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

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So a little more about Raffi... Just watched the Wheaton after-show where he interviewed Michelle Hurd and asked about Raffi’s background which she fleshed out with Stewart and the show runners. Apparently Raffi’s family were all involved with Federation activities and research and she was “raised by others”. She suffered from a kind of self-destructive guilt and was on her own for most of her life. Hurd made a big point about Raffi being an addict very early on - she drinks, she smokes, and Picard found her, bonded with her and brought her up out of her malaise, into Starfleet, much like Pike did with Kirk in NuTrek 2009. When Picard resigned, her world completely collapsed; she was extremely resentful and angry and it sent her back down deep into the hole where she started off.

I wish we got a little more of that backstory in ep 3, but it’s nice to know that it’s there, at least.

If her background isn't shown more in future episodes, it doesn't feel like it is there to me. Things like this has to be established on screen and not in an After Show many people don't watch.
 
Thoughts...

First Romulans with Irish accents, now holograms. What's the fascination here with irish accents?

Holographic interfaces haven't come so far since 'Discovery' over 100 years ago...

Picard stashes a fu*k ton of guns under tables of his home. So much for Earth being a peaceful paradise.

Quantum finger printing. (time travel?)

The sister = Borg Queen is coming back?

More mysteries and questions raised, why do you want to go to cloud city or wherever? Find out 4 episodes later.
I kinda figured most of those weapons belonged to Laris & Zhaban.
The only one that didn't appear to be Romulan was the Phaser that Jean-Luc pulled from the holster on the chair.
 
I don't think the green stuff is supposed to be acid. I think it's nanotech of some sort. Acid doesn't dissolve a body like that. It reacts with what it can until its spent and becomes water and gas. But it can't break down a mass larger than it is.
It took out the Romulan AND the chair he was tied too though.
 
If her background isn't shown more in future episodes, it doesn't feel like it is there to me. Things like this has to be established on screen and not in an After Show many people don't watch.
Yes. I watched the after show and not I have much better understanding of the character. But I hope it will be actually explored in the future episodes. And I believe it will.
 
A fair point was just brought up in another thread.

Wearing sunglasses outdoors is also a symptom shown by MU counterparts.

Clearly Corey Hart is from the Mirror Universe:

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And while I'm on a Canadian theme, I can't hear the name Raffi Musiker without thinking "Raffi Music"! (my daughter loved him when she was younger).
 
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I don't think the green stuff is supposed to be acid. I think it's nanotech of some sort. Acid doesn't dissolve a body like that. It reacts with what it can until its spent and becomes water and gas. But it can't break down a mass larger than it is.

But why would the nanites stop?
 
What's the fascination here with irish accents?

They're sexy. I'm about one-quarter Irish and, if I'd know how loopy the women I work with would go for a guy who looks like me only slightly more muscular than me but with an Irish accent I'd have spent more time practicing it as a kid. As it is, I can manage it but the lilty type Laris has is less easy to maintain than the sort of "burn your fecking soul in Hell!!" accent of the former Rev. Ian Paisley.
 
They're sexy. I'm about one-quarter Irish and, if I'd know how loopy the women I work with would go for a guy who looks like me only slightly more muscular than me but with an Irish accent I'd have spent more time practicing it as a kid. As it is, I can manage it but the lilty type Laris has is less easy to maintain than the sort of "burn your fecking soul in Hell!!" accent of the former Rev. Ian Paisley.

I'm with you. British accents, Irish accents. I've always had a thing for Claudia Black (sounds British) and Finola Hughs, and like them Orla Brady is older but still very sexy.
 
[QUOTE="oberth, post: 13255020, member: 74825"[QUOTE="Ar-Pharazon, post: 13255019, member: 4444]"I've always had a thing for Claudia Black[/QUOTE]

we need her in trek :drool:[/QUOTE]

We really do. Bad character, good character, doesn't matter. Could she pull off Romulan?
 
I liked episode 2 quite a bit, this one... not so much. I think I see the direction the show's going now, Picard and this ragtag ship crew. Which was probably obvious to those who'd been following the press material, but as I've tried to avoid spoilers, I rather thought we'd continue jumping around with the characters already being built up. Laris has been awesome, and Soji, intriguing. The duo riding with Picard now are overly melodramatic. Rios is a bit interesting as he hashes out issues with holograms of himself, though these scenes are hampered by poor dialogue. "A good man," "side of the angels," such cliches.

It was nice to see Hugh again, though maybe introduce him sooner so his presence can be appreciated? I didn't realize the reclamation director was a returning character until his name dropped late in his scene, since his appearance and demeanor have changed so much since we saw him decades ago. Still, the change is for the better, though if he meets Picard I hope for an involuntary whispered Locutus.
 
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