Picard 2x03 - 'Assimilation' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

I actually thought it was excellent myself - A few weak points for sure - Id say Picard has a high bar this season - I think this episode ties with episode 1 on score - episode 2 was stunning to me - (compare to unmentionable 'other' star trek season - chalk and cheese)

On Assimilation, we should remember Uni-matrix Zero, where Tuvok was taken over, despite 'anti assimilation tech' being utilized. I view assimilation as being both Mental and Technological - Yes its a subtle retcon but im fine with it personally.

Also the creepy Borg threat - 'you've impressed me' - nice (we will add your biological distinctiveness to our own)

I think my general opinion of Picard is that despite plot holes - it works - Im not as Canon-centric as i used to be (exposure to discovery may have played a hand) -

I plan on re-watching Ep1-3 over the weekend - REALLY cant wait for the next episode (is there a trailer BTW)

Yea bring it on! Treks Back!

Just watched it there and thought it was very good again myself. Whatever has changed behind the scenes this season is working!

Can't say I'm sorry to lose Elnor, and Jurati didn't annoy me for the first time. Rios's storyline with the doctor and her son was good too.

Raffi is another one I wouldn't miss though. That whole selfie scene was just poor.

Overall though, this season continues to be far better than the last.

That was good. I enjoyed that episode. Elnor gone good. No lose there. The kid was funny and smart. Rios not so. Also what the hell with the beaming all in 3 different spots like why. I certainly would not trust her transporting me anywhere. Feck that.

Juriti and her going into the Borg Queens mind was freakish but cool.

I liked the background display of the Europa landing.

I do wonder why they picked Los Angeles 2024 do? Surely something like 2034 or even 2044 might have made more sense. They could have even had flying cars by then but I guess that would mean a bigger budget needed.

Quite enjoyed that - not much pushing the story forward but I was still entertained (maybe I had a low bar after just watching the season finale of Discovery)

Thought this was a really good episode.

The Jurati/Borg Queen bit made me think of this scene from Fringe, without the trick with the eyes

Have noticed how the crew are doing all the active work and Picard is more stationary. Like when he was bending over to talk to Elnor. Really showing his age.

Lot more easter eggs in these episodes than we realize

Above shows several things

• General Miles O Brien leading the fight against the Dominion Alliance
• Tuvok Leads Vulcan Rebellion
• Tasha Yar is putting down the Andorrian Rebellion

Can i offer a theory on the Watcher character. Not sure if there is any news on who that character is but…..

Another good episode.

I enjoyed the contrast between Discovery and Picard in the handling of a major character event.

Discovery had the usual over emotional bridge crew and Picard was just stoic and let's get on with the mission.

Liked the episode overall but had some annoying tiny little bits. Ships that DS9 style blow up after 1 shot and why did Elnor die slow when everyone else evaporated.

I did love the sort of 4th wall break where 7s husband points out his character isn't important enough for a full name.

Rios new friend is definitely gonna be the mandatory Trek girl who has to be let in on the future story.

I’m surprised to find that the 2024 elements of the show were actually pretty watchable. The opening of 2024 with an interesting cover of “California Dreaming” was pretty good, as was the Rios transporter pratt fall.

I dislike Jurati, and although Alison Pill isn’t the worst actress they’ve ever hired, the whole scene with the Borg Queen felt kind of piss poor on the part of Pill’s performance. It felt like the better able cast members where given the location work for 2024 while Pill is only trusted to just sit with Steward and do some wierd speil about finding the Borg Queen in rooms. We’ve rarely seen anyone do this with the Borg Queen and it feels like they could have done something more ambitious, but instead played it safely within the acting range of Alison Pill, who inexplicably has second billing in the show. I’d love to learn what happened there.

That’s a bit of a ranty nit-pick of an episode I did still enjoy. It was a weaker episode, but still far more Trek-like than the alternative that has a finale this week.

I do like how they are making the Borg creepy again.

Decent enough episode with a few of the standard time travel plots. I wonder if the crew will returnt to the future as they are now or will they reset to as they were before. On the one hand Elnor would be revived on the other Seven (and Picard?) will be completely human again.

Picard is a synth here too. Q said it was something to do with Dukat. Assassination attempt maybe.

Oh, one eye-gougingly awful moment...... Funner! I HATE that idiot non-word. It's like something a 3 year-old would come up with before being told it's not a real word. I will happily take "Jay-Ell" over another use of the term (not word) "funner".

As above

Curious though why federations Ricky Martins ship was industructable but he had bangers that blew up the other ships on impact.

Am presuming space Legolas survives the Varon T disruptor cause of green blood.

In English so: "Funner" is not a word Andi gate is use and it should never be used.

Plot armour but you might be able to justify it with Rios' evasive manoeuvrers avoiding all but glancing hits but the other ships seemingly not having shields is a huge oversight.

Elnor's just lucky that phaser wasn't set to overkill vaporise like the rest of them. Small things like this could easily be caught and accounted for if for example Elnor dodged and the phaser hit the bulkhead and caused a small explosion that injured him.

Also there's something I noticed last season that's repeated in the battle in this episode the script and the CGI don't line up at all. Rios tells Seven to target the port nacelle of the lead ship and the CGI shot has the torpedo hit the deflector of the middle ship. There's an argument that could be made that the middle ship was the lead, as in leader, because it was the biggest but a deflector dish is not a nacelle.

Ah crap….Georgiou

Why didn’t I think of that?!….it could easily be Georgiou. She was thrown back in time to some unspecified time period. I would have assumed she was sent back to be in the damned Section 31 show…but what if she was sent back to 2024? What if the Earth Confederation was her idea?

God I hope it’s not her…a big dollop of Discovery nonsense in this otherwise good Trek show is exactly the kind of stupid I fear from them.

We have already seen them. It's in the ads and it's not a Disco person.

Depending on how long she's in the scenes they could de-age her like with Q's first appearance.