Cloaks, to be functional, need to conceal infrared emissions. Then again, it really should cover all EM radiation. Not certain about subspace radiation or gravitational effects.
It's crazy how often the supernova and its reasons have been retconned again and again (that's not even getting into how it was originally a Hobus supernova) in tie-ins. I believe in Star Trek Online it's caused by Iconian infiltration.
Honestly the simplest explanation is that Shinzon and the Remans' thalaron experiments messed up the Romulan star.
We do know from All Good Things that in their timeline, Romulus was still around, so canon itself does indicate that the supernova was caused by an external event.
Honestly the simplest explanation is that Shinzon and the Remans' thalaron experiments messed up the Romulan star.
We do know from All Good Things that in their timeline, Romulus was still around, so canon itself does indicate that the supernova was caused by an external event.
No, it was not. Hobus was exclusively the invention of IDW Comics' Countdown miniseries. The name of the supernova star was never established in canon.
Assuming it was a real future rather than just another of Q's illusions. I mean, AGT's version of events pre-"Encounter at Farpoint" have some inconsistencies with prior canon (Tasha Yar's haircut, her not having met Picard before, the stardate of Picard taking command being different), so it's either an alternate timeline or not real to begin with. Q claimed it was all real, but he claimed the same thing about his Robin Hood cosplay.
How do you differentiate an alternate timeline from Q's created (temporary?) PU timeline alteration?
The AGT timeline HAS to be a legit timeline. If it were an illusion, then the anomaly that they all fought so hard to stop would also be fake (since it was literally created by the tachyon burst in that timeline).
If it was all an illusion, then the whole gravity and point of the episode is meaningless.
For what it's worth, Liam Shaw did seem to think that Picard almost destroyed humanity by "starting a time paradox in the Devron system". That being said, his general dislike of the Ent-D crew (Geordi aside) could be influencing him, and it's not even clear how he knows about it, but we'll have to assume Picard wrote in a report that was standard reading for Starfleet captains regarding the Q, or something.
If it was all an illusion, then the whole gravity and point of the episode is meaningless.
For what it's worth, Liam Shaw did seem to think that Picard almost destroyed humanity by "starting a time paradox in the Devron system". That being said, his general dislike of the Ent-D crew (Geordi aside) could be influencing him, and it's not even clear how he knows about it, but we'll have to assume Picard wrote in a report that was standard reading for Starfleet captains regarding the Q, or something.
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I don't believe it was an illusion, but even if It was, it wouldn't be meaningless, because Picard thought it was real the entire time, and all his decisions were made as if it was really happening, that's all that matters to Q.
With the revelation that Q has a special interest in Jack Crusher, we also now have to take into account that AGT was engineered specifically to create Jack (who obviously was never born in the AGT timeline). Ironically by showing Picard a future where marrying Crusher didn't work out, and Picard telling this and other details of the AGT future to everyone (come to think of it, Picard should've had a nasty talking to by Temporal Investigations, although maybe exceptions are made if the time travel is caused by a Q), he changed the timeline to one where Jack Crusher was born.
Well, sure, that's my point -- that all of it may have just been a Q illusion. After all, the episode ended with Picard coming out of his quarters and finding that no time had passed. So the entire thing could've just been an illusory test planted in Picard's mind by Q, the same as "Tapestry." (Which, yes, Q claimed was real, but he's hardly a reliable narrator.)
It already is. AGT is just a shallow nostalgic exercise with no real point to it. Supposedly Q is opening Picard's mind to some amazing new level of understanding, but it's an incredibly easy puzzle to solve, that causality isn't necessarily chronologically linear, which should be old news to anyone who ever took a physics course at Starfleet Academy. And it doesn't even make sense, since it depends on the same deflector dish firing at the same location in three time frames, but the E-D is only in two of the time frames and it's the Pasteur in the third. Not to mention, if the anomaly was created in the future and grew larger as it went back in time, shouldn't the Pasteur have found it already existing before they got there, shrinking, and vanishing when they fired the tachyon pulse? The whole thing is nonsensical and self-contradictory, which is all the more reason to think it's just Q messing with Picard's mind.
Given how little in Picard season 3 made a shred of logical sense, I don't give much weight to it.
Q's idea of reality may transend any concepts carbon bipeds can conceive of?
Interesting, the novel states Shelby was in fact killed in the finale. Matalas said in an interview afterwards that she survived.
Another unexpected version from the FS:Mestral.
And both claims hold equal weight. Choose the one you prefer.
Schrödinger's Shelby
Shelby was secretly put into transporter stasis after she was shot, called the "M'Benga Method". They're building a new synth body for her, the "Soong Method". This novel, uh, takes place while she's still in transporter stasis and assumed dead, but before her synth body has been completed and she's transferred into it.
Just finished. While a good story, I prefer the FS:Wesley without any Aegis connection.
