Regarding the gun in the basement, I must have missed the part where he said there were weapons down there. But it still seems a bit convenient to find one in working order after decades-I'm assuming-of disuse.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x09 - "Hide and Seek"
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Regarding the gun in the basement, I must have missed the part where he said there were weapons down there. But it still seems a bit convenient to find one in working order after decades-I'm assuming-of disuse.
That she was on any sort of medication or treatment.
That's how weapons in fiction work.
Hologram Space Legolas fighting a troop of Borg Mercenary Drones.
.... I think this season has gotten dumb.
.... I think this season has gotten dumb.
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Renee may be a red herring. This season was about Penance. Q's Penance for initially flinging the 1701-D into the Delta Quadrant to meet the Borg prematurely.
This is more because Trek seems to only have either photon or quantum torpedoes throughout its franchise (and they're still using quantum in the far future of Discovery).
As such, even though we were told back as early as TOS that the Enterprise can easily bombard a planet to crisp in minutes, every time we actually see a ship make a ground strike it ends up looking very small so as not to make the characters look like mass murderers leveling cities. Thus the very small torpedo strike on "God" in Star Trek 5 for example. And since the only torpedoes ever mentioned in dialogue are, again, photon or quantum (and even quantum is a post TNG thing), the audience is left underwhelmed when seeing the torpedo strikes we were told were supposed to be able to level whole countries.
We have to assume that they can set the destruction level of photon torpedoes, or something, and what we see is a very low power strike compared to the higher power devastation of planet strikes mentioned as possible in dialogue.
Ugh, this episode was terrible. None of it makes sense, it's mostly in grays and... Ugh. So, Jurati Borg turns Seven into a Borg to save her and she ends up looking exactly the same as regular Seven?
Picard saw this mother as an old woman!! I mean... That whole aspect of the season doesn't make sense or add up.
Grrrrrrrrrrr.... This episode just angers me.
Picard saw this mother as an old woman!! I mean... That whole aspect of the season doesn't make sense or add up.
Grrrrrrrrrrr.... This episode just angers me.
I have no idea what purpose he'd serve. Just they'd bring everyone together.
The destructive power is set by the amount of antimatter mixed or loaded in the torpedo.
just like shells. big shells small shells. The captain is liable for needless collateral damage/deaths.
Also is like using a nuke to kill a terrorist.
They could simply attack the mission at the spaceport or in orbit on enroute to Europa.
To abort a mission just takes a small amount of debris.
Not to get too far off topic, but I don't believe Shatner was a bad guy per se, just a self-involved actor. I think the Takei "feud" is mainly about Takei trying to get attention for himself. There's a reason why Shatner was the star and Takei was a day player.
But, much like Stewart and Picard, when Shatner got some creative control with Star Trek V, his instinct was to make his own character look good at the expense of the supporting cast. He wasn't trying to be mean or anything, he was just thinking of his own character instead of what would best serve the story or the cast as a whole. Again, kind of like Patrick Stewart is doing now.
True, but given how this season has been going, whatever happens has to be DRAMATIC!
Trauma from his mom dying due to his actions?
Given Picard's history I feel like that's a pretty solid answer, especially since Jack Crusher died, that science officer almost died, Ba'ku lady almost died.
Dude must feel like he has an albatross hanging around his neck.
I liked it. I know others may disagree, but I think they’ve done a good job balancing telling Picard’s story with the more serialized plot elements.
Most of the women in Picard's life can't be the partner he wants and leave him feeling sad or disappointed or they die on him. No wonder he never married or kept a steady relationship going for very long.
Just the fact that in the Trek world there are ultra-realistic holodecks that can instantly satisfy people's hormones as much as they want and as often as they want, I'd like to think that both men and women are motivated to bring more to the table outside of looks to get into an actual relationship with someone. It would be very different than what we have going now, where basically dealing with hormones is a huge part of why many people put up with mismatched or even outright unhealthy/toxic relationships. That aspect would be totally different in Trek's world, even outside of Picard's specific traumatizing backstory.
Actually, the whole TOS cast - Takei included - have always praised Shatner's performance as a director. They said that when they were making ST5, Shat was a total professional at all times and worked as hard as he could to give everyone some time. There was none of the baggage involved when he was just their co-star - meaning, when he was the director, and unquestionably in charge, things went a lot more smoothly.
I wasn't there obviously, but from reading about it and seeing a bunch of interviews (and saw Keonig talk about it again recently) it was that Shatner wasn't necessarily mean, but he wasn't nice either and really didn't acknowledge the supporting cast members. I think Shatner's POV has been that he wasn't there to make friends, he was there to read his lines and do his work and that's it. The other actors, especially by the time the movies were being made, I think wanted more acknowledgment from Shatner.
