#et in arcadia ego part 1

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Since, Star Trek is trending on Tumblr, let me take this opportunity to say that Rios deserved better. Hell, the entire original cast from Season 1, aka, La Sirena crew deserved better

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These posts keep getting better!

Four Aramises walk into a bar (3).

(And Darius is about to do something – gasp! – insane.)

The first one is exasperated but also kind of impressed.

The second one is infuriatingly smug.

The third one is annoyed that he’s being upstaged and outdone in recklessness.

The fourth one is annoyed, period.

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: PICARD - S1E9 Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1

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Star Trek: Picard "Et in Arcadia Ego: Part 1"

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hope and perseverance, when there's no apparent chance of victory.

the hobbit, j.r.r. tolkien // "still i rise", maya angelou // lioness rampant, tamora pierce // all's well that ends well, william shakespeare // "et in arcadia ego, part 1", star trek: picard 1x09 // " 'hope' is the thing with feathers", emily dickinson // les misérables, victor hugo // "hope", grant snider // the foxhole court, nora sakavic // "ep. 63: the stolen century — chapter 4", the adventure zone: balance // rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, tom stoppard // "i believe in living.", assata shakur

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Meanwhile the actual badass space pirate they dumped last season

This is what gets me the most is everyone treating Jack Crusher like he’s some kind of badass space pirate when he an actually an uncredentialed medical assistant who’s spent his entire life living with his mom.

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THE DATA CONNECTION

The scene in ST: Picard Season 1: Et in Arcadia Ego Pt 2, where Picard's soul meets Data, keeps turning over and over in my head.

I think of how Data revealed a hand of Q cards in the very beginning of the series, so clearly Q had something to do with that. What better person to help Q reach Jean-Luc Picard than his "professor of Humanities?"

Did Q use Data to help him connect with Picard in the end of Season 1? Was Data being used as a channel for Q?

There are meta-analyses posted by other Tumblrs, describing how Q is represented by a butterfly.

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"I am the gentle flutter of a butterfly."

"Humans with your griefs and pains... are like butterflies with your wings pinned."

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It was a butterfly, or rather, a moon moth that essentially led Picard's soul to Data, and then to Picard's synth body, created by Dr. Soong.

Data even remarked as he released a butterfly from his hand (As in: "Open your hand, Data. Follow me, the butterfly, Picard!"--Q), that "A butterfly that lives forever isn't a butterfly." That sounds a bit odd that "Data" said that. Who lives forever, and is leading Picard to the synth body, thus saving Picard from death?

It's possible that it was Data that Picard was speaking to. But, what if Q was also talking, too? Through Data?

Data said something about Picard dreaming of him. Picard then happily said that he dreamed of Data all the time.

But, how interesting it is that Q was part of Picard's dream with Data in it. How many times has Q been hinted at in Picard's dreams?

What I'm saying is that Picard isn't ready to have Q in his familiar form with, dark, luscious hair and all in Picard's dream.

Picard would still see Q as an enemy, and his stubborness, since he has so much repressed love for Q, would call it a nightmare, not a dream.

So, Q would have to be hinted at. In plain sight, and yet, hidden from being so obvious.

So, instead what if Q essentially "piggybacked" on Data to reach Picard in his dreams?

The other thing that I, as an audience member hoped, was when Data got Picard to say that he loved him, Q was also trying to hear Picard say those words to him, albeit indirectly to him.

If Q is manifesting himself as the butterfly, and has used Data (That sounds nasty to put it that way, I know.) as a means of reaching Picard, then wouldn't Q also want to feel in some way, Picard saying that he loves him?

Receiving Picard's love is Q's greatest desire. I wouldn't put it past him to find a roundabout way of getting Picard to say that he loves him.

The last thing I noticed is how when you start to see objects in the darkened room where Data is sitting across from Picard, there are Hindu figurines on the table, such as a Buddha figure, (Buddhism was also in India) an Indian-looking tower-like object, and a third object that looked potentially Indian. The camera focuses on these objects very quickly, but it also focuses on them twice, once in the opening of the scene and a second time around the moment when Picard gets up out of the chair to step into the light. What's so special about these objects that we see them twice? In Picard's sitting room. With a faceless mantle clock and the cosmos sparkling overhead? Who's the interior decorator here?

A meta-analysis done on Q's clothing at the end of Season 3 revealed that the eight-pointed star brooch on Q's costume was a navaratna with rubies, which just so happen to be Picard's birthstone. It's extremely interesting that there was the, for lack of a better word, the Indian connection with Q's red and black costume brooch in S3 and the objects of Indian design in the final episode of S1.

In Season 1, if Q is involved in Picard's "dream" with Q (Queen) cards (Season 2 trailer reveal!) and later with this mysterious butterfly that pretty much saves his Favorite's life ("I am the gentle flutter of a butterfly " Season 2), why not a third connection? (Q's interesting choice in jewelry in Season 3).

There are simply too many odd connectors for it all to be coincidence.

My curiosity lies in how Data ultimately fits in Q's role in this.

Q IS present in Season 1.

Did Data serve as a connection for Q to help create a connection between himself and Picard?

****Just a quck mention: When I listened very carefully during the second that Data lays down the Q cards in Episode 1, I swear I thought I heard a two-second "fluttering" sound.

I looked up on YouTube the sound of butterflies flitting around.

I listened to one video of a group of butterflies flitting their wings, and I heard the same sound.

You'd have to turn your volume way up when Data shows the five cards. But, I swear I thought I heard a 1-2 second sound of wings flapping.

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me @ “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 1”:

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Star Trek: Picard S01E09 Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1

Picard and his team arrive at Soji’s homeworld, Coppelius, facing new challenges and the threat of an impending Romulan attack.

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Sure, I will adopt (ha!) that as canon

Fuck off, Season 2

They made him.

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Soji + various parody headlines

Aka my humble contributions to the 30 days of Picard Positivity as organised by the amazing @procrastinatorproject

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[avoicefromthestars]

Star Trek: Picard Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1

[evviejo]

SOJI ASHA - STAR TREK: PICARD S1E09 Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1

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Post Atomic Horror 413, covering the penultimate episode of Picard season 1, Et in Arcadia Ego part 1, is available now!