Spoilers Who is the mastermind in Season 3 of Picard?
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Doubt it. Just the first opportunity to do so after her death
Given Vadic's treatment at Starfleet hands (seemingly while Picard himself was still a senior member of starfleet), perhaps they are justified and ancient. Did they come from up above? Is It Rock Man and King Boy?
It's Les Moonves again isn't it?
My vote is on Ronin the love candle ghost.
I am fully prepared for the soul-crushing disappointment of finding out that I am wrong, and that indeed, Jack Crusher is NOT the secret love child of Beverly and Ronin, and Bev is in fact not trolling JL for child support under fraudulent auspices.
But I could be right...
I am fully prepared for the soul-crushing disappointment of finding out that I am wrong, and that indeed, Jack Crusher is NOT the secret love child of Beverly and Ronin, and Bev is in fact not trolling JL for child support under fraudulent auspices.
But I could be right...
You are mistaking drones for individuals with an individual mind / consciousness. The Borg is a hive mind. It should be spoken of in the singular. A drone has no personality / consciousness of its own until and unless it is somehow separated from the hive mind. It is entirely possible (and probable) that a separated drone wouldn't remember the sum knowledge of the Collective: it's simply too much. But while part of the collective, drones are simply the fingers and toes of the mind that DOES know everything the Borg knows.
There’s meant to be 55 minutes of music in the last episode (100 mins across the last 2). Unless it’s wall to wall music for the whole episode, I’d guess it could be a bit longer than an hour?
It does seem like Vadic's boss is some eldritch monstrosity or a Borg, but honestly with something like Frontier Day in the plot it seems like a missed opportunity for him to give a moving evil villain speech in front of everyone: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewEraSpeech
Because they need to stop the plan. If they don't it's not like the villain will just be like "Oh, nuts, Frontier Day is gone. Guess I'll never attack the Federation again."
I've been saying that all the crew had to do was just stay hidden until Frontier Day was over. Maybe before there was the excuse that Riker and Troi needed to be rescued but now they really should just lie low and do nothing. Even the "door opening' business can wait until after Frontier Day methinks.
I don't think he does in the Sense that it's "FRONTIER DAY!".
What it is is a gathering of a huge number of Starfleet ships (images show many hundreds) in Earth orbit. And as we know from a few episodes ago, most 2401 ships, Titan included have some kind of networking thing. Maybe that Networking has a foundational principle in the technology behind the Borg collective hivemind?
Through assistance with the other Changelings that werent on the Shrike or Titan, Locutus-Jack are going to take control of the fleet through some connection the networking has to the Borg. The crews will be incapacitated and Locutus-Jack will design to use the fleet to burn Earth, then the rest of the Federation as Mars was burned by the the Synths (thus forming a circle with Season 1). The "ticking clock" will be that Earth's planetary shields will protect it only for so long before they fail, allowing Locutus-Jack to finish the job he set out to do in Best of Both Worlds (in a sense).
They get stopped somehow by the Titan crew who move over to the restored Enterprise D that Geordi was working on, but the D is modified into a Prime timeline version of the Galaxy-X configuration. Third nacelle, maybe a phaser lance, no other adornments to keep most of the familiar lines.
This reason I think this last bit is two fold.
-Matalas made a tweet giving a heads up about the last couple of episodes and one of them had "-X" in it. Few things we know in Trek have -X, and Galaxy-X is the most connected to TNG.
-Much of Season 3, but in more general terms the Picard series, has been about slowly cannoning a modernized version of the All Good Things Anti-Time future. There are differences, but a lot of similarities. The crew broke up after the death of one of their own (Deanna in AGT, Data in Prime) and stayed fragmented for 20 years. Beverly and Picard had a deep relationship. Beverly went to do relief work. Picard became an Admiral and retired to France. LaForge became an admiral. Worf kinda did his own thing. The Romulan Empire are gone in both timelines to significant local space political disruption and Starfleet has changed. Irumodic syndrome in both, and LaForge's daughters for the little details. We also had Q, but he died last season (and they really missed a chance for them to converse how the future worked out vs the AGT future).
Galaxy-X Enterprise D is one of the last big parts of AGT that can be canonized in Prime, and per what is generally the mission statement of Season 3, it rights a very old wrong in the TNG era and brings closure to a hanging thread, like the show did with Ro, Kirk's body, where Section 31 developed the mutagenic virus and other things.
Also it's complex because of typing. It can be explained in under 30 seconds of dialog:
*comms close from Locutus-Jack's declaration of his return*
Picard: "How is it possible that Locutus has returned."
Data: "Is it possible Locutus is a personality the Borg create as needed? Like the Borg Queen?"
Seven of Nine: "It is. I've encountered several different Borg Queens.They were not all the same individual or from one species. But I've never seen or heard of anything like this."
Picard: "But it is possible. Locutus was designated as a counterpart to the Queen in the first place. And now he's somehow survived and layered himself on top of my son's consciousness as he did me.".
This has the nice benefit of absolving Picard (to a degree) of Wolf 359 in Shaw's eyes and further reinforces Picard's Season 1 realization that the assimilated Borg are victims.
I've been very, very much against having the Borg be the source of Jack's issues and still think it's an idea that's been done a gazillion times already. I think the biggest "horror" factor of the Borg was probably in TNG Parallels, where Riker would rather stay in a sector overrun with multiple timelines than go back into his Borg infested galaxy. It's going to be really hard to see what Troi is going to see that's worse than that, or worse than what Voyager showed with Seven's parents mindless drones, etc.
That being said, redoing the Borg for the gazillionth time might be more palatable if the first person Jack assimilates is Shaw.
It's the Isabella alien from "Imaginary Friend" !
No chance of that either, unless they get Rene's son Remy to play him. And if they're going to spend that effort, it would be better spent on the Odo character.
The below from a poster on reddit:
Dave Cullen said episodes 4 and 5 contain lines of dialogue that seem innocent but in retrospect are significant to the big reveal. I am pretty sure he's referring to the transporters.
In particular, Ro didn't want to use the transporters in episode 5, and in episode 4 Shaw wondered why the Changelings had chosen to replace a transporter operator of all the crewmembers they could have replaced.
So it's something legacy related to the transporters.
Here's a joke--Miles O'Brien became the most important person in Starfleet, as mentioned in Lower Decks, because he saved the Federation on the 250th anniversary of Frontier Day from a horrific transporter-related catastrophe.
Is he a Marine?
Wait, he's mad because Starfleet dumped their Marine Corps at JL's insistence that as a non-military organization they did not need Marines!!!!!
Solved it. I will wait for the kudos until after the episode airs.
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