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    S03.E06: Part Six - The Bounty

    in Star Trek: Picard

    39 minutes ago, cambridgeguy said:

    The Enterprise-F has been mentioned, but nothing about the E, although she's either unavailable or not important enough to have earned a placed in the museum.

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    Alandra did mention "Hangar 12," although what was in there wasn't disclosed.

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    S03.E06: Part Six - The Bounty

    in Star Trek: Picard

    I’m not even going to pretend like hearing snippets of the DS9, TOS and VOY themes as we swept across the Defiant, Enterprise-A and Voyager didn’t catch in my throat.  Especially hearing Seven talk about her time on the latter.

    Also, in an INCREDIBLY deep pull from the beta-canon, there’s a shot, not lingering, of what appears to be the refit, Columbia-class NX-01.

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    Unpopular Opinions

    in Everything Else Movies

    I enjoy watching "bad" movies, after a fashion.  And it's not because I'm some kind of masochist, I find trying to figure out the thought process that makes someone direct The Room to be utterly fascinating.

    There is an absolutely terrible, zero-budget queer movie from about 2001 called Ben & Arthur that is so inept (Birdemic-level inept) it loops out of merely "bad" and becomes something else entirely.

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    S03.E05: Part Five - Imposters

    in Star Trek: Picard

    15 hours ago, Cthulhudrew said:

    I'm not sure I understand the logic that there can be no Utopia without crime, but I'll give them points for at least having the character believe his criminality was a logical vocation.

    I mean, we’ve seen Vulcan terrorists before, so I don’t think a mafioso who logicced a justification is too far-fetched.

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    S03.E05: Part Five - Imposters

    in Star Trek: Picard

    13 minutes ago, marinw said:

    Ro being introduced just to die sucked. Ugh.

    I'd be willing to put good money that Michelle Forbes only agreed to appear if Ro was killed off.  Do I wish it was different?  Yes.  Am I grateful that she got closure on her story and went out like a badass?  Also yes.

    I was also really happy that she got equal billing with the other TNG actors.

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    S03.E05: Part Five - Imposters

    in Star Trek: Picard

    59 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

    What happened to Ro's Bajoran nose?

    The Bajoran makeup got toned down over the course of DS9, and I think that had already started when "Preemptive Strike" was filmed, because if you look at stills from that episode, she's missing the ridges on the eyebrows that were so prominent on the first version.  So it is actually consistent with that.

    S03.E05: Part Five - Imposters

    in Star Trek: Picard

    51 minutes ago, PurpleTentacle said:

    Also correct me if I'm wrong here, but couldn't changelings always replicate internal organs?

    When the Great Link punished Odo by turning him into a solid, Bashir was seemingly shocked that he had lungs.

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    S03.E05: Part Five - Imposters

    in Star Trek: Picard

    I’ve been waiting for that scene between Picard and Ro for 29 years.  I’m a little bummed that they killed her off, but I think she got a satisfactory ending, all things being equal.  And I loved using her earring as the way of passing the information to him.  Both a good symbol, and practical.  I think it looked more like Kira’s than the one Ro wore, but I’ll let that slide.

    1 minute ago, Chicago Redshirt said:

    They could bring back whoever they want for the series, but Chakotay doesn't really make sense with this plot as is, and I tend to think that there's a ton of people jonesing to have him come back as a one-of cameo

    We also already have an inkling of what’s going on with Chakotay because of Prodigy.  And I believe that show currently has dominion (so to speak) over both Janeway and he, so I doubt using him would be possible, even if that had made sense from a story perspective.

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    2023 Awards Season

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    Wow, what a night.  I don’t think I’ve been this pleased with the winners in a single ceremony since Return of the King had its sweep.

    My one quibble was Pinocchio winning of Marcel the Shell, but considering that had the latter won, A24 would have gotten every single major category, and I can see wanting to spread the love around a little.

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    S03.E03: Part Three - Seventeen Seconds

    in Star Trek: Picard

    26 minutes ago, greekmom said:

    (I don't buy the whole "he went to school in London and picked up the accent" explanation).

    I’m a child psychiatrist, and the area I work in has a very high percentage of children of immigrants from all over the world.  Almost without exception, the kids speak English with standard mid-Atlantic accents even if they’re speaking another language at home.

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    S03.E03: Part Three - Seventeen Seconds

    in Star Trek: Picard

    I think it’s also worth noting that we know that human lifespans are longer by the 25th century.  Gates is in her early 70s now, which would have put her in her early 50s around Nemesis, presumably when Jack was conceived.  If the average human lifespan is about 150 (I think they’ve alluded to that before), it doesn’t seem unreasonable that a woman who’s only about a third of the way through a natural lifespan would still have her fertility preserved.

    Also, I heard some folks mention the time spent on the Baku planet, which might have revved things up.

    I’m not saying it’s a perfect solution, but it’s at least within the realm of possibility.

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