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

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You aren't discussing though. You're whining and stamping your feet and threatening to 'switch sides' which does little to aid actual discussion. All well and good but don't expect people to not challenge your 'opinion'.

you didn’t challenge my opinion. You instructed me to stop watching it, for some reason.

i did whine though, yes, but thats just my way. The ‘switching sides’ thing you probably took a bit too literally I must say.
 
The first two episodes of Picard were astonishingly good but since then it just feels like a waste of time.

This is something I've noticed about a lot of arc-based shows, the mushy middle where they don't have enough material to make the full episode count, things get drawn out.

Orla Brady is 61.

That is a stunning 61.
 
Other than Arik and Lore, what other evil Soongs are there?

While I count Altan, even by your count, this is the third time they've went to this particular well over the course of the franchise. Which is really way too much.
 
You aren't discussing though. You're whining and stamping your feet and threatening to 'switch sides' which does little to aid actual discussion. All well and good but don't expect people to not challenge your 'opinion'.

You didn't challenge their opinion...

And anyway, coming to the internet to sh*t on a show you're watching is part of being a fan. Telling someone to stop watching it so that they'll no longer sh*t on the show is stupid. You can enjoy it, but others don't have to; you can come here and praise the show, and others can say what they disliked. Telling someone to sToP wAtChInG like you're the gatekeeper is dumb. I experienced the same kind of blowback when I expressed my feelings about the weird Ferengi redesign on the Disco boards...I was told to just stop watching the show. Like, what?
 
I feel like this week's episode set us up for something similar to DS9's Extreme Measures next week.

Extreme Measures was the worst part of the 10-episode DS9 finale, and a poor episode overall. I really hope they either do better this time, or that this trip inside Picard's mind just doesn't happen at all because that reeks of lame.

I loved the first two episodes of this season. Those two were probably the best episodes of this entire new era of Trek. It started going slightly downhill after that. Watchers and now Two of One were terrible episodes though.
 
Is it weird that the BQ would need endorphins to help with assimilation? Based on what we’ve seen assimilation seems like it would induce quite the opposite response in a subject.
 
You didn't challenge their opinion...

And anyway, coming to the internet to sh*t on a show you're watching is part of being a fan. Telling someone to stop watching it so that they'll no longer sh*t on the show is stupid. You can enjoy it, but others don't have to; you can come here and praise the show, and others can say what they disliked. Telling someone to sToP wAtChInG like you're the gatekeeper is dumb. I experienced the same kind of blowback when I expressed my feelings about the weird Ferengi redesign on the Disco boards...I was told to just stop watching the show. Like, what?
Well, one would hope people watch something and enjoy it rather than watch something to just shit on it. But, perhaps being a fan means being miserable all the time...:shrug:
 
Is it weird that the BQ would need endorphins to help with assimilation? Based on what we’ve seen assimilation seems like it would induce quite the opposite response in a subject.
She needed the right brain chemistry because she has been completely divided from her Collective, held in captivity, experimented on, and then shot. She is not currently capable of rapid full assimilation, the regular way.
 
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I mean considering the 2024 they're in isn't really the same '2024' that was in their original timeline I'm not sure how things play out. Doesn't it just get erased once the 'future' is repaired and it allows the 'future' to have altered the past which then changes 2024? Star Trek has never really looked at altered timelines via time-travel like say MCU/Loki... It's always been more like being rewritten, although people from a time-line that is to be "re-written" are able to continue to exist if they escape it before it is re-written (like Tasha in Yesterday's Enterprise)

BTW, this Borg Queen stuff is just bonkers. It feels less like a Borg Queen and more like Harvey (The version of Scoripus in Crichton's head in Farscape)
Actually they sort of did in the TNG S7 episode "Parallels".

Then there's the entire K universe that pops into existence due to a single time travel event; but we see the Prime Timeline still exists and continues on after that event since we have 4 current series (Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Star Trek Discovery after the end of its second season) in the Prime Timeline that all occur after that event took place; shows that both timelines continue to exist.

Cue:
Miles O'Brien: "I hate Temporal Mechanics!...":angel:
 
I loved the first two episodes of this season. Those two were probably the best episodes of this entire new era of Trek. It started going slightly downhill after that. Watchers and now Two of One were terrible episodes though.

‘Terrible’..? Do you think every TNG episode that is not BOBW or The Inner Light is ‘terrible’ as well? I agree they weren’t on par with those first two episodes, but ‘terrible’..? That’s just hyperbolically saying ‘they weren’t as good as the first ones’…
 
Actually they sort of did in the TNG S7 episode "Parallels".

Then there's the entire K universe that pops into existence due to a single time travel event; but we see the Prime Timeline still exists and continues on after that event since we have 4 current series (Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Star Trek Discovery after the end of its second season) in the Prime Timeline that all occur after that event took place; shows that both timelines continue to exist.

Cue:
Miles O'Brien: "I hate Temporal Mechanics!...":angel:

Different concept.

A number of universes, maybe an infinite number of universes were created during the big bang, and then they all existed in parallel until heat death.

Each universe had a different quantum signature.

If this phenom was splitting timelines because of decisions or quantum reactions, then a Quantum Signature cannot be a universal constant, as it would change every time the timeline split, which happens an infinite numbers of times per Planck second.
 
‘Terrible’..? Do you think every TNG episode that is not BOBW or The Inner Light is ‘terrible’ as well? I agree they weren’t on par with those first two episodes, but ‘terrible’..? That’s just hyperbolically saying ‘they weren’t as good as the first ones’…
Rewatching earlier voyager is giving me a better appreciation of Picard. Talk about full episodes!

Well Inner Light is terrible to start with. :)
Ouch!

Different concept.

A number of universes, maybe an infinite number of universes were created during the big bang, and then they all existed in parallel until heat death.

Each universe had a different quantum signature.

If this phenom was splitting timelines because of decisions or quantum reactions, then a Quantum Signature cannot be a universal constant, as it would change every time the timeline split, which happens an infinite numbers of times per Planck second.
unless the quantum signatures change as well, be it at the split point or later, at a different interval.
 
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"Doctor Agnes Jurati, Borg Queen. Condragulations my dears, you are the Top Two All Stars of the week."
 
While I count Altan, even by your count, this is the third time they've went to this particular well over the course of the franchise. Which is really way too much.

Yeah, AI was OK with all organic life in the galaxy dying so long as he had a lifeboat. He was affable enough once the crisis was past, even helpful, but he wasn't a good guy.
 
Rewatching earlier voyager is giving me a better appreciation of Picard. Talk about full episodes!

Ouch!

unless the quantum signatures change as well, be it at the split point or later, at a different interval.

TNG Parallels.
RIKER: Are you saying that Worf's quantum signature is different from ours?
DATA: Yes, sir. I cannot explain it. It is as if he originates from a different quantum universe.

Disco But to Connect...

TARKA: My new home. It's... far. Another universe, in fact.
BOOK: The mirror universe?
TARKA: You say that like it's the only other option. There are countless parallel universes, each with its own quantum signature. He knew of one. No war, no Burn, no Emerald Chain. A place where we could be free and at peace.
BOOK: Who's we?
 
Jurati singing.

A trip inside Picard’s mind.

This was a terrible episode. The season started out so strong but this middle section hs been iffy at best.
You found those elements terrible? And the second one hasn't even happened yet. :lol:

Yep looks like a scene from the TNG holodeck, and oh look, one of them belting out a show tune. Yawn

Is there a logical, in universe explanation for Jurati randomly belting out a show tune?
Show tune???? It's a pop song by Pat Benatar with an orchestral score.
Was this scene only taking place in her mind, or did everyone else at the party get to see her performance? It looked like her audience enjoyed it though… If she actually did do this in the episode, was it a bit like someone at the party making a request to sing at a karaoke night taking place at the ball?
What gave you that impression? The only things in Jurati's mind were the conversations with the Queen. The tropes used in this episode are pretty common in Fiction and in Science Fiction. Not sure how anyone who regularly consumes either could be confused by the episode.
 
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