PICARD Season 3 Episode 5 BREAKDOWN: Every Star Trek Easter Egg

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Our PICARD Season 3 Episode 5 BREAKDOWN is here! Ro Laren makes her Star Trek return to reveal a sweeping Changling conspiracy in StarFleet.

Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright and Brianna McLarty

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The episode opens on what appears to be a regular ole’ day on the USS Titan, we get some classic Original Series bridge sound effects, [clip] and our resident new Vulcan officer, Lieutenant T’Veen saying something is “fascinating.” This of course was the catch phrase of another famous Vulcan in starfleet…

Doug: Tuvok?

What? No dude, Spock. [clip]. And Ensign La Forge, ticks off some starship stuff she’s doing, saying [“RCS, ICS, ODN.” ]

RCS stands for “reaction control thruster,” ODN stands for “optical data network,” and, of course, ISC is an old nickname from deep in Star Trek canon which references the college nickname of your mom.

Anyway, Jack suddenly comes in, in uniform and clutching a phaser. We get a close-up of his phaser, and again, as in previous episodes, this is definitely closer to the style of phasers we saw in Star Trek V and Star Trek VI, than anything from this era of Trek.

Jack murders all the crewmembers with his phaser, which feels like very Undiscovered Country.

[CLIP]

Doug: Oh my god, is Jack Crusher like Anakin Skywalker? Is he like on the path to the Darkside? Or like Kylo Ren? Will Jack end up killing Picard and kissing Khan’s grandaughter?

Ryan A: I don’t really think Star Trek will turn Jack into a Sith Lord

[CLIP]

Doug: His eyes just go all evil. He’s the Sith Lord we’ve been looking for!

Ryan: No, this is Star Trek.

[CLIP]

[CLIP]
Doug: Whatever you say, perso n.

[CLIP]

The title of this episode is “Imposters,” which, more than any Star Trek episode in a very long time directly addresses the fallout from the Dominion War, the massive war that was fought in the latter seasons of Deep Space Nine. We begin with Riker saying “Acting Captain’s Log,” continuing from the closing of Episode 4 when Picard said “Admiral’s log.” We haven’t heard Riker record a log voiceover since the days of The Next Generation.

Riker says that the Titan has “limped to the edge of the Alpha Quadrant,” which confirms that the Ryton system is in the Beta Quadrant.

Seven talks about a special optical imaging scanner that has been “standard protocol since the Dominion War” And that this device verifies that people coming onboard the ship are not shapeshifters. This means, that it’s going to be very hard to determine who the real imposters are, from now on….
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This is the show to which I most look forward to every week. This season is killing it!

blisstrosity
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So when it is all said and done, I think Shaw will crash the Titan saucer section, violate the Prime Directive, create some time paradox and then Picard and Ryker will reach out to him and say welcome to the club!

daviddevarney
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Paramount should give Terry Matalas the keys to the Star Trek franchise.

Of all the showrunners, he's the one who's shown the most capable of weaving stories using lore, but not pandering to it, he's brought the best out of this fantastic cast, and really picked directors who compliment his style.

Keep up the great work..oh, and Jack has been into the fire caves and is now a host of a p'ah wraith ..

idontwannaidontwanna
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I have been absolutely loving this season of Picard. Ro laren's scenes were so incredibly emotional and heartfelt that I teared up on multiple occasions. Ryan, it's pronounced O-khan-na.

Nephlim
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how ro managed to slip though the net without anyone getting a sniff of that info is a credit to the cast, i wouldn't of been able to contain myselt! i shed a tear when she died! such a good set up

brettrigby
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What a fantastic episode! Every week just gets better and better. When Picard and Ro where having their heart to heart in the bar and they realised the pain they both felt meant they were real and could trust each other, I actually welled up and started to cry. Fantastic acting and a fantastic plot, it was so great to see Forbes reprise her role as Ro again, and totally unexpected. Bravo!

DJBaldPaul
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"You broke my heart"
"And you broke mine.."
That part got me. 😭 Jonathan Franks as a director has done so well with this show🥺 (he directed some tng episodes as well❤️)

samantha
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without doubt one of the best ever episodes of Star Trek ever - amazing writing, pacing and acting

ilpostino
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I loved seeing Ro Laren return! Something that struck me that I have not seen pointed to specifically about Ro not wearing her ear cuff and moving her hair was it was very much a deliberate test to see if Picard was compromised or not. Ro knew only the real Picard would immediately see it and comment. Just like Seven asking Sidney, Commander who? Sure its an important gift at the end but I think it was pivotal to Ro knowing she could trust Pucard even before the holodeck.

johnpollock
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2 characters from TNG had a phobia of teleporting and would use transport shuttles as much as possible, Ro and Reggie, that was a deep cut easter egg when the shuttle shows up.

robcoguy
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I have rarely experienced such an exciting star trek. This series could be all the way back. I enjoy it so intensely that I can watch all the old series again. Ro Laren I loved her return

idemditto
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That shot when the intrepid was powering up to launch the torpedoes at the Titan those are the kind of shots we have been missing Terry and all the rest of the producers and writers of this season are real fanboys and know exactly what we want great episode great season cannot wait for the rest

DrTIPUSUK
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Shaw was humming “Don’t you forget about me” in the elevator 😂😊 an Easter egg from the character he played in 12 monkeys.

This is THE star trek! I’m loving it

JTS
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With how much Janeway has been name dropped she's gotta appear in this season at some point.

peterbui
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Another incredible episode. Season 3 feels like a completely different series to what we got in seasons 1 & 2.

Loved Ro Laren's return, even if it was short lived, her scenes with Picard were brilliant. Gutted they killed her off so soon after reintroducing her. Glad they also didn't have her be a changeling, though i think that would have been very obvious.

Still feel like theres lot's to cram in now over the next 5 episodes

effsakejamie
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This season is going so well with Frakes. I really need to see a Geordi rescue where he calls to the transporter room for a desperate last minute beam up and it's Chief O'brien at the controls.

TheBenji
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Who else thought the image of the Intrepid rising into action with a burning nacel was badass?!?

justinnathaniel
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Now I want all the cameos, including DS9 cameos. I feel grateful to see Ro again. Doctor Bashir or the latest Dax. The return of the Sisko! Quark!

Funkybassuk
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The line "Those were the days" was also a call back to Insurrection where Picard answered the same when asked if anyone remembered when they used to be explorers.

danieljones
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My god this was so good. Seeing Ro back. Love Shaw

johncameron