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

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It was mentioned a bit earlier in the thread and I had shot it down but yes, Robert Meyer Burnett was talking about this episode when he was discussing the connection with the book 'Star Trek The Return'. I don't remember it in the book though. Kirk was beamed away by a Romulan - Borg group. I don't remember him at Daystrom. Anyone?

After what we saw at Daystrom, I was expecting this at the end!

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For old times sake
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Where is Lore's body
I thought we saw Lore's body at the station because we saw B4 in Picard season 1 at the institute.
 
I hate the way Marina Sirtis is being used. First, she gets to whine about being left home with the baby while hubby is out drinking with a friend. Then, she gets held hostage for leverage over hubby.

It’s like, what are the worst two tropes for female characters? Great, let’s use both of them, and give the actress nothing else to do.

I also think this, “The baddies are up to something bad! We have to find out what it is and stop them!” thing shouldn’t drag on to the point where there are only four episodes left in the season. I’d like to know what the threat is more than five minutes before it’s neutralized. Whatever it turns out to be at this point, it’s going to be an interesting threat for too short a time.
 
I hate the way Marina Sirtis is being used. First, she gets to whine about being left home with the baby while hubby is out drinking with a friend. Then, she gets held hostage for leverage over hubby.

It’s like, what are the worst two tropes for female characters? Great, let’s use both of them, and give the actress nothing else to do.

I also think this, “The baddies are up to something bad! We have to find out what it is and stop them!” thing shouldn’t drag on to the point where there are only four episodes left in the season. I’d like to know what the threat is more than five minutes before it’s neutralized. Whatever it turns out to be at this point, it’s going to be an interesting threat for too short a time.


That's my fear after this episode. If it isn't clear by now what is going on, then it could end up being resolved by some miraculous flash drive that shows up in episode 9.
 
Has it occurred to anyone that Geordi was so cold because he actually remembered from TNG that he was supposed to be friends with Hugh, and Picard basically got Hugh killed in Season 1?
 
OK, I'm ultra confused by the revelation that S-31 are holding an alive James T. Kirk. This has got to be one of the biggest revelations in the history of Trek-dom, and Riker just walks on by. What exactly are they doing with him? Is he in permanent stasis? That's pretty creepy and downright cruel. I mean, there has to be a reason they have him on ice. I guess it's probably related to why they have Picard's old revived body as well.
 
It was mentioned a bit earlier in the thread and I had shot it down but yes, Robert Meyer Burnett was talking about this episode when he was discussing the connection with the book 'Star Trek The Return'. I don't remember it in the book though. Kirk was beamed away by a Romulan - Borg group. I don't remember him at Daystrom. Anyone?


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I thought we saw Lore's body at the station because we saw B4 in Picard season 1 at the institute.
It appeared that Agnes only pulled out the draw with B4s body. I don't think there was any mention of Lore.
 
My least favorite episode in an otherwise very good season. I thought all of the Easter eggs/memberberries brought it down a bit. The episode concocted bizarre logic in order to justify them. I thought the Professor Moriarty appearance was very odd -- especially using flashbacks of Encounter at Farpoint to establish how to get by him. If the show wants to include some flashbacks to older episodes in the franchise, I think there were other parts the season where that could've been far more effective (the Wolf 359 speech), but, here I don't think it worked. Why do I need to be shown clips from a 35+ year old episode for this short few seconds? It added nothing to the moment.

I'm very confused over why Daystrom station has Kirk's remains. It's established that it's a place that holds some of Starfleet's most secret tech -- how does Kirk's remains relate to that? Also a little disappointed over why Picard's remains are what was taken. While it's yet to be explained as to why that was the case, I'm a tad underwhelmed by that. But we'll see how it's handled in upcoming episodes.

Overall, I thought the story took a very strange turn in this episode and I'm left more baffled than I already was.
 
Ambassador Spock made no attempt to return to the Prime Timeline since he knew they'd just take his body and resurrect him over there, and Spock wasn't interested in living forever.
 
That can easily be explained away that they weren't expecting a 120 year old cloak to be used.


That wasn't the real TNG Moriarty, it was part of the Soong AI program in M510, Data's memories, projecting him. It was M510 that was guarding the station, specifically the Data part of him.

Riker even pointed out in the episode that it wasn't their Moriarty.

Really do think you should rewatch all the Daystrom scenes and pay closer attention to the dialogue.
Yeah, I agree I should check out that sequence again. But using a mostly non-functional, only partially integrated, totally novel, Soong-synth-hybrid AI as your security system seems worse than other options.

Nope. It works because as noted in Voyager certain frequencies are no longer monitored. No upgrade needed because they wouldn't expect it. See also the Honor Harrington Series, Down Periscope, and Sahara.
I did check out that Voyager episode (at least the transcript). They don't say the frequencies aren't monitored, but the cloak is easily penetrated once Voyager knows to look for it. So I guess the cloak would stand up until someone knows to look, which makes it doubly dumb to warp in and only then cloak.

...Still, from a sheer convincibility point of view, it would have made more sense to just insert into the dialoge that Geordi upgraded the cloak to be temporarily effective against 25th century sensors (long enough to hang around the station and extract the away team)... a few seconds of dialogue would have been sufficient (because by this era, standard sensor sweeps should be able to scan for signs of cloaking, old or new)...
Exactly, just a few extra second's of thought put into the sequences would have made all the difference to many of my issues.

The only negative thing I have to say about this season so far was on full display at the beginning of this episode: Vadic is cartoonish. Overwrought, killing random crew members who irritate her. Smoking. Dark lighting....
Yeah, I am disliking Vadic more and more each episode (and not in a Kai Winn sort of way). I am hoping what the powers that be have hinted at is true, that there is more to her to be revealed that will make her a better character. I don't really see that actually working, but I can still hope.

...I also think this, “The baddies are up to something bad! We have to find out what it is and stop them!” thing shouldn’t drag on to the point where there are only four episodes left in the season. I’d like to know what the threat is more than five minutes before it’s neutralized. Whatever it turns out to be at this point, it’s going to be an interesting threat for too short a time.
Yeah, it is a little too drawn out for me too. Maybe they are worried that revealing the plot earlier would make it too easy for our heroes to thwart. But I would think that once you have the whole "Changelings have infiltrated Starfleet and we can't trust anyone" established, then you should be able to justify most other obstacles/challenges. Our guys are completely on their own this time (and not just because they are the "only ship in the quadrant").
 
I did check out that Voyager episode (at least the transcript). They don't say the frequencies aren't monitored, but the cloak is easily penetrated once Voyager knows to look for it. So I guess the cloak would stand up until someone knows to look, which makes it doubly dumb to warp in and only then cloak.
True, but use of a cloak is not standard Stafleet operational procedure.
 
In retrospect, everyone on DS9 were apparently just kept in some sort of weird bubble, being totally ignorant of Section 31.
Yeah really weird that everyone but them seems to know about Section 31.

I hate the way Marina Sirtis is being used. First, she gets to whine about being left home with the baby while hubby is out drinking with a friend. Then, she gets held hostage for leverage over hubby.

It’s like, what are the worst two tropes for female characters? Great, let’s use both of them, and give the actress nothing else to do.
They might show how she got captured, but it might have been nice to work in some more scenes with Troi in the previous episodes. Then again, maybe there was an availability issue with Sirtis. Maybe she didn't have the time to be featured in the larger plots.

OK, I'm ultra confused by the revelation that S-31 are holding an alive James T. Kirk. This has got to be one of the biggest revelations in the history of Trek-dom, and Riker just walks on by. What exactly are they doing with him? Is he in permanent stasis? That's pretty creepy and downright cruel. I mean, there has to be a reason they have him on ice. I guess it's probably related to why they have Picard's old revived body as well.
Maybe it was a bad idea to have shown this. For me, it basically overshadowed the episode's main plot.
 
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