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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"

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I am very sad that, once again, a season long nuTrek arc pivoted to shit in the second-to-last episode.

Like season 1, which was a mixed, but ultimately okay Romulan/Borg story, suddenly becoming a "tentacle AI will kill all of life just because" story, turning this mostly thrilling conspiracy thriller into "everyone turns evil" in the penultimate episode is just sad.

"Kingsman" did it better.

This has to be the episode with the biggest human Bodycount ever - realistically Starfleet doesn't exist after that anymore, as Every single high ranking person is dead.

Depends what the phasers are set to, and how it is resolved.
 
It seemed to imply that orbital defenses/Starbase 001 were not impacted, since the fleet was about to begin bombardment. No reason to do so if they had also taken them over.
It really wasn't clear how the signal was reaching all those who were assimilated. Why wouldn't it reach those on bases if they had the corrupted DNA?
 
I do not think these extreme examples apply when someone is talking about a character like Shelby (who was intentionally written as antagonistic) and is making no reference whatsoever to their sex or gender when making a joke about them being written out. Some people eally liked the character, some didn’t.

I got used to seeing characters I like bite the dust — first Tasha, then Sito Jaxa. As two examples. Both were a bit more likeable that ‘you’re in my way’ Shelby.

I wouldn’t worry.
I won't accuse anyone, I'm simply saying gender doesn't rule out culpability.

End of comments from me on it.
 
I see the point, and think crewing the D with all of Data’s kids would be hilarious, I am not sure the story could afford a few days jaunt to see if any of them volunteer, or that the show had the budget for it.

Yeah, pretty sure it was budget that led Matalas to decide to let go of the original PIC cast sans Raffi.

Though it is amusing to note that we now know that every main character on TNG had children (except Wesley, as far as we know)... but Data had the most!

They're guarding that space butthole.

Yeah well, it would be nice if they could put in a butt plug and then run over to un-fuck the rest of the Federation...!
 
Which begs the question if all the other ships at the museum were hooked in to the network?
My bet's on them not being in functional condition, much less chance someone would steal them that way.

Easy to do too, since you could just remove the warp core to render a ship functionally dead in the water while letting the fusion reactors power everything else.
 
The tower is still (sort of) part of government. This would be more like the tanks in the imperial war museum being ready to fight. (And rebuilt tanks at that, ones recovered from a battle or other crash.)

Nah, it's like taking one of those Spitfires that are still airworthy and installing machine guns. Perfectly plausible and possible. And especially here when the stardrive comes from the - for all we know - fully operational and recently-decommissioned Syracuse.

If the Bounty's cloak was in working order, I have no trouble believing the Enterprise's torpedo tubes can shoot. It's the torpedoes themselves that do most of the work anyway.
 
So this what they meant with them saying each season of Picard is like a chapter of a book. It’s all about the Borg
 
It's either something the Borg Queen stumbled upon or she's always had the knowledge and had no use for it, until Janeway wrecked the Queen's control of the Hive Mind. Maybe Jack is the way around the pathogen Janeway used. It just looks like a more subtle version of the plan the Borg had in Voyager for seeding Earth with a nano probe virus.

Will this be the end of the Borg? I think it might be a question that's left open ended.
Come to think of it we didn't see a single living (or dead) drone on that cube. Just the mangled Queen grafted into the cube.

Was that the same cube from Endgame that Admiral Janeway went to (I don't remember if it was destroyed)? Did that virus permanently disrupt the Borg's hivemind?

It does seem like it. That may be why they are killing all of the over-25s, the Borg can't use their nanoprobes to assimilate anymore.
 
They should have had Discovery arrive in a future that was all Borg, have Burnham fix that, and then have Picard show how the Fed ended up that way. :lol:
 
Yeah, if there's one ship in that museum that was designed to hit the Borg where it hurts them, it would be the so aptly named USS Ben Sisko's Motherf*****g Pimp Hand. Now that I'm thinking of it, Worf was already complaining about the weaponry of the Enterprise; I would've found it even better if he kept mentioning the Defiant as his preferred alternative.

With the implication that the -E was his first command (not counting the Defiant, which really was the communal command of about four people on the station, depending on who was available), I can see why he'd have more sentimental attachment to it than the rest of the crew (though, ironically, not only would they have all spent more time on the -E than him, Picard, Crusher, and La Forge would have spent more time on it than on the -D).

Which begs the question if all the other ships at the museum were hooked in to the network?

It's probably that any of them would do, but the -D would win out from being most powerful, relatively modern and, most importantly, all seven of them knew how to work it and wouldn't have to spend the whole trip back to Earth getting their Defiant- or Akira-class instrument ratings on the holodeck and hoping they learned all the high-points.
 
Come to think of it we didn't see a single living (or dead) drone on that cube. Just the mangled Queen grafted into the cube.

Was that the same cube from Endgame that Admiral Janeway went to (I don't remember if it was destroyed)? Did that virus permanently disrupt the Borg's hivemind?

It does seem like it. That may be why they are killing all of the over-25s, the Borg can't use their nanoprobes to assimilate anymore.
That was the writers logic when they showed up in Prodigy. The drones couldn’t use their nanites to assimilate them.
 
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