PICARD Season 3 Episode 6 BREAKDOWN: Every Hidden Ship and Star Trek Easter Egg
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Picard Season 3 episode 6 is FILLED with easter eggs to literally every era of Trek and every classic Trek show and movie. There's Kirk's Enterprise, Kirk's skeleton, Voyager, the Defiant, and so many, many more.
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Written by Ryan Britt ( / ryancbritt )
Hosted by Ryan Arey ( / ryanarey )
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, and Brianna McLarty
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This episode has so many awesome Easter eggs, that the plot literally consists of the Titan crew splitting up, to essentially go to two different locations - Daystrom Station and the Fleet Museum - each stuffed with different kinds of Easter eggs,
Welcome back to ScreenCrush, I’m Ryan Arey, and this is all of the Easter eggs, references, and thighs you missed in Star Trek: Picard, Season 3, Episode 6, “The Bounty”
The episode begins with the Titan running away from Starfleet ships controlled by changelings, all while dropping “decoy transponders.” [clip]
Three different Starfleet ships converge around one of these transponders. These ships are the USS Trumball, which is a Duderstadt Class starship, like the Intrepid from last week, but not the same ship. It’s probably named for Doug Trumball, a VFX pioneer, who worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and of course, Blade Runner.
[CLIP]
The other ships are the USS Yorktown, which is an Echelon-class ship, and a new Excelsior II-class ship, and the USS Mestral, named after the Vulcan explorer from the Enterprise Episode “Carbon Creek.” Mestral was the greatest Vulcan of all time, mostly because he was a huge fan of I Love Lucy
[CLIP]
Over on the Titan Jack has more bad news, as we learn that he has Irumodic Syndrome. Picard wonders if Jack got this from him, saying
[CLIP]
This is the same neurological disorder Jean-Luc was diagnosed with in “All Good Things…” the series finale of The Next Generation. [clip, see above]
Jack asks his dad, [“how did you survive it?”] Jean-Luc reveals that he didn’t survive it, and Irumodic Syndrome is eventually what killed him in the Picard Season 1 finale. Of course, at that time, Jean-Luc was reborn into a Synthetic body, which is why Jack says…
[CLIP]
Doug: Um. So, Jack’s seeing that red door and going all Bourne Identity because he’s got Irumodic..what’s it called?
Well, maybe. But, in “All Good Things,” some people thought Jean-Luc wasn’t really shifting thru time but, instead, thought he was just hallucinating because of Irumodic syndrome -
Doug: Okay. So in Next Gen, Beverly and Will thought Irumodic Syndrome was the reason Picard was going all loopy. And now they think Irumodic Syndrome is why Jack is so stressed out? Is Irumodic syndrome just like when people say they have really bad allergies even though they just been doing drugs?
Nobody does drugs in Star Trek.
Doug: You sure about that?
[CLIP]
[CLIP]
Not anymore no. As Worf and Raffi beam onto the Titan, we hear a TOS-era transporter sound effect. Raffi is also wearing a Starfleet uniform for the first time this season.
Picard greets Worf, saying “it’s been far too long.” Worf replies that it’s been, [“11 years, 5 months, 4 days.”]
This means, Worf hasn’t seen Picard in person, since about 2390 or 2391, which would have been after Worf was the captain of the Enterprise-E in the 2380s.
Doug: Wait, Worf was the Captain of the Enterprise? How come I don’t remember that?
Because you don’t read books.
In the novel The Last Best Hope, Picard left the Enterprise and Worf became the Captain. This was confirmed by the official Star Trek Instagram Logs, which state that Worf became the Enterprise-E captain around 2381, but wasn’t by 2386. Either way, Worf has seen Jean-Luc after he stopped being the captain of the Enterprise, all of which happened off-screen.
But, the number of years Worf hasn’t talked to Picard is also an Easter egg. “11 years, 5 months, 4 days,” is very similar to the exact amount of time Spock served with Captain Pike, which he stated in “The Menagerie was:
The sheer number of easter eggs they fit into this episode was astonishing, and none of them felt out of place.
So many gorgeous ships too. Definetly my favorites
True, but why did section 31 take Kirk’s dead body. As far as we know, there is not good reason(unless it is a parallel universe body or something like that)
Really? The genesis device, which blew up in wrath of khan, didn't feel out of place?
@@EddieNX01 Building another Genesis torpedo seems right up Section 31’s alley.
@jimscard yeah section 31 is just the perfect excuse for everything, isn't it?
This episode went crazy on all the Easter eggs. That whistling scene with Riker hit me, my 42 years old behind shed a tear over that! 😢
Oh my god! Me also. I had a flashback to the day I watched that first episode . Characters with me my entire life
Yep. I teared up for that. This season's a fuckin treat.
I'm 55, and I teared up during the episode, too!
For me this was like 1995 all over again. I first found TNG when TNN (The National Network) had just taken over The Nashville Network (Country Music Television trounced them) and had no other programming besides episodes of TNG. I got hooked quickly and got my VCR a taping.
Another tear jerker was when Data was activated and said: ...Capt. Picard?! Geordi?! 😭😭
Worf saying: ...”no god, no man, no beast will come between me!” Old Worf is so bad ass!
Younger Worf was pretty badass too!
@@rhocat362 yeah but he used to get tossed around quite a bit! 🤣🤣🤣
"Pacifism" .. .right out the window. 😁 He has a fried to rescue! Although I bet his new balance will help.
Is Rafaela going to accompany him on his quest? Will they be given the cloaking device?
I promised my self I would not cry but man the look on Geordie's face when he sees Data, I wasn't ready.
Levar Burton is a under rated actor. I really think he is going to bring back the same Geordie we knew from TNG. And you can tell he really kept his personality.
That's what I wanted to feel with Luke in the Last Jedi. His cameo in Mandolorian kinda made up for it, but it's a very specific feeling.
I think Geordie has fixed Data more times then any engineer in star fleet. If there is anyone that can fix him, its probably him.
@@anthonygordon9483 don’t forget Geordie was allowed see Data by Data on how he worked too. So he’s an unofficial/unknown expert
Reminded me a lot of the sunrise scene from insurrection
Can we talk about Shaw's reaction to Geordie? Complete opposite to how he felt about Picard and Riker. They are problem causing jerks in his mind but I loved how he went fanboy over Geordie. I hope we get more moments of Shaw interacting with Geordie.
Loved this episode!
I think it's less about the problems cause and more out of the fact he, like LaForge, is an engineer. Even had he not had the history or recent events with Picard and Riker, he's far more likely to idolize other famous engineers (LaForge, Scotty, etc) than he is command personnel
They were both engineers and Shaw started as a grease monkey 🐒 himself as he says. So he has so much respect for Jordie. Nice moment.
It helped to make Shaw more likeable. Just like how Shaw is going on an adventure with them and will come to like Picard and Riker by the end of the season.
Yeah, that was rich! 😂
"Yea it's been a wierd week."
Shaw is the best 😂
Worfs line "solved with superior Klingon technology" in reference to the cloaking device was gold 😆😆
There is greatness here. The writing and acting are amazing. The show taps into nostalgia without being mawkish; everything has a purpose, everything's paid off, everything organically sets-up bringing the whole crew together again. None of it cheaply tugs at your heartstrings, it all has meaning. You cover a great scene between Jack and Seven on the bridge where they go through the ships and their themes. It's amazing to hear Seven movingly say of Voyager, "I was reborn there...the crew were my family". Her laugh is beautiful as Jack gives a "poetic drive by observation", the way Picard does. Jack talks of Seven "just trying to find another" family and how "we all long for connection...we're all just a little bit alone, aren't we? Stars in the same galaxy--but light years between us". When Seven says Picard doing this can be annoying, but it "can make a person feel seen" what she's really saying is that Picard is one of the only people who truly understands her; she loves him for it and it's why she's so loyal to him no matter what the cost. That's amazing writing! Finally, we see the Klingon Bird of Prey, renamed The HMS Bounty, from which the episode takes it's name. All of this has a narrative purpose as it inspires Jack and Sidney to steal the cloaking device which then requires Geordi, against his initial desires, to actually get it to work before it fails and the Titan blows up. The cloaking device then allows the crew to save the away team (except for Riker) and to get the vital Data they need. As to Picard's body, there's definitely a connection to the changelings' constant attempts to abduct Jack. The changelings need both Picard's (Locutus') body and "Red-Eyed Killer"Jack Crusher to create some sort of doomsday weapon. (A real question is whether the Borg are somehow behind it).
I like how you capitalized 'data'. Well played.
exactly
Great summary. EXACTLY how I felt watching the episode. The best written Star Trek episode I thought in a very long time, exciting and sentimental with genuine feeling in and from all the characters. It’s very clear that these characters are not just fictional characters doing as Crusher said “the things we’re great at” for so long but actors who have been friends in real life for more than thirty years.
perfect agreement
Season 3 - a love letter to TNG fandom
This episode of Picard made me feel like a kiddo again watching TNG with my family that I’ve lost one by one throughout the years. Seeing Moriarty, the whistle- it all brought tears. Albeit, happy ones.
You forgot Lal, I think it's kinda cool that all these personalities are becoming one person. Data is Logic and nobility, Lore is Passion and deception, Lal is Joy and Love, B4 is the Framework and Soong is the Soul. A complete Data. Just a Theory,
Brilliant!
What he always wanted.
Data did download Lal’s memories before she died, as a way of always remembering her, so it makes sense that he downloaded her into B-4 (where they got the Data personality from for this version of him (and why he thinks Picard is still Captain).)
Sounds like devastator to me
In theory....it could work.
You missed a few Daystrom easter eggs! The first thing we saw was a thalaron radiation weapon similar to the one Shinzon used in Nemesis. We also saw some kind of Borg information hub (across from the attack tribble) which was last seen on Voyager. The LAST thing we saw was Riker standing in front of the remains of Jonathan Archer.
EXACTLY. THREE MORE THINGS.
WHAT!!!
Yep yep. The remains of Kirk and Archer setup the fact that they also had Picard's remains there as well. A bit of foreshadowing. And setting a precedent for Section 31, so that Picards remains wouldn' t come out of left field.
The second I saw USS Voyager back in full glory, i fell apart...goosebumps, joy... a feeling i havent felt for a long time...just like Seven
When Jack was telling Picard that he inherited more than just his disease it was the first time I’ve cried from Star Trek and then at one point it felt like I was watching a movie. This season is just unbelievable tv. It’s going down in the record books.
I hadn't realized that the names of Geordi's daughters were a reference to "All Good Things". I'll give them this one. That's pretty good attention to detail.
God I just freaking GEEKED OUT during this whole episode!!
And as soon as I saw the SS Bounty, I knew they were hijacking it or the cloaking tech!!
Terry Matalas and writers have MASTERFULLY balanced between nostalgia and breaking new ground in the telling of the story of these characters!
I hope that this season also serves as a backdoor pilot for a new show much like DISCO did for Strange New Worlds.
I'd love to see more of the Titan crew. I miss good Trek. I'm sure the higher ups are waiting to see the numbers. 👍🏾
@@Rhamsody Terry himself seems to want a Titan series too.
I think so. It kind of seems familiar to how Marvel is (possibly) setting up the Young Avengers with all the kids from the shows and movies. The TNG crew is passing on the torch to the Next Next Generation.
With S3 being this good, and essentially a TNG reboot, I wonder..Voyager next?
I'd love to see Titan series, but with Riker as the captain ;)
For a moment I thought (and hoped) they were going to use The Bounty.
I was hopefully we’d see the Enterprise D saucer section at least at the museum. So many Enterprises and yet only two made it to the museum in one piece 😂
I am sure they will, building up to it in the finale
same, but I thought that would be too on the nose as a reference to Voyage Home
I feel like they should have the Pegasus device instead, but then again the Pegasus might not be something worthy of this mothball museum
Not enough room with that Transparent Aluminium aquarium on board
My guess is they didn't for a number of reasons, but mostly for the financial reasons of set designs. It would cost a lot to build all of the interior sets for The Bounty and they probably just didn't have the budget. In-universe, it's probably more of an outdated relic than the Titan, so there's that. But I love the way those old Birds of Prey look.
the musical notes for Pop Goes the Weasel are seen in the credits and have since Season 3 Episode 1
YES!!!!
Yes! I came here to see if anyone else read that music and realized!
Me too. Those music degrees totally not for nothing.
Yep, they have been. 🙂
I don't even know what to think anymore... that was one of the best Star Trek episodes I've ever seen and I've seen them all...
This is possibly one of the best episodes of Star trek I have ever seen like that is hard to say because there is so many good things across the franchise but DAMN this episode blew me away had me in tears and had me laughing out loud in so many moments!
The "Genesis II" device is a pretty funny gag considering Genesis II was an early-'70s TV movie created by Gene Roddenberry that failed to get picked up as a series.
I'll never forget it because it was the show where Mariette Hartley had two belly buttons.
This series is a billion times better than season 2. Amazing how they stepped up
I loved this episode, I'm still recovering from last week, but this was a feast of easter eggs. Love all the ships revealed at the museum and wow this story is going in a direction I didn't expect.
Picard having to face down Locutus would be the final demon of his past to overcome.
When they showed the Body of JL, there is a strange shadow or dark area on the right Side of His face (our left), wich made me think of Locutus immediately.
Now that would be a fantastic fan service. What a payoff. they need Picards DNA / body to create a Locutus from which a new paternally lead Borg would emerge. i like your thinking.
They have also been alluding to it pretty heavily this season, especially through Shaw.
Picard and Shaw both facing down Locutus would give both their greatest demon to overcome. And overcome together.
I thought first contact was about facing locutus?? Mentally
Riker might know who Section 31 is from his time on the Pegasus. The Cloaking/Phase device has been speculated to be a Section 31 project.
Geordie’s reaction to seeing Data hit me right in the nostalgia feels. More TNG, please!
I was literally in tears this whole episode. Being a long time fan of all the series, this just brought back so much across so many levels.
I'm wondering if that's actually Deanna Troi or if it's a changeling Troi.
I was already thinking riker is going to test it by asking about their son that died and it will fail the test
@@grmmth3 Excellent hypothesis. And Riker will 'play along' knowing it is a changeling to gather more information.
@@grmmth3 That's public info. A changeling would know that. A changeling wouldn't know about Imzadi.
Imzadi means beloved in the Betazoid language. Of course they would know imzadi
@@Rob774 Remind me - who is Imzadi ? Deanna's older sister who was revealed in Dark Page to have drowned ?
Watching this season makes me want more!! 😩 seeing Kirk's Enterprise among so many other things here was a pleasant suprise... what a ride this seasons been.
The Enterprise-D went farther than Voyager in the episode "Where No One Has Gone Before". The Traveller sent them to the M33 galaxy nearly 3 million lightyears away. Voyager was stranded 70 000 lightyears into the delta quadrant.
I think it was 70,000
Yeah, an alien also sent the OG TOS Enterprise and crew outside our galaxy
@@mezua123 Yep, I had one too many zeroes in there. Thanks!
Except for the fact everyone seem to forget, Q took Voyager to the Big Bang. Voyager literally been outside the universe so no matter how far any other ship has gone, only Voyager been outside.
The Traveller then sent them past the edge of the universe where only "thought" existed.
Oh this episode was just a gift that kept giving.
Couple of things: didn’t Soong also claim that a remnant of Lal was one of the personalities in new Data? Lal was Data’s first attempt at a daughter, so a predecessor of the large synthetic family based on Data in season 1, including Soji and Daj.
Earlier, when they were looking at the collection on Daystrom Station, I could have sworn one of the first panels was the Thalaron device from the beginning of Nemesis. It even had that weird helix effect coming out the top.
Geordi tells Alandra to contact her mom, which would presumably be stalker Geordi’s one time holo crush and later real wife, Dr Leah Brahms? Or no?
Sticking with the La Forges: the conversation between Sidney and Geordi felt odd to me because Geordi wore command red the first season of TNG, and he was the ship’s helmsman. He only switched to gold in season 2 when he became Chief Engineer. You’d think his kid would know that.
Lastly, that scene where the camera panned up from the station across a moon to the Titan hiding behind it felt like a nod to Wrath of Khan when there is that glorious pan across a barren moon from the Reliant to the hidden Enterprise.
You are right about Lal.
Leah is definitely not their mother, considering who they cast to play the daughters.
On The Ready Room, LeVar and Wil talked about how Geordi started as a helmsman. He was more upset about Sydney leaving home
Was the pan across the Moon to the Titan a nod to NASA going back to the Moon?
@@edtuckerartist More likely a nod to them hiding behind the moon in First Contact to disguise their presence.
They got the whole gang back for one last mission. So great to see Jordie Worf Data and even a cameo from Diana. The whole gang is back. LoL
Irumodic detects Changelings, seems to be the answer. Jack is a detector. They needed to capture him to prevent detection on Frontier Day?
Nice!
Why not just kill him? They've had their chance.
You missed Riker standing next to the Thalaron device from Nemesis.
I had to run through that shot multiple times before I figured out what it was. Just a bit too out of focus on my tv lol
@@qunewsguy I missed it first time around. Can't remember where I saw it mentioned and had to go back and look.
Also the midas array attached to the daystrum station.
And what looks like a Borg vinculum.
Ready Room shows a few more panels from Daystrom. Lots of TNG throwbacks!
This, in my opinion, was the greatest Star Trek episode ever made! It was crazy,,, it was heart warming,,, and it was heart breaking. I found myself clapping my hands,,, wiping tears from my eyes,,, smiling,,, cheering,,, and most of all,,, remembering how Star Trek has brought countless hours of satisfyingly happy moments to my 56 years of life,,, how it truly shaped my life as a kid while it nurtured me into my very own Best Destiny. These days I have less time ahead of me than I do behind me,,, while I continue to be thankful for Star Treks presence and influence in my life up to now,,, I find that I’m increasingly more excited to see where Star Trek takes me as time runs out in my personal Trek,,, through this life of mine.
Thanks for this “Perfect” reflection on this Perfect Star Trek episode of Picard!
I couldn’t have said this better 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🖖🏼
Agreed 100%
I genuinely cried at Seeing Voyager again, that particular series got me through my transition in the late 90s, I teared up so much. Also dasttum Station is basically 2 midas arrays and a Jupiter station sandwiched together ❤
Ah, it looks like its begging to rain.
I'm still crying every time I watch it
I have seen voyager so many times I had to stop and not move while commander Seven was talking about voyager. Incredible to see it on screen again 😢
Me too and Seven talking about how the crew where her family.
It’s ‘Daystrom’.
Thank you so much for doing these breakdowns. No one else does star trek breakdowns as good as you do.
Except for his mom.
This season is giving me everything I never knew I needed. From the beginning of the episode up to the closing credits, I cannot keep myself to let some tears run down my cheek thinking about those days I've been watching TNG with my dad and how much I miss him now that he's departed.
It's been ten years since that goodbye, but this season is making me remember and miss more than I could think.
I would really love to thank everyone involved in this season, from the writers to the actors. Well, especially them, it's like a second family to me. And when Sidney said "it's my family" I understood what she meant, or at least I gave my interpretation and felt connected to her.
I cannot wait to see them altogether, and I cannot wait to burst in tears
A Borg-nanotech-adaptable shape-shifter would be how they are able to mimic other species better down to their insides, since their bodies would have Borg scanning abilities built into their own bodies. It’s also probably very good at fooling/bypassing sensors!
I was just stunned watching this episode, I went nuts seeing Kirk's Easter egg and it just kept going
just the idea of synthetic picard vs. reborn locutus in human flesh. oOOOOOOF goosbumps
One of the greatest ST episodes ever
As a lifetime fan of Star Trek, having grown up watching every episode the day it aired, I have to say it was a truly fantastic story, and it did it justice and was magnificent to watch the next generation cast pull it off flawlessly.
Brent Spiners scene switching between his characters was an acting masterclass
not exactly a masterclass. Any actor worth their salt can do it,
Lal is in the Data/B4/Lore body too!
The Voyager ship shed a tear from me because among the Star Trek series that is the first one that I watched and completed and my favorite by far.... 😢
You also missed the easter egg. " What is in hanger bay 12 that La forge's daughter mentions" i can't help but wonder if the E or D is also there being retrofitted to join the museum
I heard the Enterprise D was suppose to be in the show, including the E and the F.
I caught that too... 😮
Also heard the D saucer was saved and the bridge re-created for a final reunion scene in E10. Burton noted the walkway on the re-creation set is steeper than the original.
I think its going to be the Enterprise D ( put back together somehow ) and eventually they will all get back on that ship because it is an old ship and is not linked to the other new ships and cannot be tracked. Plus it would just be awesome if they did
I think we will get the enterprise D in action. Not the old one but the galaxy X class upgrade we seen in "all good things".
Just have to say how awesome it was to see the Defiant again. So much Trek has been building off of DS9’s legacy (Section 31, the Dominion War, the Founders, etc.) without tying in its characters and cast other than Worf who was obviously on TNG first. Seeing NX-74205 got me in the feels 🖖🏾
The next episode is called 'Dominion' !
@@carolsmith914 Man if Renee were alive to reprise his role as Odo 1 last time it would have been epic
Alondra states all star fleet ships are constantly in contact with each other regardless if they have a transponder or not. She also said something interesting later in that scene. Alondra says to Geordi, “Dad, what about hanger bay 12?” I have a feeling the saucer section of the enterprise D was brought to the station to be reassembled with a new drive section and is in near competition for the fleet museum. Because it is not a newer star ship, it is not integrated with the rest of the fleet. I’m crossing fingers 😁
That would be great. I don’t think they will do it but it would be great to see the D fly again.
Yes!! This is what I am hoping for. Pulling a battlestar-esque move and using an old ship, or several
We do see several of those old ships circling Starbase 1 in the episode-ending LCARS displays. The Defiant, Voyager, Big-E-A, and another (maybe the Titan).
A new drive section wouldn't necessarily be needed. Just get one from a decommissioned Galaxy. Nor would the Big-E-D's saucer be needed explicitly, for similar reasons. Geordi could simply be rebuilding the D similar to how folks today rebuilt classic cars.
This season is going to be the finale STTNG deserves...bringing back great memories...thanks for your reviews
Missed 2, when Moriarty shoots the display is Jonathan Archer. Wren Starfleet is clearing Daystrom station the crew member is called Starbuck, from Battlestar Galactica.
This has been such an amazing season. Probably very, very unlikely, but would love to see O'Brien and Barkley in the show or at least referenced before the end. Both were good recurring characters on TNG.
I'd call Colm Meaney A reg, Dwight Schultz was a recurring.
About your 1789 comment and Mutiny on The Bounty / HMS Bounty:
The word "burgle" was first used in 1870 as a back formation from burglar. The character Moriarty first appeared in 1893. Riker using this word could have been a slick foreshadowing of that character appearing in this episode by the writers.
WTF ? 'burgle' is the correct verb. The Americans lengthened it to that other word.
@@quantisedspace7047 Random House Unabridged Dictionary has it the other way around. Send a complaint email to them.
0:21 don’t forget Captain Jonathan Archer (Moriarty gun shot)
Here’s a wild theory. The changelings stole Captain Picard’s deceased body, and they want Jack Crusher. What if they needed Captain Picard’s actual DNA and Jack’s body as the host to create a new Locutus of Borg. There is rumor that the entity controlling the changelings want Captain Picard’s body to reactivate him as a Borg. Just a wild thought. Remember Jack is hearing voices to connect with them!
Its subtle . . . but the use of ques from First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis in the music at key moments . . . . just brings it home for me.
Yees, I love that too, I am always cheering when I recognize music-bits from the TNG-Movies in this season of Picard 😻
Can you tell me where the musical-bits from Insurrection and Nemesis where? I think I may recognized them but I'm not sure
When Picard became Locutus of Borg, he was able to shred through the Federation's fleet at Wolf 359 - the Changeling Zealots want to hurt the Federation, what better way than to reanimate the body of Picard with Borg nanites and send Locutus of Borg against the entire Starfleet in the Sol system on Frontier Day. There have been many hints to Wolf 359, Locutus, and the Changelings wanting revenge.
This is what I'd put my money on.
Agreed... Not only will the entire fleet be on display in Sol on Frontier Day. But all of the ships computers are linked Borg style. Both things Geordi mentioned that he warned Starfleet would be a horrible idea. Somehow Jack is either their key to this working or a known foil to the plan that they want to eliminated.
@@BrentStewart Yes creating a hive link is a recipe for disaster. Too bad copies of Independence Day did not survive WW3 otherwise they would know how bad that is.
Sounds like a Shatner-verse plot but I was thinking along the lines of the nanites to use as a work around for the liquids to stay solid longer.
Three bodies, Admiral Archers body was also visible in the background as a museum exhibit.
U rock ! This ep was the best. Most nostalgic ep ever.
Best episode so far this season and that is saying a lot since it's been smashing so far! Easter eggs galore. The "Pop Goes the Weasel," call back with Riker and Data hit me in the feels.
What makes you think the captured Troi isn’t a changeling?
I was wondering the same thing, but I think it would be pretty easy for Riker to know if she was one. Maybe she can use her telepathic powers to help get them out of there .
Oh this is good. Riker could ask it something about their son and she flubs up. I really like how it could be actually Troi but also just a gambit. It's fun when our fan ideas in the comments make sense but we still don't know yet. It's a refreshing change this season.
@@withershin That's why the @PopcastGuys are a tad disillusioned that they got early access to the entire season. It put the kibosh on them making fan theory videos all season.
@@rain73ful Riker: “Can you still hear my thoughts, Imzadi?”
Changeling Troi: “Why are you just staring at me?”
@@billkeithchannel I was wondering. I enjoyed them before but this year haven't got through many of their episodes. Great point. So we're all on the same not knowing page now.
There was so much in that episode, a lot to take in and a heap I knew I was missing, but I know from experience, If I sit back for a few hours and be patient those wonderful nerds will work it out and Screen crush will deliver. Expanding my knowledge and appreciation of the level of details that goes in to these things
I remember how nostalgic I felt when we got the likes of TOS Bones McCoy and Scotty in TNG episodes. Now those TNG characters are giving us the same feelings. I mean, come on ...Moriarty ! That was an amazing shout out to fans, he was such an underused character having been on only 2 TNG episodes. This is also the 4th trek episode ever to show Tribbles, if you include the TOS cartoon episode More Tribbles, more troubles from the early 70's.
Did anyone else think the Daystrom Institute's hallway (seen @4:57) seems to homage TOS Engineering lattice hexagon shapes??? Great episode!
This was talked about on this week's The Ready Room by production designer Blass (can't remember his first name.)
@@billkeithchannel Thanks! I haven't watched any of The Ready Room - but I love this sort of detail so may start checking them out! :)
@@robr7759 OH you are in for a treat then. The info is off the chain. Go back and start with episode one. It is not only the interviews with the actors but mini-doc pieces on various aspects of Trek lore and production.
The USS Voyager has two timelines, one as a museum and in this episode being part of a museum. Awesome ep6!
They finally have the right person at the helm of NuTrek with Terry Matalas! Season 3 of Picard is Star Trek's take on the Avengers! I love it!
If you think back to All Good Things, Picard was shifting through time with the other characters blaming these “hallucinations” on his Irumodic Syndrome. We assumed that Q was the cause of his ability to jump through time, but maybe it wasn’t… maybe this brain abnormality is something more. As we see with Jack, he is seeing future situations… he wouldn’t just imagine himself in the exact color uniform before Seven gave it to him. It was precognitive… he averted that future murder spree, but still… Maybe that will play some role. Furthermore, there is also his exposure to the nexus… another “out of regular flow of time” situation. Are the changelings looking to alter the outcome of the Dominion War by using Jack and Jean-Luc’s time traveling ability somehow? Random thought…
Amazing episode. The only two things that Picards body has that his synth one doesn't have are the Irumodic Syndrome and potentially some remaining Borg Implants.
My guess is they want that tech to somehow get the 'real borg' as mentioned by Shaw, back involved in this. Hmmmm
would be interesting to see them using the nanites from his body to create a shifting borg species as a new villian for a upcoming series...a new even deadlier version of the borg to keep them as a major villian in the lore...especially with the fact the shangelings already are a form of hivve but without a singular mind now give them a singular mind with vadik leading.....and you are dealing with a dominion borg hybrid
If they truly go Trek and don't miss the chance, this is a good Ship of Theseus discussion opportunity. Is synth Picard really Picard, or is he a copy that thinks he's Picard, but the original Picard is in fact quite dead?
Or residual Borg nano-bots.
The USS Enterprise and the USS Yorktown were two aircraft carriers who fought together in the Battle of Midway in WW2.
YES!!! Jack has Borg tech pass-down from Picard. It will explain his super powers.
Don't get me wrong I love pikes enterprise in strange new worlds but damn seeing an original series style constitution class realized with modern effects was just beautiful
I was checking out Trek Cultures Ups and Downs and it was mentioned that the New Jersey 1975 was a reference to the year and where Show Runner Terry Matalas was born
Such a great channel. Thank for setting our nerd hearts on fire. I grew up on Star Trek and Picard is one of the great joys to experience as an adult. Hats off to you.
Star Trek Picard Writers: "There you big babies! You want Next Generation Crew, you want Easter Eggs, you want call backs to old school Star Trek. We crammed it all in, now are you happy?!?"
Fans: "Yes! As a matter of fact we are Very happy!! Shame it took you three seasons to get it right, but now we want MORE than just one season!"
We may want it...but I feel like it would cheapen how exciting this season has been.
nobody is perfect and they worked real hard on this season
Haha!! See how right we were!!!! 😂
As much as I would’ve liked it if they had led with this story, it’s better that STP goes out on a high note leaving us wanting more.
Okay. the 'attack tribble' scared the crap out of me, then made me laugh out loud.
Thank you so much for doing these. I keep checking back to see if you've released after an episode because I really like your breakdowns.
Another easter egg is they mention all ships are now linked and communicate with eachother. This could be seen as also being referenced in ST Prodigy where they talk about each starship will automatically call for help.
good catch.
So Captain Shaw has no idea about this when he asks "how do they find them"...
Bad writing.
@@RazvanMihaeanu Not really, remember how surprised people were when they learned their amazon home speakers were recording them without their knowledge. Sometimes novel uses of understood tech can slip our potential notice.
@@Matisaro A ship's captain who doesn't know...the ships are "inter-linked"? Come on!
Yes, and I don't think this was a random drop of information either. The whole notion of that is very... BORG like. Couple this with the fact the entire fleet will be on display in ONE location on Frontier Day, the fact that they made a point of name dropping the Borg in a negative way several times this season, the fact they had Shaw point out how significant Locutus was because he got his own name when others were given a number designation. As revenge for the results of Dominion Wars I think The Founders are trying to create their own Locutus with the entire fleet primed for his assimilation. And somehow Jack is the key to it all.
The first device Riker stands beside at Daystrom Station is a thalaron generator from Nemesis.
Absolutely true and yet I hate that movie so much that I don't care about Easter eggs from it.
I think they are after Picard's Borg body because they want to go all Cylon on Federation day. There is that one, almost throw away line, from Geordi's daughter Alandra that says "the ships are all integrated now, they talk to each other." A few episodes back it was mentioned that pretty much every ship in the fleet was going to be present at the Federation Day celebrations. So I figure there is something to the Borg nanites still in Picard that they are going to try to use to connect to all the ships at Federation Day, and then just go full murderous vengeance on the United Federation of Planets.
sorry, I just really needed to get that off my chest.
But yes! a great episode full of excellent moments, good dialogue, throwbacks and tie-ins, as well as just clearly genuine joy at being together as exhibited by the cast. After watching the episode I also watched the related episode of the Ready Room, and seeing Levar, Mica and Ashlei together.. it all just felt so authentic and had that sort of magic that this cast really can create together. It will be a great joy to see them tell this final story together the way they want too.
The Starfleet Museum also contains Sisko’s baseball, O’Brien and Bashir’s Alamo model, cards and poker chips from the TNG Enterprise and a bottle of that red liquid that everyone seemed to drink in Ten Forward.
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I say jack is not just picards son, he is not a crusher or a picard. He is a KIRK, so many hinds to kirk, the phaser in his dream, the way he talks with the ladies, there is a diagramm with kirk lifesigns in daystrom, he gets nostalgic seeing the Enterprise-A
It’s taken almost 32 years to find out what happened to the Enterprise-A!
I am glad to know what happened to Voyager,& the Defiant,although I many fans want to know what happened to the Enterprise E!
They need to leave that open for a further series I would guess
Spoiler, the E was destroyed in the season finale of prodigy
@@Barbariandisks Ripped up pretty good, but not destroyed.
The status on the LCARS for the E said "status unknown" so it's still active somewhere. Maybe on a black ops mission.
I think we will see a modernized enterprise D as well, the Galaxy X class from all good things.
Either way I think one is in hangar 12.
No one has mentioned (that I’ve seen) that Data showed Riker on the security screen then the crow appeared. When Moriarty appeared with the music, it was Data TESTING Riker. He was seeing if he was a Changeling by supplying clues that only Riker would be able to interpret and knew the answer to the question, which was the Pop goes the Weasel tune.
What’s in hanger bay 12? Geordi is keeping it quiet
I can’t wait until next week. At this point I’m expecting the Enterprise D, Voyager, and the Defiant take them all on.
I was hoping they were going to make the Shatner's novel "The Return" canon with a "Borgified" Kirk's remains.
I was never a big fan of Voyager but I have to admit getting a little teary-eyed after Seven reminenced about her family on Voyager.
Dominic Toretto's voice "Family"
The episode was a bit light on Captain Shaw, focusing more on the TNG crew, Seven, Jack and then Vadic in her own scene. The ability of Amanda Plummer to chew scenery is a credit to her late dad. I think we're watching Shaw sort of percolate and observe these "legends" first hand. He clearly believed they were overrated to start with but, perhaps by the end of the season, he'll have re-adjusted his opinion and we'll see him again in a future Trek series. They are spending far too much time and effort on building a good foundation for Star Trek in the 25th century to waste it. I'm absolutely loving this season.
Warriors drink! 😂 cracks me up every time.
me too
Irumodic Syndrome is going to be the key to not only detecting the Changlings, but also in helping them to stabilize there matrix from the changes that are happening to them. Maybe coupled with some Borg changes that got passed on to Jack. I'm thinking the Changlings just dont want to destroy the Federation, but to eventually replace everyone they can with their own in a bid to survive.. To become the Federation.
Replacing everyone would take billions of changelings. Or trillions. That would seem to be too many. Especially with the Primary Great Link and the Gamma Quadrant not on board.
Destroying the Federation does look like the changeling's goal. After taking explicit revenge on Starfleet. With these accomplished, they can then perhaps do what they did in the Gamma Quadrant - send in genetically engineered and loyal soldiers and administrators to take over. Piece by piece by piece. Maybe they hope that they can entice the Dominion itself to participate after the Federation has collapsed or Starfleet has been destroyed.
Does this introduce the possibility off Borg sperm?
Not just his remains… you can hear the bio-bed sound effect indicating life. Also the paragraph on the panel says: “Captain Kirk was critically injured while assisting Captain Jean-Luc Picard during a mission on Veridian III. His body was recovered for Project Phoenix.”
The Kirk thing certainly brings about some interesting portents. They could rather easily resurrect Kirk in a future series. (I mean, Luke Skywalker's appearances in the Mandolorian were nearly 100% synthetic right down to his voice, which was done with Respeecher (same as with Darth Vader's voice in the Obi-Wan series).
But what really warmed my heart was the collection of hero ships, especially the Enterprise-A (and there ya go, Kirk's ship is right there waiting for its captain when he's resurrected heh)
And I guess the appearance of a classic TOS-style Constitution class means that visual style is still canon despite Discovery and Strange New Worlds toying with it (I suppose some refits are in order)
The two ends of the Daystrom station are the “midas array” from Voyager’s pathfinder episode!
PERSONALLY I think that many Starfleet ships will be destroyed during Frontier Day and that some of the ships at the Museum will be pressed back into service. Worf would take the DEFIANT
She mentions a special hanger at the museum, I bet Geordi rebuilt to D
@@tbone98761234 You know, I bet that's gonna be the big final scene of the series. After the day has been won, Geordi's gonna be like "let's go back to the museum, there's something a little special back there that I've been working on and I wanna show you." And we get one final shot of the cast together on the bridge before they take the ship out for a little cruise around the block.
I was hoping for a conversation in one of the docks shuttle bay. With a heavy exterior, modded shuttle of the Goddard (NCC-1701-D/15)
To circle back to another great engineer.
Jack Crusher seems like a mix of Picard and Kirk.
Pretty sure Terry Matalas' tweet about a new series with a new generation and the original TNG sounds like Capt. Jack Crusher is getting a starship at some point.
Young Picard was pretty rebellious and Kirk-like apparently. Picking fights with Nausicans and all that...
Screen Crush is KILLING IT! I don’t know how you crank out these incredible Easter Egg videos so fast, but WELL DONE.
Not sure if it's been mentioned or not in the comments but where you've got Picard's and Kirk's bodies creepily kept, Jonathan Archer's body is also there, the panel Moriarty shoots at.
Was hoping someone would mention this.
Yes. so frak'n creepy for the Federation to be holding the dead bodies of 3 past Captains of the Enterprise
OMG. Is it too much to imagine the climax will see all the 'old' ships in action again? Be still my heart...
This is looking more and more like the "real" prime universe the further we get into the series.
it was never in the Abrams universe, it has always been in the TNG/DS9/Voy world
@@nextlevelenglish5858 i think he meant compared to discoverse
@@mahmoudsalaheddine8358 there are only two universes, Abrams, and the TOS/TNG/DIS
Eh, uh, what ? What do you mean 'looking like the real prime universe' ? Where else is it supposed to be set ?
@@mahmoudsalaheddine8358 Yes, but Discovery is part of the non-Abrams universe.
I think the borg tried to assimilate the changelings, or maybe tried to assimilate a human that ended up being a changeling. And this is what has happened. That would explain why they're looking for Picard's body, maybe it has some secret in it that the borg need to restore themselves.
Good review! I am wondering if Troi is really Troi or is she a changeling? It is the way she spoke to Will after seeing him captured! Troi doesn't like the Dominion because they were very cruel to her people and the people on her plant were staving.
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That, and they would have had to know exactly where she was, go get her, bring her back, and put her there in the few minutes they were beating the snot out of Riker.
It can’t be her. I think it’s a Changeling. We will see for sure when he says something about being her Imzadi (or however it’s spelled), which, if I remember correctly from the books, allows them to feel each other.
Another point is why didn't they abduct their daughter at the same time, and present them both to Riker as hostages ?
this whole season is giving me vibes from the TNG episodes from Season 1 that carried over into season 2 with the mind control bugs that had infiltrated Star fleet and it was up to Picard and the crew to save the day except they just changed the storyline around with Changelings