Jurati Connecting To The Borg Queen | Star Trek Picard S02E03

#part2

[@Julian-tf5rb]

"Halfway to Hell is still not a recommended destination." I'm going to have to remember that one. It's actually a witty counter to the age-old 'just a little bit' argument.

[@LGranthamsHeir]

3:15 - 4:05 What Jurati is about to do with the Borg Queen is basically a mind-meld, without using the exact term

[@2Scribble]

Right A mind meld... ... ... with fucking nanobot TEETH

[@robertmoore6149]

Raffi is in "concentrate on work and deal with emotions later" mode.

[@rowlandbuck2703]

Couldn’t care less about raffi or what they are doing on the planet. The only thing good about episode 3 is the borg queen.

[@iggytse]

It’s a fascinating concept that Seven is now a fully human adult and now knows what it feels like. Her character in this timeline is now more human.

[@rowlandbuck2703]

Wish they would go back. She’s boring AF this season.

[@Dowlphin]

In this scene I was worried Agnes might burn her hands on those green burner flames. Then I noticed they are lens flares. I probably didn't notice at first because I was still blinded by the other lens flares.

[@LGranthamsHeir]

The Borg Queen is still a very powerful being. Any being who was able to destroy two large battleship starships with only 8 percent of brain capacity operating., then sent a starship to time travel in an infinite warp speed is very powerful in my playbook.

[@Jon-ef4hh]

Uh... Novas, two of the three ships pursuing them during that chase, are primarily science vessels/scout ships. The larger of the three, the Steamrunner is frankly the most terrifying of the three despite being 'merely' a destroyer hull/light cruiser with some very tough armor and only one of the three that is actually a combat vessel.

[@LMG1792]

@@Jon-ef4hh the novas of our time we don't know the difference between this timelines nova class

[@Jon-ef4hh]

@@LMG1792 They were 'primarily' scout vessels. That does not mean they weren't used in other roles, they were just ill-suited for most others. The Nova should be able to fill the role of a pursuit vessel fairly well, just don't expect it to stop whatever it chases without significant damage to itself. It's size also hampers its abilities somewhat but vessels of equal or lower tonnage should be either matched or outmatched by a Nova in even the normal timeline.

[@stars9084]

I think she was only at 8 % percent after the damage she took in the crash, meaning she was in much better shape during the battle and the time-warp

[@firefly9838]

Novas could be upgraded for combat as well. Harry Kim's Rhode Island was an upgraded nova class.

[@scottbraun2457]

She likes cats. Well now I like her even more.

[@moogleplay9131]

Agnes is a great character. Glad the science character isn't a typical cold character, no offense at all to Spock and Data.

[@nepntzerZer]

i think she's the most unrealistic and stupid show breaking character created not just in star trek, but in television history.

[@neomt2]

Data was an engineer

[@LGranthamsHeir]

3:22 - 3:47 Picard should've known the procedure described by Jurati here. It's the same one he did with Sarek when the latter had to complete a diplomatic mission while suffering from the Bendii Syndrome. What Jurati is about to do with the Borg Queen is basically a mind-meld, without using the exact term ("Sarek", TNG Season 3, Episode 23).

[@2Scribble]

Right A mind meld... ... ... with fucking nanobot TEETH

[@waytospergtherebro]

Joe Piscopo is the watcher.

[@lauraleecreations3217]

❤❤❤❤

[@sitoudien9816]

This is something Data would do. Agnes is flesh. How she do it?

[@DanielSMarriott]

Eh? All Borg drones are flesh. Borg technology is by definition designed to interact with organic material

[@frankcasey5709]

Jerry Ryan the Ex Mrs Gibbs #2 !!

[@shanenolan8252]

I seem to remember a Voyager episode it didn't sound euphoric to be a drone . Or tng .

[@guldsun]

they adapted

[@wj3186]

I'm not too sure about that myself. On Voyager, there was a group of Borg who got separated from the Collective and I seem to remember them being anxious to get back at first but gradually starting to recover memories of themselves as time went on. Former Borg recall the horrific memories of not only their own assimilation but countless others. There are adjustments made within the Collective to limit their access to those traumas so...there could be a euphoric sensation induced to achieve that. At least mind numbing of some kind. But...it could also be that Locutus was a special case. Or...maybe the writers are just bad at this. Does it matter now?

[@pirobot668beta]

The Borg would tailor every experience of being in the Collective to be pleasant. A mind has a strong need for reward, validation. Pleasure answers that need. Stimulating reward centers in the brain is crude, but it works. The Borg are a drug, assimilation is addiction.

[@shanenolan8252]

@@pirobot668beta it sounds reasonable except we have seen it twice before, at least . There were last and terrified out of there bobies in an endless maze it was consamt noise of the collective. And i recall Picard haveing a tear as he was assassinated, but he remembered everything. It seemed like they bypass the personally and use the brain, its sounded like slavery in a perpetual nightmare. Either way would make sense but not both .

[@starsgt]

Rewatched First Contact and frankly, none of the assimilation process looks anywhere near euphoric..

[@armymatt83]

Makes no sense. The tubuals inject nanoprobes into whatever they penetrate and once the assimilation process is started it can't be stopped just by "unplugging".

[@stars9084]

I think in this case the tubule is from a different device to create a neural connection. The one they put in her was a single wire rather than the usual two.

[@cajundude62a]

Sooooo, what happen to the nano probes and why did they not take her over?

[@GetFitEatRight]

deus ex machina...

[@TwinFlyDSW]

Looks like those confederation vessels forgot to deploy their deflector shields.

[@thebritishengineer8027]

He he Jurati... A jar of piss carried by the Sniper in Team Fortress. Seems a fair similarity...

[@pyrolight7568]

Her brain should have been pudding by the end of this. Way to make the Borg Queen completely pathetic, at least until the plot needs her to again be the Borg Queen. What I really do not understand about this season is why? This is an alternate universe why are they trying to change anything?

[@SystemofEleven]

It's not an alternate universe. It's their own universe, in which Q rewrote their history to make it match the mirror universe's history. They can't just rip open a hole into the reflected universe, fly through, and call it good, because the reflections are now the exact same.

[@neomt2]

This borg queen was operating at 8% of brain capacity...not 100%

[@nepntzerZer]

all the new characters are so unlikeable.

[@ramnaracemotilal9036]

Is there anything beyond Borg everything Borg Borg boring

[@danielbertrand6675]

Why is star trek so anti fascist?

[@pinky6758]

Because Gene Roddenberry designed the Federation to be a leftist utopia.

[@bengunn9670]

@@pinky6758 is it? Never watched Star Trek -- what is the economic system of the Federation?

[@pinky6758]

@@bengunn9670 There is trade and manufacturing, but somehow no corporations. Also, Picard once mentioned that mankind no longer has use for money. (Maybe some kind of universal income?)

[@bengunn9670]

@@pinky6758 yep, googled that. No money, people work for "self-improvement". What a load of crap.

[@downunderrob]

Uhhh....because they're the 'good' guys! A bunch of self-righteous assholes. But still 'good'.

[@wraith511802003]

Such a weak show.. Roddenberry is cringing.

[@T.a.c.o]

jurati saving the day in season 3 or 4 would be to obvious