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Re: PIC S3: Surrender

"someone Deanna recognizes immediately and is outright horrified by" – Ian Andrew Troi Jnr. Or Thomas Riker.

Re: PIC S3: Dominion

The enduring power of Trek, that a discussion this thoughtful can still be provoked even by an episode so poor

Re: PIC S3: No Win Scenario

Beverley's conclusion that the waves buffeting the Titan are contractions riles not only because it's a stretch but also because it's not relevant at that point. The waves are rideable and their timing is predictable. Save the resultant births as a revelation for later.

Shaw's recollection of Wolf359 would have been more consistent with his earlier remarks about Picard's supposed recklessness had the animosity come not from Picard having been transformed into Locutus but on his having (inadvertently) put the Federation on the Borg's radar to begin with.

Nits picked, that was still better than anything in season 2.

Re: PIC S3: Seventeen Seconds

MidshipmanNorris: "Taking up the story where it left off at the end of DS9..."

If only! Tensions among the powers occupying Cardassia. Bajor's entry into the Federation. Renewed exploration of, and a vaccum of power in, the Gamma Quadrant...

Re: PIC S3: Seventeen Seconds

Kyle: 'DS9 characterized the Great Link as a harmonious, blending, communing, interactive, collective consciousness, hive mind type of thing, way different than relationships among us "solids". The notion of factions and splinter cells doesn't ring true. There was always unity of purpose and thought.'

"When you return to The Link, what will become of the entity I'm talking to right now?"
"The drop becomes the ocean."
"And if you choose to take solid form again?"
"The ocean becomes a drop."

Re: PIC S2: Farewell

@Jaxon for that reason I always imagined Picard's alternate present in Tapestry to be a Q-contrived fabrication or simulation, rather than a "real" alternative reality/history/timeline/whatever.

Re: PIC S2: Farewell

1) Final farewell to Data
2) Final farewell to Q
3) Final farewell to rest of former crewmates?

Re: PIC S2: Hide and Seek

@Karl Zimmerman

"One thing I've been mulling is if (as it looks certain now) the Masked Queen is Jurati, that means that the Confederation timeline has to continue to exist in order for her group to escape through that spatial rupture and claim asylum in the Federation. The cryptic line Borg Jurati made about one Renee has to live, and one has to die thus makes sense - there needs to be two timelines in order to get back to the right "present" on the Stargazer (and, presumably, to have a full Borg redemption arc)."

Conceivably that splitting is what Q is trying to prevent by nobbling Renee, if it affects the continuum in some way

Re: PIC S2: Monsters

Anti-alien FBI man will have something to do with the point of divergence...

Re: PIC S2: Two of One

Laughed out loud at Picard's "Guys, I think I'm in trouble" line.

Though I don't think it was *meant* to be funny.

Re: PIC S2: Watcher

If Bus Punk's concern for his neck when Seven tells him to turn down his music is meant to indicate that he remembers being nervepinched by Spock, whereas Guinan doesn't remember the events of Time's Arrow, that implies that whatever the 2024 change to the timeline is doesn't have a major impact until sometime after Kirk's era – perhaps consistent with Q saying that the Confederation is a world of (alt-)Picard's making.