Picard season 2 (spoilers maybe unmarked)

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, between that and Adam Soong's hovering forcefield sunshade, this does already seem to be an alternate timeline from our own.

That might be a major McGuffin. Soong invents a technological sunshade which is used to counter global warming. Which means humanity doesn't need to get it's sh*t together.

If Soong's daughter is cured he no longer needs to continue development on his sunshade.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

In "All Good Things", Q helped Picard wipe out humanity with some weird anti-time anomaly, where Picard's attempt to figure things out were actually the reason the time anomaly started. Maybe it's simlar this time around.

It is weird that a mission destined for Europa would fine traces of alien life on Io, I think. It's not that they aren't close by Star Trek space travel standards, but even for somewhat advanced 21st century tech, it seems strange that a mission headed for one moon would have the time and resources to capture probes from a different moon.

 

[MarkB]

In "All Good Things", Q helped Picard wipe out humanity with some weird anti-time anomaly, where Picard's attempt to figure things out were actually the reason the time anomaly started. Maybe it's simlar this time around.

It is weird that a mission destined for Europa would fine traces of alien life on Io, I think. It's not that they aren't close by Star Trek space travel standards, but even for somewhat advanced 21st century tech, it seems strange that a mission headed for one moon would have the time and resources to capture probes from a different moon.

They're about as close as moons get - they both orbit Jupiter. If you've got a ship that can get out there in the first place, going from one to the other is an insignificant hop.

Interesting that the life would be found on Io, though - Europa is considered one of the solar system's best prospects for finding conditions suitable for evolution of life-roughly-as-we-know-it, whereas there are few places more inhospitable than Io.

 

[Ryujin]

In "All Good Things", Q helped Picard wipe out humanity with some weird anti-time anomaly, where Picard's attempt to figure things out were actually the reason the time anomaly started. Maybe it's simlar this time around.

That's what I was getting at with my post about "the test never ends", above.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

They're about as close as moons get - they both orbit Jupiter. If you've got a ship that can get out there in the first place, going from one to the other is an insignificant hop.

Interesting that the life would be found on Io, though - Europa is considered one of the solar system's best prospects for finding conditions suitable for evolution of life-roughly-as-we-know-it, whereas there are few places more inhospitable than Io.

Using current tech, you probably couldn't spare the fuel to send humans even that short distance, but you would certainly send unmanned probes to anything in the vicinity. But you would be talking about a round trip of something like ten years.

 

[bloodtide]

Well, not that the writers or makers of Picard know or care, but in the "offical" Star Trek timeline is about 100 more advanced then our Real timeline.

Of course, Star Trek has the Eugenic Wars and World War III to kill off some folks. And the future tech from the time ship.
Star Trek had space ships in the '90's

 

[MarkB]

Well, not that the writers or makers of Picard know or care, but in the "offical" Star Trek timeline is about 100 more advanced then our Real timeline.

Of course, Star Trek has the Eugenic Wars and World War III to kill off some folks. And the future tech from the time ship.

There isn't really any one official Star Trek timeline at this point. Anytime they reference the present-day or near future in a series they make tweaks and allowances for real-world history.

Star Trek had space ships in the '90's

We had space ships in the '60s.

 

[Ryujin]

There isn't really any one official Star Trek timeline at this point. Anytime they reference the present-day or near future in a series they make tweaks and allowances for real-world history.

We had space ships in the '60s.

But in the Star Trek universe there was no warp drive until 2063. There's a bit of a difference between a "space ship" and a "ballistic missile with live cargo."

 

[Ixal]

Slightly OT, there is already a teaser for season 3 and the list of the cast.

Spoiler

 

[MarkB]

Slightly OT, there is already a teaser for season 3 and the list of the cast.

Spoiler

Picard s3 = TNG s8, it seems.