# Star Trek Picard Review **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [August 7, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458 "2020-08-07T00:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/181 "2022-03-19T09:15:01Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Of Course, if we want to have even more fun with it - it should be Doc Brown and a certain school teacher. Funnily enough, Lea Thompson directed episode 3 and I think 4. I give them credit for having the balls not to do a Calvin Klein joke. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/182 "2022-03-19T13:05:43Z")
A Borg Queen with a sense of humor (“Legs!”) and an open lust for assumilation is the most frightening version I have yet seen. (My vote for the Watcher is a small black cat, formerly named Isis.) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/183 "2022-03-19T14:17:56Z")
Another prospect that has occurred to me is “The Guardian of Forever” in an ambulatory form. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/184 "2022-03-19T14:49:48Z")
By the way…much like \*\*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\* in Fall Guy doing a “WHAT THE SHIT?” I assume Ron Moore did the same thing when he saw the Federation Fleet being ‘hacked’ in episode one. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/185 "2022-03-20T03:28:54Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > Was the Borg queen always an over-the-top, evil, what-I-imagine-Cruela-Deville-is-like wannabe? Pity she didn’t have a mustache to twirl. Her first appearance was in Star Trek: First Contact. In that movie she grew a patch of skin that she sewed onto Data just so she could blow on it. Not even joking, it happened. So in answer to your question, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/186 "2022-03-20T05:30:31Z")
This is the Borg Queen’s entrance in _First Contact_. Definitely a flair for the dramatic. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sMt3SzAH_i0/maxresdefault.jpg "Star Trek: First Contact (4/9) Movie CLIP - I Am the Borg (1996) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMt3SzAH_i0) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/187 "2022-03-20T17:41:46Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > I give them credit for having the balls not to do a Calvin Klein joke. I think it would have to be _Kelvin_ Klein… ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/188 "2022-03-20T19:03:35Z")
We need a thumbs up button and a ‘boooo’ button ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/189 "2022-03-20T19:12:03Z")
Did they crash land in Picard’s family home in 2024? Whats going on in Burgundy these days? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/190 "2022-03-20T21:50:11Z")
That is where they appeared to ‘land’ - you’d think there would be a family legend about it. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/191 "2022-03-21T00:34:06Z")
Remember this is an alternative past. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/192 "2022-03-21T01:20:17Z")
No - this is the correct past - its an alternate future (assuming they don’t fix the anachronism(s)). ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/193 "2022-03-21T03:06:20Z")
Oh GAWD…dont tell me that Picards mother gets assimilated through some 2024 predestination paradox?? ex: In 2024 Picard puts the Borg Queen in some kind of suspended animation to awaken in her own time…but Picards mother discovers it and not willing to stay in an abusive relationship anymore…she lets herself be assimilated. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/194 "2022-03-21T03:13:03Z")
No. The future Borg Queen knew the “look up” phrase from the memories of Locutus. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/195 "2022-03-21T03:23:49Z")
Im GUESSING Picard knew the right choice to make when he self-destructed, but he made the wrong choice out of fear/ lack of faith. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/196 "2022-03-21T09:14:53Z")
Seems pretty obvious to me that Picard will do the nasty in the pasty with his own grandma which means the Borg Queen will turn out to be Fry. PLOT TWISTS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! /Morbo ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/197 "2022-03-21T11:11:27Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > Art imitates life. We wouldn’t need 305 versions of Star Trek fights fascism if humanity could ever start learning from our own history instead of having to fight off the fascists trying to seize (or maybe more accurately, keep) control of society again and again and again… > > I see what you’re saying, but _gestures widely around_ \< checks face \> Oh shit - I have a goatee. > [@zbuzz](#): > > I give them credit for having the balls not to do a Calvin Klein joke. Yet. > [@E-DUB](#): > > Another prospect that has occurred to me is “The Guardian of Forever” in an ambulatory form. Already seen in ST:Discovery. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/198 "2022-03-21T14:29:10Z")
So I’m reading this thread and I must have missed something big… why do people think the Borg Queen is Picard’s mother? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/199 "2022-03-21T14:37:14Z")
Law of Conservation of Characters. A character in a mask is almost certainly someone we’ve seen before, and it being Jean-Luc’s mother is just the kind of “twist” that show’s creators would find tremendously clever. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458/200 "2022-03-21T14:43:17Z")
But the masked Borg Queen calls him “Picard”. Wouldn’t she instead of said Jean-Luc if she was his mother? It’s possible, but I don’t think it’s such a slam dunk that people are saying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-picard-review/917458.md?page=11)