Picard 2x06 - 'Two of One' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

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Tallinn as 'The Watcher' not 'Laris', think she was referring to the method she used to control people in earlier episode and not 'Mind Meld'. Even when referring to it as such. 'Jury rigged mind meld'

Are ye guys watching this on prime...no new episode showing for me on prime

I liked that. Slow enough in terms of plot progression but I thought the character moments were pretty good.

I'm a bit conflicted with the Borgs Queen being the main source of fun in these episodes but I'm warming to it. Was enjoyable enough.

I think I just liked this one for having less going on, too. Most of the characters are actually interesting enough to spend some time with.

"Laris" also spoke Romulan at one point according to the subtitles I had on. So I guess if she knows that then she knows what a mind meld is.

I couldnt stop noticing this. Was glad Jurati pointed it out a bit.

Fans - we don't want crazy stupid action stuff this is Picard, the diplomat, the speaker, we want to know how his mind works.

Writers - mmm'kay

It was alright, but about on par with the last one. I would like them to get to the damned point with Picard’s mother in the next one (getting a little sick of the flashback tease).

One thing that stuck in my mind this time was how effectively menacing Brent Spiner can be when he’s going for that. He’d make for a great primary villain if they had gone that way. If I were to re-do this season, I’d have been tempted to keep them in the Earth Confederation, and have Spiner play some kind of despotic Emperor of the Humans. You could even have him as a corrupted evil Data, who attained his humanity (aging and all) and went further to claim the universe for his beloved species. Evil, but also kind of good and justified in his own head. You could then have Picard having to come to terms with fighting someone he once knew as an honorable defender of people etc…

That’s what went through my mind watching this one.

I enjoyed it.

Was fast spaced and enjoyed Picard pep talk.

Borg Queen was cool and was getting resident evil vibes at the end with the red dress (Red Queen in the Hive under Raccoon city)

Matches were funny. Characters felt alive.

Raffi is still annoying and just plain unlikeable.

Into the mind of Picard, may we see some Ent-D, Stargazer?

Needs more Q

Q are the humans of the Confederation Augments?

If they were that would mean the main cast have augment bodies now and they, so far, haven't shown any of the typical enhanced abilities.

About the best I can say is that I enjoyed this one more than the previous two episodes. Fingers crossed for next week.

Saw this gem on another site

Surprised to hear it was actually Pill. Getting a bit bored with the 21st century now too. It's a pity we got so little of the upsidedown world (although it makes sense as they could have never held that cover) or the Stargazer.

Clearly you're all forgetting she was in a band called Ba'bomb back in the day. Think she was the drummer.

As Brent Spiner tweeted recently (I'm too lazy to search for it) it's because he played them. Young Guinan looks different because it ain't Whoopi. People get awfully hung up on this :D

I think it would have been fun to tweak his look just a little bit. Enough so that he was clearly a Soong, but not exactly like Data. Picard would look at him and still react, but more "Wow you look really familiar", rather that the, "Data, is that you?" look he gave him.

If you look at old photos, it is often scary how much people can look like their ancestors, sometimes nearly exactly the same. And at the same time, it's really common in all sci-fi to have the same people play their character's ancestors or descendants. So hardly something we can whinge about now :D

Look at Romulan Tasha, for christ's sake.