#dr. agnes jurati

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Quarter-Finals

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Amazing drawings of Rios and Jurati.

Jurati and Rios from Star Trek Picard.

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Dr. Agnes Jurati

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In the shadow of Ganmadan.

It was a little offensive, the clear sky and beautiful weather. It should be raining, thundering, like in her dreams--red and scary, foreboding--but it isn't. Jean Luc Picard died and it is...just another day. She knows that Alton Soong and Dr. Jurati are working on it, maping and copying his neural patterns into the golem Soong had reserved for himself. There's no guarantee it will work, that they can take the patterns off a dead man and expect them to function. He may not be restored at all, and Soji feels terribly lost. She has siblings here, dozens of them, but she's the odd one out. Not one of them can really comprehend what she's been through in the last few days. None of them can even start to relate. Dahj is gone. Her mother is an AI, a holo construct that was meant to keep her from breaking her cover. Narek is--somewhere outside. In a cell? The fact that she'd even consider talking to him only enhances her distress. She's all alone. Again. And the Romulan fleet is gone, but so is most of the Starfleet one. They are defenseless, completely out of orchids, and only Soji seems to recognize that the danger hasn't passed. That they aren't actually safe from anything. Another nudge to her bedrock could topple everything again, and again, and again and she chose to let the guarantee of safety go. She hates herself for giving that up, for shutting down the transmitter, and then hates herself in another way for even considering summoning the extra-galactic synthetics. Her life isn't worth every organic one. It's objectively true but so very hard to remember when the threat of death and destruction seems to hover over her like her own personal raincloud. So Soji sits, miserable and distraught, on the edge of Alton Soong's desk and tries not to think about it. Unfortunately the only distractions she has are the synthetics littered around the office. Alton Soong had been so proud, so excited to show her his prototypes. The golem, the next set of fractal clones, mice for Spot II to chase. Each one was meticulously designed and he loved them, truly. His crowning masterpiece was the reproduction of Data. It took up the center of the room and all Soji could do was stare. He looked peaceful, like he was sleeping and not just an empty, expertly sculpted husk in a stasis chamber. She was almost jealous, that he got to sleep so softly while she was vibrating with anxiety about the next calamity, the next loss, the next inevitable, crushing death. She runs both hands through her hair, tugging it to try and clear the maudline catastrophizing. It half works. "I wish I could have met you," Soji says to the stasis chamber and her arms drop back to her sides. "If half of what everyone said was true, you'd probably have something profound to say."

"Or...at least you might give me a hug."

She was tearing up, thinking of her Dad, the fake ghost in her dreams. He never existed but she had memories of him saying profound things. She recalled her mom trying to cheer her up--or Dahj, who may have actually done that before they were separated. Picard had even tried to comfort her, in his own way--and now she comes back to Narek again. The last man standing. God, her life was pathetic if the Tal'Shiar were her best choice for a hug. She wipes her eyes and tries to stop thinking again. It doesn't work any better this time. "Fuck," Soji says to the empty room. To the construct that is not her kind of father. It required a quantum computer to hold what they had of Data's neural patterns--if the code, the information, were any less she might have been able to boot him up, to talk to him through holograms like she did her mom, but even Soji understood that he was too complex for that. Data required a body and Soong had never completed the method to transfer-- "Wait--Agnes fixed it," Soji says, largely to herself, partly to the construct. Alton Soong had lamented how his masterpiece copy of Data would forever lie dormant. Because Bruce Maddox hadn't finished the work to make transfering consciousness possible. But Dr. Jurati had finished it. They were using it on Picard right now. Which meant-- Soji shot up from the side of the desk and all but darted to the stasis pod in the center of the room. Now, looking at the unoccupied copy, she saw something other than a hollow body--she could--she could put him back, right? If it were a copy of Data, he could work in this body? She immediately pulls up the controls on the stasis chamber and snatches a data slate off Soong's desk. Data was kept in the computer, he was the cornerstone of it, she should be able to just...run Jurati's protocols and put him into the duplicate, right? The tiny thread of hope that wrapped itself around her heart was as cutting as it was fragile, but Soji was desperate and so very alone. If she thought anything could work, anything at all, she couldn't have stopped herself from trying it.

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It gets even "better" when you consider that the only reference, at all, to the original cast of "Picard" other than Raffi, in the entire season, is Shaw telling everyone to "Forget about all that weird shit on the Titan."

"That weird shit" is, of course, Dr. Agnes P. Jurati, my favourite character.

(It's not even clear what they did with La Sirena after episode 6. Probably just dumped it somewhere on Planet M'talas. I feel like that's a metaphor for something.)

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Favourite Picard Character Bracket Poll

So I’ve been meaning to make a Picard bracket for months now and it’s finally here! We’re looking for your favourite character from the series and we’ve gone across all three seasons.

(See under cut for past rounds)  

Round Five (FINAL):

1. Raffi Musiker v Seven

Round Four (Semi-Finals):

1. Raffi Musiker v Sidney La Forge

2. Seven v Laris

Round Three (Quarter-Finals):

1. Raffi Musiker v Elnor

2. Young Guinan v Sidney La Forge

3. Seven v Cristobal Rios

4. Laris v Liam Shaw

Round Two:

1. Raffi Musiker v Agnes Jurati

2. Elnor v Narissa

3. Young Guinan v T’Veen

4. Tallinn v Sidney La Forge

5. Seven v Hugh

6. Jean-Luc Picard v Cristobal Rios

7. Soji v Laris

8. Liam Shaw v Alandra La Forge

Round One:

1. Raffi Musiker v Kestra

2. Agnes Jurati v Enoch (ENH)

3. Elnor v Emil (EMH)

4. Narissa v Dr Ohk

5. Kore v Young Guinan 

6. T’Veen v Renee Picard

7. Altan Soong v Tallinn 

8. Sidney La Forge v Emmett (ETH)

9. Seven v Teresa

10. Hugh v Matthew Mura

11. Jean-Luc Picard v Kova Esmar 

12. Narek v Cristobal Rios 

13. Soji v Borgati 

14. Laris v Mr Hospitality (EHH)

15. Liam Shaw v Ian (EEH)

16. Alandra La Forge v Bjayzl 

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Doctor! Doctor!

When it comes to parts for women in sci-fi, I may be starting to pick up on a pattern here...

Kyra Zagorsky as Dr Julia Walker in Helix

Gates McFadden as Dr Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Shannon Kenny as Dr Claire Keeply in The Invisible Man (2000)

Kari Matchett as Dr Mariel Underlay in Invasion (2005)

Kim Cattrall as Dr Sheila Moran in Invasion (1997)

Deanna Russo as Dr Sarah Graiman in Knight Rider (2008)

Carla Gugino as Dr Molly Anne Caffrey in Threshold

Maria del Mar, Alexandra Wilson, Gay Thomas Wilson as, respectively, Dr Haylen Breslauer, Dr Dru Breslauer and Dr Rema Cook in Mercy Point

Fiona Gaunt as Dr Helen Smith in Moonbase 3

Lee Meriwether as Dr Ann MacGregor in The Time Tunnel

Yvonne Craig as Dr Marjorie Bolan in Mars Needs Women

Diana Muldaur as Dr Katherine Pulaski in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Susannah Harker as Dr Angela Marsh in Ultraviolet

Lynda Mason Green as Dr Suzanne McCullough in War of the Worlds (1988)

Lois Chiles as Dr Holly Goodhead in Moonraker

Jess Bush and Dr Christine Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Alison Pill as Dr Agnes Jurati in Star Trek: Picard

Carmen du Sautoy as Dr Gentian Foster in Astronauts

Debra Messing as Dr Sloan Parker in Prey

Helen Shaver as Dr Rachel Corrigan in Poltergeist: The Legacy

Denise Richards as Dr Christmas Jones in The World is Not Enough

Hermione Norris as Dr Stella Isen in The Outcasts

Gretchen Corbett as Dr Maggie Sheridan in Jaws of Satan

Felicity Huffman as Dr Nancy Da Silva The X-Files 'Ice'

Louise Jameson as Dr Anne Reynolds in The Omega Factor

Vivian Wu as Dr Lu Wang in Away

Christina Wolf as Dr Cat Brandice in The Ark

Yvette Mimiuex as Dr Kate McCrae in The Black Hole

Saffron Burrows as Dr Susan McCallister in Deep Blue Sue

Kirstie Alley as Dr Susan Verner in Village of the Damned

And that's only the first 30! Stay tuned for the next installment!

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My Dear Doctor - Star Trek: Picard, Borg Queen and Dr. Agnes Jurati

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PIC: Remembrance

Please note: This article contains spoilers for ST: Picard 1x01 (and earlier events that you should really already know about by now).

Eighteen years after Nemesis, the first episode of Star Trek: Picard opens with our titular admiral playing a game of poker with his old friend Data, who wears the DS9 style of uniform he died in. It’s hard to tell, but it looks like the vertical lines on the grey shoulder area of this remake may have been made by pleating the fabric, rather than quilting.

Yes, our favourite robot is back from the dead, but can we talk about these seams?

Picard himself doesn’t wear anything particularly noteworthy just yet, which is fine, because this was all a dream. Sadly, I can’t say the same for the next scene, in which this cool Xahean guy’s awesome vest–

–does not prevent him from being immediately murdered.

Great lining on the vest, though.

Jean-Luc, awake now, strolls through the vineyards of Château Picard looking absolutely dapper. With a cane and flat cap, he is the very image of a peaceful, pastoral retirement. Somehow, this is the cottagecore content we all needed in our Star Trek.

Number One also looking very gentlemanly.

In a move that seems surprisingly self-important, Picard also appears to be wearing a pin of his own family crest while touring the grounds… but I think he just feels naked without a little badge there. I also appreciate that he has pinned it to – in true Trek fashion – an asymmetrical sweater.

Straight lines were banned in 2360.

Speaking of great sweaters, another member of the household who wears the Picard family crest is Laris, Jean-Luc’s Romulan housekeeper. 

The fuzziness offsets the pointiness.

Our plot needs a catalyst, so a mean reporter is introduced to bully Picard into action. Her outfit is fine – nothing particularly futuristic except the weird single lapel – but she accessorizes it with digital makeup. We only get to see this concept for a few seconds, but I’m sold, I want ten, and I wish she’d gone with the indigo lip.

And here I am using crushed berries and charcoal like a chump.

Back to moving the plot forward, important character Dahj shows up to the vineyard wearing what I can only describe as an elven cloak.

Good boys know good fashion.

This gorgeous coat appears to be made of a heavy green wool with black strappy accents, a big slouchy hood, and a very pointy hemline. The sides cross over in front instead of having a traditional closure, which seems like it would leave your tummy chilly, but does allow for greater flexibility.

Always buy a coat that you can wear in snow, wind, and combat.

I’m also a huge fan of the thumbhole sleeves/built-in gloves.

Next, it’s time to visit the Starfleet Archives, which means another rib knit sweater.

If you’d spent a lifetime in polyester uniforms, you’d make the same choice.

I know it makes sense that, in any century, most people will still just wear normal, everyday clothes. But it doesn’t quite feel like the future without, like, androgynous holograms in wispy all-white outfits made of sheer fabrics and angular lines, you know?

Oh, there we go.

After some unfortunate events, our hero finds himself speaking with one Dr. Agnes Jurati, whose lab coat is business in front… box cutter mishap in the back?

Maybe she Hulks out sometimes and needs a contingency.

And then, just when you thought we couldn’t possibly introduce any more characters, a dark and brooding Romulan makes a dramatic entrance.

I’m sure the outfit is great, but these guys REALLY like shadows.

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PIC Semi-Finals!

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@elaleph continued from [ x ]

The android’s countenance did not exhibit signs of agitation at the discharge of the scientist’s unorthodox response; it maintained its natural poise; a layer of inscrutability laminated his synthetic features as he scrutinised her. It had not been his intention to kindle perturbation — if disquietude had been the architect of her reaction —, but he was of opinion that it was his moral duty to apprise her of the profundity aiding him would entail if she were apprehended...

During the interlude of silence that perfused between them, Data’s chartreuse eyes were fixed on the yet-to-be-identified Daystrom employee, but his positronic brain was dispersed, all over the place, attempted to locate connections that eventuated in this peculiar experience. His inability to recall how he had arrived here, and what preceded and could possibly have precipitated this occurrence was still a convoluted mystery to him. In a sense, this event was reminiscent of a similar incident that had transpired in 2367, when Doctor Noonian Soong had activated Data’s homing device and temporarily suspended his primary objectives and altered them with the unquenchable urge to find and navigate his way back to the cyberneticist’s coordinates... However, Data was uncertain this was the case at present; given the unequivocal fact that a considerable portion of his mnemonic subroutines had been corrupted he deemed that possibility most unlikely. And then, there was the matter pertaining to the ban on synthetics that persistently forced itself to the foreground of his consciousness and continually impeded his thought processes and problem shooting...

He blinked back into reality upon the exclamation issued by the scientist. Doctor Agnes P. Jurati... Her name was not compatible with any of the identity files he had stored in his databank, but then again, if it was true, if he had been offline for almost 2 decades, it was only logical to assume that he was not acquainted with anyone bearing that name. Nevertheless, the approximation of a small smile decorated his pale lips as he acknowledged her introduction.

‘It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Agnes,’ he said reverently.

Unbeknownst to him was the fact that Dr Jurati was already concocting a method to usher him safely out of Daystrom without the risk of detection. Therefore, when she distributed her question, his head involuntarily twitched to the left, his subroutines attempting to fathom her cryptic formulation. Swiftly and with astounding finesse, the android ran through the possible correlations her query might embody, and although he found himself confounded, grappling for comprehension, 7 solid seconds ticked by before he managed to catch on.

‘Raincoat and glasses? You mean, as a disguise?’ his synthetic visage insisted it manifested a rendition of inquisitiveness intertwined with eagerness — he had never been a partisan of engaging in clandestine activities, but these were extraordinary times... ‘That sounds like an acceptable course of action, and Agnes, may I suggest contacting Captain Picard on a secure frequency afterward — I am positive he will provide us with the assistance we require.’

It was feasible the Captain was enjoying his retirement on his emergence soil, France, whereas his other friends were most likely still in service of Starfleet. Therefore, relaying a message to the Captain would pose less of a risk to them than informing the others of his resurrection — if that was an adequate way to describe his inexplicable appearance...

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Everything to Remember Before Star Trek: Picard Season 3

Image: Paramount Q in part did all this to help tweak a temporal paradox that led to one of Picard’s allies, Dr. Agnes Jurati, joining a reformed Borg Queen in the past to create a less-aggressive collective. This culminated in Borg-Jurati coming to the aid of the Federation when a massive Transwarp Conduit (just like the subspace corridor system the Borg used to advance their cybernetic…

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Alison Pill as Dr. Agnes Jurati

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I was checking the notes to see if anyone had talked about PIC and found this addition. And as I was reading through it, I thought "Huh, I wonder if this is accurate. It sounds about right, but I might look through season 1 myself. Who wrote this reblog?" -- 🙈

Turns out I already did look through season 1. New additions:

PIC S2: 9 of 10 episodes.

Episode 2 is maybe a bit shaky, since the only non-goup conversation between named female characters is Jurati, Seven, and the Borg Queen and the Magistrat is present throughout htat. But there are enough moments between just the women that I say it counts.

The one episode that doesn't pass is episode 1. It might get by on a technicality, since Soji and Agnes start their conversation not talking about Rios, but it gets into that territory very quickly, so I didn't count it here.

As for season 3 (spoilers abound):

So far, we have had 4 episodes of Season 3, so I'll have to come back to that at some point.

For now, the rate is: 1 of 4 episodes passes the Bechdel test.

There's a discussion between Seven and Sidney La Forge in ep3, but when I rewatched it, I realized the majority of that is actually talking about Sidney's dad and Captain Shaw. So, I guess that conversation passes if you squint. And I had to double-check to see if we ever learn the name of the Titan's doctor, but since we do (she's Dr. Ohk), her two one-sentence conversation with Crusher count!

As for episode 4, the only conversation that might qualify (once again: SPOILERS!) is the one between Seven and the changeling posing as Sidney La Forge. However, it's debatable how the changelings should be counted on the gender axis and we never know the changelings name, only that of the woman he impersonates. So I say that one doesn't count. Which leaves us with only ep 3.

I imagine (or hope, anyway) the ratio will go up once Seven and Raffi are reunited, and maybe Crusher and Troi will even get to talk about something amoungst themselves!

Chart from Trekkie Feminist

I was curious about this, since Troi and Crusher's vacuous conversations about men drive me up the wall every time I watch TNG. Genuinely surprised that DS9 hardly does any better.

And I'm delighted that Trekkie nerds have of course counted and graphed this information, for every series.