Guilt rarely makes any logical sense.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x09 - "Hide and Seek"
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I admit, I prefer a series about rogue freighter captain Rios tooling around the universe with his oddballs.
I will also accept him being the pilot and Jeri Ryan the lead.
Yeah, minus Picard this crew seems well-suited for exploring in ways Starfleet oriented shows can't.
This. Or even a traditional Trek show with Rios and the Stargazer. I'll gladly take either one at this point.
Rios and the La Serena have always reminded me of that old PC game, Wing Commander: Privateer.
"Let's build a universe of Sevens"
Oh yes please! I would so much watch that!
I gave it a 9, I really enjoyed it.
as others already mentioned, it would be tough to wrap up everything in next episode, but I can't wait to see what will come up with.
I hope Rios doesn't stay in the past. I want a spinoff with Stargazer, him as a captain and Seven, Raffi, Elnor as part of his crew. Hell, even Borgati would be a nice crew addition.
Oh yes please! I would so much watch that!
I gave it a 9, I really enjoyed it.
as others already mentioned, it would be tough to wrap up everything in next episode, but I can't wait to see what will come up with.
I hope Rios doesn't stay in the past. I want a spinoff with Stargazer, him as a captain and Seven, Raffi, Elnor as part of his crew. Hell, even Borgati would be a nice crew addition.
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Despite various attempts we haven't really had a game quite like that since. Trek should just make a Star Trek: Privateer game with Santiago voicing Rios.
I'm not sure how saving Rene would even be in the cards? Maybe he didn't die in the Confederation timeline, but we were given no indication of that, and I'm not sure how this would actually make Jean-Luc conflicted, since he not only wouldn't be the same Rene, he would be like what...35? 40?
It's Trek. It often doesn't make sense until it does.
You have made me realize my life is hollow due to this game not existing.
The showrunner has said Season 3 will have a lot of starships, and the Stargazer sets are still being used in it.
I have no problem with this. Feelings aren't based upon logic. Just as Picard as a child didn't know his mom was suicidal and therefore couldn't have predicted what would happen if he unlocked the door, Rafi may assume that if she sent Elnor "away" that Q may not have involved him in the temporal shenanigans. Hence, in her mind, Elnor died because she couldn't let him go.
It's TV psychology but it doesn't need it spelled out that she's also using Elnor as a replacement goldfish for her own son that she lost due to her decisions.
Woot! I gave this one an 8! A huge improvement over the past half dozen episodes or so! (Note: @fireproof78 this doesn't mean it's "best ever," so relax!)
Finally, an episode that felt like things were happening, Great action, interesting plot developments, and great character moments! I thoroughly enjoyed it! So, why not higher than an 8?
It was a bit too much of a straight action piece with violence without the real deft that I expect from a classic or near classic episode. Raffi and Seven bond over a stabbing? Really? Wonton killing of people just because they're the bad guys. As an action piece, it worked, but I do expect more from ST, or anything be considered higher.
I really liked how Picard's flashbacks were incorporated into the tense chase through the secret tunnels under the chateau. However, it also highlighted how this season was short on content because it had to reuse scenes from a previous episode. Redundant. I almost dinged this episode's rating by one point for that but then I realized the problem wasn't with this episode where it was used effectively but in the coma episode where it was ineffective. The coma episode should not have been made and instead use it all in this episode.
Did anyone else think Picard was going to keep the skeleton key so that it wouldn't be around when his younger self would use it in the future?! I thought he was going to pocket it when talking about how he couldn't undo it. Now he can! Although, butterflies.
I found the moment with Picard remembering his mother to be very poignant. However, outside the flashbacks, it doesn't seem to tie into any larger theme of the season. In fact, themes seem to be hardly present or developed at all. It's just a new fact about Picard's life that we didn't know before. So, not a bad thing but not really a strong point that more effective writing throughout the season could have made it.
So, in a nutshell, enjoyable as an action piece with tense moments. Some great character moments.
They're clearly setting up Seven and Raffi as partners because when the TNG cast return next season, they'll be the outsiders and it'll be helpful to have a bond between them.
One thing I didn't buy was holoElnor knowing what real Elnor's final thoughts were. That's not a capability that was established as far as I recall. Obviously, the writers included that trying to provide closure for Raffi but no, didn't work. I also take that attempt to mean that Elnor is not returning.
Finally, an episode that felt like things were happening, Great action, interesting plot developments, and great character moments! I thoroughly enjoyed it! So, why not higher than an 8?
It was a bit too much of a straight action piece with violence without the real deft that I expect from a classic or near classic episode. Raffi and Seven bond over a stabbing? Really? Wonton killing of people just because they're the bad guys. As an action piece, it worked, but I do expect more from ST, or anything be considered higher.
I really liked how Picard's flashbacks were incorporated into the tense chase through the secret tunnels under the chateau. However, it also highlighted how this season was short on content because it had to reuse scenes from a previous episode. Redundant. I almost dinged this episode's rating by one point for that but then I realized the problem wasn't with this episode where it was used effectively but in the coma episode where it was ineffective. The coma episode should not have been made and instead use it all in this episode.
Did anyone else think Picard was going to keep the skeleton key so that it wouldn't be around when his younger self would use it in the future?! I thought he was going to pocket it when talking about how he couldn't undo it. Now he can! Although, butterflies.
I found the moment with Picard remembering his mother to be very poignant. However, outside the flashbacks, it doesn't seem to tie into any larger theme of the season. In fact, themes seem to be hardly present or developed at all. It's just a new fact about Picard's life that we didn't know before. So, not a bad thing but not really a strong point that more effective writing throughout the season could have made it.
So, in a nutshell, enjoyable as an action piece with tense moments. Some great character moments.
They're clearly setting up Seven and Raffi as partners because when the TNG cast return next season, they'll be the outsiders and it'll be helpful to have a bond between them.
One thing I didn't buy was holoElnor knowing what real Elnor's final thoughts were. That's not a capability that was established as far as I recall. Obviously, the writers included that trying to provide closure for Raffi but no, didn't work. I also take that attempt to mean that Elnor is not returning.
I love Tallin's transporter effect. And how the transporter chamber lies in a vault. Nice callback. In fact, I suspect there will be a parallel with "Assignment: Earth" as the space mission is brought back front and center as the event to protect and defend.
In some ways Adam Soong is the Borg "king" we would have gotten if Data had taken up the Borg Queen's offer on joining her in First Contact. This character has gone through a very fast arc of what initially appeared to be a man trying to save his daughter (albeit we now know that wasn't what it seemed) to gleefully leading an army of obviously brainwashed assimilated Borg to kill a bunch of people who have never done anything to him, all on the word of people (Q, Borg Jurati) who obviously can't be trusted.
Eh, I'm willing to give it a pass, because I presume the (non-sentient) holograms are just programmed to know the appropriate things to say at times like this. It might be a simulacrum of empathy, but it's good enough to trick the human mind.
Somebody other that big beard Riker anyway. He never made it back.
The Borg are defeated in every universe, but that doesn't mean that humans defeat them.
