Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x07 - "Dominion"

I just hope she's not brought in as the saving grace like they did at the end of VOYAGER.

 

I could tell Tuvok was a Changeling. His ears were all wrong.
So Jack can read thoughts. He’s isn’t Picard’s son. He’s Xavier’s.

 

Shaw must be really growing on me because I was convinced and scared that he was going to be killed at the end of this episode.

 

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It's 2am. I do not understand what you're getting at.

 

Guest starring: Ian McKellen as Vadic's boss

 

So far, he's only been able to read Sidney.
I think that's because he has feelings for her.

 

As much as I am not a fan of the character, I am beginning to hope so.

As long as she's not the Mary Sue that steals the TNG cast's thunder. This is their show. Don't Enterprise it at the finish, although that would totally be some karma, right there.

 

You seem to have indicated that you didn't like this episode because you are worried that the season may end in a manner you won't like.
That's a bit of backwards reasoning.

That's like saying you hate the taste of someone's cooking, before even tasting it.

 

So this syndrome must have been misdiagnosed and is fact some sort of evolutionary mutation that gives them special abilities.
I liked the episode but they are dragging some of these mysteries out. Vadic could have told them. Their plan was also not very clever.

 

I read their post. I didn’t get that impression
They gave a reason why they didn’t like the episode at the start of the post.
No where did they say or imply they hadn’t watched the episode.

 

He's not just Telepathic, but maybe Empathic with the ability to project his own thoughts / emotions onto others.

Maybe a little Betazoid DNA got mixed in somehow?

 

Woof.

As far as half-baked plans to capture someone goes, that sure was one of them. I get that security in Starfleet has been a joke going back decades now, but come on.

Somehow both over and underwritten. Lot of monologues that amount to not much at all. A shame, because they had some good momentum going leading up to this. Hopefully they manage to turn it around next week, but this was a slog, and the drab, claustrophobic direction really wasn't helping matters.

5.

 

Agreed. I found myself genuinely intimidated by Vadic and liked the unhinged way she acted.

While it was awesome to see Tuvok, I'm a little disappointed it wasn't actually Tuvok. I hope he appears in the flesh at some point. I could see Tim Russ appearing with stipulations that Tuvok gets something more than the monotone and/or gets killed off, given how much he seemed to hate playing Tuvok (based on interviews I saw).

New conjecture: Jack is also a weapon sort of created by Section 31. The experiments on the changelings led them to discover that Picard's "Irumodic syndrome" was an experimental changeling parasite that was part of the Dominion's plans for infiltration. Picard would have been a high profile Dominion target by the time he first learned of his condition in 2370. But the Borg nanoprobes or whatever that gave him Borg-telepathy in FC "assimilated" the changeling thing. With that knowledge, 31 began manipulating events so Beverly Crusher would conceive a child with him, but then manipulating her into leaving his side and raising the child separately. Why? In hopes of facilitating whatever Howard essence led to weird ghost parasites clinging to her family line and her having a son who could bend space/time. Jack inherited a lot of shit from his parents, and one of them was a Borgified Great Link. One that combined the "light" versions of telepathy the Borg and Great Link both have. The veins or branches are a visualization of Jack's subconscious reaching out to others. He can Link/assimilate with other humans, as he did with Sidney, but can't in the same way do so with changelings, which is how he "knew" he could use lethal force on them.

 

Great acting and character work in this episode, especially Geordi and Data. Vadic was great. I guess the performances kept me engaged to the point where I wasn't worrying about plot contrivances or story progression. I think we learned quite a bit, though.

 

Wow, a lot of negativity......

I thought the episode was a bit below in quality compared to episodes 4,5 and 6, but it was still very good..! I think episode 8 will answer a lot of questions: who is the 'talking head'? What is going on with Jack? I think episode 8 is going to deliver big time..!

 

If this was a filler episode, it was the best filler I’ve seen for a long time.

True, from a storytelling pov, not much happened in this episode, but the acting, the cinematography and the suspense is still 10 times more exciting than almost all we’ve seen during the NuTrek era.

Plus we still don’t know what actually is going on with Jack. Maybe, Picard has been a changeling 2.0 since Nemesis but wasn’t aware of it. This could explain the strange abilities of Jack which got inherited by the mixed up changeling/human/borg DNA.

I will give it a 9….

 

Vadic: "And I'm able to pass it on. Any who want to join our cause, we link, they accept a shorter life, eternal pain, for the ability to fool those who took everything from us."

I don't see how that restricts it to the other 9.

 

Too soon. There was no direct contract with the Dominon until after.

 

I betcha Episode 8 will have more clues for what is happening and no answers. If there are answers, they will be in one of the last two episodes. Going by the clip seen in "The Ready Room", there will be a lot of ultraviolence and head symphony in next week's episode. Damn pity the song is not "I'm Singing in the Rain".

 

People have posted things without tags in the spoiler threads as soon as the episodes are released for years now, and today it is a problem? Why was it not a problem for the previous 100 episodes?
If you don't wanna see spoilers, maybe looking at spoiler threads about the episode you wanna avoid around the time the episodes drop is not such a good plan
The only way to have avoided them until this one is that you haven't opened the episode threads around this time. If you changed that, don't blame others for never looking at this time before, but then doing it today.