Star Trek: Picard 3x5

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3x5: Imposters
Caught by Starfleet and facing court martial, paranoia grows as Picard struggles to uncover whether a prodigal crewman from his past has returned as an ally or an enemy hellbent on destroying them all.

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[eronanke]

I find this really stupid and offensive to Trek; the whole point of the end of DS9 was to learn from each other and cohabit the universe without fear and paranoia.

When the video mentions the "some have separated from the rest" makes no sense - the Great Link creates a shared experience, species-level cohesion of thought and purpose. After the Dominion war and the plague, it would be clear to all Changelings that violence against the Solids of the Alpha Quadrant is not the way forward.

They have no thirst for conquest - the whole arc of DS9 was finding out that they felt they had no choice but to conquer to protect themselves from those who had attempted to annihilate them in the past. Why would they 'sow chaos' now?

I was really hoping that there would be something good at the end of this series, but it's clearly a wash. I'll just keep watching RLM instead of the actual show.

[hereforontdonly]

"the Great Link creates a shared experience, species-level cohesion of thought and purpose." No it doesn't. Linking doesn't turn Odo into a xenophobe or a war-monger, nor does linking with Odo convince the female Founder that solids are good, actually. The changelings are individuals, not a singular organism or hive mind. The metaphor DS9 uses is intimacy; it's a level of closeness that humans can't attain or understand, but they're not the Borg or something.

Also, they end the war to get Odo back. "One changeling for the entire alpha quadrant."--they surrender BECAUSE they feel they are superior, not because they've reached some new understanding or enlightenment.

[dianakingston]

I mean, the female Changeling can't answer Odo's question of how many Changelings exist, or what her name is, and she says that in the Link "a drop becomes the ocean". The suggestion certainly seems to be that they have some form of collective consciousness, at least while actively in the Link

[eronanke]

>"Linking doesn't turn Odo into a xenophobe or a war-monger

[dianakingston]

Kurtzman doesn't believe in peace, compassion, people learning from each other. His universes are always cold, cynical, full of hidden agendas and things to be afraid of. There was no way this was ever going to turn out to be anything different

[eronanke]

Worst thing to happen to the Franchise. No character growth, only adding more grimdark retcons.

[cherrynorth]

I might like it better if it was the 100... I could buy that Laas organized them into some anti-solid action.