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Star Trek Picard season 2

I pasued it when Q was tring to click the blonde woman and Amazon let me know her character is named (SPOILER) "Renee Picard". So he was trying to do something one of Picard's ancestor's, I guess?

Bus Punk was the best part. Picard just saying "remember that time I saved you in a cave a hundred years ago?" would have been a lot more satisfying than her just deciding she trusts him when he tells her his name. I guess an evil Q lady (hey maybe it's Q's wife remember her) has taken the form of Laris for some reason. The Seven/Raffi/Rios stuff just fel like wheel-spinning.
 
whisky said:
I don't remember much of the Q civil war, but if he did something that stopped voyager from helping out maybe the source of his power has gone now?
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This one actually does make sense. Q spent his life fucking with lower lifeforms; in "Deja Q" IIRC, the Continuum stripped him of his powers and booted him out of the Continuum. He got his powers back by demonstrating selflessness, which he did by trying to sacrifice himself to the Calamarain to save the Enterprise. No Enterprise, no attempt at self-sacrifice, so he wouldn't have got his powers back. (The only hole in this explanation is, how the fuck did he have his powers in the Confederation timeline at all?)
 
CaptainWacky said:
I pasued it when Q was tring to click the blonde woman and Amazon let me know her character is named (SPOILER) "Renee Picard". So he was trying to do something one of Picard's ancestor's, I guess?

Bus Punk was the best part. Picard just saying "remember that time I saved you in a cave a hundred years ago?" would have been a lot more satisfying than her just deciding she trusts him when he tells her his name. I guess an evil Q lady (hey maybe it's Q's wife remember her) has taken the form of Laris for some reason. The Seven/Raffi/Rios stuff just fel like wheel-spinning.
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Bus Punk made me laugh out loud, seriously. It was ridiculous but a nice callback. They are throwing out little callbacks for long time fans that usually fall sort of flat, but that and some others in the ep were okay.

I didn't hate this episode at all. At the very least this season seems to be holding my attention for an entire episode, which is more than I can say about any of their other offerings. There are problems, of course, but not much is dragging me out of the story entirely.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
Bus Punk made me laugh out loud, seriously. It was ridiculous but a nice callback. They are throwing out little callbacks for long time fans that usually fall sort of flat, but that and some others in the ep were okay.

I didn't hate this episode at all. At the very least this season seems to be holding my attention for an entire episode, which is more than I can say about any of their other offerings. There are problems, of course, but not much is dragging me out of the story entirely.
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Same. Just the fact that I'm keeping up with it every week is a minor miracle for me. I don't do that with any of the other current Trek shows.
 
Umm... this one just ticked a bunch of plot boxes to move the story along. It exposed how they are stretching the story out to fill a whole season. It ended abruptly at a strange point, like they just kept spitting out story until the clock ran out, see you next week...

Lots of callbacks (too many this time) -- a descendent of Dr. Soong to bring Brent back, a lookalike cellmate to bring back Evan Evagoria (slurp)...

So does Q have his powers or not?
 
Lot of exposition for such a short episode. I enjoyed Spiner's performance this time around, especially with DeLancie. +1 for Lea Thompson in her brief role in front of the camera after directing the last two episodes.
 
Called it with the Gary 7 connection, how fortunate Picard knows so much about what Kirk did a hundred years before he was born.

I liked when he came back to the ship singing his crews praises, only to see them dragging a cop out of the ship

I wish they would explain how they are able to beam people back and forth through three thousand miles of earth's crust.

France and America aren't exactly line of sight.
 
I'm still liking the Borg Queen/Jurati stuff by far the most. The actresses have sizzling chemsitry together (not in a shipper way.)

I never really liked the thing where every male in the Soong famiily looks exactly the same but I guess they're commited to it now. De Lancie continues to be good to watch but I wish they'd just tell us what's up with Q, it's more than halfway through the season.

So last week Picard met Guinan, thinking she was his guide, but she knew nothing and took him to his real guide. Who also basically knows nothing.
 
CaptainWacky said:
I never really liked the thing where every male in the Soong famiily looks exactly the same but I guess they're commited to it now. De Lancie continues to be good to watch but I wish they'd just tell us what's up with Q, it's more than halfway through the season.
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It's also more than a little :hmmm: that "Adam Soong" and "Arik Soong" are not only visually identical but basically exactly the same character. Same with Noonien Soong and "Inigo Altan Soong" -- a "biological son" of Soong's that he... what? Conceived with an android replica of his wife? And it has to be asked, where was wee bairn Soong during Data's lifetime? And how/why would Bruce Maddox have even met this son of Soong without anybody ever knowing about it until 30+ years later?

Here's my theory: Soong is an immortal, like Flint from the TOS episode, "Requiem For Methuselah." In fact, if this theory pans out, there's a strong story parallel. First, both Flint and Noonien Soong were apparently expert cyberneticists.

Here's Flint's work:
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Here's Soong's:
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Both, in their later years, became recluses with only androids for companionship.

So this is my headcanon, and maybe this is the direction the writers are taking (really, the only one they can take, if they want to explain one actor playing 400 years worth of men who are identical in voice, appearance, motives, and behavior):

Adam Arik Noonien Inigo Altan Soong is an immortal. Uses androids for companionship (and, for the planet he summoned Data to and was "killed" by Lore on, Life Model Decoys) but has been around since at least the 20th century. His effort to have a human child ended in tragedy when his perfect genetics went 100% fucktangular when passed to an offspring. That's what started him down the dark path that led to the Augments a couple hundred years later, and from there to cybernetics a hundred years after that.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
This is true, but now they're kind of totally ripping off the Head Six/Baltar vibe from BSG as well. Who knows, it could be good or at least funny going forward, I like them and they play well off each other.
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I feel like putting Agnes in that red dress (hello there) was a BSG reference.

Cassie said:
I just hope they don't make an entire season out of trying to remove the Borg queen from Agnes's mind.

I really miss the standalone episodes. All the new ST are miniseries.
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Strange New Worlds is supposed to be standalone episodes and I have been continuing to post character trailers in its thread.
 
Well, why not. Last season was Mass Effect, why shouldn't this season be Caprica. God forbid they devote a season to Star Trek.
 
Picard season 2 was going well, but I’m starting to see problems. Raffi, Rios and Seven let a bus load of illegal immigrants go. This reflects liberal thinking, all of these people are good people, no potential criminals, no vetting them, just catch and release. Then they disregard their own rules, “beware of butterflies”, but releasing people back into the US and beaming in front of everyone is no problem. Where’s the department of temporal Adair’s when you need them?
 
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