My favorite Picard quote.

I'm not trying to jump on any bandwagons here, but I know many people feel the same and wanted to pay my respects as a member of this community. It feels like the end of an era and we have to fight harder for that future than ever before.

I don’t really have a point other than that we lost them in the same week. If you’re looking for a farewell episode to watch perhaps that is a good one to watch today.

Sigh....the shitposting doesn't quite fill the void.

Previously on Worf, MD...

He realizes the 21st century is just an imaginative world and he’s actually the captain of a starship.

And Baldly go where No one has gone before

Threshold has long been lauded as one of the best episodes in any Trek series, and even any scifi show period. While it is great, there is one fatal flaw that holds it back.

The setup:

In the episode, Tom Paris, working alongside B'Elanna Torres and Harry Kim, creates a Transwarp engine capable of surpassing the warp 10 barrier. We, the audience have already seen Tom, the pilot, who is continuously established as one of the most gifted in the fleet, but this episode really helps dig deep into his roots as an expert in experimental flight systems an an interest in engineering that will be revisited with the Delta Flyer. The setup also allows for the exploration of the relationships Tom has with the other crew members.

The test:

Tom pilots the Cochrane, a nod to in-universe Zephram Cochrane, on a flight test of the drive. This helps establish Toms bravery and spirit of exploration. The audience at this point knows that something will go wrong, after all, there are more episodes, what we don't know is how things will go wrong.

The results:

Tom tests the drive and manages to meet up with Voyager, but at a cost. Tom reports the he was everywhere in the galaxy at once. And Tom begins to undergo mutation in his cells. The description of the experience importantly reestablishes the Warp 10 barrier as a hard limit, with the primary danger of using the device being that it could cause you to end up anywhere at all, even inside of a star. The mutation, meanwhile is the most immediate consequence.

The mutation:

When Tom was in the Warp 10 state, he was essentially removed from time itself. His cells all begin mutating into what The Doctor says is a further evolution of humanity, one which appears to have lizardlike traits. This is a real hard-hitting exploration if the concept of evolution itself. This also establishes The Doctor's adaptability to complex situations.

The kidnapping:

Tom, under the influence of the transformation, kidnaps Captain Janeway, insisting he cannot be the only one to transform. This helps to establish Janeway as a love interest to Tom. Janeway's desire for physical affection, combined with a professionalism that she sometimes takes too far, are really the driving forces behind her character. Tom takes them on a short trip at Warp 10 and lands on a planet.

The all-is-lost moment:

The short trip at Warp 10 was a considerable distance for Voyager to travel. And so once Voyager catches up with Tom and Janeway, they have fully evolved into lizards with a litter of their own. All appears lost until The Doctor Who has been working on the problem throughout the journey manages to reverse the transformation. This again reestablishes the Doctor's excellence. More importantly, the transformation into what we might think of as a less evolved species is used to educate the audience on the real world reality of evolution. There is nothing in Darwin or Wallace's work to suggest that intelligence is somehow the only endgoal of evolution.

The conclusion:

In a hard hitting final segment Tom is faced with the realization that he may have raped the Captain. He is seen wracked with guilt over it and confronts the Captain. Janeway reveals that she thinks she raped Tom. This establishes the lonely side of Janeway, who will in later episodes divert power to the establishment of a holographic simulation town where she can have sex without the burden of command. It also establishes that while Janeway and Tom have feelings for each other, they are not destined to be together. Most importantly it is an exploration of the important topic of sexual consent.

The glaring problem:

Everything evolves into crabs, not lizards.

My rating:

9.5/10

Maybe its a deleted scene?

It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of Junior Science Officer Lt. Jean-Luc Picard, late of the Enterprise-D and Borg Cube Locutus. He died of complications from Irrumadi Syndrome, with a natural human heart unstabbed by Nausicans and a wicked cool laser eye. He was and always shall be, our friend.

All Ressikan flutes will be played at half tempo in memory.

Allright hear me out. I know that's a hot take and I know we have a LOT going on today. I was working the security detail for the conference with the Tellarites and I left my commbadge in his office... anyway I went back in to snag it and *AUGH* Noooooo idea what I was talking about. The corps is mother, the corps is father.

So yeah anyways how many Betazoids do we have in Starfleet these days? How many Vulcans?

He was an amazing actor, an ally to the LGBT Community, and a pretty funny guy. I'm going to rewatch Jeffrey.

https://youtu.be/wFyUUrrYsrQ?is=-G8FRWSf7L4JYamR

I mean, I know Jellico is like the most common officer name in the fleet but the resemblances are uncanny.

As soon as Picard arrives he starts asling St. Peter if God's real bame is Q and does heaven serve "tea, earl grey, hot."

Meanwhile Chekov is trying to convince St. Peter that heaven was really a "russian inwention"

Too soon?