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On the surface, it does seem sort of problematical that the Zhat Vash never tried to destroy Data prior to the events of Star Trek: Picard. My guess would be that they were less influential then, and that they gained power in the chaos surrounding the evacuation and the supernova. Data was...

The next Star Trek: Picard novel has just been announced -- Rogue Elements, written by John Jackson Miller (who recently penned the amazing Star Trek: Discovery novel Die Standing, which focused on Mirror Emperor Georgiou), and which and follows Santiago Cabrera's freighter-captain Cristóbal...

^ Lower Decks just keeps on getting more and more awesome as it builds to its season finale. Great stuff (and now I'm strongly feeling the urge to binge the entire season again for a third time, here).

The next Picard novel has been announced -- written by James Swallow (if you don't know who he is, he's written some absolutely incredible Star Trek novels that you should immediately check out): So...also potentially a Lower Decks-crossover, too? Thaddeus Riker should be around four years...

^ Incredible book, BTW. Really fleshes out why the Romulan supernova-evacuation failed, and goes into even deeper detail than the TV show on why Picard's (and Raffi's) Starfleet careers both crashed and burned immediately afterwards.

Yeah, places like Bull Moose will have it for ~$35 at release, and so will Amazon (I just picked up the one-disc Short Treks BD from them for only $15.97, which even beat Amazon's price).

Blu-Ray of Season One is now up for pre-order at Amazon: No release-date yet, but that should probably be coming shortly, here.

Amazing episode. So many badass fist-pump moments. And so many choked-up ones, too. Wow.

Apparently we do -- when I experimentally clicked on "CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION" earlier this evening, I instantly got offered an extra free month. Whether this is directly connected to Sir Patrick's initiative I don't know, but you can definitely snag a free month by this method, too.

Came here to post this very thought after rewatching this episode. I don't think Altan is a retcon. He's Lore. Or he's made from Lore in the same way that Soji and Dahj were made from Data. “He had me, but he made Data. A fact that he never let me forget” is totally 1000% a Lore-line. And...

To be sure, we only definitively know about just the one marriage that Dr. Soong once had, to Juliana — for all we know, Altan was his son from a different (offscreen) relationship, and indeed there was nothing in the prior TNG-dialogue that would preclude this from having happened in his...

Basically sheltering in place right now (due to the school where I teach now being closed for the indefinite future), caught the new episode ("Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1") this morning, and was thrilled to see that it canonized ka'athyra as the name for the Vulcan lyre, as first coined by...

Actually, the reference was simply to "Mr. Quark of Ferenginar," in relation to his vouching for Capt. Rios's cover-story, not in the context of anything else (nor is Quark mentioned as having a business on Freecloud). For all we know, Rom is still the Grand Nagus in 2399.

Or for me, as a "sweet," innocent schoolteacher in a certain Bong Joon-ho film:

Also, sure looks like Larry Niven is gonna make some royalties off this new episode too...

This episode was absolutely incredible. Gonna have to rewatch it just to soak it all in further. Just, wow.

I love getting STD.

"Stupid," how, exactly? Because that's not exactly the critical nor the fandom consensus-opinion of this series.

I found the Picard-and-Hugh scenes absolutely riveting. I loved Picard's journey from fear and revulsion to being back aboard a Borg cube, to wonder and admiration towards Hugh for saving lives like his own. And the shot of Picard with Locutus overlaid via hologram was simply a terrific (and...

...OK, LOL. This will undoubtedly get addressed coming up very shortly -- remember that the EMH witnessed almost the entire incident. Ain't no way they're leaving that plot-point unresolved. Because it was something only recently assimilated from the Sikarians, which significantly postdates...

Liked seeing Soji's "Incredible Adventures of Flotter" plastic lunchbox, and what happened to the Sikarians...ouch. Poor Harry Kim's gonna be rather distraught when he finds out about this one, LOL. And "The Impossible Box" just canonized the Romulan-secret-names-for-loved-ones cultural-thing...

^ Except Roddenberry's personal "no conflict" rule was massively unrealistic, artificially contrived, and drama-destroying, something that he concocted way back in the '70s (after he started smoking his own press-releases and buying into his own myth as a self-styled New Age futurist-guru) and...

^ According to Wil Wheaton on this week's aftershow, Stewart would spend hours and hours doing that particular voice and cracking up the crew in between takes on the TNG set.

And also, given all that the Federation went through with the Borg and the Dominion, it would be implausible if the UFP were unchanged from its TNG-era outlook. It makes perfect sense that the Dominion War left scars and undermined the UFP's optimism and idealism, that there would be an...

One more thing: Did Rios actually mention Quark by name when sitting at the bar on Freecloud? Didn't have the captions on when I caught that scene, so maybe I misheard it. Speaking of that scene, I also quite liked Seven's suggestion that Rios literally wear "a feather" in his pimp-hat...

Having just finished the novel Picard: The Last Best Hope earlier this week, it was great seeing several things first brought up in the novel in this new TV episode, including Raffi's estranged son, Gabe, how and why she abandoned him, Elnor's unfamiliarity with "artifice" (read: lying) when...

Also, LOL at Raffi smoking up with practically everything in known space, but shutting Rios down when he tries to light up a stogie on his own ship.

...But just want to say, as an addendum to my previous post, re: "canon" -- Go out right now and buy the new Star Trek: Picard novel (The Last Best Hope), like, IMMEDIATELY, if you haven't yet done so. It was written (as was the Picard: Countdown comic-series) with the full cooperation and...

I wouldn't agree with that. The Abrams movies captured the TOS characters quite well, and the plots were always written to serve the characters. The first film is about Kirk finding direction in life, and he and Spock going from adversaries to tentative friends. Nero and the plot he sets in...