Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x09 - "Võx"

[johnnybear]

I haven't seen the episode yet, but are the Borg the big evil behind everything?
JB

 

[Racefuel]

I haven't seen the episode yet, but are the Borg the big evil behind everything?
JB

What other TNG villain could it have been

 

[Tuskin38]

If the genes are added to the DNA, they should remain there, why would the genes suddenly disappear after age 25

They didn't disappear, they just weren't able to be activated

 

[cooleddie74]

DaiMon Bok or Tomalak. The first wouldn't have worked and the second might have been difficult to effectively recreate with the original actor now deceased.

 

[firehawk12]

What other TNG villain could it have been

The Pakleds, obviously!

 

[johnnybear]

What other TNG villain could it have been

But I thought the Borg had been pacified with their Queen in season two?
JB

 

[cooleddie74]

Different Borg sect. Those are the "Jurati" Borg.

 

[fireproof78]

But I thought the Borg had been pacified with their Queen in season two?
JB

Nope.

 

[johnnybear]

This sort of spoils things for me and yet I'm a big Borg fan!
I don't think it's a good idea to bring two baddies back at the same time considering the size of both their empires!
JB

 

[Racefuel]

But I thought the Borg had been pacified with their Queen in season two?
JB

"Nevermind that weird shit on the Stargazer...*the real Borg are still out there*"

 

[fireproof78]

This sort of spoils things for me and yet I'm a big Borg fan!
I don't think it's a good idea to bring two baddies back at the same time considering the size of both their empires!
JB

Except these are not the empires. These are splinter factions trying to recover their power or exact revenge on the Federation.

 

[Skyshadow]

I would assume that that is a character speaking off the top of their head and getting the date wrong, but yeah they're definitely not counting the Jurati-Queen or the Confederation Timeline Queen. The last contact anyone had with the main Borg that we the audience know of would be the USS Protostar's encounter with a small Borg cube in "Let Sleeping Borg Lie" in 2384, almost twenty years before this episode.

Lest we forget the "artifact" with the XXXX days since an assimilation. This could be the final incident whereby the Romulans encountered the Borg whereby they captured the cube putting the dates about right for a decade.

 

[erotavlas]

They don't disappear, they just aren't expressed. Presumably, the genes code the formation of certain neural pathways in the prefrontal cortex that are capable of receiving Borg signals; if the cortex has already stopped forming, no new neural pathways would appear. Junk science perhaps, but I can understand what they were trying to do here.

ok that makes sense, in terms of genes driving development of the structure needed for Borg signals. If they used the transporter to change older adults, they would (instead of genetic changes) have to do some massive neural changes on the structural level which probably not be possible or at least wouldn't end very well for the subject (brain damage).

 

[JirinPanthosa]

You think they got invited to Frontier Day?

How do we know William Boimler wasn’t there?

I actually don’t have a problem with the genetic stuff because the blatant misrepresentation of how genetics work is completely consistent with the blatant misrepresentation of how genes work in Tuvix, Rascals and Genesis.

 

[cooleddie74]

Worf even goes so far as to tell us that these Changelings are a terrorist faction that has broken off from the Great Link. The rest of the Dominion is still at peace with the Federation.

 

[johnnybear]

Well maybe Q will reappear and squash the Borg and put their universe to rights once and for all!
JB

 

[johnnybear]

And yes I know he was supposedly dying at the end of season two!
JB

 

[JirinPanthosa]

If anyone surprisingly shows up to help it’ll be Agnes. We have every reason to think she can tap into the collective too.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Agnes and Soji show up, tying together all three seasons.

 

[johnnybear]

Did i read something about Captain Kirk's body showing up in the penultimate episode too?
JB

 

[dinzy]

Genetic material propagates through male/female reproductive gametes (sperm and egg), and the genetics are fixed within it (unless subject to mutations or other alterations) Age has nothing to do with it. If the genes are added to the DNA, they should remain there, why would the genes suddenly disappear after age 25. This is the part in their explanation that bothers me.

The DNA is added to the base code of the person regardless of age. Those under 25 still have brain development going on and the Borg piggy back on that process to assimilate.