Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
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I’m so old fashioned than ninety percent of my knowledge is still stuff I read in the Captains Logs books and various Companions twenty plus years ago. I really should buy the Voyager one some day. Oh… I did do the Return to Tomorrow for TMP in paperback, and the Fifty Years books on Kindle.
I sort of hope we will get tomes for Picard etc at some point.
I don’t know why I never adapted to electronic media for Trek (except for the novels… which I now regret reading at all) when I have with everything else.
Maybe my stuck in the nineties self is part of the problem…
(It isn’t.)
Oh really? I know the Borg were supposed to be the Season 2 finale, but the writer's strike got in the way. Fortunately, as it turned out!
The more I think about it, the more I like the transporter virus idea ... The networked ships/formation thing seems unnecessary, then ... just have these new "organic drones" physically overtake the fleet.
And yes! Really makes me wish we'd been getting the puzzling-out of this transporter aspect earlier, like contemporaneous with figuring out the Changelings. I think the production team left hints, but hints do not a story make.
And Birthright.
Plus Farpoint and AGT weren't, 'season cliffhanger' two parters int the same way as the rest.
"Geordi...where are the modifications installed the year of the Veridian III incident?"
"Well, Admiral, I removed all those during the restoration. Besides, who wants to keep running into sit-down consoles at the sides of the bridge?"
"Well done, Mr, LaForge."
"Well, Admiral, I removed all those during the restoration. Besides, who wants to keep running into sit-down consoles at the sides of the bridge?"
"Well done, Mr, LaForge."
I mean the bridge module was smashed by the hard landing on Veridian. Plenty of work to to fix it so plenty of opportunity to restore it to whatever time period Geordi liked best.
What I found interesting was to find out a Galaxy class starship can be operated (and potentially be expected to fight) by what amounts to three people: Data and Geordi on ops/conn and Worf on tactical, with the minor assistance of Riker punching a few buttons and Bev with a tricorder.
I guess automation really has come along since Kirk's days.
What I found interesting was to find out a Galaxy class starship can be operated (and potentially be expected to fight) by what amounts to three people: Data and Geordi on ops/conn and Worf on tactical, with the minor assistance of Riker punching a few buttons and Bev with a tricorder.
I guess automation really has come along since Kirk's days.
They have no problem with retconning crap left and right. The whole JJ thing was a messy retcon. I would have had NO problem with retconning everything post TNG TV show. It's all trash anyway.
The episode dropped at 11:15 PT last night, after that it was inevitable
The TOS movies did some fanservice too.
The big reveal for 1701-D and camerawork inside the bridge are sorta deserved. It's been an adventure to pull the crew back convincingly; the 90s movies never quite got that right.
I hope the finale is of extended runtime as well.
Especially considering Starfleet personnel under 25 had just been assimilated, his son was with the borg, and starfleet personnel older than 25 were being murdered. It just didn't fit - it's like an inappropriate time for the character to make a happy joke comment like that.
I fundamentally do not understand why the rebel Changelings would work with the Borg and I have no hope that it will be satisfactorily explained next week. The overall plot of this season has been almost as bad as S2 and if it didn't feature the TNG crew I wouldn't give a single shit about anything that is happening.
I don't hate the Galaxy-class, but I find it ungainly. There aren't a lot of angles where you can film it and have it look okay. From some angles, it's really difficult for the brain to process.
I wish he installed the Transporters that kept transporting different uniforms on and off the crew. Generations was such a mess.
I've always felt Birthright was one of the worst choices to make into a two-parter. Part II drops the Data/Soong story completely; a little rejiggering and you could have two separate episodes entirely, one a Data vehicle and the other about Worf.
I disagree that this season has been trying to pretend the first two didn't happen.
Even though there was no reason to dredge it up again, they specifically included that little exchange between Riker and Picard Jr. where they commented on Picard being a zombie Android. Didn't need to include it, every allusion to it is a huge reminder of how hard they shit the bed, yet they shoved it in again.
Even though there was no reason to dredge it up again, they specifically included that little exchange between Riker and Picard Jr. where they commented on Picard being a zombie Android. Didn't need to include it, every allusion to it is a huge reminder of how hard they shit the bed, yet they shoved it in again.
As far as I understood, the „Jurati collective“ never replaced the original collective, or we would now be in a different timeline where Wolf 359 possibly never happened. Instead they came to the Season 2 finale‘s point in time through the anomaly from the alternate timeline created by Q and are only around since then - that‘s the only way I can kind of make sense of the flawed logic of Season 2. For me there was absolutely no logic in the ending so I just treat the season as an overlong Q-creates-an-alternate-timeline-that-gets-resolved-Story.
So Jurati is around somewhere but so is the original collective, weakened by Voyager‘s events but not destroyed, and now they are back. I would have hated the Season 2 finale to be a „conclusion“ to the Borg‘s story because for me it just wasn‘t. So I‘m happy they get a proper final (?) chapter.
So Jurati is around somewhere but so is the original collective, weakened by Voyager‘s events but not destroyed, and now they are back. I would have hated the Season 2 finale to be a „conclusion“ to the Borg‘s story because for me it just wasn‘t. So I‘m happy they get a proper final (?) chapter.