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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x04 - "Watcher"

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This whole conversation we’ve had here about fictional time travel rules reminds me of that scene in Avengers Endgame when they discuss it and Star Trek is one of their examples.
 
I didn't find it confusing at all, it only took me a moment to realize after watching it myself (before Terry's interview) that that's why Guinan didn't remember him.

Doug Drexler is also perfectly fine with Terry's explanation he's probably a bigger fan of the pre-2009 series than most of us.

Heck freaking RMB was fine with it. And he's a hardcore purist nitpicks and complains the hell out of everything new trek, as some people who browse the Discovery subforum would know.
 
I think it’s just the punk on the bus that doesn’t really work with these rules. I just wish Picard mentioned it to Guinan and then putting it together there.
 
Concerning Guinan and the punk and the timeline, I think our Trek nerdiness is getting in the way of seeing the obvious answers through no shortcoming of the show. I was terribly distracted by Guinan not recognizing Picard, but when I explained the issue to my mom (who only got on board with Trek with Discovery), she ably suggested that the future didn't happen, so obviously they never met. Obviously.

Matalas's answer makes sense, and you don't need charts to explain Guinan or the punk: the future we know was erased, along with all the journeys those future characters took, but some people remember echoes of what should have been.
 
Canon says they were fleeing when the B was launched
Guinan must have gone home at some point between the 19th century and that time.

Or the writers of Generations forgot Time’s Arrow! /sarcasm

According to Q-Who the El-Aurian homeworld was assimilated a century ago, which would put it around 2266, 26 years before Generations.

Guinan could have been rounding/estimating, but 24 years is a big round. Maybe it took a while for the refuge ships to arrive.
 
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It makes sense but it makes you think that in that case, the Confederation is the actual future and that the Fedrration only happens when Picard and co. Interfere.
In that case they are altering the future into something that shouldn’t happen.
 
But do we know Q altered the past? He could be trying to fix it.
I mean it’s not really his style to alter history. Seems very dangerous
 
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It makes sense but it makes you think that in that case, the Confederation is the actual future and that the Fedrration only happens when Picard and co. Interfere.
In that case they are altering the future into something that shouldn’t happen.
I think that would be a cool twist and a great commentary about where things are heading!

No. Q altered the past first, and now they’re altering the past to prevent Q’s altering of the past.
That's what they want you to think, but what if there's a twist?
 
Interview on bringing back Kirk Thatcher

https://trekmovie.com/2022/03/24/ex...rd-brought-back-spoiler-from-the-voyage-home/

Terry admits it doesn’t make sense that he reaches for his neck, but it’s a fun scene and call back so who cares.

But do we know Q altered the past? He could be trying to fix it.
I mean it’s not really his style to alter history. Seems very dangerous
The trailer for next week’s episode shows him interfering. Heck at the end of his episode he tried to interfere. This is a test for Picard, why would he help him?
 
The trouble with the time travel isn't the travel. It's fan obsession with trying to connect trivia irrelevant to the story at hand.

The only thing that I had questions about was why not use the lights and siren on the cruiser to get through traffic instead of playing GTA.
 
The trailer for next week’s episode shows him interfering. Heck at the end of his episode he tried to interfere. This is a test for Picard, why would he help him?
I think there is more to it. The trailer is implying that he might be interfering but he might be trying to help in his own way.
 
Q moved Picard and co from the real federation. Perhaps that removed them from the past, but did not affect other meetings - Punk on bus, Kira/OBrien and the hippys, the voyager crew and Stalling etc

Reasonable for Guinan not to recognise Picard initially, she didn’t spend much time with him in 19th century and that was 130 years ago, and she wasn’t expecting to see him for hundreds more years, however once he mentioned time travel that would have opened the right context.

I don’t understand why him telling her name at the end of the episode changed her mind though.

as for ten forward, we know there were many lounges on the D in season 1. Picard decided it would be better to have a single large lounge where the crew could mingle, and asked Guinan to run it. She came aboard and said “ok, let’s put it here on deck 10”, and the rest is history.

The bigger question to me is why Picard hadn’t seen his oldest and dearest friend since she went back to LA before 2401.
 
Makes me glad the internet wasn't really a thing when TNG and DS9 were on the air.

TrekBBS launched during DS9, and plenty of us discussed trek before then on things like umtss. I remember the hype about first contact and the story leaks coming out - end of the federation stuff etc.

If Guinan can age up or down at will, why didn't she age up in Rascals?

We don’t know she can age down (although seems a reasonable inference), but she didn’t want to age though, she was happy to be a kid again for a little while. Presumably she can’t age down to a baby, or even a child, perhaps the removal of the RVN sequences prevented it.
 
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