I need to summarize the issues which the writers need to account for and damages the brand.
The brand has literally never been in a better health, thank you.
My thoughts while watching the episode: What's the value of hiding the key inside the Elnor hologram vs. anywhere else? He's a program running in the ship's computer.
no, he’s running on the mobile emitter. If he was in the computer the queen would have control of him.
How would defeating him in hand-to-hand combat reveal the code?
Good question. But at least it would stop him to keep killing drones.
Why couldn't they use Not Laris' transporter to beam into the ship? Instead they're engaging in guerilla warefare with drones.
the queen controlled the ship, perhaps she turned on a transporter inibitor.
Why would the Borg queen fly away and wait for the Confederation to exist? She could just start assimilating Earth now, and then the rest of the alpha quadrant will fall.
She wants to take control of the 21st century borg and turn them into “good” borg.
Why doesn't Picard tell Soong about the future he comes from? Try to talk his way out of it...or make Soong realize what a terrible future comes from his legacy?
he tried, soong wasn’t interested. Did you even watch the show?!
Do modern firearms have laser sights that appear as beams in the air?
some do. And these are likely modified anyway.
I guess these borg soldiers can't assimilate others?
I guess they can’t.
Why didn't Picard think of the tunnels before sending Raffi & Seven to fight the Borg?
He is probably asking himself the same question. Why would a 100 year old guy forget something and then remember it later?
Interesting that Starfleet would reject Seven after everything she did to help Voyager get home (but still allow Icheb).
this has been addressed plenty of times above.
Tricorders can extract bullets?
I guess they can if they are also medical devices. It really isn’t beyond what established Trek technology can do.
Yvette doesn't have a French accent. Jean-Luc doesn't have a French accent. Why does he call her "mamman" instead of "mum" or "mommy"?
picard is a sucker for everything french.
Picard and Not Laris find the well, but there's no hole in the board from when his foot went through as a young man. I guess someone repaired it?
that hole is still a few centuries in the future. Picard’s past is the chateau’s future. I thought you had more attention to detail than this!
Why is holo-Elnor wearing a mobile emitter?
because otherwise the queen would control him.
How do they even have one? Voyager's Dr. got his from the 29th century.
jt’s 30 years later in a different timeline.
Why would any blows landed by the queen on Holo-Elnor hurt him?
they shouldn’t unless they hit the emitter.
Seven knows that Jurarti is "in there" and "can fight", but when the mercenaries are beamed into the field, Seven declares that they aren't people anymore, they're Borg and starts shooting them.
Humans can be inconsistent, especially when emotions are involved.
Why does Not Laris' computer speak in English instead of Romulan?
it probably has an universal translator built in.
Nobody got hurt by the exploding weapon?
Possibly. Maybe soong did, though.
What about all the mercenaries that Queen Jurarti borgified and that they killed? Any butterfly effects there?
as I mentioned, this timeline is pretty messed up by now, I guess they will address it next week.
So Jurarti is the new queen, and she's going to build a better Borg, and she's going to the be Borg queen we see in episode one of season two
maybe.
So the writers become aware and do hard work and polish.
you might want to polish your list before sending it to them: plenty of your points are hardly worth “fixing”.
