#picard 3x03

[ryder616]

My favorite thing about the Changelings' revenge schemes is that Odo is still alive and warned his solid friends about them. Cause the "man of honor" in the Great Link can only be him, right?

[xbcaptain]

[brosephine-grant]

Riker as a man who lost his mother young and had a difficult relationship with his single father bringing him up alone pretty much instantly becoming fond of both Crusher boys despite both of them having personalities that don’t always make them the most instantly likable is so special to me.

I think it’s easy to assume with Jack it’s just because of his relationship with Jack’s parents and the loss of his own son, but I keep thinking about the parallel of him bonding with Wesley before he was even really friends with Beverly.

[raffaelamusiker]

Two whole lines this episode made me kinda just spiral today because they were so painful and damn Raffi why you gotta hurt my like that? I can’t listen to either without tearing up but ‘‘Why am I like this?’‘ and ‘‘You know after a while, some people coming off that stuff, they beg for death. Trust me, I know.’‘ are so heartbreaking. To know and see her that low, that she’s suffering and feels so alone even now Worf is there. Her pure, raw emotion, I can’t stop relating to it. And I feel stupid because I don’t know if I should be able to relate because I haven’t had issues with addiction in that way. But sometimes I feel like the obsessive thoughts are like addictions and pulling away from them is agonising. And why am I like this? is so hard hitting. She’s wrecked me so much this week but it’s okay because I love her.

[lostinaflashforward]

STAR TREK: PICARD - Recensione 3x03 “Seventeen Seconds”

Nel terzo episodio della terza stagione di Star Trek: Picard assistiamo al ritorno di un vecchio e spietato nemico e a un tesissimo inseguimento, che culmina in uno scenario incerto...

RECENSIONE 3x03

[startrekucast]

Picard becomes a papa, maman. Seventeen seconds is the longest time for papas. There's a whole bunch to cover here in our review of Star Trek: Picard, "Seventeen Seconds"...

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[ashleywritesstuff]

Big reveals, epic space battles, and more. Take a look at my review of Star Trek: Picard episode 3x03 "Seventeen Seconds" on @fangirlish. 

[goodwhump-temp]

William Riker Whump | Star Trek: The Next Generation

His rizz is too good for his own good

SEASON 1 1x01 Encounter at Farpoint pt2 - Briefly unconscious, evaporated 1x02 The Naked Now - Knees buckle, becoming infected with the silly virus 1x04 The Last Outpost - Stunned, electrocuted unconscious, punched, threatened 1x06 Lonely AMONGUS - Betrayed, stunned/blinded 1x08 The Battle - Worried for Picard 1x09 Hide and Q - Forced to play Qs game, tempted, makes Picard worry 1x14 11001001 - Seduced/distracted, heartbroken 1x18 Coming of Age - Interrogated 1x20 The Arsenal of Freedom - Trapped in stasis, weak 1x21 Symbiosis - Electrocuted hostage, collapses 1x22 The Skin of Evil - Dragged, drowning 1x24 Conspiracy - Restrained, pain, pushed, kicked to the ground, punched multiple times, falls on glass table, unconscious, held, mind controlled, nerve pinched

SEASON 2 2x02 Where Silence Has Lease - Being hunted, trapped, aggravated 2x08 A Matter of Honor - Bullied by Klingon crewmates, bitch slapped/trips 2x12 The Royale - Trapped 2x13 Time Squared - Talks about depressing childhood 2x14 The Icarus Factor - Sees dad for the first time in 15 years, depressed, avoiding, fighting his dad, knocked down multiple times 2x18 Up the Long Ladder - Injected, memory loss, missing cells, cloned 2x21 Peak Performance - Badass, battle simulation turned into a real attack 2x22 Shades of Gray - Calf punctured, nervous system being attacked, passes out, brain stabbed/stimulated, induced sadness and pain (all in one whump episode)

SEASON 3 3x01 Evolution - Inhales toxic nitrogen oxide 3x03 The Survivors - Caught in a trap, hanging upside-down 3x09 The Vengeance Factor - Rizzler, heartbroken/sad 3x14 A Matter of Perspective - Thought dead, acting strange, arrested, guilty until proved innocent, punched multiple times 3x16 The Offspring - Sexually harassed/flustered 3x17 Sins of the Father - Confrontation, annoyed 3x18 Allegiance - Worried, confrontation, gaslighted 3x20 Tin Man - Annoyed 3x21 Hollow Pursuits - Confronts Mad Murdock (🤓), choked, feels insulted 3x23 Sarek - Punched, intense argument 3x24 Menage a Troi - Captured, unconscious, imprisoned, held at gunpoint 3x26 The Best of Both Worlds pt.1 - Annoyed (same), undermined/insulted, knocked down, unconscious

SEASON 4 4x01 The Best of Both Worlds Pt.2 - Sad the whole episode 4x03 Brothers - Trapped 4x08 Future Imperfect - Inhaling toxic fumes, coughing/choking, passes out, wakes from coma, aggravated, captured, imprisoned 4x10 The Loss - Worried 4x14 Clues - Stunned unconscious twice 4x15 First Contact - Hospitalized, severely injured, unconscious, punched multiple times/beaten unconscious, internal bleeding, injected dangerous drugs, weak, forced to kill, passes out, dying 4x17 Night Terrors - Aggravated, paranoid, tired/insomnia, scary hallucination 4x23 The Host - Shuttle shot at, awake during symbiote implantation surgery, erratic vital signs/blood pressure, slowly passing out, dizzy/stumbles/caught, weak, lightheaded, overwhelming pain, symbiote being rejected, sickness/pain worsening, collapses

SEASON 5 5x04 Silicon Avatar - Caught in storm, watches friend die, glum 5x06 The Game - Mind controlled 5x10 New Ground - Smoke inhalation, coughing 5x12 Violations - Paralyzed, traumatic flashback, passes out, noticed missing, comatose 5x14 Conundrum - Amnesia/identity erased, rizzler at maximum potential 5x15 Power Play - Shuttle crash landed, struck by lightning, unconscious, pain, broken arm, punched, shot/stunned 5x16 Ethics - Emotional 5x17 The Outcast - RIZZ ALL DAY ALL NIGHT BROTHER, emotional, brutally heartbroken 5x18 Cause and Effect - Falls to the ground, dies multiple times 5x20 Cost of Living - Life support failing, difficulty breathing, sweating profusely, passes out 5x21 The Perfect Mate - Rizz noticed, victim of rizz 5x24 The Next Phase - Thinks friends are dead 5x25 The Inner Light - Worried

SEASON 6 6x01 Time's Arrow Pt.2 - Worried 6x03 Man of the people - Forced on, scratched/pain, bleeding, worried 6x05 Schisms - Insomnia, agitated, dazed, felt trapped, abducted, restrained 6x07 Rascals - Held at fazerpoint, held hostage, threatened 6x09 The Quality of Life - Beard insulted 6x10 Chain of Command, Pt.1 - Stressed 6x11 Chain of Command, Pt.2 - Angry, confronts commanding officer twice 6x15 Tapestry - Forehead laceration 6x18 Starship Mine - Hostage, punched to the ground, almost passes out, mouth and nose bleeding, knocked out from loud noise 6x19 Lessons - Weak 6x21 Frame of Mind - Forehead sliced, (some of these are repeated multiple times), shaking, anxious, reoccuring head pain, paranoid, hallucinating, memory loss, stitutionalized, injection, increasingly agitated, intense stress/fatigue, scared, captured, parietal lobe damaged, 'neuroshock,' reoccuring bleeding, 'shoots' himself, surgery 6x24 Second Chances - Nervous, copied, twin heartbroken, hanging 6x25 Timescape - Clawed forehead, knocked down, frozen 6x26 Descent - Shot at

SEASON 7 7x03 Interface - Talks about mothers death 7x04 Gambit Pt.1 - Close friend dies, denial/avoidant, angry, emotional pain, physically aggressive, knocked down, captured, nervous system painfully electrocuted multiple times, slapped, kicked 7x05 Gambit Pt.2 - Shot unconscious, presumed dead 7x06 Phantasms - Tube sticking out of head (datas nightmare), attacked, infected 7x12 The Pegasus - Worsening guilt, stressed, broken rib, badly bruised, past revealed, confronted, part of large conspiracy, job threatened, confrontation, arrested 7x15 Lower Decks - Tired 7x18 Eye of the Beholder - Watches somebody die, guilt 7x19 Genesis - Spikes stabbed on his back, pain, worsening memory loss, transformed to beast, agitated, shot unconscious 7x24 Preemptive Strike - Held at fazerpoint, betrayed

[vandetramp]

STAR TREK: picard ,   3x03   :   seventeen seconds.

[beverlygifs]

Star Trek: Picard [3x03 “Seventeen Seconds”] - Part Three

Enhanced version from previous posts: here & here.

[ryder616]

It could just be a straightforward (and perhaps a tad clumsy) product of the need for Character Conflict(tm) but with the Changelings now officially in the mix my paranoia is turned up to 11 and I'm therefore very suspicious of this latest Riker vs Picard development.

It seems quite uncharacteristic of Riker to blame Picard (or anyone, really, but especially Picard) when he was the one in command and ultimately the one who made the call. Is Riker really a guy who goes: look what you made me do?

He's under great strain, this is true, but this isn't his first rodeo, nor the second or the third. I have trouble buying it.

On the same note, Picard's repeated emphasis on fighting also didn't ring quite right.

Look, I'm sorry, but with shapeshifters once again running loose all over the Federation, I'm not trusting anyone.

Except Worf and Raffi (my new favorite duo) and Beverly, since she was the one who said very clearly to TRUST NO ONE right when this all thing started.

And I'm all for following doctors' orders 🤭

[cleoselene]

Picard 3x03

I'm sorry, lol, what?

Worf explaining the changelings who broke off from the Great Link as a terrorist group and being like "Starfleet can't acknowledge they exist" and Raffi's all "because that would be restarting the Dominion War"

and I love how they leave it at that, as if that's logical, or makes any kind of coherent fucking sense?

no, it's actually not like that at all? If a splinter group breaks off from the Link and is acting counter to the Link, that is not at all the same as a full-scale Dominion attack on the Alpha Quadrant with all the Dominion member species involved and stuff??? some rogue shapeshifters can certainly cause a lot of trouble but it's literally NOT THE SAME THING?

I just .... the writers of previous shows worked really fucking hard to make sure their plots made coherent sense and the effort IS NOT THERE in these new shows and it drives me up the fucking wall. they don't construct logical stories. They drive characters to emotional places they want the characters to be and say "they are here because we the writers said so" and the actors are TRYING SO HARD but the writing IS NOT THERE

and it's painful to watch, that's been the problem with this show from the start. the writers room makes zero effort into making things make logical sense.

that's not even getting into how tiresome it is that we are recycling the Kirk/Picard doesn't have children!/oh wait he does! plot YET A-FUCKING-GAIN. Plz leave the repetitive plots to Star Wars

[bruceandmary]

I am Worf, Son of Mogh, House of Martok, Son of Sergey, House of Rozhenko, bane to the Duras family, slayer of Gowron. I have made some chamomile tea. Do you take sugar?

Worf, Star Trek Picard Episode 3x03

[ilikethequiet]

Todd Stashwick in Star Trek Picard 3x03 - Seventeen Seconds

[witchyfoxelf]

[tv review] star trek: picard, season 3

next stop on the "catching up with reviews" train, we did finally get around to season 3 of picard about a month ago. it really is a testament to how uninspiring the first two seasons were that we, two lifelong star trek fans and one fairly enthusiastic convert, just really didn't feel any urgency to get to it.

season 3 is probably the best season of picard, but it's still not… great? but in all fairness, it was probably just never going to be.

when i first heard there was a picard-led series being developed, i was cautiously excited. when it was announced and the title was literally just "star trek: picard," i thought that was, well… weird? there's just something thoroughly un-star trek about this kind of singular focus on a character rather than a place or a group of people.

before i start sounding relentlessly negative, there were things i liked about season 3. and i enjoyed the experience of watching it much better than the previous two seasons. but it just felt really similar to like rise of skywalker where i just resigned myself to how dumb it was and enjoyed it almost in spite of itself. and it could easily have killed my enthusiasm for the future of the franchise in a similar way if there weren't so many other great things going on at the moment. picard really is a pretty glaring outlier compared to literally every other nutrek series (minus the first season of disco, which was still miles better than picard at its best).

but yeah, let’s move on from general commentary and go episode by episode.

3x01 "the next generation"

first of all my absolute favorite thing about this season is the sheer amount of jonathan frakes we get. this cannot be overstated. jonathan frakes is a national treasure, and i am blown away that i underappreciated will riker so thoroughly when i grew up on tng. he's just the hecking best.

shaw's introduction was fucking fantastic, and i love how his character went from just uncomplicatedly hateable to lovably hateable over the course of the season. just truly great stuff.

i love how laris is in this for literally like a second and then is never mentioned again for the rest of the show. like, we would have been better off if their last scene together had been the wordless ending of season 2, and we could just assume they broke up offscreen between seasons or that they had hot, steamy sex but decided that a relationship wasn’t in the cards. idk. seemed pretty pointless.

overall, though, this premiere had me cautiously optimistic for the season as a whole.

b-rank

3x02 "disengage"

this episode focuses on two characters who end up being much better than they should be thanks largely to acting.

in the case of jack it's mostly the acting of patrick stewart & gates mcfadden around him. like, that silent moment between them when she nonverbally confirms that jack is jean luc’s son is one of the all-time great moments of acting in the entire series. and as much as i fundamentally disagree with a lot of the writing around this entire story, mcfadden & stewart act their ASSES off throughout this story, and it makes the material seem a lot better than it actually is.

vadic is a character of incredible (and largely squandered) narrative promise who gets shuffled out of the way in favor of a much more boring late-season endgame. more on that last bit later. the show does give her plenty of opportunities to chew the heck out of the scenery in the meantime. despite being one of those always-frustrating examples of the writing on this show overpromising & underdelivering, vadic nevertheless manages to claim a spot as one of the most memorable star trek villains thanks to a truly incredible performance by amanda plummer.

lastly, i freaking LOVE the heroic introduction this episode gives worf. i literally pumped my fist and cheered.

b-rank

3x03 "seventeen seconds"

first of all, i just want to pause & acknowledge that it was really nice seeing riker in the center seat even if i really don’t like what the show decided to do with it.

frakes & picard act their asses off in this episode but i just don’t really buy the writing that got them to that point. like, it feels like the show really wanted both characters to have that Moment so they could get their epiphanies out of it in the next episode, but the moment itself fell very flat for me because i just didn’t believe in it.

much better was crusher’s argument with picard. i came into the argument fully behind picard in terms of “hey, not telling someone you had a kid with him is pretty fucked up, bev!” but after beverly explained her reasons i was fully able to see where she was coming from.

i still have a seriously hard time believing that crusher would have ghosted picard and all of her best friends who she went through so much with, but that’s kind of just the same exact baked-in problem that i have with this entire series. but i’ll come back to that when we get to the finale, i think.

the other big thing to mention here is that i don't love that this damn franchise found yet another excuse to reduce dr. crusher's personality to dr. mom. but at least she gets more juicy material to work with throughout the season for the most part.

i also think the changeling reveal ruled. like, at this point i was way more optimistic about the direction of the season. like, oh, changelings! we’re finally doing something that isn’t the borg! (… sigh. we’ll come back to it.)

c-rank

3x04 “no win scenario”

this episode has some great character writing, a great star trekky solution to a star trekky problem, and some blessed star trekky optimism. i wish i could say that the show was ever this good again.

shaw’s face turn starts here. his speech about having met picard before–at wolf 359–really changes our perceptions of him. he’s still dead wrong to blame picard for that, but it does certainly shed a new light on his immediate hostility towards picard. but turning that speech back on him and saying that he needs shaw’s help “even though [he’s] just an asshole from chicago” was a great moment for picard, and also a great moment in retrospect for shaw, because i think that’s the exact moment where he stopped being a hateable asshole and started his journey toward being Our loveable asshole.

the escape from the nebula (and the shrike) is a fist-pumpingly awesome scene. it’s the moment when i turned to my partners and said, “hey! they remembered to put some star trek in their star trek show!” probably the best moment of the whole series, tbh. and between that and how good the next episode is, i was actually just starting to have some hope for this damn show. sigh. to be continued.

a-rank

3x05 “imposters”

i’m going to be brief because my feelings about this are very simple.

i was NOT expecting to see ro laren again, or for the show to deliver such a resoundingly perfect conclusion to her story. this might very well be the best thing this show ever did, and i genuinely think that in spite of everything, it might make the whole rest of this damn show worth it.

a-rank

3x06 “the bounty”

transition episode. mind the loudly clanging pieces being noisily moved around the board.

shaw being a geordi fanboy was cute, though. and oh hey geordi works at a spacedock full of old starships, i’m sure that won’t have any future bearing on the plot or anything.

c-rank

3x07 “dominion”

vadic kicks ass at the “captured villain who wanted to be captured” scenery chewing, picard & beverly considering going against everything they’ve ever believed in & fought to uphold to execute her in cold blood was gross.

i’m very tired.

b-rank

3x08 “surrender”

data defeating lore by not fighting him fucking ruled. i hope the rest of the main characters in this stupid fucking show were taking notes.

riker & troi dumping on nepenthe really made me roll my eyes pretty hard, considering the episode of the same name was the best damn episode of this entire fucking show, and the idea of riker living out in the wilderness cooking pizza in his outdoor pizza oven made me so fucking happy. and riker & troi both seemed so happy & secure, their warmth really helped picard find his way through a dark moment in his life, and troi was treated with much more respect by that single episode than she is in an entire season of what was billed as essentially tng season 8. there are PLENTY of things about every season of this damn show that deserve to be harshed on and you pick the ONE THING that doesn’t? ffs.

and then vadic, the poorly-written but superbly-performed villain that made this whole damn show actually kinda work… just fucking dies??? with two episodes left to go?

uh-oh.

b-rank

3x09 “vox” & 3x10 “the last generation”

as soon as troi started probing jack’s mind to figure out what his secret was at the end of the last episode, i said, “it’s gonna be the borg.” as soon as this episode picked it back up, i said, “it’s gonna be the borg.” as soon as the vision started taking shape and deanna rushed out of the room in horror without further explanation, i said, “it’s gonna be the fucking borg, just like every other fucking thing on this stupid fucking show.”

it’s funny. i don’t like how serialized the storytelling is within the seasons of this show, but despite the storytelling being so damn serialized, the seasons themselves like actively go out of their way to just totally ignore everything that happened in previous seasons or else treat it like an inconvenience? when, isn’t the ONE benefit of serialized storytelling supposed to be that the story stays consistent?

like, i gotta tell you, i liked what the first season did with the borg the best out of any of the three. the entire focus on exbies was brilliant, and seven having to overcome all her fear & trauma to be willing to function temporarily as a queen was actually a better culmination of shit that happened in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOW than this show handled any tng thing that wasn’t ro laren?

i was… somewhat ok with what the second season did with the borg mainly because it featured seven as an even more prominent player, and seemed like it would take the borg off the board for the final season, and while the season was mostly un-star trekky the fact that picard needed to trust this new version of the borg and make peace with them was actually genuinely pretty cool?

but then we just bring back the borg YET AGAIN, and just… WHY? what did this accomplish? how are we any better off than we were at the end of season 2?

and just… the version of the borg here are actually the MOST BORING version? like, they’re just what i guess the showrunners decided was a Big Enough threat to be a worthwhile reveal, and i’m just… So. Tired.

i did like a few things about this stupid fucking two-episode borg digression. probably chief among them was worf being all protective of riker because i will ship riker/worf until the day i’m cremated. i also liked the very last scene of the series where picard and his crew play poker together. but i think it’s just frustratingly appropriate given my big picture issues with this entire show that this whole three season misadventure led to us getting back to THE LAST SCENE OF STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION, you know, that perfectly good ending these characters had already had, an ending that was completely squandered by a show that decided that picard just forgot all the lessons he spent seven seasons learning.

i’m just so over it, man. i’m going to rank these last two episodes exactly what i would rate this series as a whole, and move on with my life.

c-rank

s-rank: 0 a-rank: 2 b-rank: 4 c-rank: 4 d-rank: 0 average: 2.8 (c-rank)

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

I watched 3x03 of Picard today, and there’s just too much stuff going on in one episode. They have all of this stuff that they’re trying to cram into 10 episodes and it just doesn’t work that way. They could have split this episode into 2 or 3 episodes. The Raffi/Worf stuff could have been its own episode. Then the Picard/Riker/Beverly/Seven stuff could have been a separate episode (or two). I know they’re trying to show that all of them are working in paralell for the same thing (Worf and Raffi together, and the group with Picard on the ship), and they will probably all meet up to fight together, but they really could have done the same thing with two separate episodes. Hopefully after both teams meet up and start all working together the episodes won’t be so chaotic, but judging by seasons 1 and 2, they probably will be. This could have been a 15-20 episode season and I say this after only 3 episodes lol.