Deus ex machina.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"
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Deus ex machina.
I'm sure that either a canonical or non-canonical source will reveal that Elnor either was transferred to another ship or that he was able to escape in time.
(Side-note: They missed a golden opportunity to have Elnor and Soji join the crew aboard the Enterprise...)
Oh hogwash. The guy was clearly a huge fan who went out of his way both to reference a lot of obscure Trek trivia and to add to the lore.
It's my understanding that the first half of S2 was Matalas and the second half Goldsman. If you think S2 didn't work, Matalas shared half the blame. (I hasten to add that I think S2 should be graded on a curve because of the need to re-write it and produce it around the COVID-19 before vaccines were widely available.)
I've been thinking of rewatching it. So much of S1 is about grief and mortality, learning to accept the inevitability of death even as we find new life. It helped me a lot after my grandmother died.
I mean, "don't think about it too much" is not how criticism works. Again, I don't think the "dangerous young people are all brainwashed by evil foreigners using
I would be pleasantly surprised if Krige were to agree to subject herself to that kind of makeup again. You'll notice that Brent Spiner has not worn the Data makeup since S1, even with this new incarnation. I'm pretty sure the only reason Michael Dorn is back in the old Klingon makeup is that they literally can't have Worf without it.
I'm pretty sure it was archive audio, either from "Encounter at Farpoint," "Chain of Command," or "All Good Things." I may be mistaken, but I believe that if the voice was synthesized, they wouldn't have to give her a credit or cut her estate a check. (For instance, Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher did not get credits for Guy Henry's and Ingvild Deila's performances as Tarkin and Leia in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.)
One of the best moments in all of Trek. Perhaps the most human Data has ever been.
Sounded new, nothing I recognized from before. It seems they finally used the sounds she recorded for that porpose!
Can you imagine fan reactions to them showing the ship and the bridge for just 5 seconds, the crew shrugging, and everyone moving on to fight scenes?
Yes, more TNG-like
To me, it worked insofar as stories about resurrection and new life are also a part of the literary tradition of how we cope with mortality. Though to be honest with you, if it had been up to me, "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part II" would have been the last episode of Star Trek: Picard and the last appearance of Jean-Luc Picard -- we would never have found out what happened to him after that. So even though Picard would still be "alive," we the audience would have had to say goodbye to him, thus preserving the theme of accepting loss.
C'est la vie. I enjoyed PIC S2 and S3 in spite of not thinking they should exit.
Ah, good point. Maybe it's a matter of what deal the actor works out with the studios to use their likeness/voice, rather than a standardized requirement governed by SAG rules.
That was breathtaking. Even if the episode has some minor issues I have to give it a 10 and call it perfection.
D Vs. F next week?
Loved that. This was like the end of Red Dwarf season X when Rimmer is taking credit for saving the ship but we never learn why. Wonder if it's a homage to that.
In the novel 'Star Trek: The Return' it's mentioned that the Queen used some kind of transwarp transporter to escape.
People don't learn from history. In fact, through their fear of positive change, they make their own variation of what has come before, calling it progress or caution.
Shhh the plot know everything is going to be alright in the end.
More importantly, where is Laris?
So Shelby is in charge of a plan to gather the entire US Navy off the coast of Washington DC for a fireworks display, and network all the ships so the computers can control them without the consent of the crew? Leaving the Federation border basically defenceless (and weren't there any eg relief or science missions in progress? they brought every ship back? come on...) and creating another single point of failure?
I thought for sure she was a Changeling, it's the only way to explain such a nutso move.
I thought for sure she was a Changeling, it's the only way to explain such a nutso move.
There's no Q in that though.
She might yet turn out to be a Changeling. There's no way the Borg aren't going to turn against their Changeling allies, and I could see her being shocked that the Borg were betraying her too if she were one.
There's no Q in that though.
Im not so sure about that now. Might as well bring him in. We’ve got everything else here.
Is Changelings vs. Borg the new Plants vs. Zombies?