Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x09 - "Hide and Seek"

[fireproof78]

You wou

You would need to engage with them as writers are very ego sensitive and cannot countenance any criticism of their 'plots'. Remember how Ellison caused a huge storm when his script was polished?

With due respect, if you want the writers to learn then you have to be willing to engage them. Thus far the lists of critiques and claims of brand damage have not only not demonstrated sensitivity to any egos but also some are easily dismissed out of hand here by individuals who actually watched the show.

So, if your stated purpose is "the writers become aware" then reaching out to them would be the next part of that effort. Unless that is not the true purpose?

 

[jackoverfull]

It occurs to me someone could collect my writings and after judicious editing could ghost write a book for me and I would allow them a 25% commission. Publish on Amazon kindle as an ebook?

Sounds like a good plan.
A good plan to get sued for copyright infringement, that is.

You would need to engage with them as writers are very ego sensitive and cannot countenance any criticism of their 'plots'. Remember how Ellison caused a huge storm when his script was polished?

you realise that rewriting other people’s script is something that happens very frequently on tv?

 

[Llywela]

How did she manage to hang herself from very a very inaccessible place? The sheer logistics of getting to the highest point in a dome..

She could just as easily killed herself in her own room which was filled to the brim with STUFF.

Also why did he not appoint a personal assistant to watch over her?

He didn't appoint a personal assistant to watch over her because a) it all happened in one day and night, not long enough to go through that process, b) she was resisting treatment of any kind and would probably have refused, and c) he probably didn't realise she was actively suicidal until after it happened. He just thought it was a really bad day that they could ride out. He was wrong. It happens.

There is often no logic to someone who is suicidal. Maybe there was nothing in the room that Yvette could use. Maybe she didn't decide to go through with it until later, by which time little Jean Luc was already asleep in her bed, so she went elsewhere in the house. How did she get the rope up there? Well, we saw the chair kicked over that she used to climb up. She found a way. It really isn't an important point.

Could you explain exploding gun scene on the writers behalf?

It was explained in the episode. Weren't you listening?

 

[cooleddie74]

It was explained in the episode. Weren't you listening?

 

[StarMan]

I'm curious how no-one was seriously injured with that thing blowing up overhead!

And where did Spiner go - did he beam away or run away?

Feel free to add the above to your e-book, champion of truth.

 

[Timofnine]

I don't do twitter as the posts are limited to 155 letters

You could excessively bombard them with multiple micro tweets, consolidating each of your criticisms (or compliments) in to 155 letter mini essays. They couldn’t ignore you then…

 

[cooleddie74]

A photon torpedo exploded just a handful of feet from Kirk, Spock and McCoy on Sha-Ka-Ree in TFF and none of them were even remotely injured. Trek loves explosions that don't do as much damage as they probably should.

 

[fireproof78]

It was explained in the episode. Weren't you listening?

I have calculated the odds of that happening.

And my calculator broke.

A photon torpedo exploded just a handful of feet from Kirk, Spock and McCoy on Sha-Ka-Ree in TFF and none of them were even remotely injured. Trek loves explosions that don't do as much damage as they probably should.

That's more a Hollywood thing.
See also glass, car accidents, trauma and other dangerous things.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I'm still waiting on Trek to correct the whole "cell inside your DNA" mistake Beverly makes in "Genesis(TNG)." Been a wait of close to 30 years. Methinks we're going to be waiting on sci-fi/fantasy writers to correct all their weird technical errors.

The line was [http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/271.htm]:

"Yes, Reg. What you've got a mild case of Urodelan Flu. Most humans have a natural immunity to it, but the T-cell in your DNA that would normally fight off the infection is dormant."​

That's horribly scripted. It's clear that they're attempting to describe a primary immune deficiency that would be of little consequence, but they went haywire.

 

[cooleddie74]

Yep. If I can live with that we can live with things in other episodes being wrong in some way.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

People can live with Brannon Braga's 'fun with DNA' episodes?

 

[cooleddie74]

That'd be half of them.

 

[Kraig]

That was his aunt in the photo album

Or step mother.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

People can live with Brannon Braga's 'fun with DNA' episodes?

Absolutely.

Just like they can live without constantly shitting on Braga as a convenient scapegoat for everything they hate.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

That wasn't my intent there, I was just trying to narrow it down so people knew what (Threshold) I was referring to.

 

[jackoverfull]

Also I don't think she was using it to extract it, but to find it so she could extract it.

Indeed. Still, even McCoy used those salt container-looking instruments to operate, I assume they sported a miniaturised tractor beam.

Let's not forget that until FC the Borg in the TNG Era didn't have nanoprobe tubules with which to inject and assimilate victims. A drone had to render Picard unconscious and transport him back to the Borg cube in order to assimilate him and transform him into Locutus. Not all Borg drones throughout canon can assimilate on the spot.

even in first contact the nanoprobes only go so far, most implants were mechanically installed afterwards.

 

[Anduinel]

He didn't appoint a personal assistant to watch over her because a) it all happened in one day and night, not long enough to go through that process, b) she was resisting treatment of any kind and would probably have refused, and c) he probably didn't realise she was actively suicidal until after it happened. He just thought it was a really bad day that they could ride out. He was wrong. It happens.

There is often no logic to someone who is suicidal. Maybe there was nothing in the room that Yvette could use. Maybe she didn't decide to go through with it until later, by which time little Jean Luc was already asleep in her bed, so she went elsewhere in the house. How did she get the rope up there? Well, we saw the chair kicked over that she used to climb up. She found a way. It really isn't an important point.

Something else I was considering while talking about this in a chat the other day - it could have been guilt contributing to Yvette's lurch toward suicide. Still being in a bad way while at the same time coming to the realization that she'd endangered her child could have lead her to think that this was the only way to protect him from her.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And where did Spiner go - did he beam away or run away?

Ran away, most likely.

 

[jackoverfull]

A photon torpedo exploded just a handful of feet from Kirk, Spock and McCoy on Sha-Ka-Ree in TFF and none of them were even remotely injured. Trek loves explosions that don't do as much damage as they probably should.

more recently we’ve had a torpedo-proof door…

That's more a Hollywood thing.
See also glass, car accidents, trauma and other dangerous things.

yep.

That wasn't my intent there, I was just trying to narrow it down so people knew what (Threshold) I was referring to.

don’t forget people deevolving (?) into random “lesser” animals or going back to being children. Not sure it was braga, but the science there was basically nonexistent.

 

[truthchampion]

The line was [http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/271.htm]:

"Yes, Reg. What you've got a mild case of Urodelan Flu. Most humans have a natural immunity to it, but the T-cell in your DNA that would normally fight off the infection is dormant."​

That's horribly scripted. It's clear that they're attempting to describe a primary immune deficiency that would be of little consequence, but they went haywire.

They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true....