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

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Not really, because he's still mortal. He just gets to live as long as he would have without the brain defect. And that could well be 50-60 more years.

McCoy was born nearly eighty years before Picard and managed to live until at least 137. I don't see why Picard couldn't make it that long in his new body.
 
This is all way too nitpicky, so take it with some salt, but some lingering questions...
Shhhhhh don't think with your brain. Lasers go pew pew, Data, Picard, Riker I know who they are so I clapped!

Seriously nothing about this show or it's plots or anything make any sense. I still don't even get why the Federation refused to help the Romulans when as far as they knew, the Romulans had literally nothing to do with the attack on Mars. Don't think about it though! Picard, Data, Picard loves Data now even though they weren't even close in the show! Picard, PICARD has survivors guilt, PICARD, you know, the most hardass captain in all of Starfleet who constantly goes on about duty and facing death in the line of duty.

Seriously ugh. What a waste of an opportunity. Literally the Redlettermedia "Galaxy" fanfic thing they did was far more interesting and entertaining than this entire season.
 
So is Picard a muppet? Or a muppet of a man? or a very manly muppet?
Altan and Jurati will be killed off next season and no one will know how to transfer minds into androids anymore. Thus preserving continuity if Discovery's 32nd century isn't filled with androids and they'll get a "Measure of a Man" sequel where Picard needs legal help from an immortality hungry Federation eager to strip him apart to rediscover how to transfer minds to machines.

If you thought the Federation was bad when hungering for immortality in Insurrection, you haven't seen anything yet.
 
McCoy was born nearly eighty years before Picard and managed to live until at least 137. I don't see why Picard couldn't make it that long in his new body.
At this point they're probably saving the full TNG/DS9/VOY reunion for Discovery where they're all still alive in android bodies.

Jake Sisko: Dad, you're finally back! About time, after all I only waited 1,000 years in an android body.
 
This is all way too nitpicky, so take it with some salt, but some lingering questions...

Agnes Jurati is getting away with murder. Why?

Seven and Raffi spoke enough lines to one another at some point to land in a relationship in the final moments? What?

What did Elnor really do this season to warrant his inclusion? What did Seven do that Hugh couldn't have done? His death seems all the more unnecessary. This episode ends with the borg cube and all those ex b's not even being mentioned. Why would Seven and Elnor be on Rios's ship with Picard at all? Wasn't their whole thing staying and dealing with the ex borg's?

This alien race they just contacted, the beacon opened a portal. Message sent. Why didn't this galaxy spanning synth race just reopen the portal and come through on their own? They're this advanced, you'd think them capable of it.

Why did Commodore Oh not fire on the planet? Why did she back down when her whole mission is to save biological life as we know it? Why didn't she out that reason to Starfleet in the stand off? Why didn't she fire on the ships and go down in a blaze of fire trying to destroy the beacon and the synths from contacting this race in the future? In her mind she's saving all biological life. How could she back down given what was shown?

The beacon was made once. Any of the synths can go make it again. Are they just left on their own now, free to one day open a portal to a race that will annihilate all life as we know it? Aren't things dire right now? That race was contacted and are on their way, no? One day? The scope of this threat really didn't need to be this massive and unwieldy.

Also, why was Data trapped in that box? I get Spiner didn't want to come back and play Data. Makes sense as to why he was killed off. But in universe, shouldn't he have been placed in another synth body on that planet some years ago? If not in a new body, there's countless starships out there. Turn his consciousness into a hologram and give him a mobile emitter. Or have him in a holodeck on a starship doing work from there. Endless possibilities, making a new synth body one of the more obvious ways to go. They have B4's body. It shouldn't have been that hard to bring Data back when there's all these other synths on the planet.

Did they ever mention what became of Sutra? Did Soong just knock her out or did he murder her? Won't she have to be imprisoned forever if he didn't murder her?

My biggest nitpick with the whole episode was when all those carbon copy Starfleet ships warped in. Such air out of the sails. There is so much diversity of design in Starfleet, and the cgi just seemed off. If money was an issue, why not just say there's a fleet of 28 Romulan ships and send in a dozen Starfleet ships, instead of 100s to the point of it looking how it looked. Too many ships.

I thought this was a pretty compelling and beautiful episode overall. So many great and poignant moments. But I don't know why no one was asking some of these questions when this show was getting made.The way things ended it looked like they were staying on Rios's ship? Doing?

Not in the least bit nitpicky. This is actually a reasonable set of questions (among many others) that I for one felt this show didn't adequate handle or pay off as well.
 
I will say the sky portal thing and the Synth protector alien thing were the least-interesting part of the whole episode. By the time we got to that point and saw the Doc Ock tentacles coming through the transdimensional opening or whatever it was I was like: "Just show more Riker and the new ships."
 
I think the point is he's exactly how he was but now they don't have to listen to fans complaining why he doesn't have Irumodic Syndrome.
I never even saw how that would have been an issue. As the Prime timeline is very different from the AGT timeline, the writers could have said they found a cure in the Prime timeline. Picard himself may have even contributed to development of a cure using his memories of whatever irumodic syndrome research his AGT future self had.
 
I beg to differ...wasn't she just given the 25th century equivalent of Radicalization?
Or driven insane by the knowledge.

Either way, her mind was altered and then restored. So, it's OK. Just like when Spock tried to kill Kirk, then thought he killed Kirk, then Chekov tried to kill Kirk, and Geordi tried to kill a Klingon governor.

I never even saw how that would have been an issue. As the Prime timeline is very different from the AGT timeline, the writers could have said they found a cure in the Prime timeline. Picard himself may have even contributed to development of a cure using his memories of whatever irumodic syndrome research his AGT future self had.
I would have preferred that.
 
So now that Oh is outed as a Romulan general it would seem the Federation is looking for a new head of security. Hopefully one that's not an alien plant, a double agent, or a member of a secret cult.
 
I wonder what stopped them using the Enterprise? Was it licensing issues or the fact they didn’t want to repeat the season one finale of Discovery again. Maybe they also thought that it might overshadow everything else.
 
Having an incurable condition was critical for Picards own personal struggle with mortality

Until it was no longer critical and the struggle ended.
 
I never even saw how that would have been an issue. As the Prime timeline is very different from the AGT timeline, the writers could have said they found a cure in the Prime timeline. Picard himself may have even contributed to development of a cure using his memories of whatever irumodic syndrome research his AGT future self had.
I never understood why they had to explain Klingon ridges but...
 
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