So IMDB score is 6.8, which is up from last weeks 5.3, with around the same number of votes. It is rare that I'll see the initial number going up. It really rarely does it and the downward trend can be more popular. But I'm not saying that Picard is a bad series.
It is not a bad series. Just like the Enterprise wasn't one. But in this season there has been a lot of stuff that could have been improved, and they could have done the story arc on Earth in a couple of episodes and given up more space opera, in unique Picard fashion.
Didn't happen, which is a kind of shame. Maybe the case is that personally I like the stuff that closer to new BSG and the Expanse. But in the case of having same old New Generation stuff, Picard certainly delivered in that. So for the people who like the old school stuff, this season should be a win.
Old men are so sneaky. You look at them, and you will think that because they're old, they're going to be slow. But in their age, the run is not in the length of distance, it's in the act, and therefore, the whole run can be a few feet or a meter and half, and they'll do it quickly.
It was literally in a snap of fingers, the great Admiral had made a decision to go with Tallinn to save a Renee, while the others were given watcher tech to replace the alt-future stuff that they lost.
He read her intentions and went to save the love of his life, even though she's wearing a different name to a face that he's used to see. And he went there to tell her that Borg's occasionally lie, and the Queen has done it recently more than any other.
"My fate is not for yours to decide," Tallinn put in the female perspective. "I've seen the heart of this in you. But other people's lives aren't up to you. And their deaths aren't your fault. Not mine if it comes. Not your mother's. That's a fantasy, Jean-Luc. We can't control who we lose."
Why do they have to twist the knife?
I get Picard's position and he's need to save everyone, and I can recognize that thing in myself, because I've done it. And like him, I've stood in the same spot, hearing a similar kind of story. But back then, I didn't give a rat's ars* on that opinion. Picard however, stayed in his shoes and let out a big sigh.
I know man, I know.
Soong's plan. Dodgy voice records, open consoles with app showing the information and futuristic drones. "The system is encrypted," Raffi shouted just after she had accessed the controls and ran diagnostics. "If I can't crack it, I can't stop it."
On paper that scene has worked perfectly, but in the practice, something failed in the direction. I get that they need to move the story and do something, but when the actors show that they can access the controls, putting out those sorts of lines looks idiotic in the eyes of technical people.
If they'd would have changed the line, "This looks complicated. I don't know if I can crack it in the time we've left." It would have made absolutely sense. And in the real life, it is often the case, that you'll have to find or formulate the right kind of command to initiate shutdown. None of them had a manual, and for example, Seven could have said, "Let me see if I can find a manual or something."
Three minutes to find it and correct entry is not an easy task. Three minutes to crack a hand built encryption algorithm impossible, especially if the key passphrase is longer than ten characters. In other words, "It ain't gonna happen," unless it's a scifi story.
It didn't happen in this one either. The drones launched, before Rios could get an analogue control on the swarm.
Women
"The secrets we keep. All the reasons we never tell someone we love them. They're worthless. Sweet Picard. Your guilt must have saved planets by now. Countless lives in trade for one you couldn't. At least I got to tell her. Maybe she'll remember me... and know that she was worth all of it."
Bloody hell, making me cry. The old man was in shock.
I knew it. Dr Soong is the father of the great Khaaaaaaaaaan. Kore thought that she did the good thing, but all she did was to ensure that the bad thing happened and Cpt Kirk had one of the greatest ST movies.
What nobody knew was the fact the Wesley Crusher had become a time-traveller and he was there to make sure Kore ended in the right place, among the Travellers.
Yet, the greatest Traveller is Jean-Luc. He made sure everything was in place, before Q appeared.
"You considered destroying it, didn't you?" Q mocked Picard. "Well, let me ask. If that key is not there for the boy to find, does he grow up with his mother? Does the shame instantly lift?" He shrugged. "But you accepted your fate. You accepted you. You chose the Jean-Luc you are. You absolved yourself. And because you choose him, perhaps he will now be worthy enough for someone else to choose. Maybe this time, you will even give him the chance to be loved."
Well that was about Picard, but what about Q?
"I am dying alone. I do not want that for you. Humans... your griefs, your pains fix you to moments in the past long gone. You're like butterflies with your wings pinned. My old friend, forever the boy who, with an errant run of a skeleton key, broke the universe and his own heart. No more. You are now unshackled from the past. As I leave, I leave you free."
Short answer, Q was Picard's watcher and because of his monumental involvement in all things important, his watcher had to be a god like being.
Assimilated fleet. Man, I hated the way Queen Agnes looked under the mask, but I understand the practicality and her mission, to help people, whoever they're. This time, whole Alpha Quadrant, against unknown galactic event, which created a TransCorridor, through an event that looked like a White Hole expelling matter that a Black Hole had sucked in.
Thanks to Picard and the Event ST now how Borg's guarding the Gate.
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I'll give this episode 8 and this season 6, because it could have been so much better.
