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Spoilers Picard Prequel "Children of Mars"

Don't you mean "arguing"? ;) :D :lol:

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I much prefer weekly releases. I don't like to binge watch one thing, so I tend to only do one or two episodes every few days. After a day or two I've fallen way behind everyone, and by the time I catch up most of the conversation has ended.
 
While I'd love to watch 2 episodes a day for 5 days, I really enjoy the atmosphere here when new episodes drop weekly.

Day 1: Avoid the forum (because England has to wait a day), maybe if I'm feeling brave pop in to get a general consensus on episode quality but with huge risk of thread title spoilers.

Day 2: Feverishly catch up on 200 pages of discussion.

Day 3: A hundred new threads appear for every nitpick or story point. People with lives have finally seen the episode and there's tons more fresh discussion.

Day 4: Doom and gloom threads appear: The franchise is ruined because this episode did not meet my expectations.

Day 5: Content-free Midnight's Edge video threads start appearing about how the show is cancelled and Alex Kurtzman has actually been executed publicly for his crimes against Star Trek.

Day 6: Kurtzman appears alive and well in several media interviews hyping the next episode. Someone makes a "should have made Axanar instead" reference, probably from another fake account belonging to Alex Peters. Ex Astris Scientia posts a 1000 word essay about how Trek continuity is ruined forever because the armrests on a chair at Starfleet HQ are the wrong colour.

Day 7: Hype and prediction threads for the next episode!

Quoted for truth. It's hilarious, but it's also accurate. :guffaw:
I also prefer the weekly droppings of new eps, otherwise I'd "burn through the new content" as it's called in Star Trek Online.
 
So far, all the Short Treks have had the DSC opening. Not going to work with "Children of Mars". But it's before the release of Picard and they probably don't want to give that intro away. So I'm guessing "Children of Mars" might have some sort of interim opening.
 
Picard and children are something of an issue, him having none of his own but grasping for foster kids left and right (previously Bajorans, now perhaps Romulans).

Seven of Nine was assimilated when she was a child (she was assimilated when she was seven years old).

Assuming she spent three years in a Borg maturation chamber, she was a child soldier (psychologically). She was a physically grown woman with the mind of a ten-year-old child.


It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me for a huge group of Romulan survivors to settle on a planet where they can't natively survive the conditions, when a ton of M-Class planets exist for them to settle.

If you're in power, and you (1) can't stand Romulans and (2) want to destroy them, then it makes PERFECT sense to resettle them someplace where they can't possibly survive (Ask a Native American how their ancestors were treated. The buffalo were hunted to near-extinction and the tribes themselves were forced to settle non-arable land.)
 
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Yeah - about that - how do you know? I mean hell ST:VOY pretty much retconned the Eugenics Wars out of existence, yet they're still mentioned of Star trek series post ST:VOY. ;)

Actually, Voyager didn't retain the Eugenics Wars out of existence. In Rain Robinson's office there was a model of the Botany Bay. Also, just because we didn't hear about it doesn't mean the wars didn't happen.

Occam’s razor: Sulu made a statement about human-Kzinti history, Chuft-Captain didn’t argue or correct his statement. Therefore, Sulu made a factual statement.



There’s simply no way that humans could have fought four interstellar wars with an alien race on their own, in the mid-2000’s, much less one war. During TAS it was fine because Earth’s history was never explicitly mentioned like in future Trek productions. It does not need convoluted explanations to make it fit in with current Trek history. It’s simply been retconned out of existence, and I’m fine with that.



Then if that was the case, I doubt the Kzinti would have lost those wars four times over.

Actually, there is a way for the four Man-Kzin Wars to happen in the early years right after the discovery of the warp drive. For one thing, it's likely that neither side was technologically advanced and the wars were low grade conflicts. For another, nation-states during this time still existed so there could be multiple wars between different nations or coalitions and the Kzinti happening simultaneously or near simultaneously.
 
For one thing, it's likely that neither side was technologically advanced and the wars were low grade conflicts.

That would depend on how exactly the Kzinti and the humans met. Barring what happened to the Valiant, humanity did not seem to have the capability to travel more than twenty light years, with ships that would take nine years to traverse that distance with the warp speed available at that time. While it's possible that humanity might have met the Kzinti that way, the evidence seems to indicate that humans were just trying to explore and colonize outer space at a very slow pace. Hardly the setting for four entire wars with an alien species, even if they were at the same technological level.

It's also possible that the Kzinti were far more advanced than humans, and they actually came to Earth at that time, which was where the wars were fought. However, this strains credibility. If the Kzinti were advanced enough to make it to Earth while the planet was recovering from a nuclear war, fight the populace, and still lose four wars, then they'd have to be the stupidest aliens imaginable (unless the Vulcans helped out, but if that were the case one would think that they would have driven the Kzinti off the first time permanently instead of four times over.)
 
Actually, Voyager didn't retain the Eugenics Wars out of existence. In Rain Robinson's office there was a model of the Botany Bay.
Near to a Talosian action figure from "The Cage" and amongst other sci-fi toys and posters. They were winks to the audience added by the art department, not serious evidence of an in-universe war.

That said, the US is currently at war and you probably wouldn't know from wandering around LA. Khan ruled the Middle East in Trek's 1996, so I'm guessing the war was in his neighbourhood.
 
Who is she? I don't recognize her.
She was an Mrs Merton, she had a comedy interview show where celebrities would come on and be asked painful questions by a sweet little old lady who turned out to be a bit of a nightmare.

Mrs Merton was played by a much younger actress/comedian Caroline Aherne who was in make up.

Sadly Caroline died quite young of cancer.

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So in the preview we see a girl in a red uniform bullying another girl in the same uniform in a library that looks contemporary, with regular books. One of them has little raised spots on her face, and then they seem to get along and hold each other's hands.
Wild speculations, please? XD
 
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