Star Trek: Picard (Page 11 of 12)

@Frimlin Welcome to the forums!  Yay!  You've been here since 2016 and haven't trolled us yet? 

Your Picard theory is quite the inference.  Even if you're right, that was not spelled out well enough from the story; a lot of assumptions, conjecture, and guesswork based on TNG and Voyager isn't good story telling.

very disappointed that they made 25 and under into changeling enemies. WTF are they thinking? and I happen to be 76.

Simplistic as in Stargirl for example.

Yes, "seemed to be promised". I am very forgiving when it comes to changes in a story, especially when the outcome is as good as this final season! Who knows, maybe they had planned to start this season in a certain way, but after filming and airing the last season they realized they had to change the story to deliver something even better?

The most epic fan service and the most triumphant last hurrah requires this level of contrivance.  It's glorious!   Like, how else would they put events together perfectly so that everyone in the entire Federation would need the help of the TNG team, than to "Borgify" (Raffi's word not mine) everyone 25 and under and kill off as many starfleet Admirals and Captains in the Federation as they could, then just so happen to have Geordi working on a pet project that puts the team back on the Enterprise D, to save the day.  Like how else could they do it? How?  LOLZ.  /S   It's so far fetched it plays out like a dream sequence, full Newhart; like what if Picard just wakes up back in his orchard somewhere with a bottle of wine in his hand, and tells Beverly about this crazy dream he just had?  lolz Newhart Finale.  It's that far fetched, but I love it.

*Also, anyone else immediately notice how Galactica the Enterprise D is in being analog and disconnected from the network?  They get away with it because, Ronald D. Moore, but, still, I've seen this before! (Imagine a reboot of this reboot with Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga writing and directing....I can't even.)

Timelines are functionally the same as alternate universes in many ways. Depending on how it's done, it can also be literally the same, but there's no need to discuss that right now.

Regardless, the point is: the other Borg queen from S2 existed in an alternate timeline, then traveled back in time to before those timelines diverged. Her timeline of origin was then erased, but she was not. Instead, she lived (sort of, as a part of Agnes) through the regular old timeline from that point forward. Meaning she is still a separate being from the regular Borg queen and her point of origin simply no longer exists. That's effectively the same as being from another universe you can't get back to.

Yeah that's a bit of a shame. Maybe the final episode will reference back to it in some way and provide a conclusion, that's part of why I mentioned 12 Monkeys: they did out-of-nowhere stuff like that. But generally speaking, all they did this season was go all in on what a lot of the people watching this show wanted to see. And by most accounts, it seems they succeeded.

I'm surprised they brought in Shelby as the fleet admiral. Just in case anyone was wondering where she had ended up? Having coincidentally rewatched that old TNG episode the day before, I actually had been for a second.

Could the final episode have been better? Sure! But I still (mostly) enjoyed it.