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

[Gov Kodos]

I'm late to the party and several drinks behind here so don't mind me.

 

[Lynn Minmay]

LOVED it...maybe my favorite episode of the season.

Gave it a 10.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I also think they've severely underutilized Elnor up to now. There's a lot to explore there.

Guy's only been in three episodes thus far, and the first was devoted to his intro. Patience.

 

[Tosk]

Yep. He had regenerative bandages over his implant locations at the end of "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II(TNG)" but even those were gone by the following episode.

Picard did still have a visible contusion on his head at the beginning of Family, but it's gone soon afterwards. Beverly must have given him one more treatment before he beamed down.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Could have done without the cheesy fanfare and the constant attempts at Elrond humour - hate to say this about the first Australian cast member, but he’a not much of an actor, and a bloody awful character.

I was initially annoyed by Elnor. As a fellow aussie hearing our accent on American tv shows is akin to nails on a black board for some reason. However I think Elnor is being purposefully portrayed as awkward and cringey. He is genuinely out of his element and doesn't know how to interact with people. Kind of what you would expect from a young man who has been raised in a cloistered environment with little outside social interaction.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I suspect that the series Picard will end on a note like Asimov's Foundation, where Picard, the man, has established independent institutions that will preserve the values and strengths of the Federation to allow them to be preserved through chaos and, if necessary, reconstituting the Federation in the future.

Being a big Foundation fan, I could live with that.

Actually, having looked things up after the fact, I guess she'd be a Space Gen Z-er. I dunno what the hell their bag is yet.

Hopefully Gen Z will be to the Millennials what the Boomers were to the McCarthyists (i.e., the antidote).

I'm not seeing that. The show made a point of removing Picard from his Federation/Starfleet bubble...I don't think it'll be about ending up back there. If he effects change, it'll be from without.

I hope that's not the case. I see the Federation as intrinsic to the whole concept of Star Trek, which is why I love to see them make peace with the Klingons and Romulans as time goes by. For Picard to leave the Federation would make him no better than those people who threaten to leave the country if their arch enemy wins the election. A sad ending for a superior character.

They need to do more to help Raffi.

That's a good thought. That should have occurred to me.

Am I the only one who thinks the box looks kinda like a Rubik's cube?

I mentioned it in my post, and a few others have, too. Don't worry about it. I'm skimming the thread, too.

 

[ThreeEdgedSword]

I suspect they are going to sell their Rubik's cube, special Romulan edition, as merch!

I agree about Raffi. They also almost played her drunkenness in front of everyone as a joke.

 

[Search4]

She's 92! Probably retired. Anyway I'm sure the Romulan Commander's spent the last decade mourning Spock anyway.

Her daughter was perfect in “Continues”...

 

[The Old Mixer]

For those who seem to have just noticed the Rubik's-like cube in this episode, we got a preview of it a few episodes back when Soji was questioning the Romulan historian lady...there were close-ups of one of the other Romulan xB patients in the ward playing with one.

Hopefully Gen Z will be to the Millennials what the Boomers were to the McCarthyists (i.e., the antidote).

Given the pattern, I think they're likely doomed to be what we Gen Xers were, and what the "Lost Generation" between the Greatest Generation and the Boomers were before that (those who were children during WWII)...lost in the noise between more vocal/attention-dominating generations.

I hope that's not the case. I see the Federation as intrinsic to the whole concept of Star Trek, which is why I love to see them make peace with the Klingons and Romulans as time goes by. For Picard to leave the Federation would make him no better than those people who threaten to leave the country if their arch enemy wins the election. A sad ending for a superior character.

I tend to see the Federation as being more of an alliance than a country in the first place, so I'm not suggesting that he'd be expatriating. I'm suggesting that he could be a force for good while not holding a (not the) military or government position.

 

[Discofan]

Isn't it possible that when Hugh mentioned the Romulan Queen, he was speaking figuratively?

 

[JoeZhang]

Isn't it possible that when Hugh mentioned the Romulan Queen, he was speaking figuratively?

Romulean Free Nation is a odd name for a monarchy.

 

[matthunter]

For those who seem to have just noticed the Rubik's-like cube in this episode, we got a preview of it a few episodes back when Soji was questioning the Romulan historian lady...there were close-ups of one of the other Romulan xB patients in the ward playing with one.

Interestingly, he became more desperate to open it once Soji got close to the details about the cube's demise... perhaps foreshadowing of Narek using one to try and kill "the Destroyer"?

 

[Kevman7987]

I tend to see the Federation as being more of an alliance than a country in the first place, so I'm not suggesting that he'd be expatriating. I'm suggesting that he could be a force for good while not holding a (not the) military or government position.

That's how I see it as well. By the end of the story Picard will have saved the day and gotten his clout back. He won't reactivate his commission and be Starfleet Admiral Picard however. The show will continue to be about him and his motley crew of ex-Starfleet officers warping around the galaxy setting right what once went wrong, hoping the next leap, will be the leap home. Oh boy.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Isn't it possible that when Hugh mentioned the Romulan Queen, he was speaking figuratively?

Very likely.

There isn't a literal Romulan Borg queen, it's just that the (ex-)Borg have traded one master for another. They used to be ruled by a queen, now it's the Romulans.

 

[Doc Mugatu]

For only the second time, I gave an episode of "Picard" a "10." "The Impossible Box" delivered, in my opinion, all one could reasonably expect as well as going above and beyond as this episode was quite emotional for me. For the first time since "I, Borg" aired in 1992, I was glad Jean-Luc did NOT infect Hugh before returning him to the collective.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

One thing I'm confused about -- when Narek first opens his impossible box, there's a figurine in it. So did he pop in a poison gas capsule for the next time?

 

[Greg Cox]

One thing I'm confused about -- when Narek first opens his impossible box, there's a figurine in it. So did he pop in a poison gas capsule for the next time?

Yep.

 

[Gonzo]

One thing I'm confused about -- when Narek first opens his impossible box, there's a figurine in it. So did he pop in a poison gas capsule for the next time?

I thought it was the same box, the idea was that opening it slowly and with patience gets you the figurine, rushing gets you the gas.

 

[matthunter]

I thought it was the same box, the idea was that opening it slowly and with patience gets you the figurine, rushing gets you the gas.

That is so disturbingly the sort of lesson Romulans WOULD teach their kids I'm buying it, but I doubt Sela or Narisso would have made it into their teens if that were the case...

 

[SJGardner]

That is so disturbingly the sort of lesson Romulans WOULD teach their kids I'm buying it, but I doubt Sela or Narisso would have made it into their teens if that were the case...

Maybe the "kid's" version only gives you an electric shock or something. I could totally imagine as a Romulan lesson-teaching tool.