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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x10 - "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2"

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I think many folks believe that the white rectangle on the front of the bridge module was a window of some kind.
At least as best as could be shown in 1966.
That was a viewscreen. It used visual sensors to show any image they wanted. Like all other Fed ships since then.
 
I know Chabon seems to have a thing about Stardates but I think Data would have used one there.

I agree, but maybe he was trying to be more human? In that eerie gray death setting. This was about the captain and about Data's final foray into humanity. He went Gregorian for it lol.

Again I agree with the nitpick though. Another good one from last episode is that Sutra said "fascinating" (Spock's catchphrase) instead of...was it "interesting"...or was it "intriguing"...(which is what Data said more), after she preformed the mind-meld on Jurati. It was a little thing, but... Chabon loved TOS most (it's why we got so many little TOS references, instead of maybe TNG ones?) so I understand his error, but I forgive it because it was a lovely episode all the same.

...Except for those hideous Federation ships. The Big Business that is Gaming I think is now killing canon ship design.
 
Another good one from last episode is that Sutra said "fascinating" (Spock's catchphrase) instead of...was it "interesting"...or was it "intriguing"...(which is what Data said more), after she preformed the mind-meld on Jurati. It was a little thing, but... Chabon loved TOS most (it's why we got so many little TOS references, instead of maybe TNG ones?) so I understand his error, but I forgive it because it was a lovely episode all the same.

Sutra saying "fascinating" was most definitely not an "error," it was clearly intentional, because she is described as an afficianado of Vulcan culture. She was using the Vulcanesque phrase, not the Datonian one.
 
I agree. Chabon is right that stardates are meaningless and don't provide any information. But it is silly to assume a Federation of planets would use the Earth Gregorian calendar.
It's silly to assume that humans would dominate the Federation so completely to begin with, but here we are.
Another good one from last episode is that Sutra said "fascinating" (Spock's catchphrase) instead of...was it "interesting"...or was it "intriguing"
I bet if someone asks on Instagram, Chabon will say it was on purpose. Sutra's a Vulcanophile, after all. :techman:
 
No mention of how Oh made her escape from Starfleet. No backup plans? No mindmelding Clancy into becoming a Zhat Vash devotee? She can sabotage a whole planet of synths but made no backup plans to sabotage any Starfleet ships that would be sent after her?
It's a two-parter, not a three-parter.

fuck chabon dude can't write good trek like fuck me the entire show went fucking nowhere everything was fucking pointless
ill repeat myself but FUCK MICHAEL CHABON
did you actually watch the episode and pay attention? this is the most unwarranted, pointless attack that I've read in a while.

Data felt emotion in his final moments of existence and got to cry one last time. It was such a heartwrenching but beautiful moment.
Are you sure he cried? I didn't see that...

I have a (typical Me and therefore typical Weird) question: Is Jean-Luc... fully functional? I mean he's an android now, so...? Asking for a friend, of course. :D
Yes, Soong said that everything works ;)

Ditto Agnes and Rios and Elnor weeping uncontrollably after Picard died. Just ludicrous, and completely unearned by the preceding 9 episodes. I don't feel like any of these characters were close enough to warrant such a strong reaction.
Would you have preferred everyone shrugging, kicking him into a pit, and walking away laughing? :p
 
Would you have preferred everyone shrugging, kicking him into a pit, and walking away laughing? :p

I'd have preferred if they had developed the relationships better, so that I felt what they wanted me to feel when the time came. Or, even better, they could just not have killed Picard only to immediately resurrect him two scenes later. ;)
 
He shouldn't need to spell it out for anyone, it's clear from context in the episode.
I agree. But context seems to elude a certain subset of the posts in these threads, which is sad because...
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I'd have preferred if they had developed the relationships better, so that I felt what they wanted me to feel when the time came. Or, even better, they could just not have killed Picard only to immediately resurrect him two scenes later. ;)

I think you missed the quite obvious attachment that Rios and Jurati formed to Picard over the season, and the fact that Raffi and Elnor both had long-standing, emotionally-fraught relationships with him. So as a writer, a viewer and a fan, no, I'm buying into this criticism at all.
 
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