I think calling someone butthurt is certainly a personal remark.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"
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I think calling someone butthurt is certainly a personal remark.
You'd be hard pressed to tell since they're not even mentioned. Considering in-universe that Picard saw Jurati at most 3 months ago, she'd be the first person who could realistically cure Jack, moreso than a Vulcan mental institution.
It's not intentionally so. Nor is the show a commentary on something like "9/11 was an inside job!" just because changelings infiltrated starfleet. It's not an allegory.
It's a show that has an older cast that they wanted to bring together without younger characters because they were aiming for that last scene with the original Next Gen cast on the bridge of the Enterprise-D.
It’s why they draw attention to him in particular clearly being replaced with a Changeling before even Riker and Picard show up.
It was an old wrong to destroy the Enterprise D like that. Again, I'm conflicted because the Enterprise-E is my favorite trek ship and you have to destroy the D to get to the E, but to have it shot a few times by a goddamn Bird of Prey after the punishment it got in TNG was a lousy way to go.
Generations is a movie that needed another 3 months of rewrites. It had a lot to work with but just misfired on all the major points.
DS9 had something like 12 Photon launchers,5000 torpedos for them and probably 35-40 phaser banks.
It was able to hold off an entire Klingon and Dominion fleet that had been intended for invasions of entire regions of space
So actually if it's consistent (and if it hasn't been taken over by gen z) we should expect to see spacedock put up a good fight!
100%. For folks of his generation, it's all about the TOS era. I like SNW a lot. Star Trek SHOULD have many different feels. The contrast between Picard S3 and SNW and Discovery (not to mention LD and Prodigy) made all better. The Trek continuity nerd in me just wishes the animated shows and Picard synchronized 2380s uniforms for fucks sake.
I think, like comic books seeing a return of 90s characters, one reason we'll see more TNG/DS9/Voy/Picard era content in the future is because younger Generation Xers and Millennials who grew up with those shows are starting to enter decision maker roles as Boomers age into retirement.
100% this.
Maybe. The show doesn't really explain it. We saw some tight formations during the battles in DS9, what's the advantage to flying even closer together? In combat it would seem like a disadvantage because you make yourself a bigger target.
Better than I expected. This was taut and had a sense of purpose.
Mostly, this episode confirmed theories I've had for at least part of the season though was extremely well done.
The Borg seem like a perfect through-line for the overarching story of Picard the series itself, I'm not sure why it's such a problem for some people. Put some thought into why. You may agree.
Jack was the best he's been all season. The crew conversation before he left the ship were emotional and we'll-acted.
My major issue is one I've mentioned before:
Matalas can get a lot right but then there are those glaring moments of innacurate information that somehow no one caught. In this case, I nearly wanted to half-throttle the writers for saying the Enterprise-D was...omg...analog. Nothing could be further from the truth!
We have a progression from doutronics, to isolinear, to quantum, and whatever else they use in the 25th century. The E-D will never be analog. Be satisfied writers, to say it doesn't have to connect to the new network...which BTW, all ships in the 21st century would already be networked, so this would already be in the 25th.
Don't dumb down the tech!
Anything else that was wrong was filled in by the fan service. It's OK, I give up, you win season 3. You're my daddy.
10 out of 10 for high entertainment level and creation of heady satisfaction.
Mostly, this episode confirmed theories I've had for at least part of the season though was extremely well done.
The Borg seem like a perfect through-line for the overarching story of Picard the series itself, I'm not sure why it's such a problem for some people. Put some thought into why. You may agree.
Jack was the best he's been all season. The crew conversation before he left the ship were emotional and we'll-acted.
My major issue is one I've mentioned before:
Matalas can get a lot right but then there are those glaring moments of innacurate information that somehow no one caught. In this case, I nearly wanted to half-throttle the writers for saying the Enterprise-D was...omg...analog. Nothing could be further from the truth!
We have a progression from doutronics, to isolinear, to quantum, and whatever else they use in the 25th century. The E-D will never be analog. Be satisfied writers, to say it doesn't have to connect to the new network...which BTW, all ships in the 21st century would already be networked, so this would already be in the 25th.
Don't dumb down the tech!
Anything else that was wrong was filled in by the fan service. It's OK, I give up, you win season 3. You're my daddy.
10 out of 10 for high entertainment level and creation of heady satisfaction.
The question is, how quickly could the Changelings get from place to place, and when did they start? They’d gotten Picard’s body sometime before the premiere, Raffi seemed to have been investigating the theft for a while. And we know there were Changelings on Earth. It feels like it’d be a safe bet that everyone on the planet young enough to be affected who’d been through a transporter in the last month would’ve been. Maybe just a Starfleet transporter, attacking ones outside for the fleet would’ve made it more likely their tampering would be discovered, but, still, that’s a lot of people. Maybe, proportionally, more than on the ships.
Remember, a lot of lower-deckers don’t go on away missions. Though, I guess, with the holiday, the Changelings could contrive mass assemblies or shore leave that would ensure everyone in Starfleet was beamed somewhere at some point.
The first bit is possible but as for the latter, it's pretty clear the changeling was trying to kill him with the toxic gas etc. Jack barely survived as it was and Seven was lucky to get back in time for him.
True, but if before it was an 8 on the 1-10 scale, it's now at 14.
That line was clearly not meant to be taken literally.
In any case, are we certain that the D didn't use analogue computers? They do exist.
I assumed the torpedoes are from the spacedock itself, it is a Starfleet installation and would have weapons to defend itself if need be.
Right but the ship has functional launchers? The phaser arrays have been repaired/replaced? The shields? And not just 'they work to do a demo to impress visitors', but combat-ready?
They didn't even need that whole goofy angle.
That's probably not needed for a museum but this was Geordi's side project / hobby and I'm sure he wanted to completely re-create the Enterprise from top to bottom, that's part of the fun.