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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"

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I'm beginning to think "Mom" deactivated Soji (or put her to sleep) to prevent her programming from asserting itself, probably learning from the experience of what happened to Dahj. But I have no idea if "she" was protecting her or actually working against her.
We are not meant to know either way yet, she could be serving an important purpose and calming Soji down or just knocking her out when she comes close to activating.
 
It's like that Starbucks cup on Game of Thrones. Tamlyn Tomita forgot to take her sunglasses off when they started filming, and nobody noticed.

They'll fix it later.
I'd love it if they just really ineptly airbrushed some obviously fake eyes on her face like how they removed Henry Cavill's mustache in Justice League.
 
I have regular eyelids to protect my eyes but I still prefer to wear sunglasses.

Good point! Nowhere was it established in "Operation--Annihilate!" that Spock can see through his inner eyelids, let alone walk around without bumping into things. They automatically squeezed shut to protect his eyesight, but they didn't necessarily work like sunglasses.
 
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And if one of the points of this show was to use it as a way of commenting on the Age of Trump, Brexit, the nationalist surge, xenophobia, etc, this is the worst possible way to do it. Romulan terrorist fanatics, Romulan penetration of Starfleet makes the Trumpist view seem reasonable. Letting the Romulans in was a mistake. That travel bans and limits on refugees are sensible.
Actually, that's probably part of the commentary in that if we go by Laris and Zhaban - not all Romulans are 'fanatics/extremists'.

Yes, the 'fanatics/extremists' exist in that group, but characterizing the entire group (or even the majority) as fanatical/extremest is wrong.

Judge people individually for what they themselves do.
 
Wait until we see the scene where Soji has a bag of Sun Chips on her bed and Narek almost sits on the thing.

#Chipgate
 
You were pointing out that Picard is not acting like you think he should.
To that all I said was he's not really willing to risk the lives of friends or loved ones - which was different from how he was in TNG. I did say he should be willing to risk the lives of friends or loved ones; I WAS saying he's changed.
 
Good point! Nowhere was it established in "Operation--Annihilate!" that Spock can see through inner eyelids, let alone walk around without bumping into things. They automatically squeezed shut to protect his eyesight, but they didn't necessarily work like sunglasses.

That's true, but it was in Enterprise ("The Forge") where T'Pol stated outright that she didn't need sunglasses because of her inner eyelids. I think she was just trying to show off.
 
That's true, but it was in Enterprise ("The Forge") where T'Pol stated outright that she didn't need sunglasses because of her inner eyelids. I think she was just trying to show off.

Forgot about that. I don't know ENTERPRISE by heart like I do TOS.
 
They'll work in a Cumberbatch (Khan from the Kelvin timeline) Sherlock homage--

Picard: It’s the dead-eye stare that gives it away. (Oh looks back at him unblinking.)

Picard: Except it’s not dead-eyed, is it? You’re reading.

(Smiling slightly, he draws the sunglasses towards himself and looks down at them.)

Picard: How does it work? (Oh looks down at the glasses.)

Picard: Built-in AI? (He lifts the glasses towards his own face.) Subspace transmitter? (He puts them on and raises his head as he looks through the lenses. After a moment he frowns, turning his head a little and then lowering it before he slowly takes the glasses off again, blinking as if confused. He looks down at them, turning them in his hands.)

Picard: They’re just ordinary sunglasses.

Oh: Yes – they are.
 
Actually, that's probably part of the commentary in that if we go by Laris and Zhaban - not all Romulans are 'fanatics/extremists'.

Yes, the 'fanatics/extremists' exist in that group, but characterizing the entire group (or even the majority) as fanatical/extremest is wrong.

Judge people individually for what they themselves do.

Trump says that too though. That's the problem with this as commentary. He explicitly says how much he loves immigration, that not everyone in any group is bad. So I am not sure what this is supposed to be saying, beyond the painfully obvious that no serious person disagrees with. As they have chosen to portray the Romulans here, the security concerns seem more than justified. So Trump policies are sensible, but saying everyone in group is bad is clearly wrong. But who is saying that?
 
I think it's interesting that people are mentioning all of the things in the show that are a bit similar to now (sunglasses, language) when in "The Cage" they literally had a fax machine on board.
 
I think it's interesting that people are mentioning all of the things in the show that are a bit similar to now (sunglasses, language) when in "The Cage" they literally had a fax machine on board.
The Cage had all sorts of weirdness that we just ignore due to it being the first production of Trek. Discovery smoothed it out a bit by having Pike be "old fashioned" who didn't like holograms among other things.

@Tarek71 Saying one thing and then having a blanket travel ban while saying that is another thing. All synths are banned period just because some of them went bad. The Fed can say how they see synths as individuals and point to their ruling of Data in Measure of a Man, but everyone can see their actions don't reflect it.
 
Trump says that too though. That's the problem with this as commentary. He explicitly says how much he loves immigration, that not everyone in any group is bad. So I am not sure what this is supposed to be saying, beyond the painfully obvious that no serious person disagrees with. As they have chosen to portray the Romulans here, the security concerns seem more than justified. So Trump policies are sensible, but saying everyone in group is bad is clearly wrong. But who is saying that?

Many of Trump's supporters, in posts, online, every day.
 
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