Captain Picard is back

[Red Five 41736]

Didn't she diagnose him with that disease that it turns out Picard didn't have? Or did I mishear that. Sometimes I watch these things not completely sober.

[Parliament 14594]

She diagnosed him with it, yes.

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5 hours ago, Js1 said:

She knows something about Jack she isn’t letting on 

She’s kept him on the fringes of federation space for a reason.  

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11 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

Speaking of DS9, here's my Jack Crusher theory:

I'm just about deadass certain he's possessed by a Pah-wraith. I might be dead wrong and this could easily blow up in my face, considering the end of DS9.

The overall vibe of the Vadic's controller, the way Vadic was framed in the shot where she's almost losing control while being read the riot act, the way his eyes turn red just like Dukat's did when he was possessed, and then you add in some of his seemingly supernatural abilities (ESPECIALLY those exhibited in this latest episode)...

...well, I'm more and more convinced I'm right. I fully accept that I might end up looking silly. Thoughts?

Yep  I could see this 

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So let’s call that the Crusher Maneuver. Very crafty.  Some good sassy Riker too.

Next week better be the reveal of why Jack is so special. Tired of waiting

[Parliament 14594]

"One's personal space is a right!"

[YChang 3569]

Another fantastic episode

[Parliament 14594]

The first 38 minutes were kinda boring and contrived, but then...

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"Fuckin' solids

They even make Raffi interesting.  

[Red Five 41736]

Legit LOL at Worf’s line, “I thought about sending you all the heads of my slain enemies but was told that might seem passive aggressive.”

[Parliament 14594]

He's the best.  

Question about the rest of the season:

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So we haven't learned who the baddie is, and there's only 2 episodes left.  No way they introduce a new character at this point.  So who's it gonna be?  Gul Dukat, Tomaluk?  Wesley Crusher?

 

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1 hour ago, Parliament said:

He's the best.  

Question about the rest of the season:

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So we haven't learned who the baddie is, and there's only 2 episodes left.  No way they introduce a new character at this point.  So who's it gonna be?  Gul Dukat, Tomaluk?  Wesley Crusher?

 

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Denise Crosby's half human half romulan FTW. 

 

[Parliament 14594]

Hadn't thought of that one.

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1 hour ago, Parliament said:

Hadn't thought of that one.

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And actually, it would sort of make sense. She only exists because of Picard. And would have that supervillian desire to go to great lengths to really screw with him, and his son (I guess Jack is really his son? Whole thing is weird). I didn't think about it at all until Data pulled out that hologram of Tasha. 

 

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

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And actually, it would sort of make sense. She only exists because of Picard. And would have that supervillian desire to go to great lengths to really screw with him, and his son (I guess Jack is really his son? Whole thing is weird). I didn't think about it at all until Data pulled out that hologram of Tasha. 

 

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If so, I want a flashback to the battle of Narendra III.  Let's see the Enterprise C go down swinging.

 

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Soran.   Malcom McDowell is not busy    

 

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48 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

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Soran.   Malcom McDowell is not busy    

 

Don't take this the wrong way:

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https://media.tenor.com/_4PLdnrR5jsAAAAd/fuck-you.gif

 

[Brian Fantana 6864]

Here's one out of left field

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Redjac?

I'm still pretty confident in the pah-wraith theory though

 

Edited April 7, 2023 by Brian Fantana

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19 hours ago, Parliament said:

Don't take this the wrong way:

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Soran could still be in the Nexus since time has no meaning there.

We know Picard's showrunner didn't like how Generations played out, didn't like how Kirk died, and we know where Kirk's body ended up...

 

[Red Five 41736]

I read somewhere, maybe in this thread, that 

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one of the original ideas for this season was "Picard never actually left the Nexus". 

So what would that even look like? Would it be similar to The Inner Light, with Picard returning to a place he left 30 years ago? Would Riker be Captain of the Enterprise D in the "real world"? (I don't remember the details of Generations enough to know if the D would still be around or not). It's a pretty interesting idea. 

 

Edited April 8, 2023 by Red Five

[MissingInAction 25556]

It's gonna be zombie Kirk.

[Js1 87179]

Major spoilers from some leaked images

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Borg cubes

Commander (now Admiral) Shelby

Possibly an assimilated Crash LaForge (or imagined by Jack)

The Enterprise-D!!!

 

[Parliament 14594]

I think I'll watch that one.

[Red Five 41736]

Don't look don't look don't look you can do it you can do it you can do it 

[Parliament 14594]

Turns out the bad guy is Darth Vader.  We're finally getting that crossover.

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2 hours ago, Parliament said:

Turns out the bad guy is Darth Vader.  We're finally getting that crossover.

Q vs The Force

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[Parliament 14594]

Man I dunno.

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Jack Crusher is a whiny little pussy.  Let's admit that.

So the Changelings added Borg DNA to everyone under 25 using Changeling agents.  This is dangerously close a stupid-ass Kurtzman plotline.

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However...

Did they retcon all of Season 2 out with the, "We haven't heard from the Borg in 20 years," line?  If so, bravo.  We had heard that Season 3 "mocks" some of the previous seasons.  LOL.  Awesome.

I'm scared, Guys.  Very scared.

Edited April 13, 2023 by Parliament

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56 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Man I dunno.

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Jack Crusher is a whiny little pussy.  Let's admit that.

So the Changelings added Borg DNA to everyone under 25 using Changeling agents.  This is dangerously close a stupid-ass Kurtzman plotline.

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However...

Did they retcon all of Season 2 out with the, "We haven't heard from the Borg in 20 years," line?  If so, bravo.  We had heard that Season 3 "mocks" some of the previous seasons.  LOL.  Awesome.

I'm scared, Guys.  Very scared.

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Someone much higher up has/had to be driving this scheme through being compromised because no way Shelby or Janeway would enthusiastically turn the fleet into their own version of The Borg, voluntarily

I mean, Lower Decks and Prodigy both showed what happened to a connected/networked fleet. Huge disasters 

 

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

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Someone much higher up has/had to be driving this scheme through being compromised because no way Shelby or Janeway would enthusiastically turn the fleet into their own version of The Borg, voluntarily

I mean, Lower Decks and Prodigy both showed what happened to a connected/networked fleet. Huge disasters 

 

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The same thing happened in Battlestar Galactica. 

 

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5 minutes ago, DeepEastTexas said:

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The same thing happened in Battlestar Galactica. 

 

All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again 

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5 hours ago, Js1 said:

All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again 

[MissingInAction 25556]

Well... that was great. Serious nostalgia boner.

[YChang 3569]

So so good… “Data could you try to be a little more positive?”

[Red Five 41736]

I'm 46 now, so TNG came on when I started middle school and went off as I was finishing high school. That ending was actually fairly emotional. 

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3 hours ago, Red Five said:

I'm 46 now, so TNG came on when I started middle school and went off as I was finishing high school. That ending was actually fairly emotional. 

Same here. It was the first time in a while I stopped and fully enjoyed every glorious second of a television production.

Stewart's delivery of what is likely his final "Engage" carried a weight with it that brought a tear or two.

The finale is already giving me goosebumps and I don't know shit about it.

Edited April 14, 2023 by MissingInAction

[Red Five 41736]

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

Same here. It was the first time in a while I stopped and fully enjoyed every glorious second of a television production.

Oh I rewound a couple of times. 

[Red Five 41736]

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Welp. I guess that Captain Shaw series didn't get too far in pre-production.

 

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Welp. I guess that Captain Shaw series didn't get too far in pre-production.

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Speculation is that something will bring him back - before the show even started, the showrunner was saying everybody would love his character, and then after the show started, the actor began talking about a Legacy series with Shaw and the Showrunner was retweeting everything he was saying, and the showrunner was out there saying they needed a show with him.  If they straight up kill him off and that's the end of the character, that was pretty shitty on the part of the showrunner to lead fans on into thinking they were looking at a show with him.

 

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

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Welp. I guess that Captain Shaw series didn't get too far in pre-production.

 

 

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Speculation is that something will bring him back - before the show even started, the showrunner was saying everybody would love his character, and then after the show started, the actor began talking about a Legacy series with Shaw and the Showrunner was retweeting everything he was saying, and the showrunner was out there saying they needed a show with him.  If they straight up kill him off and that's the end of the character, that was pretty shitty on the part of the showrunner to lead fans on into thinking they were looking at a show with him.

 

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This is Star Trek, I'm not buying that he's dead dead yet.

 

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2 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

The finale is already giving me goosebumps and I don't know shit about it.

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The Enterprise D with the original crew going up against the rest of starfleet, after they've been assimilated by the borg? Holy hell.

Also, I know Geordi is quite capable and everything, but damn. "Hey guys I built us a new starship, complete with the original bridge. Alright well let's get moving."

 

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19 hours ago, YChang said:

So so good… “Data could you try to be a little more positive?”

definitely some bit of Lore is still left in there

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Two starship Easter Eggs of note. One was the USS Reliant showing up on the tactical display for Pioneer Day. The other was the USS Hikaru Sulu. Very interesting. 

 

[hornbri 1508]

Episode 9 was really good. Setting up a nice finale. 

 

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I thought they were going to ignore season 2 completely. But now I wonder if Juraita’s Borg collective is going to come help fight the other borg collective.

 

[Parliament 14594]

They better goddamn not.  If they want this season to be a love letter to fans, they won't.

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Did you eat paint chips as a kid?  

Edited April 15, 2023 by Parliament

[hornbri 1508]

I don’t want them to do that. I just got a bad feeling. 

[Js1 87179]

5 minutes ago, hornbri said:

I don’t want them to do that. I just got a bad feeling. 

Matalas already said on Twitter that’s not happening. It’s for another show at another time maybe, but not the finale 

[Red Five 41736]

Now is it just me, or was Counselor Troi's reaction to Jack extremely unprofessional? "It's ok Jack, I'm here with you. Whatever we see behind that door, it will be ok. We'll get through this together."

(sees what's behind the door)

"Oh my fucking god!! Get the hell away from me, freak. I'm going to tell your mom exactly what I just saw in that sick fucked up head of yours!".

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58 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Now is it just me, or was Counselor Troi's reaction to Jack extremely unprofessional? "It's ok Jack, I'm here with you. Whatever we see behind that door, it will be ok. We'll get through this together."

(sees what's behind the door)

"Oh my fucking god!! Get the hell away from me, freak. I'm going to tell your mom exactly what I just saw in that sick fucked up head of yours!".

Yeah, definitely broke Doctor/Patient confidentiality, and I thought the same thing. 
 

Two minutes later she's telling Picard, "there are protocols". You just ignored one, why not ignore another?

Looking forward to Thursday night. 

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6 hours ago, Red Five said:

Now is it just me, or was Counselor Troi's reaction to Jack extremely unprofessional? "It's ok Jack, I'm here with you. Whatever we see behind that door, it will be ok. We'll get through this together."

(sees what's behind the door)

"Oh my fucking god!! Get the hell away from me, freak. I'm going to tell your mom exactly what I just saw in that sick fucked up head of yours!".

Well his mom is also his doctor/chief medical officer on the Titan (or acting, she sure shoved the Titan’s doctor into the background). There’s things wrong with that too. 

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So Starfleet has been "compromised at the highest level" twice in as many years, and we are now on the third Star Trek show in a row to deal with Starfleet ships firing on each other because the fleet was networked together and then compromised. Da fuck?