Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x10 - "Farewell"

[EJD1984]

I'm still holding out for Data at the end of Season 3.

*Brent Spiner did state that in his contract, no Data for SE2, and then went mum about SE3.

I can see the last scene of the series:
Picard reading in his den, looks up surprised and happy, and we see the back head & shoulder of someone.
Then we hear a familiar voice - "Captain, where am I? Last thing I remember................."
Fade to Black.

The Adventure Continues.............

 

[Lord Garth]

Between Rios, Kore, and Wil Wheaton (sorry I mean Wesley), we have the perfect set up for an Assignment: Earth series if they make one.

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

Between Rios, Kore, and Wil Wheaton (sorry I mean Wesley), we have the perfect set up for an Assignment: Earth series if they make one.

And Guinan!

 

[Jax]

The only thing that kinda bugs me is the "galactic event" that was basically a straight line energy beam that was blocked by the harmonized shields.

Even unblocked, how much damage could it do to the entire sector? What are the odds that thing would hit even one planet?

That whole bit was dodgy writing for sure.

 

[Vale]

Between Rios, Kore, and Wil Wheaton (sorry I mean Wesley), we have the perfect set up for an Assignment: Earth series if they make one.

Well hey, since TOS: "Assignment: Earth" was a backdoor pilot anyway maybe we can get two "longest time between pilot and series" records out of this era... I'd kind of be down for this. Still set in the Trek universe but that really would be a new take we haven't seen before.

 

[shipfisher]

Pretty good wrap up of the season. Q proved worthy of his omnipotence, even as it was fading. I'll prove worthy of being labelled pedantic by griping about the Europa mission launch depiction. A crewed vehicle within what appears to be a fully enclosed fairing isn't a very launch-abort friendly setup, just CGI friendly.

 

[Enterpriserules]

The final episode of The Artificial Tango, for season 2, is out!

 

[Belz...]

BRILLIANT RETCON!

Speaking of, I always hated the Borg Queen, from the moment they added her in FC. Not that I didn't like the performance of Alice Krige, but I just disliked the change to what the Borg were.

PIC, however, gave me something very interesting, in _why_ the Borg were created, and I find that fascinating.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Speaking of, I always hated the Borg Queen, from the moment they added her in FC. Not that I didn't like the performance of Alice Krige, but I just disliked the change to what the Borg were.

PIC, however, gave me something very interesting, in _why_ the Borg were created, and I find that fascinating.

Various insects that act as a collective, like ants and bees, have a queen. Not a far stretch that the Borg had something like that.

 

[Belz...]

Various insects that act as a collective, like ants and bees, have a queen. Not a far stretch that the Borg had something like that.

The issue isn't that it's unrealistic. But the way they were presented in Q Who was that they had "a single mind", which is a step up from a mere collective. I always thought that was a great concept, but the Queen broke that. Ant-like eusocial species are a dime a dozen in fiction.

 

[fireproof78]

So are queens. Starship Troopers and Enders Game come immediately to mind.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

The issue isn't that it's unrealistic. But the way they were presented in Q Who was that they had "a single mind", which is a step up from a mere collective. I always thought that was a great concept, but the Queen broke that. Ant-like eusocial species are a dime a dozen in fiction.

IDK, she's not so much in control but she could be considered....a facilitator. Still the "single mind", but the queen keeps everything in harmony. Plus the temporal what-cha-ma-call-it vision.

 

[gweeps]

No one at Trek has a clue how to construct a story arc. We now have at least six seasons of proof, and wasted time.

Odd how the animated shows seem to be doing the best job. Though SNW is almost inverted, with a more episodic structure and background serialization.

 

[100Pic]

For me, it was a decent way to end a muddled season. I doubt many will agree, but I thought season 1 was better overall— but this episode was the better season finale... If that makes sense.

However, we got some good character moments. I’m bummed they left Rios behind. A solid 7.

 

[gaghyogi49]

Just came here to say 'I love everything Star Trek'.
Sometimes confusion is part of the business! ;-)

There are so many sloppy errors in this episode (and in this season as a whole).

Unfinished and bad CGI shots:
Even Jörg 'I love everything Star Trek' Hillebrand from Ex Astris Scientia is complaining about it (even though he is making up excuses for the show):

https://twitter.com/gaghyogi49/status/1522664268386160643

Continuity error in the editing:
Raffi is using the controls, then a direct cut, no transition, to her tampering with some wires.

BTW, that's a Korg nanoKONTROL, a small budget digital audio workstation mixing control surface:

Romulan blood is green:

 

[F. King Daniel]

For me, it was a decent way to end a muddled season. I doubt many will agree, but I thought season 1 was better overall— but this episode was the better season finale... If that makes sense.

However, we got some good character moments. I’m bummed they left Rios behind. A solid 7.

I felt this finale mirrored the first season's. Both had some rubbish and some solid gold. With season one it was portals to robot tentacle monsters and over-the-top Romulan commanders crossed with meaningful farewells between Picard and Data, and season 2 has meaningful farewells between Picard and Q, then random nonsense galactic apocalypse anomaly swatting for the last 5 minutes.

 

[TedShatner10]

The S1 and S2 plot points of the Cthulhu machines and transwarp conduit feel kinda half baked because they rear their heads for a minute, look scary, then abruptly subside (but raise lingering questions Picard has no time to address).

At least in S1 the Cthulhu AIs have several episodes of build up, coming with a sense of cosmic horror, where they're implied of destroying the prehistoric T'Kon Empire and first great Iconian civilisation, who's recorded traces in a strange artifact terrify the Romulans and Borg, driving them dangerously insane.

There was no real substance to the S2 anomaly, a pure arbitrary plot device.

 

[ELCHawk]

Finally watched it. Loved it. Gave it a 9! Great ending to a great season. The only thing I didn't love was the Rios story. I was really hoping there would be a Rios spinoff! Oh well can't have 10 Star Trek shows I guess. I will miss Rios, Jurati, and the other characters not coming back. However, looking forward to season 3! I hope it doesn't disappoint.

 

[Uhura's Song]

I just wanted to add that Rios staying (and Picard letting him/trusting him) did not bother me from a story/character perspective.

But that does not mean I will not miss him, Elnor, and Jurati going forward.

 

[Weyoun 251]

I'm thinking that Altan creates another golem for himself and extracts another of Data's positronic thingys from B4 to combine with his own consciousness. And just like that, we get (a version of) Data back with none of Spiner's aged appearance concerns.

With Data's quest to become/fully understant human(ity) how about a Golem with an integrated emotion chip that allows Data to live as near as dammit to being human.

Don't need to do the make up then and he can have AI Soong as a brother in a way Lore never could be