Spoilers Things that were explained clearly in the show but people missed them and keep asking

[Mike Doyle]

I’ll start.

Jurati’s borg are not the borg collective and did not rewrite time and overwrite them. They grew in secret as part of a pre-destination paradox.

 

[Mike Doyle]

These changelings are different to the ones we have seen before. Some that they can do the DS9 ones couldn’t and some things a DS9 one could survive these can’t.

 

[Mike Doyle]

Picard’s consciousness was moved from his body to the golem. It is really him, several characters say it. Q visits him. It has been established repeatedly in Trek this can happen.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t like it.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

These changelings are different to the ones we have seen before. Some that they can do the DS9 ones couldn’t and some things a DS9 one could survive these can’t.

These are the slow, lethargic changelings that don't react when being blown into space.

 

[Mike Doyle]

Jack and Beverley have not been on the run constantly since he was born. That started a couple of months before Season 3 so it’s perfectly possible for Jack to go to school in London.

 

[fireproof78]

This Data is not the same Data that died in season 1. This is a new version of Data, an amalgamation of various Soong android parts.

Soong was not successful in his experiments with creating more golems like Picard's.

 

[Mike Doyle]

But the Borg queen died in First Contact/Voyager?

You think in such three dimensional terms.

 

[gweeps]

Q is not dead. He claims he was "in human parlance" dying. But he didn't know for sure, just figured so because he could no longer see everything, and his powers did opposite things to his intentions.

Personally, I think Q just screwed with time once too often, even the Temporal agents and the Travelers couldn't fix everything.

 

[Campe]

Q evolved. Like V’Ger.

 

[Captain_Amasov]

Q evolved. Like V’Ger.

Now he's QQ

 

[Racefuel]

Data is an outgrowth of the last full copydown he did into B4 in 2379.

This Data personality and memory set was uploaded into the Daystrom Institute mainframe along with Lore, Lal and B4.

A second Data personality was taken by Alton Soong and continued to develop in a quantum simulation as we saw in Season 1. This Data personality was the one Picard interacted with in the interim between his biological death and the conciousness transferral to syntheic form. This Data personality asked for Picard to terminate his existence.

The Season 3 Data is the combination of the *personalities* of Lore and Data and the memory files of Lal, Alton Soong and B4. During the "mindscape battle" Data essentially took over Lore form the inside out. Lore has ceased to exist as a unique entity and has been fully integrated into Data, with Data being the dominant and majority personality and memory entity.

Data is Data. Data is not Lore, this is not Lore with Datas memories. Lore is dead. Lore is gone and Lore has ceased to exist.

There is only Data.

 

[Yistaan]

Data is an outgrowth of the last full copydown he did into B4 in 2379.

This Data personality and memory set was uploaded into the Daystrom Institute mainframe along with Lore, Lal and B4.

A second Data personality was taken by Alton Soong and continued to develop in a quantum simulation as we saw in Season 1. This Data personality was the one Picard interacted with in the interim between his biological death and the conciousness transferral to syntheic form. This Data personality asked for Picard to terminate his existence.

The Season 3 Data is the combination of the *personalities* of Lore and Data and the memory files of Lal, Alton Soong and B4. During the "mindscape battle" Data essentially took over Lore form the inside out. Lore has ceased to exist as a unique entity and has been fully integrated into Data, with Data being the dominant and majority personality and memory entity.

Data is Data. Data is not Lore, this is not Lore with Datas memories. Lore is dead. Lore is gone and Lore has ceased to exist.

There is only Data.

Some people thought there was a bit of Lore talking when Data went on about "monologuing protoplasms", but movie Data with the emotions chip always had some snarky one liners before giving the beatdown on a hated enemy; for example, saying "Resistance is futile" before smashing the coolant tanks and melting the Borg Queen in First Contact.