Picard 3x04- 'No-Win Scenario' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

Yes it's dark but fuçk me is it good

Im enjoying the Season now i must say - its difficult to see what is going on - which i Like!

Do we believe the Founders are the main Villain?

I mean, its an odd choice dont you think? Dont get me wrong its SAVAGE to get some Post Dominion War canon knowledge - and I have no difficulty believing that some founders would have had an issue accepting the Defeat -

But as a send off for Picard and Co - If you are thinking of Enemies to dice with - The Borg, Romulans, The Cardassians (Chain of Command PTSD perhaps) -there are a few enemies that would certainly have personal issues with Picard. might be interesting to compile a list

Does the Dominion enter anyone's train of thought? If this were a Sisko centric show, then absolutely -

Anyway great to see them

A little less happy to see one die, and simply FALL DOWN, and lie there - Not quite how Shapeshifters work folks -

Captain Shaw's dialogue about the Borg was interesting, especially where he commented about 'the real Borg still being out there!!!!' - HERE HERE!

Enjoyed that one. My main annoyance though continues to be with contemporary language, references and swearing. It's just unnecessary and takes me out of the story every time they do it.

Really enjoyed it until the end. Whatever Jack Crusher really is or has seems to be the kind of terrible mystery reveal that tanks these shows.

Great idea to not keep cutting the suspense by switching to Raffi and despite him not being a great captain I get a real kick out of Shaw.

The Skeletor guy was incredibly fuking lame. How did anyone over the age of 10 approve that look and eeevvvvviiillll voice.

Good God what is that freakish nightmare you just showed me.

A few fairly minor issues, like just how arch villainess the baddy is, and how eeeevil the entity giving her orders was, and some of the dialogue just felt a bit out of place -- but all in all, thoroughly enjoyed that. Bets episode so far I think. They kept it simple and contained, focused on character, and told a good old fashioned 'escape from a problem' story.

I really hope this episode is a taste of things to come, and that they're going to keep the broader story smaller and more stripped down than previous seasons.

(That final Jack scene was all a bit 'Bray Wyatt' though 😅)

Ha…still watchable….still alright Trek. Dare I dream to hope that they’ll actually pull it off and stick the landing? I have more hope.

I liked Shaws backstory, and would have loved some flaskback scenes of Wolf 359…but i guess I understand why they couldn’t.

However; the episode implys that Picard considers Jameson cheap whiskey?! The cheek of him! How dare he?!! :P

Surprisingly still maintaining quality. Hopefully there'll be a little more progression next week. The series has some obvious flaws and clashes with canon but it's much better than it was, I might even tie season three with SNW, it's almost a shame it'll be the last one but maybe this new writing team will get a fresh series to work on.

I miss the old changling effect but the new one is better and all changlings can't need to regenerate as often as Odo did otherwise the safest detection test would have been to lock everyone in a room for 24 hours.

Shaw having a Siskoish backstory is perfectly plausible but a little samey for TV.

Varik had Shinzon's knife, not a rare prop though Faith in Buffy had one too, and she did the Chang spin. What she is is kind of interesting I hope the reveal isn't disappointing.

They sure are getting a lot of use out of the 10-Forward set.

As others have said it still sounds too contemporary, someone should have taken a pass at the dialogue to give it that old 24th century polish.

I mean, season one and two tanked expectations most of the posters here qualified all their hopes when the trailers seemed kind of good. It's like being in an abusive relationship and getting punched two or three time a day when you only get one slap in the face it's a good day.

I really liked season 1. I assume more people did than didn't as they made a s2. That season was the worst heap of sht I have ever seen though.

It still doesn't rationalize how the new season is rated though. Some people are overplaying it as a way to attack the old team.

No it wasn't.

Yeah, it was very rocky from episode two or three and then completely **** itself at the ending.

Ya I was more just making a joke about how people can blatantly tell me it was bad with no explanation.

Season 1 was certainly good enough that it got me interested in Trek again and excited for s2 (sadly). It's the only live season along with SNW s1 that I like.

It was just funny how bluntly you put your opinion.

No need to get into a Goodfellas "what kinda funny" thing.

Jack looks like Simon Baker in The Mentalist.

I did like them throwing the asteroid. Maybe he got the idea from the bugs in Starship Troopers.

Happy that Jack pointed out how they were using the Holodeck with everything shut down. Still I'm sure someone could've figured out how to use its battery for the rest of the ship.

I am a little confused as to how alcohol works in a holodeck though.

Food and drinks on the holodeck has pages and pages of speculation. The most likely theory is that consumables are replicated

Can't see it being replicated. It takes a couple of seconds to replicate a cup of tea, imagine how long it would take to replicate stock for a bar, but the program starts up right away. So unless the whole room is a replicator, then they would also need time to take from the replicator to the shelves.

But just a thought and better not go down that rabbit hole now.

Overall a decent episode. At least they're finally away from the nebula. Unless they somehow are still there next week. Think the Titan sticks around?

For efficiency, it could even be a case of the holodeck replicating the look of things, which then become tangible/replicated when a guest interacts with them. So the imagery of a whole stock of bottles, with only the ones you touch becoming 'real' in the moment you touch them. One would imagine two versions of tangibility - stuff you can take out of the holodeck and stuff you can't. So you'd assume the materialisation of a chair is something you can't take out, but that consumables like food and drink are actually replicated the same as food replicators do.

We're probably overthinking it though, given that it likely all just came into being as a fun plot device that allowed them to use random sets from other shows.

The thing of it having its own power source is fine - but you'd definitely expect that if needed for stuff like life support, that they could reroute power from that source into the other systems. Would just be common sense.

"God dammit Jean-Luc, get out of Ten Forward! We've got Ten Forward at home!"

You are the only one who seems to have had the same concern as I. This was a "Titan Episode". I fear the next one will be an all "Rafi Episode", possibly bringing in some others like Geordie and Lore. Though because of the name of the series, I guess the Titan shows up at the end and the gang all gets together. 🤷‍♂️

Yup, Riker used their own trick against them.

Elsewhere, I kinda hope we don't actually have Lore and Moriarty playing an active role in the series, and that those snapshots we saw in the trailer are actually just changelings fücking with them, cycling briefly through a few known Picard/TNG enemies. The best thing about this series so far is that they've kept things reasonably simple, so i'd rather they stuck to the people who have already been established now (with Geordi added in at Daystrom).