connie is the USS New Jersey. Terry Matalas is from NJ... Now that's getting to make your own Easter egg...
Yeah and Terry Matalas (per Wikipedia) was born in 1975 - so yes, even the U.S.S. New Jersey NCC number of 1975 is a further bit of "Yes, this is MY personal Easter Egg..." indulgence. (Glad to know he must be a fan of the original TOS Starship/Constitution Class design.:techman:)
 
BTW, the TOS Connie is the USS New Jersey. Terry Matalas is from NJ... Now that's getting to make your own Easter egg...
Honestly, no, not a fan of that move. Plus using his birth year as the registry. :thumbdown: Should've made it one of the originals mentioned in TOS.
 
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.
Yeah, they should have taken the one out of the USS Defiant - it's Romulan and less than 35 years old. ;)

But then the '...Superior Klingon Technology..." line by Worf wouldn't have made sense.:p;)
 
Which one? Lose your mind, or love it? :D

I would love it. Good way to tie it all together. With cloning, there's no reason it can't be a younger Kirk. I know SNW has already established Paul Wesley as Prime Universe young Kirk, but I've always preferred Pine over him. At least Pine looks something like a young Shatner!
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Can ya see it? I can...

Lose my mind because I'm loving it.
 
The internet is going crazy over the Kirk Easter egg that they are not even mentioning the other things that happened. I seriously doubt that is going to lead to anything.
That mutated Tribble has more chance of having future stories than Kirk.
 
Yeah and Terry Matalas (per Wikipedia) was born in 1975 - so yes, even the U.S.S. New Jersey NCC number of 1975 is a further bit of "Yes, this is MY personal Easter Egg..." indulgence. (Glad to know he must be a fan of the original TOS Starship/Constitution Class design.:techman:)

Out of all of the self-indulgent Easter eggs Terry decided to include, this bothered me the absolute least.
 
Picard Season 3 has this amazing ability to keep me excited with nostalgia and Easter Eggs while inching along the plot. I was very happy to see LeVar Burton again, and then so many of the ships from Trek's past (though I wish that the NX-01 had gotten a shout out. I read that the NX-01 refit was there, but I wish it had been one that Seven and Jack talked about). I also would've liked to have seen an Einstein-class, a California-class, Enterprise-B, as well as some DISCO ships and something from Strange New Worlds as well to get as inclusive as they could. I very much liked the use of the Klingon cloaking device, from the Bounty no less (which I wasn't expecting to see again).

There were a lot of little character moments that I enjoyed in this episode-and entire season really so far. I liked when Crusher just hugged Worf, and how she and Geordi greeted as well. It just felt right. I didn't care for how casually Geordi called Picard by his first name, but I could allow for the passage of time, and also La Forge was pissed at Picard for putting his daughter and his family in danger. I didn't care much for Sydney going off on Geordi, though it was well set up. I'm not a fan of kids telling off their parents in a lot of Hollywood entertainment these days, but I am glad that they bridged their divide before the episode was over.

I liked how Shaw was geeking out about La Forge, the very opposite in how he reacted to Picard and Riker. It was like he was meeting one of his heroes.

I liked a lot of the Easter Eggs on Daystrom Station, with Kirk's body being the most intriguing. I hope this is a way they can bring Shatner back as Kirk in some way for some story, though they might bring Chris Pine or Paul Wesley in instead. I'm not a fan of the Section 31 retcon, but that cat has been out of the bag for way too long now to get too miffed about it.

I hope that there's a good reason for why the Changelings stole Picard's body. I don't see why Picard would be the greatest weapon against Starfleet. Even in his prime, under Borg control, the Enterprise crew found a way to beat the Borg (with his help to be fair), but still, making the big weapon be Picard's corpse feels right now like contorting the story to keep it about Picard when they don't need to because of the interesting things they've done with Picard and Jack, and the TNG reunion. There's a lot already to play with. If they got his body I wonder if they are going to give us the Nemesis that we should've gotten where Sir Patrick plays both Picard and his evil twin.
 
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This is possibly the best star trek episode of the entire set of all the series of this era. And mind you I'm not that easy to say that at all because I was easily shitting on most of the rest.
It has something to do with the new showrunners actually following the story (e.g. remembering that La Forge is the best friend of Data).
 
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Bit disappointed Shaw turns into Barclay when meeting Geordi....I still hope they don't keep Shaw as the shy/pathetic/annoying little brother that no-one really listens to...hope he gets a few hero moments
 
I've always felt like the NCC (Naval Construction Contract) numbers in Trek were never meant to be sequential through a class of ships, but fell in the order that ships of various classes were ordered up...
The USS Constellation NCC-1017 another Starship/Constellation Constitution Class ship (From TOS S2 The Doomsday Machine), would seem to bear out your hypothesis. ;)

Edited to correct a brain fart on my part.:crazy:
 
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