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

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This week's Ready Room interview with Isa Briones shed some light on Sutra's motivations. Wil and Isa likened her to a "newly minted cultist"...somebody who's led a very sheltered life, is narrowly focused on her cause, and sees herself as the hero of her story. I'm surprised how quick Star Trek fans are to paint a character with the "evil" brush because they do the wrong thing. That's not what Trek's about.
 
jr is just not as smart as those. But I think Jurati will figure it out and transfer him. I don’t know why so many people think Picard will transfer to an android. The Golem was obviously created for Soong.
Yes, but I doubt Soong will end up using it.

Picard was an obvious guess. No, he probably wouldn't agree, but it may be in a situation where he cannot be consulted (e.g. he's unconscious). Then again, would Patrick Stewart agree to play an android, which would potentially make more than 3 seasons possible?

Hmmm, so who? Maybe we WILL get NarekBot...
At this point, I'd love for them to recreate Data (in the body of an aged Soong), "cheapening his death" or not.
 
The sight of the cube crashing was awesome, and the notion of a super-advanced group of synthetic lifeforms watching us is terrifying.
 
Probably, since that graphic is likely intended to represented spore drive technology. I doubt they are going to throw spore drive tech into the final episode with no buildup whatsoever.

However, had they gone in a spore drive/Control direction, I personally would not have been upset. Picard mind melded with Sarek, therefore should have some awareness of these plot elements. Plus, the parallel between Sarek's Bendii syndrome and Picard's Irumodic syndrome could have been explored.
 
I was thinking it's pretty super-advanced that they can mind-meld with humans...
if one of them can teach to do it, then all of them can.

Brains express and transmit electromagnetism.

Receiving and translating those transmissions, is telepathy.

Building synthetic beings, that can do anything an organic being can do is the entire point.

Copper is a better electromagnetic transmitter than iron, which is why Vulcans are telepaths and humans are not.

Vulcans are terrible telepaths.

Sutra chose to perfect a less efficient method of artificial telepathic communication, because it's cooler.

Idjit.

Is her sister's name "Kama"?
 
in other words... its damn impressive that a machine can mind-meld with a human,
its like... super advanced machines!
 
Spock was able to mindmeld with machine life forms such as Nomad and V'Ger. Why shouldn't the opposite be possible?
If it is just a biological aspect of a brain that allows esp/mind reading abilities then there really is no reason they can't be copied by a machine. I don't recall Star Trek ever taking esp powers as some sort of mystical/magic ability so why shouldn't a sufficiently designed machine be able to read thoughts? It should be no harder than copying eyesight in the Trek universe or any other sense.
 
I acknowledge. But it was the same with Spock and V'ger. He got impressions, images. Much like organics and the Admonition.

V'Ger burnt out the Enterprise's computers when it tried to talk at it's regular speed. That discovery is why Spock's head didn't pop later on.

The admonition reminder was built by the survivors of the ancient synths, not the ancient synths?
 
have there been any other instaces where a machine have mind-melded with a human or is this the first time we'v seen this? i have not read novels/comics or watched the animated series, or everything from TOS, so i dont know.
 
This week's Ready Room interview with Isa Briones shed some light on Sutra's motivations. Wil and Isa likened her to a "newly minted cultist"...somebody who's led a very sheltered life, is narrowly focused on her cause, and sees herself as the hero of her story. I'm surprised how quick Star Trek fans are to paint a character with the "evil" brush because they do the wrong thing. That's not what Trek's about.
It’s not that she’s evil for sake of being evil. Star Trek is really good at creating villains that think they are doing good. They don’t want to do the evil thing, they just don’t have any choice. Trek had Thanos-types, before it was cool. Just no one powerful enough to snap their fingers and wipe all life away. She is evil, don’t even question it. Once she figured out that if she calls this one long distance number, these new friends will come and kill all living things, she immediately put her plan in action. She even killed her own kind for this plan. If she’s not evil I don’t know what your definition for evil is.
 
This week's Ready Room interview with Isa Briones shed some light on Sutra's motivations. Wil and Isa likened her to a "newly minted cultist"...somebody who's led a very sheltered life, is narrowly focused on her cause, and sees herself as the hero of her story. I'm surprised how quick Star Trek fans are to paint a character with the "evil" brush because they do the wrong thing. That's not what Trek's about.

I think it was heavily implied that she murdered her fellow synth to further her agenda. So I think "evil" is an appropiate description of her after doing that.
 
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