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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x05 - "Fly Me to the Moon"

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I enjoyed this episode. Not-Laris and her Romulan tech had better be explained by the end or my overall grade for the season will drop. I would imagine though they will have to now. It would be impossible to just ignore.

Can't wait to find out more about what is going on with Q. He's never dull and its a pleasure to watch this character. Whatever he's up to I'm sure will be interesting. Maybe he has a continuum disease.

A really nice added touch for the message you get when you call the number on the card that Q gave.
323-634-5667
 
The main thing I disliked was the notion of injecting an instant magical cure to a debilitating genetic disorder. An experienced geneticist should know that any cure would have to work gradually over weeks and months. It was as lame as NuKhan blood, or mushroom travel to anywhere is the universe or the movie Prometheus where experienced scientists practically streaked across an unknown planet.

And yet you're cool with warp drive and transporters? Anyway, none of these diseases actually exist, but current gene therapies can produce adverse effects within minutes, as they are embedded in adenovirus vectors. Death was so overwhelming/quick in this patient that therapies were stopped for 2 decades after this happened: https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-death-of-jesse-gelsinger-20-years-later
 
The last couple of episodes were wonky, but this was back on track. Great fun.


It was as lame as NuKhan blood, or mushroom travel to anywhere is the universe or the movie Prometheus where experienced scientists practically streaked across an unknown planet.

At least it wasn't as bad as that movie where a torpedo instantly terraforms a planet and creates abundant life, or its sequel where said planet causes a corpse to be reborn and ages it up to precisely its old appearance.
 
I didn’t enjoy this one so much. Seemed very dragged out. Also too much small universe syndrome - Picard’s ancestor being vital to the future, another Soong scientist, his daughter looks exactly like a painting Data does in 400 years.
 
I didn’t enjoy this one so much. Seemed very dragged out. Also too much small universe syndrome - Picard’s ancestor being vital to the future, another Soong scientist, his daughter looks exactly like a painting Data does in 400 years.

Similar looking ancestors is a trope of time-travel movies and just fiction in general. Marty McFly looks exactly like his son (and daughter!) And Marty's Great-Great Grandmother looks just like his mother even though the two can't be related.

There's a lot of things to nitpick a series on but using an actor to play his own ancestor isn't one to focus on, every series, movie, filmed fiction does it. It's fun for the actors, it's cheaper for production an it can be fun for the audience.
 
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The last couple of episodes were wonky, but this was back on track. Great fun.




At least it wasn't as bad as that movie where a torpedo instantly terraforms a planet and creates abundant life, or its sequel where said planet causes a corpse to be reborn and ages it up to precisely its old appearance.
Ha! So true but then TWoK is great for the melodrama and music. The plot has never held up well at all.
 
What the hell is up with Q, He’s actions seem so all over the place, as if he’s malfunctioning lol.

It was good to see Brent Spiner again and this soong is my favourite, as you feel sympathy for him, as he’s trying to heal his daughter from her genetic disease.

I really love the relationship between Agnes and the Borg queen. Unfortunately Dr Jurati becoming the new Borg queen, was a given since episode 1, so it’s not really a suprise when she gets assimilated .
 
Indeed. A global thermonuclear war would be over in 27 minutes, tops. Certainly not 27 years.
They could have fought for many years with conventional weapons and then switched to atomics just at the very end, though.
What if the Romulans (some sect, perhaps a group of nuns) are the ones who train people and send them to Earth's past to prevent trouble?
interesting idea.
 
Pretty sure no one said that.
Actually Gene Roddenberry did.

Until he didn't.

Assignment Earth was originally a non Star Trek series where Gary was from the 24th century.

That tretis was was scrapped and repurposed into an episode of Star Trek where Gary was a modern day caveman raised by aliens far away, and then sent to earth as a supervisor, and never from the 24th century.

However, Gary Seven shows up in TOS comics' 23rd century frequently. So either he is from the future or he can visit the future with ease.
 
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