Captain Picard evening

[tomalak301]

I love the Defector. I can't recommend it though, without recommending The Enemy, which is sort of the catalyst that launches those events. Tomalak gets humiliated by Picard outing their misdeeds & deceit, at the Golorndon Core. So, he goes off and hatches a revenge scheme against Picard by dangling a defector in front of him, only some weeks or months later, with a hope of redeeming his reputation by capturing the Enterprise

Picard is so wonderful in that episode. He literally begs Worf, & straddles a diplomatic crisis better than maybe any other time


Put on your best poker face #1

I look at both episodes as kind of an unofficial two part episode. They both compliment each other really well.

Another reason why I chose The Defector? It also featured James Sloyan and he passed away recently as well. You can watch it as a tribute to both actors.

 

[AntonyF]

Another reason why I chose The Defector? It also featured James Sloyan and he passed away recently as well. You can watch it as a tribute to both actors.

James Sloyan is dead? Man... this week sucks (for me as it seems that was July).

 

[Paul Weaver]

Picard is so wonderful in that episode. He literally begs Worf, & straddles a diplomatic crisis better than maybe any other time

To me, every time I watch The Enemy I can't get over the "just send the stardrive to the border and leave the saucer in orbit" plot hole.

I've recently watched Devil's Due, Drumhead, The Enemy, Tapestry, Starship Mine, Lessons, and yesterday I watched Hide And Q -- some great Picard/Q scenes and holds a special place in my heart as my introduction to Shakespeare, and one of my two TNG VHS tapes as a kid.

Time Squared I've always found really odd -- Picard's "double" seems to act very unlike Picard. Maybe I need to rewatch it.

 

[AntonyF]

Time Squared I've always found really odd -- Picard's "double" seems to act very unlike Picard. Maybe I need to rewatch it.

Through mannerisms and make up they did a great job of making him feel unstuck from time.

I admit ten year old me at times wondered if it was a different actor. Not seriously so but I remember pondering the question. A silly notion to me now but at the time it shows how much it felt off.

 

[Farscape One]

To me, every time I watch The Enemy I can't get over the "just send the stardrive to the border and leave the saucer in orbit" plot hole.

I've recently watched Devil's Due, Drumhead, The Enemy, Tapestry, Starship Mine, Lessons, and yesterday I watched Hide And Q -- some great Picard/Q scenes and holds a special place in my heart as my introduction to Shakespeare, and one of my two TNG VHS tapes as a kid.

Time Squared I've always found really odd -- Picard's "double" seems to act very unlike Picard. Maybe I need to rewatch it.

I think the future Picard feeling a bit off helps amplify the creepy mood of "Time Squared".

It might even be a holdover of the idea that the situation was entirely created by Q. I've toyed with the idea that it really was Q, and it was his first real test of seeing if Picard expanded his mind, like in "All Good Things...". The clue the double made of 'can't go forward' was much more direct than the clues Picard were given in the finale, but since Picard got the overt clue for this puzle, Q figured he was ready enough for that test later and its more subtle clues. Which would also explain why Q never mentioned he was responsible for this one.

 

[Desert Kris]

I watched The Defector a couple nights ago. Last night I watched the first half of Q Who, which I haven't seen mentioned for these kinds of lists, it has good exchanges between Picard and Q, and all the other characters. I've thought about revisiting The Big Goodbye and Starship Mine, and maybe Captain's Holiday, for fun. I know how good Inner Light and other serious, dramatic stories are, I've already tended to watch them more than the others. It's been nice to revisit TNG in general.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Starship Mine

In my headcanon, Devor was actually Tuvok under cover and obviously managed to escape. When did Picard learn to nerve pinch? I know Data could.

 

[MrShinzoff]

In my headcanon, Devor was actually Tuvok under cover and obviously managed to escape. When did Picard learn to nerve pinch? I know Data could.

Maybe it was through the mindmeld with Sarek?

 

[Qonundrum]

To me, every time I watch The Enemy I can't get over the "just send the stardrive to the border and leave the saucer in orbit" plot hole.

I've recently watched Devil's Due, Drumhead, The Enemy, Tapestry, Starship Mine, Lessons, and yesterday I watched Hide And Q -- some great Picard/Q scenes and holds a special place in my heart as my introduction to Shakespeare, and one of my two TNG VHS tapes as a kid.

Definitely great episodes, all!

Time Squared I've always found really odd -- Picard's "double" seems to act very unlike Picard. Maybe I need to rewatch it.

His doppelganger from the future may have been the original Picard, flung back in time by pure happenstance, who then gets to deal with "in the now" Picard as seen in the start of the story before he sees "future-Picard" and that's causing "in the now Picard" to guess himself all while seeing future-Picard having fallen to pieces given the enormity of the aftermath of the Enterprise's destruction...

(Also, aren't time travel episodes great?)

...which doesn't hold up considering the events of "The Best of Both Worlds" and Starfleet and all, but at the same time "in the moment" Picard is what saves the day after witnessing his future self and not wanting to become it. (Part of me sorta wishes they kept Q as the reason for the scenario in "Time Squared" for that reason, but then again not explaining it except as "another dangerous mystery in outer space" is more metaphysical as well as blank slate to play with. Of course, "in the now" Picard kills future-Picard and thus becomes the Picard for the future, as if a new parallel dimension sprang up out of nowhere. Then again, Q being the center and be-all of things shrinks the universe down to the size of a dust mite, since the size of that pea rolling around on the plate just waiting to be smooshed by a fork that I thought of just microseconds earlier to that still seems too large by comparison...)

 

[Mojochi]

Time Squared I've always found really odd -- Picard's "double" seems to act very unlike Picard. Maybe I need to rewatch it

I mean, he seems grumpier & more disconnected. Then again, he's been ripped partway thru space-time, with his consciousness spanning dimensions, & he just saw his whole crew killed. He might need a Snickers