Hey, as far as I'm concerned, they're all dead the moment they have their brains atomized and re-constituted at the other end of a transporter, lol.
Roger Corby? if so, its Not that I disagree with you But I think that was more of a case of saying that the process isn’t always successful not that it wasn’t a good idea for anyone You’re right of course but I was more addressing whether or not the idea of the transfer of the human soul/consciousness was even possible regardless of whether it’s placed or not in an android body or in someone else’s But there are a few examples from the original series as well that at the very least these people wouldn’t be considered copies True enough in Janice Lester case it turned out to be some kind of alien device and alien technique alien technique, The same could be said with Roger Corby and the other times this was achieved through third-party means but I don’t see that as making much of a difference Federation science is always developing and moving forward it really wouldn’t surprise me if someone finally learned how to do the same thing that some alien device was able to do long ago As per the writers using words like mapping an imaging, I just chalk that up to some of the poor technobabble Writing an over explanation to describe things that doesn’t always fit with theory I mean let’s just look at the transporter technology and apply it towards modern theory, which states that any individual that passes through the transporter is actually being destroyed and a copy being rebuilt Exactly That’s what I was mentioning above
Q is making it look like a lot of his appearances are in Picard's head. Hope there is some twist to this that can give a decent payoff. Especially not if there was a fly around.
Just popping in to note that in Qpid, out of the roughly 1000 people purported to be on the Enterprise, Q decided to only grab the main characters and the other returning guest character for his Sherwood Forest bit. So that sort precision isn't entirely out of place.
I thought about that myself but I feel like the difference there is that in Qpid he grabbed the bridge crew of the Enterprise who also happened to be in the same place and his collective rivals. As opposed to in Picard where the people he grabbed were spread out all over the place and were complete unknowns to him (except maybe Seven. I dunno. I think Voyager maybe had a run in with him?). If he was going to grab people from all over the place it would have been more plausible (and more entertaining IMHO) if he skipped the likes of Raffi, Rios, etc in favor of taking Frakes, Spiner, etc.
That is true Q generally only paid attention to people who were the closest to Picard he generally didn't keep up with all of the crew. Picard was his favorite Pet as I think another Q put it. When he saw O'Brian on DS9 he didn't even remember who he was.
This seems like a rehash of a comic from the 90s where picard was the grand General, and had the entire enterprise destroyed. It had something to do with his brother dieing. Can't remember the whole thing.
I believe you're thinking of the first annual from DC Comic's TNG series, which had an alternate universe where a brother of Picard became a dictator of an fascist Federation (written way before the episode "Families" that had the canon Picard family). If memory serves me right, the story was written by John DeLance himself.
So, it's up to ep 4 now? Any improvement over last season? Is it any good? Or should I hold off until the last ep drops to see if I should give it a try?
I still think it’s a much better season. This last episode had one part that bothered me, but a lot of good things too.
So Star Trek's continuity department completely forgot about Time's Arrow?? Nice to see the call backs like the punk on the bus from Voyage Home and the "Roykirk" Academy but the Time's Arrow thing ruins the whole episode.