Star Trek: Picard.

Why would hygiene be zero priority?

Nope.

If it ain't onscreen, it didn't happen.

PIC: Starfleet is so short on materials they have to build new ships out of old ones like LEGOs!

Also PIC:

You don't see a restroom on the cube do you?
It's all alcoves.
And a computer core, and a transwarp reactor.
Seven had to relearn how to eat and poop, so implants take care of all that.
Nanoprobes take care of blood born illness.
If you don't eat anymore, why care if your teeth fall out?
If you don't date because the collective is one telepathic gang-bang anyway, and you won't get sick, cuz of the nanites, why wash?

There's no way around it, Borg stink.

Whelp, there goes Kirk’s promotion to Admiral and the refit of the Enterprise.

Recycled Wolf 359 and Dominion War ships.

They have to maintain the organic parts somehow and the Borg is all about efficiency so they wouldn’t want the drones to deteriorate. But if you think that the only to bathe is when you go on a date then you must be one stinky bastard.

You're correct, of course. He could have taken advantage of her lack of individuality/sexual naivety. But that's not "having" someone - and that phrase seriously needs to be retired as a metaphor for sex anyway.

You could also flip it and say she knew being that direct with him would put him off, since he was obviously a scared nerd trying to work up the nerve. Hell, I've been on the receiving end of that (if I haven't, then I could have had a LOT more sex in my teens than I did - i.e. some sex). But immediately post-deBorgified Seven? I don't think she had the understanding of emotion to play with Harry that way, so her invitation likely was what it said on the tinfoil catsuit.

Modern Seven? Absolutely. But she'd also know better than to fuck with folk like that unless they were being assholes themselves, which Harry wasn't.

I agree with all this completely. I guess I was just bowled over by the singular statement "Harry could have had Seven". In my mind, I read that as the character Seven had been half in love with him from a distance and he wasn't interested in her at all. Hence my confusion.

Find me a shower head on the Borg cube, I'll wait.

Tertiary Bidet of Submatrix 42 was not a sought-after designation.

That's just dumb. I guess all that on-screen dialogue in TMP and TWOK that references Admiral Kirk and the Enterprise refit means nothing.

What I'm saying is that the explanation for the Titan-A given by Dave Blass on Twitter (of all places) is absolutely meaningless because it never made it on-screen. They easily could have explained why this Titan looks different than Riker's with a few lines of dialogue but for whatever reason decided to keep it a shit show by confusing what a refit/retrofit is.

In fairness, that's consistent with a lot of the sloppy writing on Picard anyway.

Their alcoves flip around to an interior shower where they’re stripped down and hosed off.

Yeah, but we didn’t see him get promoted. For all we know, Starfleet just gave him a fake rank like when the police give kids a Jr. Deputy badge. They just wanted to shut him up. Decker just wasn’t in on it and thought it was a real rank.

Fantasy rep. As if you know. I hope Kurtzman sees this post and makes it a real thing we see on screen.

We always fan-ficced how bodily fluids were cleaned up in the holodeck, but it wasn't canon until Lower Decks.

Which is weird because I thought they had robots that repair the ships even before Kirk so why not have the robots clean up too?

Holy shit.

Now that was a good episode.

And Capt. Shaw is really growing on me. Hope they don't do something stupid with his character.

I hope Ro's death is a fake out because I know they didn't just bring her back after all of this time just to kill her off. Otherwise, I really liked this episode. I also like seeing yet another 12 Monkeys alumni.

There's n0 IMDB credit but I do believe that's a Kirk Acevedo I see before me. Matalas is really drawing on the 12 Monkeys crew.

EDIT: WW name dropped him on Ready Room so I was right. Kind of an unmistakable guy
Then it was confirmed on Twitter too so...Guess I'll need to keep an eye out for Emily Hampshire and Amanda Schull


The unexpected familiar face was very well done by all parties concerned, they addressed all the "yeah but changlings aren't like that" grumbles from last week, the major plot line seems a lot more interesting than "one previously unseen crazy lady with an improbably badass ship"

Maybe the best episode in the series (not to say that's a really high bar to clear but still)

just because they have'em doesn't mean they use'em... especially when you need to make a few misery details

Again, Shaw is just an amazingly great character. Really, really need to have a Captain Shaw/ U.S.S. Titan series.

Great scene where Jack pulled a Jason Bourne.

Bringing back Ro Laren was as nice surprise. Too bad she was killed off in the same episode. Would have liked to seen her in the rest of the series.

Really interested in how Lore/B9/Soong Type and Moriarty will fit in to the season.

Worf is even more of a bad ass now than he was on TNG or DS9.

Could be that Moriarty is the AI that guards Daystrom.

Morn!



And Brunt is still around along with the Outrageous Okona.

This is a show that's killed off two beloved characters in as many seasons and Icheb. This ain't new, but this one is definitely the biggest "bruh" moment out of all of those.

Oh right, we still hate all that to deal with too, huh?

I keep forgetting because I'm so over Soong and everything connected with him.

Nah, I'm still not buying it. The Dominion was founded by the changelings and had been around for either two thousand or ten thousand years prior to DS9 depending on which Weyoun you believe. They're not suddenly "evolving" over a few decades.

According to Weyoun 4, the Dominion "has endured for two thousand years", i.e., since the 4th century. Later, in 2375, Weyoun 8 stated "the Dominion has never surrendered in battle since its founding 10,000 years ago."
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Dominion

That said, when the founders locked Odo into a humanoid form, Bashir detected the presence of proper organs, and I'm sure they must have performed biopsies on him just to see if whatever they removed would turn back into goo. It's not a new thing necessarily.

My biggest problems with these changelings is that they're so far much shittier at shapeshifting (only turning into different people), and basically just disposable thugs rather than the brilliant masterminds we saw before.

Point of order: There was a constitution class Intrepid in TOS with an all Vulcan crew.

Oh, and baby Worf was rescued by a completely different Intrepid that responded to the Khitomer massacre.