Picard season 2 (spoilers maybe unmarked)

[Ryujin]

He's wearing it better than Shatner, though.

Shatner is 9 years older than Stewart.

 

[MarkB]

Shatner is 9 years older than Stewart.

He's wearing it better than Shatner was decades ago. Mainly because he's not trying to look like he's not old.

 

[Ryujin]

He's wearing it better than Shatner was decades ago. Mainly because he's not trying to look like he's not old.

In a rather interesting turn of events actress Tybee Diskin posted this morning about a couple of chance encounters with Mr. Shatner and proclaimed that, "He looks great", on Twitter.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

People age differently, Some become chubby and some become gaunt. Shatner became chubby, and Stewart was already Gaunt.

 

[Morrus]

He's wearing it better than Shatner was decades ago.

I don't think that. It's in the voice. Shatner seems younger to me.

 

[Ryujin]

I don't think that. It's in the voice. Shatner seems younger to me.

Stewart definitely has a tremor in hos voice these days.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Well, I thought episode two was really fun.

 

[Ryujin]

I will say that the difference between "The Mirror Universe" and whatever this one is, is a bit of hand-waving. After all, have the alternate universes always existed in parallel or are they spawned, like a Loki Alt, whenever a different choice is made? if the Borg Queen can see the Alts, doesn't that mean that they effectively co-exist? Not sure how much this is a semantic argument, on my part.

 

[MarkB]

I will say that the difference between "The Mirror Universe" and whatever this one is, is a bit of hand-waving. After all, have the alternate universes always existed in parallel or are they spawned, like a Loki Alt, whenever a different choice is made? if the Borg Queen can see the Alts, doesn't that mean that they effectively co-exist? Not sure how much this is a semantic argument, on my part.

Any answer to that is going to involve a lot of hand-waving. The distinction they're making in this episode seems to be that when you change the timeline you change the current universe - the old version no longer exists, and won't unless you go back and unchange things. See examples like City on the Edge of Forever, Yesterday's Enterprise, First Contact.

But on the other hand, Star Trek Discovery mentions someone visiting this timeline from the Kelvin timeline, which suggests that both exist independently.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It's just a case of getting caught down the wrong leg of the Trousers of Time.