While the local crew understands things -the Security Chief Romulan/Vulcan (we know who she really is) - basically ordered her to kill Maddox - She could either protect her with ‘she was under our orders, etc and so on’ - or make sure she never see’s trial - after all, some of her friends must be vulcan.
Mostly it will be forgotten.
You mean the head of Starfleet will cover it up? The security chief blew her cover and went off to command a Romulan fleet. I’m sure she still has assets/strings to pull in the Federation, but how effective could they be in this case, and why would she bother?
As for announcing that they ordered Pill to kill or publicly airing secret Zhat Vash business, even if for some reason they did, note that when you murder someone because you were following orders, even if those orders were, do it or we torture, murder, and genocide your family, you are still completely culpable for first-degree murder.
I loved eps 1-9. Only can praise the Data scenes in 10
My biggest hangup was…once Sutra gets turned off…no one bothers trying to stop Soji. She’s only going to destroy the galaxy. No one even says anything to her. Then when Will arrives all the focus is on will the fleets fight and not the GD beam thats opening up a portal.
Not thrilled with the ending. Very well done narrative overall but not the ending I would have chosen.
Starfleet should have remained to protect the planet.
I don’t like phony death scenes.
I don’t like the fact that the nearly insane Romulan secret police force was absolutely correct in believing that artificial intelligent beings represent an existential threat to life in the galaxy. That threat has not gone away, any artificial life that exists can rebuild this beacon and bring down ruin upon humans, vulcans, klingons, and romulans alike. Frankly, the right ending would have had the beacon work, bring the advanced AI to the planet, and proven them to not be a threat to life, but a refuge for the AI we have created.
Maybe George and Gracie could have talked to the AI.
Why didn’t Aggie use the magic purple brass knuckles imagination thingy to save Picard?
Yeah, that’s what I expected would/should happen.
This seems to be the consensus at Jammer’s Reviews as well. Am I the only one who found the Data scenes (and the whole epilogue, really) by far the *worst *part of the episode and even the season? But then I’ve never been super fond of Data.
They covered this in … I want to say episode 1? When Picard first goes to Daystrom and shows Jurati the necklace, she says something about synths being created in pairs, or some such babble.
Some of the babble in Episode 1 was about how the new synths’ brains were created using reverse-engineered/cloned neurons based on Data and the process resulted in twins. In Episode 10 they apparently had a pretty good copy of Data’s data, which they were using to bring Picard and presumably the other synths to life, though that does not explain why Data seemed to be conscious and aware in the computer and furthermore suicidal, or what they will do now that they erased him, though for that last thing they have apparently advanced enough so they don’t need to use Data as a template any more.
Always two there are. No more, no less. Synths, siths, what’s the difference?
(Sputters with rage)
I find it…interesting…that everything that led Stewart to do PICARD…has been quadrupled down on by all spectrums of society lately.
If Jean-Luc stood up today to speechify against eroding rights and borders…he’d be run over like Kevin Bacon in Animal House.
LOL, he does seem to be a fan favorite. I don’t detest him–he’s better than Troi for instance.* But in the whole tradition of such humorless (yet wryly amusing) characters, I’ll take Spock, Tuvok, Seven of Nine, and T’Pol over Data any day. If we expand the criteria a little, I’ll also gladly take Isaac from “The Orville” over Data as well.
*FTR, I liked Troi fine in her episode this season. I just didn’t like her on TNG.
I wish that they could have worked him into the last Star Wars movie, too. It would have been nice to have seen Isaac as a Moff.
LOL, I haven’t seen that one yet (I’ll watch it when they put it on Disney+, but I don’t have high hopes for it). I just remember Grand Moff Tarkin from the original movie (and Rogue One), a really awesome character.
One thing bugged me about the ending. Didn’t they fail to save the galaxy from the extinction of all life by the Synthetic League? Even if the portal was closed before any of them got through, they now know there’s organics that need extermination on the other side. If they had the technology to create the portal in the first place, surely they can just open a portal from the other side to this galaxy later, or use some other means of travel at their disposal to get here.
I’m also not a huge fan of forgiving characters who attempt to do horrible things just because they decided not to go through with it at the last moment. Soji tried to cause the extinction of probably quadrillions of life forms knowing full well what she was doing. I guess all is forgiven since she decided not to go through with it at the last second.
I handwaved it as assuming that the tentacle-creatures cannot get through unless the portal is held open on this side by the “beacon” (a bad name for it if so).
But I agree with you that characters get too much slack for being talked out of something horrible at the last moment (relatedly, for feeling bad for doing something horrible, like killing Bruce Maddox).
More broadly, I agreed with a panelist on the “Geeks Guide to the Galaxy” podcast who expressed disbelief that they quickly repealed the ban on synths at the end, given that her having come so close to wiping everyone out was actually proof that the ban was a good idea! Especially when you factor in the fact that her “sister”, the leader of the synths, was only stopped because Dr. Soong had a kill switch in his back pocket.
The entire plot with the doomsday device didn’t have to happen at all. Having to save the synths from the Romulan fleet while avoiding a war with Starfleet was enough stakes. Plowing through an additional story at the end was just unnecessary.
It was one story too many… and that’s even without getting into all the logical problems others have pointed out, such as the fact it means the Romulan bad guys were absolutely correct, or the fact the synth superbeings are on their way now, just maybe more slowly.
Haven’t seen any reference to this in the thread–but CBS All Access is running a “One Month Free” promo right now. Perfectly timed for quarantine bingeing.
3/4 through Picard, and planning to hit up Discovery next, maybe check out some episodes of the past series as well.