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

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They weren't "fugitives", Picard was visiting under a diplomatic flag and Soji was also an authorized resident scientist who escaped a murder attempt.

As for Enlnor, his tendency to murder at the drop of a hat makes me very uncomfortable with the character and Picard really should be, too.
Yeah but everyone seems fine with murder, why even stay on the ship it’s not like Picard won’t be in danger where he is going. Elmore has no problem killing his fellow roms the writing is horrid on this series
 
When Picard beams over to the cube, I think all his flashbacks are from First Contact, I don’t think any TNG footage was in there.
Which makes sense, the Borg stuff in that movie is higher quality, and in widescreen.
Some were from BOBW, like the single tear scene

Why is everyone listening to Dr. Jurati's fake autopsy report on Maddox? Did everyone forget her doctorate was in cybernetics and not medicine?
She was an MD first

Does anyone else think Raffaela was a little rude to be vaping in front of everyone like that?
They probably got rid of second-hand effects so only the consumer is affected

Then how did the Queen escape? I think they brought that up in First Contact, but I must of forgotten.
In a way that needs >3D thinking...
 
The show is being interrupted by a commercial for prescription medication that could cause pain in my groin. :(

Kor
 
Hey, he always usually asks them not to commit suicide by fighting him. It's just that they never listen.

And why should their species matter?

"I'm a samurai trained by the Romulan equivalent of the Faceless (Wo)men Order of Assassins. Don't mess with me or lose your head!!"

Sincerely,

Elnor

:guffaw::D
 
Liked the episode overall aside from some of the Raffi stuff and a plot contrivance. Gave it an 8, best score tied with the pilot.
 
Do the Qowat Milat teach kids to do anything other than behead people? Maybe for variety, Elnor shakes things up a little next week?
Tune in next week as Elnor distracts the Romulan guards by starting a game of charades!

What do people make of that Borg drone who woke up when Picard got that dizzy spell? He’s not an XB (doesn’t look like he’s been worked on).

If he woke up because of Picard, then will he follow Picard to Nepenthe to capture/assimilate him? Doesn’t make sense as Picard is passed his sell-by-date.
I'd have to watch again to be sure, but wasn't Picard hallucinating that the xBs who were trying to help him were active Borg?

Hugh is Borg. He may well be seen as being disposable.
Which would be another motivating factor for Picard in representing the xBs.

Gorram it, my PVR cut off the ending! Brooding Romulan just set down the box and ran out of the meditation room with Soji chasing him. Was the box a bomb? Did she die? Can someone tell me what I missed?
Yeah, she died. :angel:

I wonder if there being chronometric particles detected on the cube will have any relevance to the story?
Could that just be referring to the scanning device that Soji was using to check the age of her belongings?
 
The best episode of the series so far is written by someone not named Chabon or Beyer.

Give Nick Zayas more episodes, please. The last 15-20 minutes were the definition of good writing, Star Trek or otherwise.

Zayas has the story editor rank, so he is lower ranked than the ones with producer ranks: Chabon, Goldsman, Duff, Beyer. Someone else may have done some rewrites without claiming credit. Chabon as the show runner for sure is involved in all the scripts.
 
I really don't think the whole Jurati killing Not!Maddox thing is over and done with. It's Chekhov's Murder. Just wait and see.
I wouldn't underestimate Rios...I'll bet he's the one who figures Jurati out. And neither he nor the show would want to play their hand prematurely.
To be fair, it's not the first time this happened with CBS Trek shows... it's almost as if some viewers fail to consider that the entire season is scripted and shot together and will routinely complain about things that are obviously going to be addressed for not being addressed right away. Remember back when the Tardigrade was first strapped into the Spore Drive, Discovery jumped and it was obviously suffering, then the episode ended there and people were complaining left and right that the show has thrown out Star Trek's positive message because it was being treated as a pack animal without any regard to its obvious suffering? And they didn't even stop to consider that if this were the case, the show wouldn't show the Tardigrade suffering at all, and lo and behold, it was resolved right in the next episode with Burnham trying to save it and Stamets injecting himself with Tardigrade DNA?

It's the same here for me. The show wouldn't show flashbacks to Maddox's murder if they were going to simply sweep all of it under the rug.
 
It almost feels to me that they probably have about 5 episodes of story and they are trying to stretch to 10.

If they cant get the creative juices going for a 10 episode season, perhaps they should take a page from the British Sherlock series and do 3-4 high scale 90 minute "event tv movies" for each season instead.
 
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