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Star Trek: Picard - Season 1 |OT| Re-ENGAGE!
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Why would it need to be addressed? It would make no sense for synth developers to include all these abilities, speed, and strength, but not a skin that could handle them. Would it even be an accomplishment if a synth just tore through its human finger skin every time it used a computer at Data speed?
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Based on the one I read, Chabon's novels are character and relationship driven, not plot driven. I assume his hook into all of this was Picard and his interaction with the larger politics of Romulan evacuation, his fall, and now his return to having a purpose. That's certainly what hooks me into it.
The point is they're indistinguishable from humans or else a medical tricorder scan would show they weren't human. It's something you just have to ignore.
Don't call them indistinguishable from humans when they clearly aren't.
This is one of the problems NuTrek has a lot of, creating situations that don't work when you look past skin deep.
The writers want a scary new concept of human androids, but also they want them to be not human androids. Which is it? The two ideas are not compatible.
Data's mother was an advanced android who read as a human on scanners despite not being one, Soji could have artificial components that are hidden from routine scans.
Also do we know if either of them has ever even been medically scanned?
They have only existed for 3 years and for sure have never been sick, and probably never been injured.
They have only existed for 3 years and for sure have never been sick, and probably never been injured.
"Oh but no don't bring that up. That's different and I need an excuse to complain"
She was never meant to be a human synth. She was an android with the ability to fool scanners, age and die.
That is not what Soji/Dahj meant to be.
Yes, it is different, and thus not relevant to the Soji/Dahj situation.
Anyone brining up Data's mother clearly doesn't even understand the discussion.
Also did anyone else immediately think of the assassination of the Romulan senate in Nemesis when that device began spewing out red "radiation" smoke.
I'd actually forgotten that detail, so fair enough. Then again, I would note that, reading through, Juliana is noted specifically as 'giving off human lifesigns', not as herself described as being 'indistinguishable'. Then again, that's starting to play semantics
Data's mother was an android but still indistinguishable from humans to the naked eye and regular scans, the point is that fooling scanners is easy and that is relevant to Dahj and Soji.
When was it ever said that Dahj and Soji are completely biological with no artificial components whatsoever? Picard assumed that and Jurati confirmed that such a body could be grown but neither has any actual first hand knowledge about their creation.
Both Dahj and Soji have shown abilities far beyond of what humans are capable of so they are clearly not just "regular human woman in her early 20s" bodies grown in a lab, they are meant to pass as human but they are not.
But why think about that when you can just be arrogant and condescending?
And even if somehow they are one hundred percent biological, we know there are many species and even augmented humans who have Mega Strength (that is a real term that the Next Generation show used)
We don't even know that much; we just know that all of Soji's belongings are three years old. Soji herself may be much, much older.
or much younger, since they probably aren't the first prototypes
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Can't find anything at Memory Alpha so looks like it's new. Just:
A planetary system with a similar name, the Nepenthe system, was first introduced in the video game Star Trek: Bridge Commander.
1.07 "Nepenthe" Discussion
She already mostly dropped it during TNG and who can blame her? She came up with a betazoid accent and then Majel Barrett didn't give a fuck killing the betazoid accent idea halfway through the first season.
Even in the movies and Voyager she maintained a generic American accent. Now she's letting her real accent slip through (if you've seen her convention footage you'll know how strong it is).
I don't think Sirtis has done the accent since season 4. She kind of carried it up to season 3.
Yeah that made me feel physically ill. Who would go to all that effort for a slice each? lmao
Damn this episode was real wholesome. I can't imagine how it felt for long time watchers to see them reunited again.
I'm surprised Elnor is getting a legit seperate storyline aboard the cube though.
After seeing some videos of Hugh from TNG I'm pretty sad he died :(
I'm surprised Elnor is getting a legit seperate storyline aboard the cube though.
Can't wait to see Seven of Nine again
Episode was like good comfort food for me. I love that Will and Deanna wasn't just a cameo, too.
It sucks that
It sucks that
Hugh died. I thought there was more to do with that character and Elnor together.
I really liked the episode but I do have one nitpick that really bugged me and that was that they made a Pizza with real animal meat that Riker's kid slaughtered.
Anyways, seems like they are heavily implying that Riker is going to show up with a Starfleet ship in the climax.
Anyways, seems like they are heavily implying that Riker is going to show up with a Starfleet ship in the climax.
Man, I think I finally reached an episode I liked without reservation.
Can I just say how much I love Riker's and Deanna's kid? She is so quirky and the actress did a fabulous job.
Frakes referred to Oh as a Romulan on the new episode of The Ready Room. Guess that answers that question.
This is the first time we've ever seen a Romulan initiate a mind meld, right?
This is the first time we've ever seen a Romulan initiate a mind meld, right?
Sisco was shown cleaning clams in Deep Space Nine, I doubt he'd have to do that if they were replicated so apparently animal harvesting does still happen in the 24th
really? 🙄 just make her a vulcan you damn coward it would make her more interesting
Riker's kid calling him Captain Picard didn't bother me because all the stories she would've heard from her parents would've been from when he was a Captain but Picard referring to him as Commander Riker bothered me. He was a Captain damn it! Worst. Show. Ever.
Great episode!
...are they going to connect the 'synths are evil' plotline to Discovery and control? The visions Jurati saw looked a lot like the visions of control destroying all sentient life
That "I'm still on reserve, but it would have to be a really good reason for me to come back" line definitely setup Riker at the helm of a starship to bail Picard out of whatever trouble he ends up in at the end of the season.