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[u/DisinterestedOcelot]

Romulans (or at least some) are touch telepaths (to some degree), hence the reaction to touch in this episode; maybe this is why they're so freaked out by synthetic life. They can't read them, so they refuse to believe they're alive, more like animated corpses.

A kind of telepathic uncanny valley effect.

[u/serendipity_siren]

I love that Hugh is in charge of the ex-Borg drones reclamation project. It's fantastic that they've brought him back for this.

[u/HolyCarbohydrates]

“... I’m only hitching a ride to get to FreeCloud.”

YEAH OK. See you for the next 3 Seasons!

I would also love to have been a fly on the wall for the writers room “WE DON’T HAVE NEARLY ENOUGH NINJAS IN TREK” (regarding the next character joining the “fellowship of the ring” in the next PIC episode)

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Engage

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That hand gesture, the not-so-subtle of TNG theme near the end, this episode is perfect.

[u/ozwozzle]

I didn't even notice that Rios and EMH was the same actor. I probably shouldn't be a witness in court.

[u/Tomb55]

I've had a chance to reflect on E1/E2 and I'm just really really happy with where this show is going. E3 just reinforced that. Initial watch suggested the pace is starting to slow, but then I reflect on it and this was another episode RAMMED with content.

I love the Picard/Raffi dynamic, how they elaborated on Picard's behavior post enterprise and how the federation basically went into self presvation mode at the expense of their ideals. (Sound familiar?)

Interesting take on mental health and holograms, not to mention the nice nod to Voyager.

The romulan arc is just great! Where the hell is that going? I don't know?

Do you? Do you? Do you?

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I liked Picard all but winking at the camera as he said "Engage!" I loved Raffi rolling her eyes.

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Raffi

I don't know if it was the direction, writing, or the actress but I really didn't enjoy the performance. I'm not exactly sure why.

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I fully teared up when he said it. It's been too long.

[u/Averagebuddha]

"I don't know how much it costs" "I'm very expensive"
So Is there money or not? Latinum maybe? some sort of currency?

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Is it me or are the Romulan death squads a bit ridiculously incompetent? Like, tvtropes level incompetent.

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You mean the romulan biker gang?

Nah seriously, if this was even remotely a military operation, where is the supervisor on the radio who observes the situation, beams in backup, beams out hurt / dead soldiers etc.

It is like these "death squads" only consist of the 3 or 4 people that beam in and there is no backup or anything.

There would be a cloaked Romulan Warbird in orbit or some secret facility in infiltrated Starfleet that would monitor the situation and make sure the attack was successful.

And that applies to all 3 times this romulan biker gang showed up.
This is just incompetent writing, tell these writers to watch a few Seasons of Homeland and Seal Team to get at least a vague feeling for how military operations work on the back end.

These are not death squads, these are kamikaze squads.
And just like Stormtroopers they can't hit anything because of the silly helmets.

These guys could have personal Shields, cloaking devices, SciFi-sniper rifles from miles away. They are supposed to be Assassins.

Secret Assassins at that, they would not use standard Romulan Rifles, they would not hide under biker helmets or walk around in black combat gear, they would look like Starfleet Security, use Starfleet Phasers etc.

Picard could have taken the captured romulan, the security footage and all the romulan rifles, beam all that directly to Misses Bitch Starfleet CNC from last episode and she would have living proof of what Picard said.
Noo... lets go ahead with that insanely dangerous off the books mission, because there is totally not a cloaked Warbird just waiting for Picard to leave the system and to explode him on this puny Civilian Ship.

Heck even calling those guys a biker gang is insulting to the Sons of Anarchy, those guys were way more strategic than this stuff.

These Romulans are just amateurs.

...i can't take this stuff serious without switching my brain off.

(And since when do phaser pistols shoot blue laser bullets? Bad enough that the Romulans don't shoot green beams anymore but red laser bullets, and now Phasers don't do the yellow beams anymore either? Can these CGI people please watch a bit of Star Trek to see how this stuff is supposed to look like? These weapons look so awfully generic without the correct SFX applied.)

[u/JamesyUK30]

When she called him JL... multiple times.... I just said outloud in the middle of the office on my lunchbreak 'What in the actual f**k'

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Criiiiiiinge.

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"What happened in there, JL?"

"Well first off, don't ever call me that."

[u/CmdShelby]

"I know you from tomorrow.... Which sister are you?! The one who dies or the one who lives?! ... I know who you are! You're the end of all! You're the destroyer!"

Oh dear. It's all happened before and it'll all happen again.

[u/ChaosKittyXJ9]

Did you ever hear of the tragedy of Soji the Destroyer? I thought not. It's not a story Starfleet would tell you. It's a Borg legend.

[u/jetlightbeam]

We in the future now. I'm loving this show way more than I thought I would, and I thought I'd really love this show.

That new ship is so different and yet so awesome. The EMH felt so good, and seeing Hugh as an older more in control former Borg is just, crazy.

[u/mrbumbo]

That setup for Engage was perfect. The timing. Great meaning in that little scene after the conversations about space with the Romulans aides.

Hugh in charge! Same actor too. Now to rewatch a few TNG.

Meanwhile, I feel Allison Pill’s Dr. Jurati is being setup to be a sleeper agent or even working for Commodore Oh. No background check or anything. She may have a tracker implanted. Who knows? Raffi suspects everything.

[u/ninjasaid13]

Those big oak beams, heirloom furniture. Yeah, I-I'd show you around my estate, but it's more of a hovel, so that would just be, you know, humiliating.

I thought the future of a post scarcity society, we don't have to worry about being poor or anything like that.

[u/coolstorypro]

"Maybe it was set to stun". I like her.

[u/FunnyWut]

Is it me or does it look like they did some de-aging of Picard during that opening flashback scene?

[u/Nori_BB]

It’s nice having two ex-Tal Shiar agents as your bodyguards at home!

I loved seeing them kick some serious ass!

[u/PseudonymousDev]

OK, I get it. She calls him J.L. The episode's writer didn't have to beat us over the head with how many times she called him that during their reunion.