He's a human/Borg/Vulcan hybrid
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x07 - "Dominion"
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Bendii syndrome.
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Almost an 8, but...Tuvok! Kinda. It really isn't looking good for Tuvok or Admiral Janeway it seems. How many frickin' Changelings are there in Starfleet? Sheesh. It also appears they think Titan's destruction or capture is a foregone conclusion to openly admit they captured Tuvok and to screw with Picard and torture him with a dead Riker over subspace.
As for the rest of the episode it was ok. Some needed background on Vadic. A bit more Jack mystery. Lore taking over the ship seems a bit of a contrivance but kind of par for the course with past weak Starfleet computer security. The trap sprung on Vadic was pretty obvious but she always seemed to have an ace up her sleeve. Lore is likely more involved than we know of so far. I'm guessing the rest of Vadic's troops beamed in at the end? The plot armor on her second in command was especially thick this week. Sydney too. The hint that Picard's Irumodic syndrome is not what it appears is intriguing. The capture of Titan...kinda meh.
Almost an 8, but...Tuvok! Kinda. It really isn't looking good for Tuvok or Admiral Janeway it seems. How many frickin' Changelings are there in Starfleet? Sheesh. It also appears they think Titan's destruction or capture is a foregone conclusion to openly admit they captured Tuvok and to screw with Picard and torture him with a dead Riker over subspace.
As for the rest of the episode it was ok. Some needed background on Vadic. A bit more Jack mystery. Lore taking over the ship seems a bit of a contrivance but kind of par for the course with past weak Starfleet computer security. The trap sprung on Vadic was pretty obvious but she always seemed to have an ace up her sleeve. Lore is likely more involved than we know of so far. I'm guessing the rest of Vadic's troops beamed in at the end? The plot armor on her second in command was especially thick this week. Sydney too. The hint that Picard's Irumodic syndrome is not what it appears is intriguing. The capture of Titan...kinda meh.
Tim Russ has played a lot of characters on Star Trek.
Tuvok, of course.
Human criminal in TNG episode Starship Mine.
Human Starfleet ensign in Star Trek Generations.
Klingon on Deep Space Nine
Mirror Tuvok on Deep Space Nine
Changeling Tuvok on Picard
Not quite Vaughn Armstrong or Jeffrey Combs, but impressive nevertheless.
Tuvok, of course.
Human criminal in TNG episode Starship Mine.
Human Starfleet ensign in Star Trek Generations.
Klingon on Deep Space Nine
Mirror Tuvok on Deep Space Nine
Changeling Tuvok on Picard
Not quite Vaughn Armstrong or Jeffrey Combs, but impressive nevertheless.
Some people complain about "mystery box" writing, but I find that these serialized seasons try to be like novels where things take time to develop and be resolved. Mysteries set up near the beginning might not be resolved until the end. It's almost like that that's the point.
And there's great potential with this format.Of course, there are good novels and not so good novels. And good serialized seasons and not so good. Unfortunately, ST hasn't been so good with serialized seasons lately. But that's a writing problem rather than a format problem. They might consider hiring some of the better Trek novelists!
That all said, I've been thoroughly enjoying this season of Picard. It has used the serialized format very effectively overall. True, this specific episode was mediocre, but it's the exception so far. I'm still looking forward to how it all wraps up!
Overall, for this season, I'd agree. But I noted some rushing starting in Bounty and now in Dominion.
Bounty needed to give some extra time to a few early scenes so they could breathe. When the group was reuniting particularly. But other scenes in that episode had the time to breathe and were excellent, such as the scene with Seven and Jack. The heist was also rushed, giving it low urgency. Not very heisty. A bit of a mixed bag but overall pretty good.
However, in Dominion, it felt like whole scenes were cut out. The plan preparation. What was going on with the other supposedly disabled vessel and its message. Was that all faked somehow? How did Picard and Co. let only Vadic know where they were so no one else got their first? The entire Starfleet was looking for them after all. Etc. Sure, you can fill in the gaps, but it felt like we skipped a whole bunch of stuff. And then the takeover seemed to be all of a sudden too. To me, Dominion we saw felt like an early draft of the episode. They got some parts down ok but really needed to flesh some other parts out.
For a few moments, I was expecting that.
You mix a little Bendi with some Irumodic and toss in some nanoprobes...
Since I'm that person's target, here are my hopefully last comments about this.
Fact: Many episodes have been released around 11:05, 11:07, 11:10, some around 11:30, and some as late as 11:50, but the vast majority of CBSAA/P+ streaming episodes were released between 11:00 and midnight Pacific Time going all the way back to when Disco was moved from Sunday afternoon to Wednesday night. Therefore, following your post here, we are 100% right, because it was the normal time, and certainly not earlier than any ever. You not knowing this despite it happening weekly for years is entirely your problem.
Fact: I have posted pictures of everything I found noteworthy as soon as the episodes are out for years, including those last 6 episodes. The time when you open a thread is entirely your choice. If you opened all the previous threads for the past 80+ episodes later, and now opened this one 'too early', no one else is to blame.
...writes the poster who also writes:
After people recognized it and discussed it online, they added credits for Jay Chattaway Lullaby 2 (or something like that).
I hope that happens because it would redeem some bad choices, both writing and character wise! I do wonder if Worf and Raffi returning will save the day.
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Hello all. My first post on this forum; my first post concerning Star Trek in general, and it's only happening because I'm a middle aged fella who turned his back on Star Trek after the first season of Picard (I wasn't emotionally engaged in any of the new stuff before that to be fair) but had heard that this season was something special, something that harkens back to Trek of old. It's so disappointing. My head hurts right now thinking about the plot contrivances, the lack of intelligence from the crew and the scriptwriters. When you have to fill in the gaps for a script you're in trouble, and it happens constantly on this forum. It's poor, it really is. And I'm sad about it. No agenda here, but seriously, we're 7 episodes in and what's happened? And that's only the start of the problems. Really really poor.
Why?
So many examples. Perfect one is last episode. We have Picard and himself in the ready room, and Picard says we may have the answer to trap her or whatever, and then an awful cut... absolutely hideous. No explanation of the Vulcan ship or why they found the Titan. And then they go over in a shuttlecraft. And then they confront Jack and herself. Do I need to go on? It's awful scriptwriting
That didn't answer the question at all.
Of course I'm filling in gaps. The story ain't done yet.
Been doing it my whole Trek fan career.
Why should I stop now just because it's characters I don't care about?
