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

[Nyotarules]

Of course it's about ships. Is there a Trekkie alive (or dead) that has never owned even a single Enterprise model? I've had several, including the ORIGINAL Enterprise-E -- i.e. the one I created in 1990 using a plastic model of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Stadium_(Montreal)#/media/File:Le_Stade_olympique_de_Montréal.jpg

yeah, me!

 

[Nyotarules]

This week, the battle between Commodore Oh, Commodore Neo and Commodore Yez commences

 

[Bollie74]

Well Elnor is there so they could be back on the Borg Cube but if so where is Seven.

Otherwise it would indicate that the Synth Planet could be an early Borg experiment.

But doesn't the lighting and their little safari outfits kinda lead you to think they are not on the Artifact?

 

[Aragorn]

This week, the battle between Commodore Oh, Commodore Neo and Commodore Yez commences

On a Commodore 64?

 

[Nyotarules]

On a Commodore 64?

With a Commodores soundtrack

 

[The Old Mixer]

But doesn't the lighting and their little safari outfits kinda lead you to think they are not on the Artifact?

And those look like stone walls to me. Definitely not seeing a Borg cube.

 

[Borgminister]

With a Commodores soundtrack

Used to jokingly call them the Commode Doors...

 

[Danja]

And those look like stone walls to me. Definitely not seeing a Borg cube.

The cube was left to rot for a long time.

 

[fireproof78]

I was not aware Borg cubes were built from stone.

 

[thribs]

Will there be chairs on the robot planet?

 

[Aragorn]

I'd tend to agree on that last point, but I don't feel like it's a mod decision to determine/enforce who should post the episode threads.

How about a pre-episode thread and then the episode thread with voting on the release day? That way the actual episode discussion doesn't begin on page 78.

 

[Roboturner913]

I was not aware Borg cubes were built from stone.

Always looked to me like they were made out of barbecue skewers and bendy straws

 

[DaveyNY]

I'd never be so bold as to tell you how to do your job, but maybe since CR isn't doing Picard, you should nominate one person to be in charge of the episode threads. Seems like different people starting the threads each week is part of the problem.

He was doing them, but I think he gave up because folks were posting Next Episode threads way too early and burying his beautiful artwork in the middle of said threads.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I was not aware Borg cubes were built from stone.

Borgstones,
Meet the Borgstones
They're the future stone-age space zombies...

"Resistance is Yabba-Dabba Futile."

a pre-episode thread

Definitely not.

 

[Cyrus]

reportedly the script for this episode is written by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.

Ayelet Waldman is Chabon's wife. Just like her husband she is a novelist and one of many writer/producers on Picard.

 

[Hunter X]

And those look like stone walls to me. Definitely not seeing a Borg cube.

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

I immediately thought of this:

 

[Spock Must Diet!]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_in_Arcadia_ego
I don't know if anyone has mentioned the title yet, but Wikipedia has an interesting article on the painting of the same name. TL;DR version: death lurks even in paradise.

 

[NCC-73515]

it's odd that the borg even have a symbol

 

[Hythlodeus]

it's odd that the borg even have a symbol

that's Berman Trek for you. Every alien species has to have a symbol, how else could one do marketing for them?

 

[ThreeEdgedSword]

it's odd that the borg even have a symbol

It's odd tht they have holo (or other) panels/ interfaces, too. I mean, they're a hivemind, why do they need that?