Star Trek: PICARD- Every Easter Egg in Episode 9 + BREAKDOWN

Star Trek Picard is entering its endgame, with the final reveal of the synth prophecy and the welcome reappearance of Brent Spiner

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[ScreenCrush]

How do you think the show is going to end?

[jakesisko]

Fascinating is not Data's quote, it's Spock's quote. Data said "intriguing". Shame on you.

[jchavez]

The "Federation Symbol" - No, that is Starfleet's insignia.

[kentgoldings]

Spock melded with Nomad in “The Changeling.” Nomad was just a super sophisticated robot.

[fluff]

I thought you might have missed this. The obvious nod to Logan's Run, when the crew first arrives on the synthetic planet, the synths are all dressed in similar clothing and colors to the youthful members of the domed city in LR. Also, when one of them touches Picard's face and comments on his wrinkles mirrors the same scene in LR when Jessica and Logan escape the dome and discover the Old Man.

[stephenarmstrong]

She says “fascinating” after the mind meld- NOT as a homage to Data, but to Spock, who frequently said “fascinating”.

[MatSpeedle]

Seeing Brent back really was awesome! Such a good episode! My thought was that the Golum that's been created may end up being a way for Data to come back as no doubt Sung will have made it to look like he is now (slightly older) to explain why Data looks different now.. and it's already been mentioned in earlier episodes that there may be a way to bring Data back, which is no doubt in the works. Also Picards terminal ilness... surely borg nanites can fix those? I mean they fix everything! Except for Hugh apprently :(

[PolRaDaemon]

My thought was that the "Admonition" did not contain new data but that in fact it's the volume of data and the speed at which it is "fired" into the brain that drives some organics crazy. What I got from the show was that a synths brain - which I presume to be faster at processing large volumes of data - is able to process the message faster and therefore not miss parts of it and instead "see" it in its entirety. Like slowing down the message if you will.
In part this is similar to some occult doctrines that teach that messages from "higher" teachers can only be decyhered fully once the adept has had enough training, otherwise the message is gibberish.

[procta]

Nice to see Brent Spiner back again for another one, i wonder if he will be back again for season 2,

[kiowa]

The mind meld thing was super weird, they passed it off like something you can learn from another culture I guess? But it always seemed to be a magic/biological thing unique to Vulcans.


Data did do a Vulcan nerve pinch at some point though, I think.

[rkjbr]

The explanation for seeing Data and Federation could be that the message could be incomprehensible even to Sutra, so her mind filled the voids with images with similar meaning that were part of Sutra's memories.

[obsidiansands]

From far out of left field, I was hoping the synthetic "Federation" has the evolved version of V'ger as one of it's members.

[andyd]

I'm not sure the new Doctor Soong is actually who he claims to be. Oh I'm sure he's Noonian Soong's son...I'm not sure he's human. Something about the guy just screams Lore to me. From the charismatic way he talks to the fact that he seemed a little annoyed that his father needed to make Data when he already had him. Also if he is Lore then that explains where Maddox got all the material he needed to make so many new androids. As I understand it from Agnes' explanation each android pair are made from a single positronic neuron. I'm assuming that neuron gets used up in the process and I doubt Maddox had enough neurons from Data to make so many. At the most he might have had a couple that Data may have donated to Maddox's research when he was still alive but certainly not enough to make an entire colony of androids. Also Sutra's sociopath tendencies fall more in line with Lore than Data.

[ceebee]

I think the tiniest member of the enterprise crew was Picard's fish

[scottbutterworth]

Anyone else figure that a broach to the eye wouldn’t “kill” and Android? Kind of figure they could just pop a new one in there like Thor and they’d be all good.

[Coretalless]

First thought I had when I saw Brent Spiner show up as Dr. Soong's son was, Lore's back, now it would be interesting for a plot twist to be that Maddox reactivated Lore, suppressed the Lore personality, reskinned Lore to resemble humans and altered his memories to make him believe he is the only organic son for Dr. Soong.

[ecmelton]

Der Sandman is primarily the story of a man falling in love with an extraordinarily lifelike automaton, the earliest form of an android or robot. That's obviously the story element they're referencing when when using Coppelius's name. It's not an allegory to Coppelius himself. Coppelius also isn't Nathanael's brother. He's a friend of Nathanael's father, and described as being several decades older than both of them. Almost as old as your mom.

[gedias]

When Soong's son said he had him, then said he later had Data, one thought immediately came to mind. That that son could actually be Lore.

[Ballistic]

The transfer of consciousness goes back to TNG episode Schizoid Man. In that episode Dr Graves (considered to be one of the most intelligent men alive) self proclaimed to be Data's grandfather and professed to have taught Soong everything he knew. He transferred his mind into Data's body.

[DenkyManner]

I preferred the Soji actress as the yellow, evil android. She had more to work with, much more compelling performance.