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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x03 - "Assimilation"

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I get what he’s trying to say. She felt too human like here with her mannerisms. In First Contact Alice Krige played her more regal like.
 
I doubt this group of Trek Writers knows about the TOS/TNG warp scale thing. They just wanted to emulate the "calling out the warp speed in TVH" thing. But even so, there's no reason why the different warp scales would change how the thing would work. Maybe the different warp speeds changes how long it takes or works but whether you're going TOS Warp 9.7 or TNG Warp 9.7 things still work the same.

Well, what's even more problematic is that they're traveling at warp 9.x and just mildly cruising over the surface of the sun.....
 
Doesn't the queen say coordinates at some point?
that's where the watcher is (pershing square corner)

Also, technically, Picard is a robot in this show (I always forget - but so do the writers). So why couldn't HE do the time travel calculations if even Spock could have done them? Instead of the Borg queen.
Soong: Everyone was paying attention...
;)

ETA: wouldn't Griffith Park Observatory be a better place to conduct scans, allowing them to reach both the basin and the valley?
Or the US Bank tower right next to it, which has a top floor that is actually a bit higher because Wilshire is on lower ground IIRC

The coordinates on his console point to a farm between Palmdale and LA.
But the actual crash in the episode looked like a forest, so the coordinates might just be an easter egg or something.
see above...
Close to Vasquez Rocks, that's why he said home ;)
it's 12 miles from raffi's home
 
I read somewhere that Gary 7 was a caveman.

As trained monkeys on a far off alien world, the cromagnons, collected from earth 6 thousand years ago wouldn't have made the same leap to homosapien, and that explains Robert's forehead. If he looks Homopsapien, it's only because he has surgery to look so.

Although the evolutionary leap was about 10,000 years ago, so it is unlikely that Gary is Cromagnon, unless he was the last Cromagnon, which may exactly be why an alien would collect him.

Oh my.

6,000 years.

That's when Flint got left behind on Earth by his space mommy and space daddy.
 
I wonder if we will learn about the Irish unification that should be happening at this time
one of the things on memory alpha that might easily become true ;)

In First Contact, she went on an angry tirade about being spurned and forgotten by Picard. She also yelled at Data for defying her. She's always been emotional, Annie's just dialing up the snark.
Precisely. As a child, first contact was my introduction to the borg. And they stopped being scary as soon as the queen showed up (well, down), revealing yet another iviiil villain. On voyager she became even more a moustache-twirling villain, even to the point of killing drones who failed her, as if we amputated fingers who failed us.

Here…well, she’s scary!
 
I have a theory that World War III will come into play at some point. I looked at Memory Alpha and it’s supposed to start in 2026.

Based on a graphic with other inaccuracies (2061 for first warp flight for example)

We know from dialog that 2063 is "about 10 years after the third world war"

ETA: wouldn't Griffith Park Observatory be a better place to conduct scans, allowing them to reach both the basin and the valley?

Could have bumped into Rain Robinson, or at least had a picture of her or namecheck in the background (Page for Director Robinson or something)

But they aren't short of callback references, so I'm happy either way
 
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Very good.

or it would’ve been. The faux, drawn-out tension around the comm badge was deeply, deeply irritating. Tanked the whole thing.

A shame too. The first two episodes of this season were utterly spectacular.
 
yes. Explicitly said so in Family.

Sorry, I meant more recently than that.

Robert and Rene died in 2371.

The Romulans super nova happened in 2387.

That's 16 years that no one was running the vineyard?

Marie was in no condition after the farm killed her men.

I say the vineyard ran fallow, and then when Picard needed to retire, he rebuilt his Vinyard in California, because the United Earth had repurposed his ancestral land, because I'm a little stinker.
 
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