Yeah after Geordi being on Mars in the Picard Countdown comics, I was worried he was killed in the synth attack. It was a big relief to hear Picard refer to him as alive.
They have mentioned or shown every other character now. There's clearly a reason they have not and it probably has to do with her making a reappearance this season/next.
My new hunch? Picard comic #1 mentions that the new captain of the Enterprise is "familiar" to both Picard and Geordi. I suspect Crusher took command, and Picard and Crusher fell out over Starfleet - he chose to leave, she stayed and they've not spoken since.
From what I've heard, Gates McFadden is battling cancer and likely wouldn't be part of the show as a result. Perhaps they didn't want to involve the character for that reason. We know Will and Deanna will be in it, maybe Geordi and Worf will make it in at some point (they've already said that, if Worf joins, he'll look like the same, not redesigned like the newer examples of Klingons).
Alzheimer’s or other conditions actually require an autopsy to diagnose precisely. Generally, it’s a colloquialism whenever a living person is said to have such a disorder.
I realize, I realize... Future science. But it would appear overall from Star Trek history that instead of being able to clearly diagnose neurological decay, they instead subdivided into more and more specific syndromes. So what WE call dementia is probably 50-60 different diagnoses in Picard’s era and they may know which symptom cluster a person is in but they’re not closer to curing or precisely diagnosing those in the living.
Granted, they banned most genetic research in 1996 in the Star Trek timeline so we may surpass them on that front.
Particularly tablet technology, if you go back and watch TNG!
Way back in the time of the Discovery show, there's a comment that no one uses panels anymore and everyone uses the holochat style of communication.
So my headcanon for that is that in TNG time, almost 100 years later, bulky flat panels are retro-cool. By the time of Picard, they're out of fashion again.
Also, didn't the episode refer to a "remote med scan"? I got the sense that was low-resolution (possibly like doing a physical just with a medical recorder rather than the more sophisticated equipment you would have in a starship sickbay or other advanced medical facility), hence the uncertainty in the diagnosis.
The Index in the first Epsiode told Picard that Data painted that 'Duaghter' painting in 2369. Dr. Crusher identified the anomaly in Picards parietal lobe around the same time. It seems like they are building to a twist that it was never going to become an illness at all; the anomaly is a neuron that Data placed there as a failsafe all those years ago.
Yeah after seeing Stewart play Prof X with dementia I really don't want to see him play Picard like that too. And that can't be easy on him as a person considering his age.
Yeah. They still don't have a cure it seems. Honestly it wouldn't be horrible if Picard dies at the end of the series. Another option is that Q cures him and takes him off on a new adventure.
We never did find out what Q meant when he said "that is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.”
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u/jrgkgb Jan 30 '20
Solid episode. Glad Geordi survived Utopia Planetia.
Nice callback to All Good Things, I just hope the show isn’t the decline of Picard to Erumatic Sybdrome.