Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x06 - "Two of One"

[UssGlenn]

The only thing that stuck out to me in the episode was how it was going to be faster to get back to the party by exiting a side door and going back through security (sure it is). Just so they were available for Soong to hit with a car, when he had no way of knowing they would be outside. And if Soong was just really lucky, they didn't show that adequately.

One might say that they don’t really know how to use the Confederation La Sirena’s medical equipment and that the ship has no EMH, sure. One might, if they didn’t just fix a severed spleen in the previous episode

Well, Jurati fixed him up and she's MIA, though they didn't mention that as an possible option.

 

[fireproof78]

One might, if they didn’t just fix a severed spleen in the previous episode (well, I do hope they fixed it!)!

Since a person can technically live without it, as long as it was removed and the bleeding stopped, not sure how much advanced tech would be needed.

Unless that cop is now under the sway of the Queen. Probably.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Kobe’s turns out to be exactly what everyone thought she was, which is ok. With Soong’s lack of computer security it’s a miracle she didn’t find out years earlier. Oh well, he’s a great geneticist but doesn’t understand passwords.

Can't stop laughing! It's true!

Years later:

"Quick! Data! Lock out the main computer!"
*fingers dance wildly over panel*

 

[DaveyNY]

One might, if they didn’t just fix a severed spleen in the previous episode (well, I do hope they fixed it!)!

Jurati didn't fix his spleen, she removed it because it was apparently too damaged to save.

My only problem with that scene is that Jurati fired the shotgun and seemed to have hit the Borg Queen in the upper left shoulder and neck, how the Hell did she also hit the guards spleen which would have been located about three to four feet lower, the way the Queen was holding him?

 

[jackoverfull]

I'm sorry but evil Picard would not have built his synth body to be so vulnerable, I don't care what the writers say here. Looking the same age, maybe having a mortal lifespan, etc. but synth Picard should have just shrugged over that car collision. And if the Confed didn't want anyone too powerful etc. honestly they wouldn't have saved evil Picard by putting him in a synth body to begin with.

we don’t know how he got that body, the choice might not have been up to him (as it wasn’t with our Picard).

First time time traveling?

"Guess you're not ready for that yet. But you're kids are going to love it."

Marty played a blues, starting with a guitar, there is nothing unbelievable for a band picking that up in no time. Here we have a complex song started by a singer (so no harmonic cues) and the band comes in with a splendid, obviously written brass instrumentation. This is not just unlikely: it’s totally impossible.

 

[fireproof78]

Marty played a blues, starting with a guitar, there is nothing unbelievable for a band picking that up in no time. Here we have a complex song started by a singer (so no harmonic cues) and the band comes in with a splendid, obviously written brass instrumentation. This is not just unlikely: it’s totally impossible.

Ok, so it's impossible. On a SF show with time travel.

The band played on anyway.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

The musicians are a perfect collective the Borg would give their eye teeth implants for...

 

[fireproof78]

The musicians are a perfect collective the Borg would give their eye teeth implants for...

Why do you think the Borg queen is there...

 

[Yistaan]

Here we have a complex song started by a singer (so no harmonic cues) and the band comes in with a splendid, obviously written brass instrumentation. This is not just unlikely: it’s totally impossible.

A few online reviews have noted this.

 

[DaveyNY]

we don’t know how he got that body, the choice might not have been up to him (as it wasn’t with our Picard).

Marty played a blues, starting with a guitar, there is nothing unbelievable for a band picking that up in no time. Here we have a complex song started by a singer (so no harmonic cues) and the band comes in with a splendid, obviously written brass instrumentation. This is not just unlikely: it’s totally impossible.

It's entirely possible that that particular song was already part of the bands repertoire and they just picked up her voice cues to follow along.

Also, it was very apparent that that band was mostly made up of brass lead instruments.
(plus, a big shindig like that doesn't hire a second rate group, they were obviously a well honed band)

Granted it was a bit too perfect, but I'm used to excusing stuff like that in Trek shows.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Why do you think the Borg queen is there...

The Queen? "Flash! A-a! Savior of the Universe!"

 

[jackoverfull]

Anyone else annoyed that the Borg Queen's hands aren't covered by her borg suit like they were in First Contact and Voyager? Looks weird.

her implants are pretty different. I think it’s all right: she’s just another queen/another incarnation if the queen, I don’t have any problem with it. although I’m not a big fan of her current implants: don’t like those blinking lights in the back and those rubber stuff on the shoulders look suspiciously like…well, rubber! How she’s written and played makes this incarnation by far my favourite, thought, and that’s way more important than the makeup (which is still fine).

funny how they are NOT going to put her legs into frame, by the way!

The flashback/flash forward format was a perfectly valid stylistic choice to do something a bit creative, a bit different. If they'd done it in TNG you would be praising it to high heaven.

I loved it. Pretty unusual and in a way a subversion of the way season 1 episodes started with a flashBACK.

I wonder how the 30 day conflict and the President stalling the treaty talks lead to WW3? They were links on the webpage Kore is reading.

interesting, I missed that.

 

[Lord Exor]

her implants are pretty different. I think it’s all right: she’s just another queen/another incarnation if the queen, I don’t have any problem with it. although I’m not a big fan of her current implants: don’t like those blinking lights in the back and those rubber stuff on the shoulders look suspiciously like…well, rubber! How she’s written and played makes this incarnation by far my favourite, thought, and that’s way more important than the makeup (which is still fine).

funny how they are NOT going to put her legs into frame, by the way!

I loved it. Pretty unusual and in a way a subversion of the way season 1 episodes started with a flashBACK.

interesting, I missed that.

The Queen had blinking lights on the back of her head in Voyager.

 

[Amaris]

It's entirely possible that that particular song was already part of the bands repertoire and they just picked up her voice cues to follow along.

Also, it was very apparent that that band was mostly made up of brass lead instruments.
(plus, a big shindig like that doesn't hire a second rate group)

Granted it was a bit too perfect, but I'm used to excusing stuff like that in Trek shows.

I've done a number of impromptu singing sessions with bands, and as long as the band is competent and works together (simple enough to say these people do both), and unless the song is very obscure (Pat Benatar is very well known even now), it's not that difficult to play along. I do like the notion that somehow people have less of a problem with the realism of time travel than they do a band knowing how to play impromptu song numbers.

 

[Kaelef]

Raffi's character is kind of all over the place in terms of her willingness to do whatever needs to be done - damn consequences to the timeline - to get Elnor back. She's been completely reckless in this pursuit the last few episodes, but suddenly in this episode she's chiding Rios for even considering any relationship with Teresa, and she's the one calling for patience when the others agree that entering Picard's mind is the only way to move forward.

 

[Yistaan]

I've done a number of impromptu singing sessions with bands, and as long as the band is competent and works together (simple enough to say these people do both), and unless the song is very obscure (Pat Benatar is very well known even now), it's not that difficult to play along. I do like the notion that somehow people have less of a problem with the realism of time travel than they do a band knowing how to play impromptu song numbers.

I think it's more the notion they didn't immediately ask questions afterward

Raffi's character is kind of all over the place in terms of her willingness to do whatever needs to be done - damn consequences to the timeline - to get Elnor back. She's been completely reckless in this pursuit the last few episodes, but suddenly in this episode she's chiding Rios for even considering any relationship with Teresa, and she's the one calling for patience when the others agree that entering Picard's mind is the only way to move forward.

double standards with regards to someone really important to you (Elnor) and everything else isn't really inconsistent.

 

[Amaris]

I think it's more the notion they didn't immediately ask questions afterward

Why would they? It's a party atmosphere, people have clearly been drinking, and a very attractive woman with a very good singing voice decides to do a jazzy, sultry version of a Pat Benatar song. The only thing they might be asking at the end is her phone number, and whether she likes jazz musicians (she likes scruffy pirate types, sorry friends).

 

[jackoverfull]

According to the subtitle Talinn spoke in Romulan at one point during the gala. Not sure what connection is going on there but there's definitely something.

good to know: it means that that Romulan Padd last week was not a production error. I’m happy!

Q will gift Seven no Borg implants even after her return.

I don’t think so. A much more Trek message is that she has to learn to love with the way she looks.

Something that happened in his youth has made him afraid to have a family.

I think we’ll find out more about this next week, finally!

 

[DaveyNY]

I think it's more the notion they didn't immediately ask questions afterward

There was quite a bit of commotion going on, the security folks in the control booth were out cold so there wasn't anybody in a position to coordinate what the guards spread around the complex should do.
Plus everybody was assuming that Juarti must have been specifically hired to sing.

 

[DaveyNY]

Something that happened in his youth has made him afraid to have a family.

His mother having a mental breakdown and being dragged away might have something to do with it.
Perhaps Picard feared passing whatever her condition was on to any offspring?