There were a few city overhead shots with flying cars all over the place. It made me wonder, I assume they just use transporters to go everywhere? Picard was all over the place, but they didn't show him transporting.
There was an episode of DS9 which mentioned the need for transporter credits for Starfleet Academy cadets; it could be that even for the technology of the 24th Century, the energy cost of transporter use was so high that it was reserved for military, government and other VIP trips.
So hypothetical question. You have a holo deck, you're wife has gotten older, gained a few pounds and become a angry person not interested in sex. So you go to the old holosuite and beep boop beep program a younger hotter friskier version of your wife.
Is it still cheating?
There’s an episode of Voyager where Tuvok has the Pon Farr and he has to do it with a holographic version of his wife. They infer that it is not cheating, but only because of the circumstance. So there’s some leeway there.
There’s an episode of Voyager where Tuvok has the Pon Farr and he has to do it with a holographic version of his wife. They infer that it is not cheating, but only because of the circumstance. So there’s some leeway there.
Oh yeah, and she'll totally buy that explanation when he gets back too.
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Wow, what happened to this thread. Came here to post about Picard, not holodeck debauchery.
Anyway, I liked it.
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It is weird that they changed the Romulan look again to make them look more like Vulcans like they did in TOS. However, I do like that look better than the major eyebrow ridges they had in TNG. I never understood why Star Trek has to keep changing the look of the aliens. I mean, make new aliens if you want a different look, but I digress.
Picard is still Picard, even if he’s not the Captain of the Enterprise or even in Starfleet anymore. The news interview was a good way to sum get viewers up to date without a voice over or screen text, but I guess I would prefer if it was a little more subtle and told over a few episodes. What’s the old saying, show, don’t tell.
I’ve never been a big fan of the classic science fiction trope of personifying machines. Hence, Data or the Doctor were never my favourite characters. I hated how they kept changing the rules on whether they could be copied or mass-produced. Now it looks like they are going full Battlestar Galactica with the androids look like us now. Also, did they ever use that term synthetics before on Star Trek?
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Synthetics is a new term, I think. And in context, I'd say it works since the term is being used as a form of derogatory epithet in light of the events described on Mars. So using a different word conveys a different message. In this case, underscoring the fact that they aren't human, no matter how human they look.
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I distinctly remember Harry Kim in Voyager talking about using all of his monthly transporter credits in a week after he moved away from home in the pilot episode, so it would seem everyone gets an allotment of personal transports for long distance travel and everything else is just standard shuttles
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That, like most of Star Trek Voyager....makes no damned sense.
There’s an episode of Voyager where Tuvok has the Pon Farr and he has to do it with a holographic version of his wife. They infer that it is not cheating, but only because of the circumstance. So there’s some leeway there.
I really have enjoyed this so far, its playing like a detective story with a complex conspiracy more then anything else. We've learned a bunch of stuff.
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The Romulan's have their own version of Section 31. A more ruthless Secret Police within their intelligence service, and its completely infiltrated Star Fleet and the Romulans and who knows what else.
The fact that the Federation ruthlessly balanced the possibility of the Federation falling apart versus the lives of what I assume are billions proves that Picard was right. The question is, is a Federation that is willing to let billions die in the name of political stability a organization that's worth saving.
Picards disease that they talked about in TNG is back and it sounds like its in the end stages.
The reclamation on the Borg Cube is harvesting implants. You have to wonder if beyond stealing Borg advanced technology that they're going to build their own collective.
She speaks the language and knows the unamed species. What's her mission?
I have a sense that the synthetic killing himself is a key plot point that might come back later. Can the Synthetics download themselves ala Cylons?
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I didn’t think it was great, a little overloaded with exposition and jamming in a lot of plot. Also contained one of my biggest pet peeves, where characters are watching footage of something that happened previously and it’s literally just footage from the show.
There’s no worse offender for that than Star Trek 4 though.
Oh yeah, good thing they had a VHS copy of the last movie to use as evidence.
A couple of things in particular was fleshing out why Starfleet abandoned the Romulans, it wasnt a unanimous or arbitrary decision. There was direct and serious pressure from members to do it and the result was:
Save the Romulans = Gradual Dissolution of the United Federation of Planets
Dont save the Romulans = Maintaining the UFP at the cost of selling out their core ideals and ethos.
With the caveat of: You probably couldnt have saved the Romulans anyways because the members would have withdrawn their support and resources and then it wasnt going to happen anyways.
Frankly, the Romulans really made their own beds on this one.....
So Picard isnt all squeaky-clean in this either. He had an ideal that couldnt be realistically upheld so the powers at the time made the best decision they thought they could at the time and Picard is really being a grumpy old bastard about the whole thing.
The point is that the underpinnings of Starfleet havent fundamentally shifted to being a bunch of pasty-faced racists. So they've got that going for them, which is nice.
They're not racists, they just dont particularly like the Romulans. Not because of their race mind you, but because they're largely a bunch of bastards.
How the androids fit in to all of this? Remains to be seen.
And since WHEN are there F-bombs in Star Trek? WTAF? This is like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull all over again.
In honour of Mike, Jay and Rich, I shall spoilerize my prediction.
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Data's brain survived in some capacity, Maddox McGuyvered him back together somehow and Data is now the new Locutus of Borg via some form of SkyNet system and is rebuilding the Borg to bring order to an imperfect Galaxy.....Maddox is presumably being kept in a Dog-Cage of some kind at Data's feet because Data is now fed up with humanity and carbon-based lifeforms in general and being subservient to them and its time for the Rise of the Machines.
More predictions as events unfold.
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I like your prediction Locke but I want to change it slightly
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Its not Data, Data is well and truly dead. Its Lore who had been a key part in the Borg revolution before. That way it makes sense if he somehow influenced the Synthetics.
The only thing that bother's me about the whole federation turning their back on the Romulans is that the Romulans really helped turn the tide in the Dominion War, and tried to save Picard's butt and the Federation during the events of nemisis.
It really makes the Federation look awful that that members that owe a large part of their survival to Star Fleet, the Klingons and the Romulans.
The Federation that bragged about its high ideal's and fairness to all races, became a organization that probably should not have survived.
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Another solid episode. The detective story/conspiracy aspect is a lot of fun. Reminds me a bit of the Undiscovered Country, which is one of my all time favorite Trek films.