Wells is not Ducane. Fine. I can live with that. But this whole Wells subplot went absolutely nowhere. We only have two episodes left and a million subplots to tie up. So what do we do? Add more subplots!
Guinan and Q meet, albeit from Q's point of view not for the first time. We also find out that Q is dying. I got definite shades of Voyager's "Death Wish" when Q was describing how he was initially actually pleased since it would be something new. Where it diverges from "Death Wish" is that Q's death is a slow one, and he has since decided he doesn't want to die.
Seven and Raffi continue to hunt down Queen Jurati. It's noted that Jurati needs metals so her nanoprobes can multiply. Maybe there's something to the idea that the Queen had been drained of nanoprobes by the Confederation and that she hadn't made many more before needing to assimilate Jurati. Anyway, Jurati easily defeats Seven and Raffi and then gets away.
Elnor cameo in a flashback showing Raffi guilted him into staying in Starfleet rather than returning to the Qowat Milat.
Rios and Teresa continue to be adorable.
Kore meets Q in VR, who sends her the full cure for her genetic defects. Kore sticks around only long enough to read her "father" the riot act before leaving.
The episode ends with Jurati showing up at Soong's place and forming an alliance with him. Soong hires some mercs... which Jurati then starts assimilating.
I hate to say it, but Picard Season 2 is beginning to make Season 1 look good by comparison. They are not going to wrap up everything well with only two episodes left to go.
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Yeah, this is gonna be pure deus ex.
All the people involved in this show should be fucking ashamed of themselves.
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quote:Originally posted by Krenim: Wells is not Ducane. Fine. I can live with that. But this whole Wells subplot went absolutely nowhere. We only have two episodes left and a million subplots to tie up. So what do we do? Add more subplots!
Personally I'm fairly disappointed, even a little annoyed maybe, that Wells isn't Ducane, as him being Ducane would have fitted a lot better with the episode. Hell, when they started going on about humans being "stuck in the past" I initially thought they meant that literally, and we had a Braxton stuck in the 1990s situation.
But no, instead we get Vulcans beaming down to Earth (which in itself was an achievement, given Vulcans didn't have transporter technology in the 20th Century...as we saw in "Carbon Creek", where they landed a shuttle to rescue T'Mir & Stron) in the 1970s for "reasons"...completely and illogically ignoring the obvious risks of cultural contamination to a pre-warp civilisation, in direct contradiction of how Vulcans would usually behave.
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I mean, like I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you about Vulcans and transporters, but there's like 20 years between Carbon Creek and Mercy. Certainly the Vulcans could have been developing a transporter, and in the years between standardized them onto all starships? Or perhaps the Vulcans sent a shuttle because of all relatively recent and ongoing use of nuclear weapons on Earth, and they weren't certain how the transporter might function through the radiation?
I was also expecting Wells to interrogate a bit, and then when Picard confirmed he was from the future, to say something like: "God-damn Jean Luc, what the hell you doing back here? You know, when I come from, Starfleet's named quite a few starships after you -- even a starbase, once."
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Granted it's possible that the Vulcans could have developed transporters during those 20-years, but I'd personally rather that Emory Erickson invented them for everyone not just humans. Now the line in "Daedalus" about there being fear over health risks and metaphysical questions about transporters when they were invented makes humans look like Luddites.
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I’m getting a bit fed up of just actively longing for each season - on whichever show I’m watching - to be over.
Is Adam the most evil Soong we’ve seeng - er, seen? He’s definitely out-bastarded Arik who was ultimately just naive and slightly unprincipled.
Presumably Renee is going to discover the first evidence of extraterrestrial life - on Io?! - albeit presumably non-sentient. Such a wonderful defining moment for humanity. That nobody in Trek has ever mentioned before ever, and not something that stops us nuking each other 25 years later…
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