I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but in regards to ships that might appear in the finale (which I assume will be Frontier Day) are cameos hiding in plain sight? All the posters in-universe for Frontier Day feature hero ships from previous series. Why advertise in-universe those ships if they're not the ones to be featured on the actual day?

I think we're definitely going to see: Enterprise-A, Enterprise-D, Voyager, NX-01-Enterprise, and Enterprise-B/Excelsior.

If Shaxs can come back from death somehow after an explosion on a Pakled Clumpship with Badgey by fighting a bear in the Black Mountain and various processes that involved "dark truths about scientific depravity", then Commander Ro Laren can of course come back from death by an explosion on a shuttle collision on a nacelle using the same method.

There is no way Ro is dead merely 40 minutes after we haven't seen her for 30 years... I want to believe.

(But then PIC has a habit of killing off legacy side characters mercilessly anyway.)

Do it, Terry! Show us your Pagh!!!

I'm curious to hear all theories, however weird they may be.

Okay so for all y’all thinking Species 8472 is the real enemy behind all this… why? Convince us. Personally… I don’t see it. I think it’s a pretty far-fetched link to make, especially halfway through the season.

I don’t know who is yanking all the chains, to this point, but what I’m certain of is it has something to do with the Changelings and DS9 or TNG. This 8472 nonsense from Voyager is pretty far out in left field. Voyager is living on in Prodigy… they’re going to keep it out of Picard. Yeah I know 7/9 is in Picard, but she’s had only a minor roll.

So why? Why 8472? And if not them, who do YOU think is the Big Baddie?

I really... REALLY want to redo the effects of the changeling homeworld at the end of Ds9 where Odo walks into the great link in his tux. But make it the gross modern changeling goo. Heheheheh

I some or the skills to start but it probably isn't worth it 🤣 Still wanted to mention it tho

!He's kind of an asshole. He gave up command of the Titan to Riker too quickly. Shaw didn't agree with Riker and Picard and thought they were out of their minds yet he endangered his whole crew by just turning over command.!<

!Shaw wanted Picard and Riker to get tried for treason. And that's just two examples.!<

!Sure, he has some funny remarks but overall his character isn't that appealing. Or am I missing something?!<

Is there any server out there on Discord for just The Original Series? I don’t do Online or TNG or Discovery, I like the new ones but it’s just too much sometimes to see everything else when I want just content related to TOS…

I found the start of this series a little slow at times, gotta be honest. It didn't have the same pull on me as previous trek stuff did. I was taking it in slowly, well behind the current episode, kind of just passively putting it on and inching my way through the series.

And then I hit the season 2 finale. I'm not going to spoil anything in this thread, but oh my god was that episode an emotional roller coaster. It pulled me right in. It had me excited and intrigued. Q brought tears to my eyes along with laughter. What a masterpiece of a finale.

Since this happened, I have woken up to this series, and now am impatiently waiting for episode 6 of season 3.

DO NOT SLEEP ON PICARD! >!with though? thats another discussion entirely.!<

I was caught down the rabbit hole or article hopping when one with Speleers popped up. He was asked what episodes/movies Matalas queued for him to watch going into the role. Speleers have a couple examples but also said that he should stop cause there are two episodes in particular that would give the game away.

Time for the Star Trek Reddit army to start to meticulously comb through all of TNG and DS9 for the hints to what’s going on hahaha

Seriously. What is WRONG with Jack Crusher? I have seen changeLings before as I’ve seen a few episodes of DS9 but that’s all I’ve got for references. Odd was awesome! I see people posting about the Pa Wraith ?? Red eyes? What or who are they? What is the Dominion war?

Which episodes of DS9 do I need to watch to better understand what is going on?

…is how they are tying the looks ABD SOUNDS of all three trek eras.

First off in the most recent episode especially I though it was odd at first to hear the TOS sounds effect - but then I realized- this is a Neo Constitution Class ship- a perfect excuse to incorporate familiar sights and sounds. Throw in the TNG era LCARS system, and all the new sleek elements from the current era and we are just a couple lightbulbs away from an incredible ship set!!

Btw - Paramount people on here - I get that trek has always been about color popping on the screen and that contrast of vivid colors popping on a dark set looks great on a new, modern flatscreen tv…but a lot of us watch on phones, tablets, computers, etc were it just looks really dimly lit. Just food for thought.

phaser sweeps? From DS9, the blood tests weren't the only way to determine whether someone was a changeling, there were also the phaser sweeps which could scan a whole room and force a changeling to revert to form, yet we've seen no mention of them on Picard. My assumption from the most recent episode - >!in which Dr. Crusher determines these changelings can hold their form even after death!< - is that they are no longer effective for these particular changelings, but it would be nice to get confirmation from the show on that fact.

There's also the fact that thus far, all the changelings we've seen have been imitating people, but it was quite common in DS9 for Odo and other changelings to disguise themselves as objects as well. So, theoretically, there could be a changeling lurking in every scene as some background scenery, but the narrative and the characters don't seem to be worried about that fact. I get that the writers seem to be going for the whole, 'emotional connection and catharsis is the only way to ensure someone is who they appear to be,' but in doing so they've seemingly ignored one major aspect of what made changelings such excellent spies and infiltrators. It's hard not to be paranoid when your drinking glass or your walls could be an enemy agent.

[and this is more just personal taste, but given that the fake Dr. Bashir operated on DS9 for months without his closest friends suspecting, 'emotional connection' doesn't really seem to me to be the most sound method of changeling detection].

Also, and this is more of a pedantic thing than anything else, but the blood tests in DS9 emphasized that the blood had to be separate from the individual; i.e. dropped onto a table or into a vial, where it would revert shape. Otherwise, the changeling could still make their goo look like blood so long as they were in contact with it. >!Yet when Ro cut herself, she only showed Picard that she bled, not that the blood was separate. It led me to think she was a changeling trying to pull a fast one on him, but evidently that was not the case. !<

I'm on my way to work so I'm still working through this theory, but I have one about the goal of the Changelings. (Spoilers for Picard S3 & Prodigy)

I'm pulling a page from Prodigy with its living construct meant to turn star fleet against itself. Remember how the weapon would morph and change if it was attacked. It was a virus that snuck aboard a ship qnd turned it against the ships around it. Does that not sound like the last two episodes of Picard. Even down to the person needing to explode themselves on a compromised vessel to give the rest of the crew a fighting chance.

What if this faction of Changelings are trying to make Starfleet destroy itself from the inside. Their tests don't work. It's almost impossible to tell a new Changeling apart from whatever they've made themselves look like. We've seen the Intrepid turn on the Titan. A father and daughter figure almost turn on each other. A commander not trust the very institution she turned herself into for rehabilitation.. All from 5 confirmed Changelings.

I’m watching Voyager S2:E18 “Death Wish” with my roommate and it’s mentioned that on rare occasions, Q have been executed. Considering the lengths Q2 had to go to in order to die, what crimes do you think would be punishable by death in the eyes of the Continuum?

Was the way they handled Moriarity and his companion fair or cruel?

Hi just watched Stmp directors edition and enjoyed it much more than the original. Excellent remastering of sound and film and much better script. It is in my top five st films now. Thoughts?

I’ve been waiting to watch Picard because my son is still trying to catch up. He only has Voyager and Nemesis to watch. I think he will skip Enterprise for now. Is that a bad idea? How much will he miss if he doesn’t see all of Voyager?

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I loved the ep and Ro’s emotional death so this in no way ruins it for me. But why did the changelings put so much time on the bomb before beaming out? And why didn’t Intrepid shoot Ro down as she hurtled toward the nacelle?

Edit: ok I get it now. They were trying to set it up in such a way that they could frame the Titan. I’m sure they didn’t expect Ro to run into their nacelle, but it doesn’t matter because the whole fleet is now after the Titan which means the intrepid changelings achieved their objective

Also the last name is a character from the second season of TNG

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I recently watched TOS „Tomorrow is yesterday“ for the first time.

In the episode, the Enterprise is thrown back in time into the 1960s. A character takes a photo of the Enterprise on film. Kirk and Sulu need to steal the film before it can be developed to protect the timeline.

I thought it was a great example of how the constraints of contemporary technology influence story telling.

The same story couldn’t be told today, meaning if a crew were to travel back in time to the 2020s, digital photography, the internet and social media wouldn’t give them the time to prevent photo evidence from immediately being distributed around the world. The story would have to be told differently.

Can you think of other examples of how technology informs story telling in Trek? Which Trek stories couldn’t be told the same way today because of technology change that happened in the meantime?

I was 5 years old when TNG premiered, and it was what my family watched every Friday night for 7 years with pizza in the family room. I've been a fan my whole life but really got back into the whole Star Trek franchise more in the past few years. I popped on BBC America's marathon today during my lunch break, and "I Borg" came on.

I realized I hadn't watched it since it originally aired and was excited to see Hugh again after S1 of Picard brought him back. Watching that episode again with middle-aged eyes, knowing the journeys, character development, and other stories from other series with the Borg and where Hugh ended up...I just lost it and started sobbing.

Picard and Guinan being so convinced that Hugh was just a mindless drone was completely legit, and their acceptance that they were possibly wrong after meeting him was so beautiful. Hugh saying that he'd choose to stay with Geordie was also beautiful, and his choosing anyway to leave to keep him and the others from danger was heartbreaking.

I did not get that much out of it as a child and instead just flat-out empathized with Hugh's feelings. One of the things I most love about Star Trek is being able to grow with it and see it with fresh eyes as I, too, get more information just like Picard and Guinan did.

I have never particularly liked this saying. It has seemed to be in the common lexicon for the past several years, at least in the US.

Howeverrrr, I believe I accidentally stumbled across the first time I ever heard it. Watching Star Trek on BBC America this morning, the episode was I Borg. Picard is having an argument with Guinan in his quarters. One of his statements to her was, "It is what it is!". I about spit out my coffee. I had never noticed before that he used this phrase that causes me so much angst.

What the title says

Tagging as spoiler for general conversation of the current season of Picard.

Star Trek is woven into the fabric of my life, and TNG is the show I grew up on. It ended the year I graduated high school. Within a month I lost an immediate family member, graduated high school, and said goodbye to TNG. Yes, there were the movies to look forward to, but it wasn't the same as tuning in week after week, then waiting all weekend to break down the episode with the other Trek nerds in school.

The summer of '94 was a summer of melancholy and anticipation. In August I left the life I'd known for my own strange new world of college, and then adulthood. I couldn't imagine then the impact Trek would have on my life, as corny as it is to say. It's only when I heard other people talking about it that I really gave it thought and understood how much an 80s show - with people in spandex jumpsuits rocking side to side in their chairs while the camera shook - was so influential in my approach to conflict resolution, consensus building, and leadership, among other things.

All of that is to say, When Picard came on, I was excited, and I really enjoyed seasons one and two, despite all of the negativity some of the fandom has for them. To me those seasons were like a call from an old friend, reminiscing about the good old days. It was a remembrance, and time to be cherished, a gift to the fans, but largely about the aging and loss of a single, beloved character. My world had moved on, and so had his. I was just glad to sit with him for a while.

I was not prepared for season 3. I expected more of the same, on a grander scale, a bigger family reunion. There would be hi-jinks, sure, but it would be about the memories.

I was not prepared to be pulled back into their world, so completely, for the characters to come alive again, be so vital, to lose myself in the story, and feel that same anticipation week after week.

Most of all, I wasn't ready to feel pain again at the idea that this is, in all likelihood, the end of their story together. We're halfway through, five more weeks to go, and then it's over. Again.

I'm so very thankful the galaxies aligned to let this come to be, and that it's so damned good. I just wish we could stay in this sweet, sweet place for a little longer. Let us appreciate the now for how truly special it is.

As the man once said, "Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."

Is it Professor Moriarty? When the Enterprise crew defeated Professor Moriarty they didn't delete him, they stored him into a "small holodeck" and continue to feed information to him so he thinks he is existing in the "real world". Are the changlings trying to get their hands on Professor Moriarty to defeat the Federation?

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I have mixed feelings if that's the case because a powerful Changling force is all that is required to defeat the Federation (kind of like the Borg showing up en-masse rather than sending one ship at a time - *controversial* they didn't actually need Locutus).

to me,I'm just getting invincible class starship because why not I love big ships,like the eclipse class cruiser in star wars.

I like the re-introduction of the changelings, even if I have some reservations about how they are being used, specifically in relation to the greater context of the geopolitical states of the Alpha and Gamma quadrants.

If they are going to pull the changelings (and therefor the Dominion and the war) out of the relic box after 20 years and put them centre stage, I feel they owe the audience an explanation as to what everyone was doing during the war.

Of the references they've made to the Domion and to the war, they make it seem like it was a much smaller conflict than it was. However, it's without question that the Dominion War was the largest and deadliest war the Federation has ever taken apart in.

So where was everyone during this iconic moment in the Federations history? The only person on the show (as of now) who has a good excuse as to why they weren't engaged in some activity in the war is Seven.