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What if the captain has been compromised or is just plain disenfranchised and decides to do it?

Trek has made it pretty clear that anyone can become compromised at any time.

Yes, good point, but ultimately the Chief knows how to lock it out and stop him.
 
I'm pretty sure it was a VOY episode where they were successfully closing the shuttlebay doors only to have the shuttle phaser them open. :p
 
Correct me if I’m wrong. Did they not age the Picard character 10 years so that he could be 90 instead of 80 at the beginning of Star Trek Picard. Patrick Stewart was about 47 when TNG aired. That’s a good age to take lead of the flagship. It bugs me.

He played Picard as at around 60 in the first season (+/- 2-3 years).

If that’s true, then I’ve been way off for years. If it’s true, Picard was 51 when his first command; the Star Gazer ended. He commanded Star Gazer for over twenty years? Stewart was born in 1940, making him 47 when they rolled out the show. I suppose I’ve been way off for years. I remember thinking about Picard’s age when I actually turned 47. I hate to say it’s been more than a few years since. Oh well.

On what are you basing that? I see no evidence for him playing Picard as any older than Stewart was at the time.

Jean-Luc Picard was born 15-Jul-2305, making him 59 during the first season of TNG.

The date comes from an onscreen graphic seen in the episode Conundrum as well as the episode Tapestry where he was 22 when he graduated from the Academy in 2327.

Picard would have been 94, or just turned 95 in the first season of Picard set in 2399, depending upon when grape harvest season was set in France.

Patrick Stewart was 79-80 during filming of the first season of Picard.

Picard would have been 96, just shy of 97 in the third season.

If you got with the argument that the third season Picard was supposed to have been set on the 250th Anniversary of the Federation's founding, then the season would have been set in 2411 and Picard would have been 106.
 
So many things about the Picard series bugged me, but one fiddly bit I get unreasonable about is when mean Romulan sister flushes all those Borg that Seven is rebooting into space and Seven screams in outrage as if this matters. Borg can survive in space. We’ve seen them crawling over the outer hull in one of the movies. At best, it’s just going to be a nuisance rounding them all up again. Chill Seven! 🙂
I was waving my fists at the TV during this
 
Do they survive in space though? Were they just not using shielding to protect them from the cold vacuum of space? After all, they are still flesh and blood to some degree (Picard, 7 of 9, Hugh, etc.).
 
How dumb is the LCARS that Picard has to specify Tea - Earl Grey - Hot (or 42deg)?
I can tell Alexa that my tea will always be such.
 
It is a simplistic understanding of A. I. If you read the Writer's Guide this is shown.

The real problem is Data.

In an old Omni Magazine, the Main Ship's Computer Cores were supposed to far more capable than Data.

But how to demonstrate this?

It would take a genius writer to do so.

Problems: look at modern data centers. Because they are equivalent to a Starship's computer core. Now look at ChatGPT 3, 4, and 5.... Plus other A. I.s.

Now get very, very nervous. About every computer system in Star Trek.
 
In an old Omni Magazine, the Main Ship's Computer Cores were supposed to far more capable than Data.

But how to demonstrate this?

It would take a genius writer to do so.
Data routinely had to use the Enterprise's Main Computer to aid him in his research, so this was shown in TNG just about every episode. Doesn't take a genius to write that.
 
On what are you basing that? I see no evidence for him playing Picard as any older than Stewart was at the time.
Conundrum gave him a birth date which would equate to him being 59 in season one.

Stewart was 47.

In Picard he was 94 when he was 78. So they extended the gap a bit further when filming that.
 
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