Explaining Star Trek Picard S3 E10, 'The Last Generation' Review and Theories

#startrek #picard #sciencefiction #scifi
How much of a choice did Jack have? What's the new trial? This video was done at 7:01... Subscribe!!

[toddmcdowell]

John Delancie's appearance was for story symmetry and fan service. Also, it could be setting up the next series. im good with it and Worf as well! You could totally tell that the cast was having a BLAST!

[windgraceproject]

Wonderful points!

I like to view the entire Borg Queen's plan as one Hail Mary of a Last Ditch effort. Remember Troi described that first sensation of the thing in Jack's mind as "ancient and weak." We also saw that the Borg had no more ships and barely any drones. they had all been cannibalized to keep the Queen alive long enough to bring her plan to fruition. (This is to say THIS version of the Borg. I'm still playing on the assumption that there is an unaffected segment still in the DQ. This is the leftover remnants of the Queen who was controlling the Transwarp Hub in Voyager Endgame). It was never going to be a strong plan. They had no overpowering fleet which is why they resorted to farming out their dirty work to changelings blinded by vengeance. Everything relied on infiltration and sneakiness. It was all in an effort to make Starfleet destroy themselves over a long enough period of time. I assume this is a modified version of the plan first put forth by the Borg Queen to 7 of 9 in the Voyager episodes "Dark Frontier." Only modified with the available ingredients ie. the modified genetics. It's like a rot. It's like black mold spreading throughout a home. You don't notice it until you notice it...and sometimes that's too late.

It wasn't a perfect plan. It was filled with holes and problems. Some probably by the writers. Others possibly intentional. Not to call back to season 1, but the sheer F***ing hubris of the federation and starfleet almost lead to their missing this mold until all was lost.

[ravendark]

I was just thinking, what's up with Laris? We never see what happens with her, and they implied the previous season that a relationship was growing between her and Picard. A shame I liked her

[SparksF]

Worf: I will find him, Admiral. I will bring William Riker home. And fearful be the god or man or beast that stands in my way. (Episode 6: The Bounty)

After the work he put in i think our beloved Klingon deserves some sleep. Because it did seem like he did not sleep all season

[nsheridan]

Good video and great points as usual. I think Q should’ve always been portrayed as an older being given he’s been around forever across spacetime. One can argue too that they didn’t punish Jack because he wasn’t in control of his Borg DNA either, he was born with it (no one detected or diagnosed him correctly ‘til much later), and had been suffering too (imagine having all those voices in your head and nightmares since childhood) & went to BQ with the intention to kill her, alas he couldn’t. The key was, as you say, Picard as his biological father finally connecting with him that compelled him to snap out of the Collective. He was looking for that connection (love), hence peace of mind. If you recall, 7 also had a hard time initially when disconnected from the Collective, she felt lonely and scared. Much later in ST Picard S1 (?), she was reticent to reconnect to the Borg cube to commandeer it, and said something like she may never want to leave it, when talking to Elnor.. The quiet suffering Troi mentioned must’ve been because BQ was sucking the lifeforce out of the drones to survive; other than that I’d imagine when connected to the Collective the drones are in a trance too so to speak, they’re driven by the Collective, though unlike Jack are part machine... That's all I can think of for now! lol 😅

[Soul-cry]

The should have de-aged Q for Jack, since his scene was so short it wouldn't have been difficult to do.

[michaelvarney.]

Why assume that “linearly” means temporally? Linear thinking is thinking that death is the end. What might death imply for a non-linear being like Q?

[MKDumas]

10:32 - His son was erased after "You Are Cordially Invited..." As for his father, in episode 3, he introduced himself as "Worf, son of Mogh". The House of Mogh was dissolved by Gowron after "The Way of the Warrior".

[garyfloyd]

Picard did start to break free in best of both worlds against a collective that was a t full power. When he told data sleep giving him the clue to how to defeat the borg.

[kingjames]

The difference between Picard and Jack being assimilated is how it happened. The assimilation process evolved.

[phelanmarkj]

seeing the tng actors playing the same roles is like seeing a kid that's repeated the same grade so many times they don't fit under the desk anymore.. being stuck doing the same stuff you did as a kid when you're old is literally "the stuff of nightmares"..

[maldaror]

Ok, watching this the first time through I kinda got wrapped up in the nostalgia, and they did an awesome job of playing to that, every episode had a moment, but if you get over that and watch it again, it is kinda dumb, so many unanswered questions, who where Vadics crew?, why was she in thrall to a Borg queen that was barely able to hold herself together? Did Jack just pull his face implants out at the end?...ok minor, but still....

[crownprincesebastianjohano]

Regarding Jack's fast-track to Ensign, this is not at all out of the ordinary. Many militaries in the world fast-track those with college degrees to officer. It is usually called Officer Candidate School where those with degrees go through a 14-20 week course and emerge a new O-1. In times of crisis and war this is not unusual. During WWII, the US commissioned most of its junior officers this way if they already had degrees. Jack has a bachelors and MD. Starfleet just lost a ton of officers of all ranks, so the surviving junior officers will get promoted, like LaForge did, and senior officers move up like Seven did. All that means there is a real need for new officers fast. So, that at least is easily explainable.

[SinginRabbit]

Yep. Definitely didn't like how Worf was handled in the second half of the season. The first half for Worf was great stuff, but zero mention of Jadzia or Alexander seems off.

[st.anselmsfire]

I'm assuming that Jack went through the Starfleet equivalent of OCS. I got my commission in the real navy in a "fun" 13-week program and showed up to my first ship as an ensign less than a year later.

[wushumsz-k]

It seemed to me that joining the Borg required permission. If I remember correctly, it was mentioned several times. I think Picard himself talked about that in "Star Trek: First Contact". The theme later returned in "Star Trek: Picard 2". And now in "Picard 3", it also turns out that resigning from joining the collective is trivially easy. It's enough not to want. But it seems to me that this is contrary to what Picard experienced as Locutus and what he talked about in "Star Trek: TNG", in the episode "Family". In general, it seemed that inclusion in the collective was an action against the will of the people being included. In "Star Trek: First Contact", the crew is not eager to become Borg. One of the characters, turning into the Borg, asks Picard to kill him. So, for me, it's a lack of consistency in the subject and choosing what suits the creators. /Sorry for any errors - google translate is not always able to convey the content of what is written/.

[Rick-Rarick]

I was excited when this season started, but by the end I was not impressed.

[italianviking]

Worf's deadpan humor was initially funny, but it got old quickly. I half-expected Worf to say, "...and don't call me Shirly."

[bethanygee]

As to why Jack could exit the collective without being killed... Maybe, because Jack was born with Borg already in him, he can come and go from there collective at will? It also seems to have not taken the queen long to assimilate him (a couple hours at most)

[veggiet]

When Picard gets assimilated, the Borg was strong, Picard never was a part of the Borg and so had no desire to be there. Jack was born with Borg in him, and the Borg queen is weak and old. They have to hire the changelings because they are weak. They can't hold jack forcefully so the queen changes tact to enticing.