Star Trek: Picard 2.08.
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selenakNow, there‘s the Borg angst I was missing from Seven last season!
Okay, so clearly the Picard and Guinan interrogation subplot started out as an X-Files crossover, but since Fox Mulder was under copyright, they had to name the guy Mr. Wells. (Seriously, I expected the boy in the flashback to yell „Samaaaaaaantha!“)
Anyway. We‘re getting somewhere in all subplots. Kore confronted dear old Dad/Creator, called him out on the difference between loving one‘s work and loving a child, and walked away free, courtesy of Q. After feeling sorry for himself some more, Song was recruited by Jurati-as-the-Queen by using his monumental vanity. Incidentally, doesn‘t have to mean she‘s lying, per se, which would point to Song somewhow connected to the Confederate Timeline. Of course, the Queen doesn‘t care either way, since both the Prime and the Confederate Timeline would be non-existant if she starts to assimilate humanity in 2024, and naturally, she doesn‘t tell Adam Song that. But I would guess that Kore died in the original timeline, which means Q saving her does provide a difference which will undoubtedly have a fallout in the long term.
Meanwhile, Raffi‘s „think Borg!“ challenge to Seven in pursuit of Jurati does unearth several previously repressed truths. Clearly, Seven saying that a „one on one“ encounter could never rival the connection the Collective provides (hence the disappointed Queen-in-Jurati killing Redbeard post sex) hit home. It‘s also what I thought the show should have given us in last season‘s finale when Seven had connected herself to the Cube - that much as she now abhorrs what was done to her when she was assimilated, a part of her still longs for it. And we got more about Raffi‘s sense of guilt re: Elnor. I mean, it‘s been obvious she connected to him partly due to the enstrangement from her son, but what we hadn‘t known before was that she (thinks she) talked im into staying at the Academy instead of returning to the Quewat Milat. (I say „thinks“, because I bet that when the timeline is reset and Elnor resurrected, he will tell Raffi he decided to stay and pursue a career in Starfleet for his own reasons.) And the Queen-in-Jurati not killing either Raffi or Seven proves Jurati is still in there. Current guess: either Seven or Picard or more likely both will connect to the Queen-in-Jurati in one last attempt to save Agnes, both risking their non-Borg selves for her.
Young Guinan and Q: excellent, and well played. Again, we‘re getting somewhere. Q dying as the ticking clock he‘s on I wouldn‘t have guessed. Re: Picard, that the point isn‘t the being stuck in the past but the escape from it - I take it this is meant metaphorical as well as literal. So a dying Q seeks meaning via engineering these events - but it can‘t just be so Jean-Luc solves his parent and therefore his intimacy issues, surely? That would be way too pat. Also, how young is Guinan at this point? Because never mind her not having met PIcard before, that she hadn‘t met (this) Q yet makes her very young indeed (for an El-Aurian). (Oh, and that meets that when Q meets her for the first time from his own pov, she already knows him. Bet he hates that.) Also, I love how Guinan‘s ability to listen and draw people out comes into play here with Mr. Wells.
Lastly: Enterprise the series established the Vulcans being around as (secret) observers in this era, and I liked the nod towards this bit of canon.
Okay, so clearly the Picard and Guinan interrogation subplot started out as an X-Files crossover, but since Fox Mulder was under copyright, they had to name the guy Mr. Wells. (Seriously, I expected the boy in the flashback to yell „Samaaaaaaantha!“)
Anyway. We‘re getting somewhere in all subplots. Kore confronted dear old Dad/Creator, called him out on the difference between loving one‘s work and loving a child, and walked away free, courtesy of Q. After feeling sorry for himself some more, Song was recruited by Jurati-as-the-Queen by using his monumental vanity. Incidentally, doesn‘t have to mean she‘s lying, per se, which would point to Song somewhow connected to the Confederate Timeline. Of course, the Queen doesn‘t care either way, since both the Prime and the Confederate Timeline would be non-existant if she starts to assimilate humanity in 2024, and naturally, she doesn‘t tell Adam Song that. But I would guess that Kore died in the original timeline, which means Q saving her does provide a difference which will undoubtedly have a fallout in the long term.
Meanwhile, Raffi‘s „think Borg!“ challenge to Seven in pursuit of Jurati does unearth several previously repressed truths. Clearly, Seven saying that a „one on one“ encounter could never rival the connection the Collective provides (hence the disappointed Queen-in-Jurati killing Redbeard post sex) hit home. It‘s also what I thought the show should have given us in last season‘s finale when Seven had connected herself to the Cube - that much as she now abhorrs what was done to her when she was assimilated, a part of her still longs for it. And we got more about Raffi‘s sense of guilt re: Elnor. I mean, it‘s been obvious she connected to him partly due to the enstrangement from her son, but what we hadn‘t known before was that she (thinks she) talked im into staying at the Academy instead of returning to the Quewat Milat. (I say „thinks“, because I bet that when the timeline is reset and Elnor resurrected, he will tell Raffi he decided to stay and pursue a career in Starfleet for his own reasons.) And the Queen-in-Jurati not killing either Raffi or Seven proves Jurati is still in there. Current guess: either Seven or Picard or more likely both will connect to the Queen-in-Jurati in one last attempt to save Agnes, both risking their non-Borg selves for her.
Young Guinan and Q: excellent, and well played. Again, we‘re getting somewhere. Q dying as the ticking clock he‘s on I wouldn‘t have guessed. Re: Picard, that the point isn‘t the being stuck in the past but the escape from it - I take it this is meant metaphorical as well as literal. So a dying Q seeks meaning via engineering these events - but it can‘t just be so Jean-Luc solves his parent and therefore his intimacy issues, surely? That would be way too pat. Also, how young is Guinan at this point? Because never mind her not having met PIcard before, that she hadn‘t met (this) Q yet makes her very young indeed (for an El-Aurian). (Oh, and that meets that when Q meets her for the first time from his own pov, she already knows him. Bet he hates that.) Also, I love how Guinan‘s ability to listen and draw people out comes into play here with Mr. Wells.
Lastly: Enterprise the series established the Vulcans being around as (secret) observers in this era, and I liked the nod towards this bit of canon.
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Date: 2022-04-23 01:16 am (UTC)Oooh YES please.
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Date: 2022-04-23 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-23 02:42 pm (UTC)There's a lack of specificity of references that still annoys me. Seven assimilated her own little collective when left alone in one Voyager episode. It feels like that's relevant.
There was also the shot about how manipulative Raffi is which seemed out of nowhere, again Season 1 hasn't fixed well enough in my memory to know if it's a really a consistent trait of hers.
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Date: 2022-04-23 03:32 pm (UTC)