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Star Trek: Picard Season Two: A Roundtable Discussion
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 298, in which Captain Phil, MaryBeth Ritkouski, Michael Rizzo, and I discuss Star Trek: Picard Season 2 on Paramount+ and much more about Star Trek: TOS, Star Trek: TNG, and all things Star Trek and related.
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Celestial Live-Reacts: STP 2.1, 'The Star Gazer'
(SPOILERS AHEAD, as you might imagine! Read down at your peril)
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- Uhm I'm sorry is this the opening to Ctrl+Alt+Del AND A Good Day to Die at the same time, HAVE YOU READ MY FICS CBS 👁👄👁
- This is a James Bond opening sequence
- He's so proud he knows Romulan, bless him ❤
- Oh, HE is dead! The more you know
- ... Yeahhhh, no. What *is* this romance nonsense? When has there EVER been anything between him and her?
- ... Awkward...
- Baby!card! 😍 All adventure and adorable
- "Why have you chosen to be alone?" "Idk queen not sure where my immortal husband's at rn"
- I love how English his mother is 😂❤ Really sticking with the theme there of being the most English French people ever. Also I love her and she's a girl boss 😍
- Earl grey, cold 🤣
- What *is* Laris talking about, that this has been building for a while? From WHERE exactly, pls explain
- THEY GAVE ELNOR A THING 🖖 Bless up, king ❤
- Hologram Rios! Seven! Beautiful folks everywhere 😍😍
- Is that the AGT phenomena?
- No synth ban; only progression
- Oh hey Agnes, it's once again hugely ambiguous to see you
- Soji's hangout is glorious, my god
- Rios is a captain again???? Like, an official one????? Bless him, he got over his shit 😍
- ... Anyone else forget that these two had sex?
- Sulu reference!
- 'Chancellor of the Academy', much wow
- "You two are so damn self-sufficient, happy to travel the stars..." 🤔🤔🤔
- Elnor has gone from confident young adult to overly tall child lmao
- "Live a little" 😂 I love him so much ❤
- Raffi/Picard friendship is gorgeous.
- Stargazer!
- 'Cigar in the captain's chair' is a VIBE 😍
- "Help us, Picard"????? ... Is that the fucking Continuum?
- BIG MOMMA G 😍 Welcome back Queeeeen ❤
- This bar music is a jam 😍
- "But you'll always be 'captain' to me" - amen ❤❤❤
- "With you pushing a century and me pushing several, I don't really think that at our age we should be reserving anything" 😂😂
- El-Aurians only age 'if they want to'? That's lore, kids
- Another beautiful male/female friendship! They can do it!
- "It's not as if I haven't loved before - I have, sometimes quite deeply." "But always with those that would only be temporary." "That's not entirely true -" "- So you'd never have to fear any of them taking root."
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"The problem isn't time, it's you."
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"You've been on your own for nearly a century - why, what's holding you back?"
Okay so a. this is hilariously Qcard and b. a beautiful character piece ❤ Fascinated by whatever this is alluding to, too?
- Oh hello, Admiral Great-Hair 😍
- ... Are you trying to tell me that the Q want in to the Federation, what in god's name
- Picard @ Laris: aight imma head out babe 🖖
- Borg stuff?
- IT'S THE BORG. OHHHH. Never mind my dumbass theories then... they want to join the Federation? Are they sick of getting their arse handed to them by Janeway?
- Nice bit of looping back to the beginning
- "We wish for peace", they say, walking in like the cyber fuckparty from my most vivid vodka nightmares
- Doc Ockto-borg????? That's a new take...
- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
- "We're out of options" - swear Rios says exactly that in Ctrl+Alt+Del, and Picard definitely blew himself up for Tapestry Day... and I had a bloody countdown... just call me Benjamin mes amis, I'm a prophet out here
- "Noooon, je ne regrette rieeeeen" 😂 Come on slut, get in the damn frame already 😍
- That was quite the flash... bit pissed off, are we mon dieu? Of all the men in the universe to kill, they have to kill yours huh?
- WELCOME BACK SLUT 😍😍😍😍👁👄👁
- "Oh dear, you're a bit older than I imagined - let me catch up." HAHAHAHA yes! Absolute perfection ❤❤😂 He de-aged just to age, that is phenomenal, and exactly what I wanted - just making a mockery of the whole concept
- "You've been talking a lot about second chances - well, my friend, welcome to very end of the road. Not. Taken." ... Fucking HELL 😍❤👁👄👁
Dear. Sweet. God ABOVE. What a fucking start lads 😍
Celestial rating: 7/10.
Relationships out of nowhere, some great leaps of time more or less waved away though still mostly nice to see, but a deeply fucking compelling narrative, and those last fifteen minutes? Wow.
... I have high hopes, dears...
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Thoughts about episode 2.8 (3/3)
Finally, I’m done with this episode. Oh, who am I even kidding, I’ll be back. I’m a woman possessed.
(By the way, watch out for an upcoming post about episode 2.1 because with the benefit of hindsight, this episode was unhinged. They’re toying with us.)
This time, I’ll start with plot things, before I go again on an inevitable Qcard tangent.
(Spoilers under the cut, you know the drill.)
Agnes goes to war
So, finally some movement on the A-plot front. Frankly, I’m relieved. We have only two episodes to go, and team Picard is all over the place:
Q is dying, has no powers, and cannot help them,
Rios has two civilians on board,
Guinan and Picard just lost a day with FBI!Guy,
They have no way home without the Borg queen,
In fact, they have no way home at all,
The Europa launch is in 19 hours,
The Queen has teamed up with Soong to prevent it,
And now she’s assimilating soldiers...
Need I go on?
Given that Queen Agnes needs to travel to the future somehow, and given that La Sirena is already borgified, I’m relatively certain she’ll manage to take over the ship.
Soong, despondent at finally facing some consequences for his actions, has clearly decided who to blame:
Even without his powers, Q is more than a match for Soong, on every conceivable level. But with every minute that passes, Q is weakening a little more, and Soong, already a dangerous man, has nothing to lose. So watch out, Q, please. You have enough problems without a powerful enemy.
The Queen explains to Soong that he has a choice to make:
“(...) two possible futures. One leads to you bringing humanity back from the edge of exinction. They’ll call you ‘the father of the future’. Your statues will grace capitols. Or you die alone, no glory. Forgotten in a pool of your own 90-proof vomit.”
Well, when you put it like that...
Of course, there’s a third option:
“Or... atonement, maybe even... forgiveness?”
But that would require some soul-searching, and wouldn’t get him any statues, so Soong doubles down and sides with the Borg Queen, bringing his considerable means to her cause: money, access to satellites, soldiers...
At least the man is consistent. Consistently evil, but consistent.
So team!Picard is dramatically outgunned and outnumbered. How are they ever going to pull it off?
They probably won’t.
In fact, I suspect things are going to spiral until we’re circling the metaphorical drain: one despair event horizon, potentially coming to your screens in episode 10. Yay?
But because this is Star Trek, this will be the darkest hour before the dawn, and they’ll manage to eke out a win at the last moment.
But it may cost them more than they imagine.
The Agnesification of the Borg
Speaking of the Borg Queen: in my post about episode 2.7, I wrote about the borgification of Agnes; turnabout being fair play, time to flip that thought upon itself.
We know, from 2.1, that the new Queen is different:
The Queen asks for Picard’s help, and later expresses a wish for peace. Utterly unprecedented, for the Borg, who normally behave quite differently, consuming everything in their path like locusts.
At the time of Star Trek: Picard, the Borg are shells for their former selves,
“(…) effectively decimated, functionally hobbled.”
Their civilization is essentially destroyed.
Yet here comes along a new queen, with a new fleet, from somewhere else. And her behavior is at odds with what Starfleet expects from the Borg, seeking negotiation over agression, integration over assimilation.
Something has changed – but what?
Enter Agnes.
Agnes, whose deep, abiding loneliness made her long for the perfect togetherness only the Borg could provide: who has not been assimilated so much as has assimilated herself.
In 2.8, although Agnes is still fighting, the Borg Queen has clearly taken the reins, and Agnes is fading. She’s killing people, eating batteries and behaving like a Borg instead of a human.
But when the Queen tries to kill Raffi, Agnes wakes up and refuses, walking away.
Later, as Raffi wonders that Agnes didn’t kill her, Seven remarks,
Indeed. Mercy is a human quality.
“It’s a Jurati quality.”
Much as the Borg Queen is changing Agnes, so is Agnes changing the Borg Queen in turn. And most likely, they’ll keep changing each other until only the best qualities of both remain.
As Agnes said to the Queen in 2.6 (an episode named “Two of One”!):
“It’s by design (…) 50/50, remember?”
Ultimately, this season of Picard is about the successful integration of the self. Fighting both sides of yourself is not the answer: reconciling them is.
Most prominently, of course, Picard needs to reconcile his brain and his heart. Agnes, on the other hand, needs to integrate her humanity with the Borg in order to chart a new course for them as a species.
Raffi vs. Picard, Heart vs. Brain
Raffi and Picard. What a fascinating pair.
The show cleverly plays them off each other as reverse images of two emotional extremes sharing a similar wound: a desperate fear of loss.
But when their fear of loss is triggered, the way they react to it is diametrically opposite.
Raffi reacts with her heart and let her feelings overrule her judgement. She clings and manipulates, plucking on the emotional strings of others to get the reassurance she desperately needs: she praises Seven for her ‘Borgness’, guilts Elnor into staying, shames Picard for Elnor’s death… The list goes on.
Picard, her mirror, reacts with his brain and lets his logical mind takes over and shuts down his emotions, using virtue and duty as a shield, at times behaving more like an admiral than a friend.
He just doesn’t let himself get too attached to anyone. If everyone is temporary, and nobody takes root in his heart, then their inevitable loss will be survivable.
Both of them deflect any attempt at vulnerabilty. Raffi shields herself with dark, self-disparing jokes, and Picard with emotional distance:
Raffi and Picard need to find a middle path between the heart and the brain, and ultimately a healthier way to interact with others.
Mirrors, I tell you.
Considering all this, I find this parallel, shall we say… worrying?
Are they really going to do this to us? Have Q die in Picard’s arms?
(If you need me, I’ll be in the drawing room. Crying. In the dark. Thanks.)
Trios and Qcard
Oh, look, a Qcard tangent! Honestly, is anybody surprised at this point?
Because of Tumblr’s dumb-as-a-brick image limit, however, this section is now its own separate post.
That said, I encourage you to read it because CHOICES WERE MADE, and this show is unhinged for it.
Not, mind you, that I’m complaining.
That’s all folks
For now, at least.
If you’ve followed my ramblings across all three posts, I must commend your saintly patience and thank you heartily for reading. ❤️
Or, if you haven’t, and for some reason have a itch for more incoherent ranting:
And more: masterpost.
Episode 2.8 Part 1 (Q-card)
Episode 2.8 Part 2 (Soong vs. Q)
Also, feel free to ask me anything, should it tickle your fancy.
(I’d also encourage to read @celestialwarzone‘s excellent metas if you haven’t already:
Cirque du soleil (Q and the sun)
Through a door, lightly
The meta to end all metas (upcoming)
You certainly won’t regret it.)
Read more:
[Back to part 1] [Back to part 2]
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Review of Star Trek: Picard 2.10
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 294, in which I review Star Trek: Picard 2.10 on Paramount+
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Review of Star Trek: Picard 2.9
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 290, in which I review Star Trek: Picard 2.9 on Paramount+
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podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.8
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podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.1
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Star Trek: Picard masterpost
As I somehow keep writing more and more crazy stuff posts, it occurs to me I ought to have them all in one place.
(If only for my own sanity.)
Episode thoughts
The blueprint: looking back on 2.1
Episode 2.9 part 1
Episode 2.8 part 1
Episode 2.8 part 2
Episode 2.8 part 3
Episode 2.7 part 1
Episode 2.7 part 2
Mini-metas
2.10 sneak peek part 1
2.10 sneak peek part 2
Q’s fate and Season 3
The time situation
A hidden Q Easter Egg
Season 3 foreshadowing
Mirroring? In my Qcard?
Star Trek: Picard - Season 3 Theory
Metas
Trios and Qcard
What in the World is Q planning?
Death and the Butterfly
Answered Asks
Qcard song lyrics
Q and Picard need to talk
What’s up with Junior and the Continuum?
Worries about Q’s fate
Q’s evolution
Q’s fate (answered as a meta)
My Qcard Fics
we’re not coincidence, we’re fate (15k words)
non, rien de rien (2.4k words)
Crack and memes
Q’s Top 10 Outfits, ranked
Why you should watch Picard season 2
Qcard memes
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Review of Star Trek: Picard 2.8
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 283, in which I review Star Trek: Picard 2.8 on Paramount+
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podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.7
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podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.3
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podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.1
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Review of Star Trek: Picard 2.7
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 279, in which I review Star Trek: Picard 2.7 on Paramount+
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podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.4
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podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.1
podcast review of Star Trek: Picard season 1
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Review of Star Trek: Picard 2.6
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 275, in which I review Star Trek: Picard 2.6 on Paramount+
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Review of Star Trek: Picard 2.5
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 271, in which I review Star Trek: Picard 2.5 on Paramount+
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podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.4
podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.3
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podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.1
podcast review of Star Trek: Picard season 1
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Review of Star Trek: Picard 2.4
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 269, in which I review Star Trek: Picard 2.4 on Paramount+
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Review of Star Trek: Picard 2.3
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 266, in which I review Star Trek: Picard 2.3 on Paramount+
written blog post review of Star Trek: Picard 2.3
podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.2
podcast review of Star Trek: Picard 2.1
podcast review of Star Trek: Picard season 1
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