Continues as poor as before. Any hope this season might end as good as it started is gone. Random thoughts while watching:
Without knowing what ep10 will bring it is for me clear that this whole season is a filler. 7! Episodes of nonsense in the 21 century. This whole part could have been done in one episode. This 'story' is so simple, just blown up out of proportion by a team that simply does not want to make Star Trek.
- this CGI flight over the trees to the laSeriena doesn't look convincing. It doesn't help that they use it several times in each episode
- Rios just bumps into the other group and everyone continues talking as if he they were hanging out together the whole time.
- so, the whole nature of the Borg is now reduced to this one queen always wanting more? The Borg were cool because there was no personal ambition. When they introduced the queen in FC it was still done in a way that it respected that more or less, although it took away from the unique idea, but that was kind of remedied when voyager introduced the idea that there are multiple queens, maybe one each ship. They never appeared to me as individuals with ambition, but now, it was all because of this one queen... Great. As with many great ideas of trek (section 31, Q, mirror universe) this 'creative' team just takes it and milks it dry and changes it beyond recognition in the process. However, this is not the fault of this episode alone, this was obvious from episode 3 on. The idea of the Borg is just to abstract for these writers. Of course Star Trek needs a real baddie, because that is the nature of Star Trek...
- more flashbacks I could live without... I thought and hoped we were done with that, but hey, you need to fill 10 hours somehow
- boring fights
- Soong reduced to a one dimensional henchman
- Rafi & Seven slowly pushing knife into 'Borg' eye - just what Gene envisioned
- why go to the stars if you can spend the budget on a cellar set.... I don't get it
- how does holo-Elnor know what Elnor thought in the moment if his death? Just stupid
- how does the queens tentacle penetrating the holo-Elnor suddenly give her control over the computer? It just makes no sense. It seems the writers staged this all just because they wanted the queen to give that speech
- Rios suddenly thinking about doing what is right after havin messed up everything
- Rios being foged out while kissing and appearing at the right spot pointing the gun in the right direction to save Picard just in time ... Are you kidding me?
- how does Seven get her old implants back? Makes no sense
- so Jurati created a different kind of Borg - the ones that appear at the end of ep1 - no big surprise, nice idea nontheless. Let's see how they play that out
- Story about Picards mother is not that interesting, snd she should not die, you know? Where is his brother?
- so I guess Soongs daughter isn't important after all....
Without knowing what ep10 will bring it is for me clear that this whole season is a filler. 7! Episodes of nonsense in the 21 century. This whole part could have been done in one episode. This 'story' is so simple, just blown up out of proportion by a team that simply does not want to make Star Trek.
