Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"

[Ronin'sCreamyCandle]

Well that was a very underwhelming reveal. I don’t get why Troi would be so horrified about a Cube.
All I could think about at the end was that Voyager episode when the Doctor daydreams. The takeover was so much like that. Shame they didn’t have the hyposprays.

These are not the Chabon-Hippie writers room S2 Borg trying to make them all nice and friendly. These are not the tamed Voyager Borg. These are the absolute horrific BORG, the original flavor. Troi's reaction is perfect as that's how anyone should react to a Borg Cube. This episode corrected the damage and nerfing to the Borg that Voyager did, and erases the asanine S2 Borg made friendly for todays softer audience.

 

[Visitor1982]

Hugh, Icheb, Maddox, Q, Shelby.... anyone else?

Maybe Dr. Pulaski as well, why else would she have a ship named after her...

 

[Anduinel]

Hugh, Icheb, Maddox, Q, Shelby.... anyone else?

Ro.

 

[thribs]

I agree with Worf. The Enterprise E is better. I wonder what he did to it.

 

[ToddCam]

Oh yeah, the music. I am really sick of the TNG theme at this point. Subtly or overtly, it's done to death.

 

[Yistaan]

I agree with Worf. The Enterprise E is better. I wonder what he did to it.

Tried to kill another Klingon politician.

 

[Lord Garth]

Kinda sounds like the ENTERPRISE-E is no longer with us.
(apparently thanks to Worf, who's in denial)

"That was not my fault!!!"

Sure...

There's a story behind that one.

 

[Racefuel]

I think watching a season that was billed as the final adventure of the TNG cast and getting annoyed at the TNG theme coming up and being used is kind of nonsensical.

 

[Ronin'sCreamyCandle]

Is Harry Kim over 25 yet?

 

[firehawk12]

Wait a sec. I just remembered. Didn't the Borg Queen die in Endgame with the alternate Janeway? lol

100%. lol

I believe I read once that Avery Brooks (yes that Avery Brooks) said something like "It's up to the young people to fix the world that our generation has messed up". Having had parents who were pretty full of themselves, insisted their age and supposed experience made them know everything about everything, it's only now as I'm getting to the age they were when I was a kid (I'm almost 40 now) that I realize how full of it they were (and unfortunately still are).

If this season is supposed to be a conservative allegory for kids being too woke and easily tricked by social media to act against the state and it's up to old people to save the world, then oh my god. lol

 

[thribs]

So why are the lights on the D only at 50%? The poor lighting the show would make sense if the D bridge reveal had its proper lighting.
I don’t get what this show has with lights.

 

[Ronin'sCreamyCandle]

So why are the lights on the D only at 50%? The poor lighting the show would make sense if the D bridge reveal had its proper lighting.
I don’t get what this show has with lights.

Geordi had a hard time getting parts from Autozone

 

[Yistaan]

If this season is supposed to be a conservative allegory for kids being too woke and easily tricked by social media to act against the state and it's up to old people to save the world, then oh my god. lol

I don't think it's anything like that. Plus Trek is the last place I'd expect to see a pro-conservative story considering the social media posts of the actors, and I definitely would not watch such a show if conservative propaganda was their intent.

It was just an excuse to make it so that only Picard and the TNG gang could save the day.

 

[ToddCam]

I think watching a season that was billed as the final adventure of the TNG cast and getting annoyed at the TNG theme coming up and being used is kind of nonsensical.

Eh, I didn't watch this because it was the final adventure of the TNG cast. I would have watched it regardless, as I generally like Star Trek and while I've been underwhelmed at times with the first two seasons, I never hated it. The theme is annoying because its obvious attempt to fill me with nostalgia can't be done over and over again without my becoming immune to it. If it still works for you, cool.

 

[NCC-73515]

Is that locutus? Locutus didn’t have a full ocular replacement and that looks like an organic heart.

but we’ll go with it

Perhaps it was the final stage the Borg had planned. The artificial heart had a similar shape, and could still be it.

The line near the beginning... we haven't heard from the Borg in over a decade... when did season 2 happen then? lol

First thing I thought. WTF was S2 even about then? And all the smart asses fixing to be smart-assy with some glib reply can just shut up, because I don't care if you didn't like it. It still happened. It was a story they told just last year.


Oy, this goddamned show. Why?

It was made clear last season and by Shaw this season that the S2 Borg were Jurati's collective

The Pulaski reference just being a name drop of a ship is kind of disappointing. But I guess they couldn't get her back...

Where is it?

Reminds me of the Digimon friendship symbol

A 10, for so many reasons. One odd thing stands out, though. Did anyone else think it's odd that they didn't show Alice Krige's face? It was clearly her voice, so what's the big reveal they're holding back for next week?

She was probably in the UK or somewhere else

Unfortunately....yes. I almost cried.

It wasn't 100% clear if he or Shelby are really dead now

That's ok. Someone else already did. I'm having to keep up with the story by what I can find online. Can't afford P+.

Get a free week or whatever they offer and watch them all

 

[Ronin'sCreamyCandle]

I don't think it's anything like that. Plus Trek is the last place I'd expect to see a pro-conservative story considering the social media posts of the actors, and I definitely would not watch such a show if conservative propaganda was their intent.

It was just an excuse to make it so that only Picard and the TNG gang could save the day.

I disagree, I think it makes a strong statement on our younger generation that is so reliant on networked computers and the IoT where everything is dumbed down to the point of hopelessness. Many young people feel hopeless today and blame the older generation, not themselves. So this episode turns 25 and younger against the older sucessful generation.

 

[Lord Garth]

Eh, I didn't watch this because it was the final adventure of the TNG cast. I would have watched it regardless, as I generally like Star Trek and while I've been underwhelmed at times with the first two seasons, I never hated it. The theme is annoying because its obvious attempt to fill me with nostalgia can't be done over and over again without my becoming immune to it. If it still works for you, cool.

It's only one more episode left. I think you can tough it out. You've got this.

 

[Racefuel]

The hilarity of people thinking there’s some pro right wing agenda in this 25 year olds being vulnerable thing is hilariously off base

it’s a plot point to provide tension and motivation to save the actual next generation, not critique them.

 

[Ronin'sCreamyCandle]

I don't think it's anything like that. Plus Trek is the last place I'd expect to see a pro-conservative story considering the social media posts of the actors, and I definitely would not watch such a show if conservative propaganda was their intent.

It was just an excuse to make it so that only Picard and the TNG gang could save the day.

It's not conservative propaganda at all. It's a statement on being too connected via social media that actual reality is forgotten, thus why many young people struggle in the real world today.

 

[Lord Exor]

I think it's more interesting what they did with the Bog in Seasons 1/2. But I suppose it makes sense that the Borg Queen from Voyager's series finale would be lying in wait. And the BQ we saw for more of Season 2 wasn't the same, and neither is Jurati, so...

Wait a sec. I just remembered. Didn't the Borg Queen die in Endgame with the alternate Janeway? lol

#fanservice

At least Season 2 had the balls to kill off Q of all characters...

She's died twice already, three if you count off-screen shenanigans in BoBW. Maybe they'll finally explain how that works.