Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x07 - "Dominion"

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"Crippled, cornered, and out of options, Picard stages a gambit to trap Vadic and reveal her true motive – a gamble that puts the Titan in the crosshairs and forces Picard and Beverly to question every moral code they’ve ever held." - TrekMovie.com

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch crossover?

 

Vadic wants you to know the airbrushing is appreciated.

 

Sorry Will. Apparently no rescue this week?

 

How do you figure that?

 

Anyone seen a screener and can give general non-spoiler thoughts on the episode?

 

With all due respect, seen or not seen any episode has never stopped anyone from giving their opinion.

 

I'm guessing they're going by nothing being in the promo stuff this week.

However, one of the reviewers on twitter said you don't get an answer on anything involving Deanna this week, so I wonder if we just don't see them at all or if it's just left vague.

 

Vadic's younger years. If she has any in her current form. Guess we'll find out.

 

I heard this episode will have a lot of exposition. Based on the title, I am guessing we will get a lot of backstory on Vadic and the Post-War Dominion. I am hoping we get some satisfying answers.

 

If they go into the Gamma Quadrant before the series ends, I do hope we get to see the Jem 'Hadar soldiers again!
JB

 

Thanks for the like, Ian. I'd bet if we do see them that they would be much different to the grey suited, grey reptilian warriors that we'd seen in DS9 back in the day!
Television producers are always trying to update creature effects from the past so they look so much more realistic than the older versions!
JB

 

As we've seen with Worf (and the Andorians & Tellarites on ENT IMO), more realistic doesn't require the wholesale changes we saw on DSC. Just better materials and skill from the makeup artists.

 

Agreed. You would think his capture and perhaps torture would be mentioned…

 

This episode seems very secretive, even the soundtrack doesn't give anything away and is just called "Dominion".

 

You very obviously haven't watched a single episode of Picard, especially this season.

A) They've stuck to the '80s/'90s look of everything with only minor differences if they've had any at all.

B) I know you haven't seen any of it because Worf looks like Worf.

C) Most important: They've shown a TOS-style Constitution Class ship at a Fleet Museum. Not the SNW version. The TOS fucking version.

So you're mistaken in the extreme when you're talking about this series and especially this season.

 

There's a second track related to this episode.

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"Proteus". Something called the 'Proteus Project' is mentioned on a computer screen in one of the episode's preview photos. I'm thinking it's the name of the S31 project for the changeling virus

 

No need to swear, pal! And yes I have watched the series. All of seasons one and two and right up to episode six of season three this morning! I saw the ships and them keeping to the design too! And I was going to comment on how much you look like a guy I know too...
JB

 

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via Wikipedia:

Spoiler: Etymological clue?

In Greek mythology, Proteus is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea." Some who ascribe a specific domain to Proteus call him the god of "elusive sea change", which suggests the constantly changing nature of the sea or the liquid quality of water. He can foretell the future, but, in a mytheme familiar to several cultures, will change his shape to avoid doing so; he answers only to those who are capable of capturing him. From this feature of Proteus comes the adjective protean, meaning "versatile", "mutable", or "capable of assuming many forms". "Protean" has positive connotations of flexibility, versatility and adaptability.

 

If they do show the Jem'Hadar, they'll be all flummoxed by the fact a Seven of Nine, not a First or Second, is able to lay waste to whole platoons by her calculated tactical efficiency. A lowly Seven! Go figure!

"Dominion" -- working title, "The Cook, His Wife, the Thief & Her Handler".

I'd love the Pakleds to make an appearance showing one of their Samaritan Snares, only to have them gleefully thwarted and obliterated by Vadic.