Picard Season 3

[Hussar]

Given that everything else, including most of this episode, is fine I'm inclined to think it's not my TV.

It isn’t just you. I’m sick to death of Star Trek being shot in dark rooms.

 

[Morrus]

Soooo.... finally saw it! I enjoyed it, loved the nostalgia stuff. Forgive my personal nitpicks below; they are very minor complaints.

• That was Return of the Jedi. But the Enterprise isn't an X-Wing!
• Loved seeing it in action though. And a ship with the lights turned on.
• Star Trek fleets never look good. Star Wars fleets do!
• New Enterprise good. But isn't it traditionally a flagship level ship? The Titan has been portrayed in this series as a mid-range ship? I'm not too sure. Might be wrong on that.
• Don't these ships need like 1000 people to crew them? I know they did that in Star Trek III too, but it was made clear that the ship was barely functional and couldn't fight without a crew.
• Borg stuff insta-healing physically and everybody being fine was a little too much like magic for me.
• I'm glad Q and Data are still around, but the first season ended with Data dying, the second with Q dying...
• I would like to see a Legacy series on the new Enterprise. Then again we already have Strange New Worlds which is scratching that exploration mission itch for me.

 

[Zardnaar]

Not a trekking but may have missed a couple of things on previous seasons or shows.

1. Borg cube in Jupiter where did it come from?
2. Borg queen is she in another show/series.
3. Borg were genocided?

Bit distracted this episode RL stuff. FIL in hospital so phones were going off.

 

[glass]

Don't these ships need like 1000 people to crew them? I know they did that in Star Trek III too, but it was made clear that the ship was barely functional and couldn't fight without a crew.

There are a lot of tasks that need doing to keep a ship running long term that can be ignored if you only need it to work for a few hours - you don't need to worry about routine maintenance or shift changes. You might worry about damage control, but if there is nobody available to do it you just have to hope for the best and try not to get damaged.

It has been clear for a long time in Trek that the minimum crew complement is a lot less than the optimal crew complement. As in, a couple of orders of magnitude less.

1. Borg cube in Jupiter where did it come from?

From the delta quadrant, presumably EDIT: explicitly by transwarp conduit.

2. Borg queen is she in another show/series.

Borg queens were introduced in Star Trek: First Contact (the film), and have been seen in Voyager, and previous seasons of Picard. EDIT: It is not clear to what extent the various borg queens are the same individual - several bodies have been destroyed, but how much continuity of mindstate there is between them is an open question. Except that the one in the previous season of Picard was definitely separate because she was from an alternate timeline (and became decidedly less Borg-like).

3. Borg were genocided?

They were severely damaged by Janeway in the Voyager finale. How severely was not clear (in or out of universe) until now.

 

[Ryujin]

From the delta quadrant, presumably by transwarp conduit.

Riker actually said something like, "They hid a transwarp conduit in Jupiter."

 

[glass]

Riker actually said something like, "They hid a transwarp conduit in Jupiter."

Good point, I forgot that bit. Edited.

 

[Stalker0]

• Borg stuff insta-healing physically and everybody being fine was a little too much like magic for me.

To me the organic assimilation was more of a mental “override switch”, but the subtleness of it meant it didn’t have any permanency. Likely the next step would have been adding more integrations into the drones to “seal the deal”.

Same with jack they had enough equipment to get the party started but not enough to give him proper implants that would linger or replace organic parts.

Now psychologically speaking, that’s up in the air. Such an event would likely be very traumatic and you expect a lot of mental issues for a while after the event, which we aren’t shown. Of course we didn’t see too much of that in TNG at first, only hints of it right after Picard came back, and then not till much later was the trauma explored.

 

[Morrus]

To me the organic assimilation was more of a mental “override switch”, but the subtleness of it meant it didn’t have any permanency.

Well there was physical change which we could see, though. And that just reversed instantly. I get that that was just visual shorthand, but it does feel a bit too much like magic for me.

 

[Vael]

Well there was physical change which we could see, though. And that just reversed instantly. I get that that was just visual shorthand, but it does feel a bit too much like magic for me.

This is the same franchise where crew have turned into salamanders or animalistic hybrids, so ... it's Star Trek, it's not nearly as hard a sci-fi series as some think.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well there was physical change which we could see, though. And that just reversed instantly. I get that that was just visual shorthand, but it does feel a bit too much like magic for me.

Yeah, it is entirely unrealistic for it to happen that fast, but hat said - IIRC, there are probably 1-3 TNG episodes where someone is undergoing some visual physical changes (like aging or turning into an alien) and it gets undone with nothing more than an injection of the antidote. No surgery required and you can watch the reversal live.