Spoilers Season 3 wild speculation

[STEPhon IT]

Being a "Provisional Captain" just means she's a substitute Captain.

What she does is all well & good for the current situation, but a "Official Captain" will come in and take over Rios spot and handle the situation.

Until then, Seven will do just fine. And she has the backing of Admiral JLP, and I'm sure Admiral Janeway would back Seven as well.

Having two legendary former Captains, now Admirals; backing Seven is a guranteed way to have her actions stick.

And the fact that these new "Borg Cooperative" prevented a Galactic Scale Event from becoming a tragedy speaks volumes on their actions. It was a bit harsh and forceful, but they can learn tact and diplomacy with time and negotiation.

I agree, ignore the crewmembers who actually paid their tour of duties dues on a commission and let the popular character leapfrog over them. I mean, its not like we care about them??? Who cares about that, Seven should have it... she should be President... oh, wait... she was one last season. The series was never made to make sense, if it entertains why should it matter?

 

[KamenRiderBlade]

I agree, ignore the crewmembers who actually paid their tour of duties dues on a commission and let the popular character leapfrog over them. I mean, its not like we care about them??? Who cares about that, Seven should have it... she should be President... oh, wait... she was one last season. The series was never made to make sense, if it entertains why should it matter?

The only thing the crew needs to understand is that Admiral JLP is the ranking officer on the scene since "Captain Rios" vanished, then what he says GOES.

So Seven is a "Provisional Captain" with a field commision. Just like Chakotay got a Field Commission and was the Provisional 1st Officer for all those years. Eventually they made him a REAL Captain post VOY as seen in ST: Prodigy.

 

[Dukhat]

No. IIRC, she was just tagging along on the Excelsior as one of the supervising officers for its Cadet Cruise. According to Michelle Hurd in an interview, Raffi was supposed to be an Academy teacher at the start of S2.

Huh. That’s quite odd then that when the Excelsior warped into the fleet, that it was Musiker who contacted Picard on the Stargazer rather than the actual captain of the ship. If all she was doing on that ship was supervising cadets, then there’s no reason why she would have been that contact person, unless she was in command of the ship.

 

[New Kid 99]

I know this is a wild speculation thread, but can I post verifiable info? I've known for over a week. I really can't believe some click bait site has run an article on this yet.

Spoiler

Geordi has two daughters, one played by Mica Burton. Also the cast revisits the Enterprise D bridge in some capacity

 

[Danja]

Transwarp Conduit Highways allows simple FTL without needing to own a FTL drive of any sort while AstroMobiles basically run on impulse so you can fly to any UFP Star System to visit or do business.

That's assuming the forces involved don't tear up the ship in question.

 

[KamenRiderBlade]

That's assuming the forces involved don't tear up the ship in question.

They know what needs to happen when you use Transwarp Conduits.

Upon entering a conduit, a vessel was subject to extreme gravimetric shear. To compensate for this, the Borg projected a structural integrity field ahead of the ship. Additionally, there were extreme temporal stresses placed upon the vessel, necessitating a chroniton field be projected throughout the ship in order to keep the different sections of the ship in temporal sync.

All these are easily do-able on mass produced civilian vessels and completely automated by the computer right before entering a Transwarp Conduit.

 

[fireproof78]

Doesn't that sound safe.

 

[Danja]

The show is called "Star Trek", not "StarFleet Trek".
So the show would still work if it focused on non-(StarFleet / UFP / Government) related things.

There's never been a Captain quite like Seven of Nine.

How many Captains in Starfleet have started off as VILLAINS?

I agree, ignore the crewmembers who actually paid their tour of duties dues on a commission and let the popular character leapfrog over them. I mean, its not like we care about them???

Starfleet is a fictional organization -- so they're going to do what they want.

Seven will get her full commission (Admiral Picard can testify to Seven pulling Elnor off a Borg cube. She's the reason he's a cadet at Starfleet Academy today.)

Janeway can testify to Seven steering Voyager through a toxic gas cloud all by herself.

 

[Tuskin38]

I know this is a wild speculation thread, but can I post verifiable info? I've known for over a week. I really can't believe some click bait site has run an article on this yet.

Spoiler

Geordi has two daughters, one played by Mica Burton. Also the cast revisits the Enterprise D bridge in some capacity

Oh, that's exciting.

Spoiler

I wonder what the Ent-D bridge recreation is used for. Holoprogram? Saucer turned into a museum? LeVar said that they only filmed on there for 3 days, that's not a whole lot

 

[Danja]

Same here, she seems far too much her own boss and she's starting to get on in years to get fully recruited, water under the bridge (but she'll be fine as a ally or liaison to Starfleet in disputed buffer space).

Starfleet LOVES all the fun Borg tech (preferably without having to deal with the Borg who created them ).

How old is Pike? I've yet to see anyone complaining about HIS age.

Picard was 59 during Encounter at Farpoint. Why wasn't HE considered long in the tooth?

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

She's a Commander in an Ops position:

If she had her own ship, she would be wearing red.

That uniform is by far the best thing season 2 of Picard gave us.

 

[Deks]

That's another thing I don't see sticking, if the writers want to be realistic about things.

As a starfleet officer, there is no way in hell I'd accept someone who's never been in starfleet being leapfrogged over the entire establishment right into the center seat, never having been officially trained or served a day. That's even worse than promoting Cadet Kirk to captain.

I'd refuse to serve on a ship with essentially a non-starfleet civilian captain. Of course, this isn't real life and the writers are going to do what they're going to do, so we'll see where we end with it.

In fairness, Seven did apply to become part of Starfleet before, but she was rejected (I'm thinking she would have had better success if she applied at the same time Icheb did - while VOY was still in the DQ).

Also, Seven has proverbial knowledge of 10 000 species in her head... and the Borg assimilated SF captains... she wouldn't need to technically go through the Academy because the knowledge is already part of her (or at least most important bits)... and she served as a science officer on VOY for 4 years, so she is familiar with the chain of command.

To be fair, I think Seven could technically skip through the Academy and be given a commission (maybe even skip the rank of ensign as well given her experience on VOY)... but not sure I'd buy her being a captain right off the bat either.

It could have been a temporary thing on behalf of Picard just for that given situation... which would at least give her a way back into Starfleet (and who's going to say no to Picard? - although I'm offended that Janeway's backing wasn't enough because to be fair, I think she did more as a captain than Picard has... and she did it better under the circumstances).

 

[Deks]

Starfleet LOVES all the fun Borg tech (preferably without having to deal with the Borg who created them ).

How old is Pike? I've yet to see anyone complaining about HIS age.

Picard was 59 during Encounter at Farpoint. Why wasn't HE considered long in the tooth?

Probably because Humans tend to live until 150 in UFP (barring any accidents that would cause premature death)?
Archer lived to 150... as did McCoy.

59 wouldn't even be considered mid-life.

 

[Danlav05]

Captain Picard Day is June 16 so fingers crossed for a trailer

 

[Danja]

Also, Seven has proverbial knowledge of 10 000 species in her head... and the Borg assimilated SF captains... she wouldn't need to technically go through the Academy because the knowledge is already part of her (or at least most important bits)... and she served as a science officer on VOY for 4 years, so she is familiar with the chain of command.

I think she would go through whatever training program SF may require of her (if but for the simple reason that they're mandating it and Seven -- being the good soldier that she is -- is expected to comply).

To be fair, I think Seven could technically skip through the Academy and be given a commission (maybe even skip the rank of ensign as well given her experience on VOY)... but not sure I'd buy her being a captain right off the bat either.

You don't start someone as experienced as Seven is off as an ensign.

Picard chose her based upon her experience.

It could have been a temporary thing on behalf of Picard just for that given situation... which would at least give her a way back into Starfleet (and who's going to say no to Picard? - although I'm offended that Janeway's backing wasn't enough because to be fair, I think she did more as a captain than Picard has... and she did it better under the circumstances).

She would now have the backing of both Picard AND Janeway.

 

[Yistaan]

It just occurred to me that Wesley could have been used as an avenue for Data having a role so to speak. Wesley transfers Data into a Gary Seven style human body and they walk off into the sunset as Travelers, similar to what happened with Kore. But Wil said he wasn't going to be in Season 3, so...

 

[Danja]

Seven will join Starfleet for the same reason she joined the Sirena crew: she needs a degree of structure in her life.

For twenty years, she tried doing things her way. She came thisclose to going over the edge completely.

 

[ELCHawk]

That uniform is by far the best thing season 2 of Picard gave us.

Wrong. Good season

 

[Tuskin38]

Wrong. Good season

An opinion can’t be wrong.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

I agree, ignore the crewmembers who actually paid their tour of duties dues on a commission and let the popular character leapfrog over them.

Remember when the flagship of the Federation was steered by the doctor's son? So really having Seven leapfrog more experienced officers is the most TNG thing PIC did.