Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x10 - "The Last Generation"

I'm not sure a thing in the Berman era can be called obscure, if it was name-dropped in at least eight episodes back then, which the Daystrom Institute was (aka, Daystrom Technological Institute).

 

We have different definitions of "obscure" then.

 

Agreed.

Entire episodes have been made with much more obscure stuff than the Daystrom Instritute.

 

Oh, there are similarities. Some are story driven, some are tech. When the USS Intrepid was destroyed, Spock felt it even though he was lightyears away from the Vulcan crew. Ben experiences something very similar with the destruction of Alderaan.

 

Actual definition of the word "obscure", from a casual Google search:

Not discovered or known about; uncertain (adj.); keep from being seen; conceal (verb).

Plus, there's an entire page on the Daystrom Institute on Memory Alpha.

Anyway, I am glad for the callback. Nice to know that Dr. Richard Daystrom (aka the actor William Marshall) is getting his props, well into the 25th century, in spite of how he was depicted during the M5 computer "mishap".

 

I love that in DS9's "Trials and Tribbleations" O'Brien just stares at those panels in amazement and can't figure it out at all.

These are the same Starfleet officers that somehow are able to commandeer alien craft on the fly when they need to, but with the inner workings of the original Enterprise they're lost.

 

That’s ok.
The TOS Starfleet officers are thwarted by mouse and QWERTY keyboards to balance things out.

 

It’s all very quaint.

 

Once he got the hang of it Scotty was quite good with a keyboard actually. And how he did that stuff on an early mac without using the mouse is incredible.

 

That’s what made Mac’s superior. Back then, anyway.

 

I have just finished watching this episode. Just wow. This 3rd season was quite simply the best TV trek I've seen since the 90s.

Was there a whole ton of fanwank? There absolutely was.

Did I care? Absolutely not.

I enjoyed the first series of this, I found datas 'death' to be moving and the overall plot to be OK. The second series I found to be a slog that I actually bailed out on half way through before making myself watch the rest so I could get to this 3rd series, and I'm glad I did.

There was just so much to love in this final series for a trek fan - tons of references - from the TWOK font in the intros, the sound effects and score from previous trek movies, the introduction of beloved characters from VOY as well as TNG, in jokes intesperesd with some epic battles and great visuals with some excellent drama and one of the best characters I've seen in this franchise in a long time in Captain Shaw - a sarcastic, self depracating yet competent and charasmatic guy that provided a lot of watchability to at least the first half of this series.

Hell they even threw in references from other sci fi - Rikers 'this place is a tomb' from event horizon - then had the audacity to just go full on return of the Jedi with the Enterprise D at the end.

Yet it all worked, just. I mean did any of you guys have a dry eye at the poker scene right at the end? I know I didn't, it just felt like I had a warm blanket of trek wrapped around me and was the send off that they all deserved after the failure of nemesis (which I still really like).

Will this lead to another series of some kind? Who knows. But I'm so glad for Picard for delivering this final glorious series of simply great star trek.

 

Bloody A.I.s. One of these days, someone's going to manipulate them to turn on us and...

Oh wait.

 

Don't worry.. 1997 has come and gone.

 

Now all our descendants will have to worry about is 2385...

 

If we know anything about the Borg, we know that the Borg are always planning, evolving. We haven't seen the last of the Borg.

 

Can we not?

 

I'd rather they remain extinguished or - in the case of the Jurati Borg - out of view.

 

Just let the Borg die. Please... they have been on life support for too long already.

 

Of all the AI voices I've heard this is possibly the worst, there were only a couple of brief moments where it sounded like Janeway. Not sure if they were including Mulgrew's voice from Orange is the New Black for the AI training as the voice appeared to be slipping into a Russian accent occasionally.

But that aside, it never occurred to me how well it would have fit to have Janeway broadcasting the message. And the look Picard and Riker appear to give each other when she mentions Spock works well.