Don't know what to say other than, "another '10' rating from me!" Perhaps I should manage my 10's better however as long as they keep delivering such well constructed and engaging episodes how can I rate them anything else? Jeri Ryan's "Annika" (the Borg formerly known as Seven of Nine) was magnificent! I got chills when she first assumed the role of Borg Queen and was equally relieved when she disconnected from the collective. Kind of felt a touch disappointment in Elnor's voice when he asked if she was going to assimilate him … like a naïve teenager who wants to experience something without fully considering the consequences (). Alison Pill and the writer's also did a great job with de-vilifying Dr. Jurati. I still do not believe she is going to survive this season (though praying I am wrong). Aside from Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan, I feel Mrs. Pill is the 3rd strongest actor in terms of giving us a strong yet nuanced performance. Curious as to how Narek re-found Picard's ship and then was apparently able to follow them into a Borg conduit without any problem? Also curious as to why Rios or Raffi didn't detect him?
Seriously, though, Arik was a geneticist. It's been postulated that Noonien was simply a clone of Arik Soong, maybe with enhanced intellectual capabilities. I imagine any "son" of Noonien's that isn't cybernetic, is a constructed genetic clone of the Arik Soong template. Non-seriously, though, we've seen Eugenics War-era cloning before, in "The Infinite Vulcan". So Noonien Soong 2/Arik Soong 5 should be about 60 feet tall.
Anyone know any Scots? Trying to decipher what Ian said in that scene with all 5 EHs. According to thw captions he said, "And he's sae fou as a piper an' awfu aff the fang."
I suspect Oh has no interest in risking a loss of control. I would think that if everyone at Starfleet Command decided at the same time to embark on a murderous campaign against synthetic life, someone would notice. Working with single people like Jurati, individuals who might do things which would seem to be their own will, would be less risky.
Another great episode...however as I'm in Scotland , Rios Scottish accent was absolutely awful, more of a mockery. I know he's pulling off different characters but I think that one really didn't work lol
What gets me is the Zhat Vash didn't take a hit on data when he was alive .. Like.. Program Geordi to kill data instead of that other shrub.. Eh owell.. Seems to me tgeres a Big bad out there.. Waiting for a threshold to be crossed.. Then they show up and knock everything down..
That episode was fantastic. First, Seven having to wire herself into the collective was awesome and the moment where she was worried she'd want to stay in the safety and emotionlessness of the collective again was perfect for her character. (Even if it didn't make sense that they threw a sound grenade instead of one that would actually disable him). Seeing Rafi and Rios start to pull it together and get their confidence and conviction back was a great progression and how they laid it all out and pieced the history together was something great for the narrative.
Deadline podcast with Chabon (haven't listened to it yet): https://deadline.com/2020/03/star-t...an-michael-chabon-jason-zimmerman-1202881398/
Data is an android. There have been plenty of androids. And aside from Lore and Rokk....probably the only truly sentient ones. Sorry if you can be tricked into turning off with a skit....you arn't sentient. The big bad...obviously
that would be interesting though eye-rolling....though fun! Final scene of ep 10....everyone is doomed, everyone has died except Picard, the scene freezes and Q turns around. "The test never stops Picard....and humanity has failed!! Fun, but a tired expression of ideas that have been pretty much explored with TNG.
You don’t seem to know what a theme is. We started with a problem, that Romulans are refugees that shouldn’t have been saved. People like Riker say things like “I told you so” about trying to save them. Billions of people. And we haven’t seen anything to prove otherwise. We’ve only seen more and more romulans doing evil, nefarious things. They are the enemy of this show. To say otherwise is not arguing in good faith. Believe I am. What’s also not in good faith is creating excuse after excuse as to why something wouldn’t function in an obvious way, including using 400 year older Present computers as an example that still doesn’t work, or that the system was only half set up. And if that’s really the explanation, it’s a very hand wavey one to keep Agnes from being caught too soon. I’m not a never-nu Trek hater. I just want to be entertained. This show is a mess, Trek or otherwise.
So you'd apparently favor a very simplistic narrative that involved all Romulans being depicted as good guys to hammer a point home.
The 8 body setup is stable. It's just not something you would see naturally forming. Or at least it's incredibly unlikely to form naturally