Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"

I really hate those guys.

the Earth is clearly hollow.

 

Did that commbadge light up?

 

I feel like you’ve watched a completely different Star Trek than everybody else since 1994

 

Trek has always been about today and is no stranger to sex,political intrigue and even swearing (As much as was allowed or they could get away with).

 

Perhaps it's due to the Jaded Glasses he apparently wears?
I'd loan him my Rose Colored ones, by I'm afraid he'd just break them or sell them on eBay..

 

Here we go again.

 

So a little more about Raffi... Just watched the Wheaton after-show where he interviewed Michelle Hurd and asked about Raffi’s background which she fleshed out with Stewart and the show runners. Apparently Raffi’s family were all involved with Federation activities and research and she was “raised by others”. She suffered from a kind of self-destructive guilt and was on her own for most of her life. Hurd made a big point about Raffi being an addict very early on - she drinks, she smokes, and Picard found her, bonded with her and brought her up out of her malaise, into Starfleet, much like Pike did with Kirk in NuTrek 2009. When Picard resigned, her world completely collapsed; she was extremely resentful and angry and it sent her back down deep into the hole where she started off.

I wish we got a little more of that backstory in ep 3, but it’s nice to know that it’s there, at least.

 

If you mean that badge Soji was wearing, the answer is yes! It flashed green right when she was holding Ramda's hand and agitated her.

Just in the previous episode the Romulan with the weird hairstyle said something like "If your badge flashes green, run."

It seems to suggest that Soji inadvertently turned on some Borg tech in Ramda.

 

Thoughts...

First Romulans with Irish accents, now holograms. What's the fascination here with irish accents?

Holographic interfaces haven't come so far since 'Discovery' over 100 years ago...

Picard stashes a fu*k ton of guns under tables of his home. So much for Earth being a peaceful paradise.

Quantum finger printing. (time travel?)

The sister = Borg Queen is coming back?

More mysteries and questions raised, why do you want to go to cloud city or wherever? Find out 4 episodes later.

 

No, Picards was glowing when Rios was calling in. I thought it was a random spotlight, but the friggin combadge was GLOWING! Don't got a screenshot of it but someone else will.

 

Oh, you are right!

 

You're gonna have to narrow that down.

 

I thought it was an odd coincidence when it comes to tv writers copying each other The Romulan that Picard & Narisa and Zhebrev were questioning killing himself with a acid pill and the new McGyver show I watched last night the bad guy killed himself with poison too. It seems like it's being overused in both shows .

 

Why is that any more noteworthy than an American accent?

 

Quit mixing genres. Next you'll be telling me MONARCH is part of Starfleet...and Godzilla another Kaiju are real in Star Trek

 

Still facepalming in 2020....

 

Especially since they come from two different places. The actress playing the Romulan is Irish and is just using her natural accent. The holo's accent is some weird affectation of Rios, who also has a holo with an English accent.

 

As I've written before, threading the needle between "This isn't like the old stuff!" and "This is just the same old stuff!" is tricky . . . and you're never going to satisfy everyone.

 

I don't think the green stuff is supposed to be acid. I think it's nanotech of some sort. Acid doesn't dissolve a body like that. It reacts with what it can until its spent and becomes water and gas. But it can't break down a mass larger than it is.