Spoilers Did Picard not have the ability to "order" Rios to *spoiler* at the end of the season?

[hxclespaulplayer]

To stay behind in 2024? That's the most obvious risk of timeline change. When Picard lets the escape pods go in First Contact, he tells people to find a quiet corner of the earth. I just remembered that Rios was in starfleet. But even if he weren't, does a federation citizen abide by things like altering the timeline? Or did Q basically assure off-screen that he didn't change the timeline? But if Guinan has had a photo up of him all these years, she'd know if he'd altered the timeline? No idea whether she can only sense things close to her, e.g took her a while to piece together the changes in Yesterdays' Enterprise.

 

[Yistaan]

To stay behind in 2024? That's the most obvious risk of timeline change. When Picard lets the escape pods go in First Contact, he tells people to find a quiet corner of the earth. I just remembered that Rios was in starfleet. But even if he weren't, does a federation citizen abide by things like altering the timeline? Or did Q basically assure off-screen that he didn't change the timeline? But if Guinan has had a photo up of him all these years, she'd know if he'd altered the timeline? No idea whether she can only sense things close to her, e.g took her a while to piece together the changes in Yesterdays' Enterprise.

This is the same Picard Season 2 where they broke open a bus of detained immigrants and let them all out without regards to whether they might drastically change the timeline, even in a beneficial way like averting WW3 or something, like Edith Keeler did (the irony being that they stumble over themselves on any changes to Renee Picard's timeline, basically saying that a beautiful over-accomplished white woman's life is more important than a bunch of hispanic people's, which I'm pretty sure wasn't their intention)

Best not to think about it too much.

 

[hxclespaulplayer]

This is the same Picard Season 2 where they broke open a bus of detained immigrants and let them all out without regards to whether they might drastically change the timeline, even in a beneficial way like averting WW3 or something, like Edith Keeler did (the irony being that they stumble over themselves on any changes to Renee Picard's timeline, basically saying that a beautiful over-accomplished white woman's life is more important than a bunch of hispanic people's, which I'm pretty sure wasn't their intention)

Best not to think about it too much.

Last weeks' Picard is the only one I liked of the season by miles, am I going to be disappointed tomorrow when they make changelings completely different to ds9's depiction? I know so far they haven't been, but the episode title has me wondering if we'll see Jem-Hadar and Vorta.

 

[Yistaan]

disappointed tomorrow when they make changelings completely different to ds9's depiction

Tomorrow? Changelings used to say "No changeling has ever harmed another". Odo was turned into a solid for killing the Defiant's changeling to prevent a warp core breach. This past week Vadic killed another changeling for daring to disagree with her. The changelings are already vastly different from DS9's.

 

[fireproof78]

They are separated from the Great Link. Why would they be the same? Why?

 

[Tuskin38]

This past week Vadic killed another changeling for daring to disagree with her. The changelings are already vastly different from DS9's.

Yes, they're a rogue group. And Crusher mentioned they're biologically different from the ones from DS9 as well.

 

[Racefuel]

Odo warned there were rogue factions of Changlings...this is one of them.

Not sure why people seem continually surprised by that

 

[Yistaan]

Odo warned there were rogue factions of Changlings...this is one of them.

Not sure why people seem continually surprised by that

@Tuskin38 took my quote out of context,I noted to the op specifically that they were established as different. I leave my pc for a few minutes and suddenly this turned into me being a part of people being continually surprised or something

 

[hxclespaulplayer]

This is the same Picard Season 2 where they broke open a bus of detained immigrants and let them all out without regards to whether they might drastically change the timeline, even in a beneficial way like averting WW3 or something, like Edith Keeler did (the irony being that they stumble over themselves on any changes to Renee Picard's timeline, basically saying that a beautiful over-accomplished white woman's life is more important than a bunch of hispanic people's, which I'm pretty sure wasn't their intention)

Best not to think about it too much.

Ok, let's look at classic Trek - do Federation citizens avoid altering the timeline out of morals? Or are they not restricted from doing so? Sisko let Kira go back in time because "Oh the prophets won't let the timeline change" - I wouldn't bank on that. But she wasn't starfleet, so nothing Sisko could do about it? It seems a bit like how the Hansens did a lot of things.

 

[Racefuel]

@Tuskin38 took my quote out of context,I noted to the op specifically that they were established as different. I leave my pc for a few minutes and suddenly this turned into me being a part of people being continually surprised or something

No worries, not calling you out specifically, just a general comment