Rios and Soong have each called Picard out on his bloviating ("Enough already!").
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x09 - "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1"
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Rios and Soong have each called Picard out on his bloviating ("Enough already!").
Data didn't make a painting of Dahj. Maddox designed Sutra and Jana, and later Dahj and Soji, to resemble one of Data's paintings, which he had seen, in homage to Data.
Why does it matter that Ramdha went through the Admonition before Jana left Coppelius and before Soji was created? The existence of the Zhat Vash and initiation of its members isn't reliant on the known existence of synthetic lifeforms - they've been around for centuries, according to Laris. They knew that synthetic research was at an advanced stage, and that Maddox had gone into hiding most likely to continue that work, so they continued recruiting.
Narek wasn't onto Soji from the start. She'd been on the Cube for 3 years before he arrived - Narissa said that many Zhat Vash agents had been operating over scores of systems trying to track the synths down, the show started at the end of that process, when both had just been located.
Soji's mission was to investigate the possibility of Romulan involvement in the Mars attack, Dahj's was to investigate the possibility of Federation involvement in the Mars attack. Both seem to have gone about it in a roundabout sort of way, but neither actually knew they were on a mission. Maddox seems to have been playing the long game - which actually figures, for a guy Agnes described as 'secret planny'.
I too would like to know what happened to all the Federation scientists and doctors working on the Cube!
If you interpret disagreement as provocation for offense well that's a "you" problem.
Not true. The individual installments setup and define the internal reality and physics of a fictional series (except when noted otherwise). Whether real or fiction folks pick chose a lot of things and it is based on those choices they are judged as credible or not. Folks can say they dislike SW I to III as I loathe episodes VII through IX, however, it would be fallacious of anyone to try and claim they didn't exist or had no bearing on the story or to ignore their impact on what follows.
Show your math on that statement or retract it.
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What? 3 years? No. Where did you get that from? We see Narek is already there on Soji's introduction (remember the black woman talking about "hot Romulans"?). Soji arrived at the cube after(!) Dahj was killed. I doubt it took Picard 3 years to assemble his crew.
Sounds reasonable. But where did you get that from? Have I missed that? When was that said?
I don't get it, where in the episode(s) did they mention Sutra was Lore's daughter. I don't remember anyone mentioning Lore in any of the episodes. All we know is Sutra is Jana's sister much like Soji is Daj's sister because they are created in pairs.
The two androids who take Picard into custody at the end of the episode look a lot like the synths from "Children of Mars"...
Having watched the episode again, I feel better about it than on first watch. It's not my favorite of the season, but I do like it. There are wonderful character beats, a gorgeously strange first act action sequence, and a fantastic performance from Isa Briones. The plot as a whole holds up.
I think my single critique is that the pace is faster than prior episodes and thus doesn't let us sit with character choices. The series has taught us a narrative grammar for how place, character, and plot unfolds. This episodes disrupts that grammar somewhat, as we encounter new civilizations and characters, cover physical geography, find answers, and watch characters' choices evolve rapidly. I wanted more time for Soji to acclimate to being synthetic and make her choice, and I wanted to know Sutra and Soong better before making theirs. Partly, this is down to the editing and direction. Five more minutes and some different camera choices would have helped a lot.
That said, I like the story as it's unfolding. I like that it's now clear that the synthetics were the ancient species that towed a bunch of worlds into an octonary, not the victims of a disaster. I like that there's a solid thematic reason for why the synths would want to destroy half the galaxy, and I like that we're dealing with unreliable narrators. I particularly like how much Soji has emerged as a real person. It's a real testament to Briones that Soji and Sutra share a scene and I never questioned the trickery involved in their interaction.
Oh, and although I'm not much of a TOS fan, I love the brazen TOS/early TNG vibes of this synthetic commune. Fun stuff.
I think my single critique is that the pace is faster than prior episodes and thus doesn't let us sit with character choices. The series has taught us a narrative grammar for how place, character, and plot unfolds. This episodes disrupts that grammar somewhat, as we encounter new civilizations and characters, cover physical geography, find answers, and watch characters' choices evolve rapidly. I wanted more time for Soji to acclimate to being synthetic and make her choice, and I wanted to know Sutra and Soong better before making theirs. Partly, this is down to the editing and direction. Five more minutes and some different camera choices would have helped a lot.
That said, I like the story as it's unfolding. I like that it's now clear that the synthetics were the ancient species that towed a bunch of worlds into an octonary, not the victims of a disaster. I like that there's a solid thematic reason for why the synths would want to destroy half the galaxy, and I like that we're dealing with unreliable narrators. I particularly like how much Soji has emerged as a real person. It's a real testament to Briones that Soji and Sutra share a scene and I never questioned the trickery involved in their interaction.
Oh, and although I'm not much of a TOS fan, I love the brazen TOS/early TNG vibes of this synthetic commune. Fun stuff.
A number of of felt she acted like Lore. Less flat-out evil, but menacing in a way.
If Maddox had B4 with Data's neurons/engrams.whatever, he may have ended up with Lore as well. Or Altan somehow ended up with Lore.
It's a nicely-designed prop and all, but if the medkit it's in also has a TNG-era hypospray - why bother going through the time and expense to design and build a blink-and-you'll-miss-it new Tricorder? Why not just use a TNG or DS9 prop? The design choices this show makes frustrates me sometimes.Since we didn't get to see the Tricorder opened in the actual episode, here's the concept art of it opened.
I think writing a long satire about me and then comparing me to a crying man is an attempt at offense. How would you take it?
Fallacious means misleading or deceptive. I’m not trying to deceive anyone. You might mean that it is illogical, but again, this is not fact or science or history. It’s entertainment. The writers themselves basically support me as they, themselves reinterpret, throw out, and retcon things all the time. They also canonize things from TAS and fan work piecemeal while others don’t acknowledge it at all. Nearly every sub section of Trek is a soft reboot, including TMP and then again in TWOK, making slicing the franchise up into bits completely possible and internally square. And it’s perfectly possible to judge later installments based on previous ones. I don’t watch Picard as an attempt to add to the canon. I watch it to see how new writers interpret the material and I mostly judge it based on its merits as any story, not as Star Trek.
I stand by it fully. Everyone has head canon, that’s why there is a term for it. I know you do, too. Even the statement that the E always looked like the discoprise is a personal decision to pick one thing over another, even though it’s been presented to me as the only way to see it. I mean, they were both on screen.
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In Ep1 Narek arrives on the Cube via Warbird and when he introduces himself he tells Soji (who is already there) he is "new here". They hook up and by Ep2 are an item.
The black woman from Ep2 is a new arrival. Soji talks like she been there awhile, outlining the mission of the project. So while it's possible she hasn't been there three years, she has been there longer than Narek or the Trill.
The same reason people keep talking about Q.
Then they will be culled along side the organics becuase they are mechanical and not synthetic.
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