Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x09 - "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1"

[ITDUDE]

It's weird they'd have one, but that looks like it could be some type of interface rather than logo.

Well, they have a name. They have structure (of sorts). They have a common machine language it seems. Might as well have a logo. If anything, if their logo is (in)famous across the galaxy and they stamp their logo on all their communication, it may demoralize their opposition and have them assimilate faster and easier, making Borg job easier.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

It may just be the “Intel” manufacturer logo from whoever first created their hardware or OS.
And they never bothered to get rid of it because it wasn’t detrimental to their mission.
We can maybe think of it as a vestigial artifact.

 

[fireproof78]

Well, they have a name. They have structure (of sorts). They have a common machine language it seems. Might as well have a logo. If anything, if their logo is (in)famous across the galaxy and they stamp their logo on all their communication, it may demoralize their opposition and have them assimilate faster and easier, making Borg job easier.

I mean they would have started as an organization of some kind, so a logo probably came with it.

 

[Turtletrekker]

This is possibly a stretch, but when I saw this:

I immediately thought of this:

Could be T'Kon.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tkon_Empire

 

[Noname Given]

They were inwented in Russia, actually!

"By a little old lady in Leningrad."

 

[Agony_Boothb]

The title of the episode means translated into english as much as either: "I lived in Arcadia, too" or "I'm also present in Arcadia".

Arcadia is another word for paradise or an utopic place

Could the title be about Data?

The 'I' in the phrase refers to death. The phrase literally means that no matter how utopian the place, death is always a constant.

 

[Timo]

That implies that the Borg transwarp tunnel puts out *directly at* this planet. Significant or just lazy on someone's part?

Umm... What would be the point of a conduit that leads from nowhere to nowhere?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Cyrus]

Can't wait to see this one. Very curious as to what they will find in the synth planet.

They haven't released too many pictures to avoid spoilers.

Even the opening credits may contain spoilers. Will Brent Spiner be listed?

 

[Gov Kodos]

This is possibly a stretch, but when I saw this:

I immediately thought of this:

Nothing like fresh air to keep your lab free of contamination.

 

[Timo]

Well, Soongian androids don't mind being buried piecewise in dirt...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[DaveyNY]

Just woke up for the day ... <YAWN> ... about 18 hours to go. (EDT)

 

[WarpFactorZ]

it's odd that the borg even have a symbol

The assimilators formerly known as Borg.

 

[Nerys Myk]

What species is that four handed alien in the fourth picture? Is that a weapon he's holding?

In the last picture where Picard is reaching out to Soji, Stewart looks more like Xavier than Picard. Not sure why.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Wow, pretty stingy on the pictures this week. Two of the six are production stills! I guess there's a lot they don't want to reveal.

 

[Dale Sams]

Can't wait to see this one. Very curious as to what they will find in the synth planet.

They haven't released too many pictures to avoid spoilers.

Even the opening credits may contain spoilers. Will Brent Spiner be listed?

I suspect we wont see him again. He seemed to imply he was only in ep one....and had to be reminded he appeared for a nano-second in other eps.

 

[DaveyNY]

I suspect we wont see him again. He seemed to imply he was only in ep one....and had to be reminded he appeared for a nano-second in other eps.

I seem to remember in The Ready Room interview with Wheaton & Frakes that Spiner indicated he would be seen again later in the season?
(vagaries of an old mind?)


A little less then 12 hours now. (EDT)

 

[Visitor1982]

Brent Spiner has said he will be in more than one episode.

 

[Aragorn]

Brief clip from tonight's episode that's a little over a minute long. I'll spoiler it just in case you want to be surprised, since the title and image flat out state what it is.

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[Mr. Laser Beam]

Brief clip from tonight's episode that's a little over a minute long. I'll spoiler it just in case you want to be surprised, since the title and image flat out state what it is.

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Why would a Borg cube need food replicators?

i doubt they were talking about the ones which fed the Reclamation Project staff and xBs, because surely they wouldn't need battery packs to be brought "back online" (indeed, why would they be offline in the first place?).

And what is Picard talking about when he says "Poor Hugh. It must have taken appallling brutality to turn such a gentle soul to violence"? Hugh was never violent.

 

[Llywela]

Spoiler

Why would a Borg cube need food replicators?

i doubt they were talking about the ones which fed the Reclamation Project staff and xBs, because surely they wouldn't need battery packs to be brought "back online" (indeed, why would they be offline in the first place?).

And what is Picard talking about when he says "Poor Hugh. It must have taken appallling brutality to turn such a gentle soul to violence"? Hugh was never violent.

Spoiler

Hugh was killed while planning an insurrection to drive the Romulans from the Cube - he wasn't going around shooting anyone himself, but insurrection is by its very nature violent, as a rule, so I guess that's what Picard means.

Any food replicators on board would have to have been installed by the Romulan reclamation project, so probably knocked offline by the general violence and whatnot - or perhaps by the Borg cube healing itself in ep 8, which probably would have disabled any non-Borg tech that had been patched in.