Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x06 - "The Impossible Box"

[Tarek71]

Well we have seen Borg Queens. IIRC, there was a Voyager episode where Q referred to the Romulan Empress. It might be a reference to her.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I don't consider Raffi not being hung over a flaw, because I'm sure there's an instant hangover cure in the 24th Century.

Syntha-hangovers. Synthetic booze. Synthetic hangovers.

Mostly, though, I was bored, which is how I feel about 70% of the episodes in this show. I don't forget it's on and watch it as soon as it's available, but I rarely give it my full attention. I wander off and read things. I have to rewatch scenes because I missed something from not focusing. This is the opposite of how I feel when I rewatch The Expanse while working. Sometimes I have to put stuff down because I'm too focused on something on the TV. Its a fair comparison too, since both shows are character driven political mystery-box thrillers with scientific discoveries at the heart. But Picard just doesn't work. Not just as Star Trek, but as general entertainment.

I agree. The show just hasn't given us much to care about other than Jean-Luc Picard and Seven—the nostalgia factor. And the scenes dealing with the mystery box are all soap operaish and boring boring boring. I tune out when ever the incest Romulan siblings are on screen.

 

[Yistaan]

So how long has this Borg cube with teleporter been in Romulan space? Because if it predated the supernova, Hugh hiding it from the greater galaxy could have literally doomed the entire Romulan populace (who could have used it to evacuate).

 

[Enterprise Capt]

That's a good point and could be an interesting story within itself.

 

[Discofan]

Syntha-hangovers. Synthetic booze. Synthetic hangovers.
...

Relics?

 

[Bad Thoughts]

So how long has this Borg cube with teleporter been in Romulan space? Because if it predated the supernova, Hugh hiding it from the greater galaxy could have literally doomed the entire Romulan populace (who could have used it to evacuate).

I'm sure that there could be technological limits that can be rhetorically inserted into the dialogue that would limit this. It's still hundreds of millions, if not billions, of individuals who would need to be moved. The numbers are enormous.

 

[Blip]

IF they feel they need romance in the show... and I don't think they do... then take another look at Space Legolas

I'm hoping he'll be persuaded to join SF Academy by the series' end, following in the footsteps of such alumni as Worf, Saavik and Icheb (ok, maybe not quite so much Icheb, after last week...). And then join the cast of a NEXT-Next Generation series set at the start of the 25th Century

 

[Duke]

I recently rewatched an episode of Voyager called Timeless. In the episode Harry Kim tells the doctor that the Borg temporal transmitter was discovered in a damaged Borg cube in the Beta Quadrant. Perhaps the artifact had some temporal purpose that went wrong causing it to be disconnected from the collective.

 

[eschaton]

So how long has this Borg cube with teleporter been in Romulan space? Because if it predated the supernova, Hugh hiding it from the greater galaxy could have literally doomed the entire Romulan populace (who could have used it to evacuate).

I don't think it's logististically possible to evacuate billions of people through a single doorway - unless that doorway was located on the Romulan homeworld's surface.

 

[cooleddie74]

One could always retcon that cube from the excised future timeline to be the same cube in PIC, since there's nothing in "Timeless(VOY)" that precludes the same cube being near Romulan space during the 2380s of that timeline.

 

[DaveyNY]

Wheaton is interviewing Frakes and Spiner next week.
Perhaps Data is going to show up again in another Picard dream?

 

[Gepard]

I don't think it's logististically possible to evacuate billions of people through a single doorway - unless that doorway was located on the Romulan homeworld's surface.

No, but you could give the tech to Starfleet and/or the Romulans so they can copy it.

I'm a little fuzzy on the timeline surrounding The Artifact so I'm just assuming none of this tech was available during the period the Romulans needed evacuating. I have the distinct impression that Romulan activity on the cube post-dates the supernova, though I'm not sure why I think that. Did the show ever establish when the reclamation project started?

 

[cooleddie74]

I think it was abandoned and taken over by the Romulans around 2383, so about two years before the failure of the rescue armada and four before the actual supernova itself.

 

[Crewman6]

Wheaton is interviewing Frakes and Spiner next week.
Perhaps Data is going to show up again in another Picard dream?

Spiner said he'd be in multiple episodes and so far, he's only been in the one.

 

[Crewman6]

Then how did the Queen escape? I think they brought that up in First Contact, but I must of forgotten.

The queen didn't "escape." She's not a physical being, she's an embodiment of the collective. Wherever the collective exists, the Queen exists.

We see her constructed in FC. She didn't come physically from the Cube.

 

[GulBahana]

Maybe they'll do a recreation of Data on the holodeck so he can meet his daughter. Might be too cheesy though.

 

[Yistaan]

Spiner said he'd be in multiple episodes and so far, he's only been in the one.

Star Trek Picard Episode 10 - Attack of the Data Clones

Picard: Finally, we're on the planet with 2 red moons and eternal lightning. Who in the galaxy lives on such a planet anyway, Count Dracula?

Army of Datas: Greetings, Captain!

Picard: Wow, that sudden revelation that a single positronic neuron of Data's held his entire essence was a remarkably convenient thing.

 

[Crewman6]

Heh, I've been seeing people think the transporter at the end is some bullshit they made up for the show, not realizing it originated from Voyager.

So....some bullshit they made up for a different show.

 

[Crewman6]

The show's being produced by the biggest Voyager fangirl in the universe.

Ugh, no wonder it's terrible.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

So....some bullshit they made up for a different show.

Teching the tech (or PillerFilling) is nothing new. It's about as Trek as you can get. (However, I would prefer less of it.)