History Fridge / StarTrekPicard

** Given how we saw Starfleet ships zipping about at Wolf 359 in the DS9 pilot "Emissary", it does seem the Doylist answer is the best one. The Fat One could ''always'' dance and punch like that, but the SFX of the 80s and early 90s just couldn't properly depict it for the audience. By the time SFX had advanced sufficiently to properly depict such movement, [[Film/StarTrekGenerations the Battle of Veridian III]] had happened. Which in hindsight means Wolf 359 must have been a ''much'' more brutal fight than we ever saw suggested before, with an entire fleet of Starfleet ships swarming and unleashing a tremendous amount of firepower against a Borg Cube in fighting trim, and simply getting swept aside in minutes.

** Given how we saw Starfleet ships zipping about at Wolf 359 in the DS9 pilot "Emissary", it does seem the Doylist answer is the best one. The Fat One could ''always'' dance and punch like that, the SFX of the 80s and early 90s just couldn't properly depict it for the audience. By the time SFX had advanced sufficiently to properly depict such movement, [[Film/StarTrekGenerations the Battle of Veridian III]] had happened. Which in hindsight means Wolf 359 must have been a ''much'' more brutal fight than we ever saw suggested before, with an entire fleet of Starfleet ships swarming and unleashing a tremendous amount of firepower against a Borg Cube in fighting trim, and simply getting swept aside in minutes.

** Additionally, it would seem like the Borg Queen's new philosophy of evolution over assimilation would seem horribly out-of-character for the Borg [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness to the point of alarm]] and to a degree, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil it is correct]] — but another reason why the Borg have not attempted to replenish their numbers until now is that they physically ''can't'' thanks to Janeway's virus, as the old Borg DNA derived from the core hive is severely polluted and deigned to die out and thus any new drones created through their tried-and-true method would suffer the same fate as the remaining drones. This also would explain why they sought out Picard's DNA and Jack compared to other former Borg and their children because their Borg-altered genes are wholly untouched by Janeway's virus (and in the case of the latter, Jack is presumably the only one young enough to serve as the transmitter due to the age discrepancy of other second-generation Borg) while allows them to serve as the basis for a new Collective thereby, as the Queen herself says, fulfilling the Borg philosophy through ''evolution'' instead of assimilation.

* Data's character arc has followed him through his quest to understand what it is to be human, and to get as close to that as he can. By the end of the series, he has been transplanted into a biosynthetic golem and merged with his evil brother, Lore, and come out as an excitable, silly, and slightly sardonic, far more human than he has ever been before. Meanwhile, Picard has faced his mortality, dealt with the grief of growing into old age at the expense of Data's original sacrifice, been transplanted into a biosynthetic golem, and largely come to terms with the fact that many see Jean-Luc Picard and Locutus of Borg as one-and-the-same. The two characters have met in the middle and serve as foils to each other.

* The use of an archival voice clip of Majel Barrett is the reason out of universe for the Enterprise-D computer referring to Picard as "Captain," rathe than his retirement rank of Admiral, but it also makes sense in universe - the D was selected for this because it's not connected to the fleet network, which means its computer systems haven't been updated since the crash on Veridian III, when Picard WAS still just a captain.

* One of the reasons that the staff, as well as Creator/PatrickStewart resisted bringing back the full ''TNG'' cast until the final season, was because they feared that it would turn into a reunion show for nostalgia's sake. But InUniverse, there was a much more heartbreaking reason it took so long for them to get back together: Picard himself. Season 2 revealed his mother committed suicide, and he was so traumatized from the experience that he distanced himself from the painful memory, alienated himself from his father and brother, and ran off to join Starfleet rather than face the past. His unwillingness to form a commitment and such long-term connections kept him at a distance from his senior staff right up until "All Good Things", and he suffered from numerous other tragedies (i.e. the death of Tasha Yar, his assimilation into The Borg, the loss of his nephew, brother, ship, and even the legendary James T. Kirk in the same timespan, him being forced to face his past during ''First Contact'') that slowly piled up until ''Nemesis''. There, he lost the man he considered a son--Data--and so he fell back on old habits the first chance he got and accepted a promotion to the Admiralty two years later, leaving the ''Enterprise''-E in Worf's hands. He claimed in the prequel book that he didn't want the ''Enterprise'' to help evacuate Romulus because the name was too much a source of animosity with the Romulans, but it was really a reminder of the horrors of losing Data and being forced to relive the trauma of assimilation. And so he kept running, hoping to distance himself from his past...and when the terrorist attack on Mars occurred and Picard resigned in disgust for the Federation turning their back on the Romulans, he kept running, right back to his vineyard to die of old age, alone, and as far away from the traumas of his deceased mother, his lost crewmates, and his disgust in Starfleet as possible, left only with the regrets of his destroyed ship and his dead friend. It was only when he was willing to face his past--going back out into space, accepting his hubris kept him from seeing the bigger picture, allowing himself to get over losing his mom, accepting his father wasn't the monster he thought he was, finding love, acknowledging Jack as his son and refusing to give up on him, and even overcoming his trauma with The Borg for Jack's sake--that he (and the fans) got what they wanted: the ''TNG'' crew reunited, Data reborn, and the ''Enterprise''-D resurrected and used one last time to save the galaxy before getting a much better deserved coda as the Fleet Museum's latest crown jewel exhibit to be appreciated by posterity.

** The renegade Founders were still using by the Dominon's playbook. Changelings had manipuated the Romulan Tal-Shar and the Cardissan Obsidian Order into a CurbStompBattle and egged the Kilingons into attacking Cardissa. The rogues wanted to destroy Starfleet as revenger for their torture at the hands of Section 31 and with Starfleet in shambles the Dominon wins. So they manipulate those in power and their armed forces, just like they did during the Dominion War. It's likely the Borg Queen used the regendes because the idea of corrupting Starfleet was too good for them to pass up.
** The Queen herself says she's no longer interested in assimilation, but annhilation, indicating this is all her SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum.

** The Bridge is back to it's season 2-7 configuaration as opposed to the one it had in Generations with extra consoles and seats, out of universe to make the flaws of the tv designed set less obvious on film. While out of universe it's probably for nostalgia's sake, in universe there's an explaination too. Bridge's are modular units that can be swapped out so Geordi probably just located an older model unused Galaxy class Bridge that the upgraded ships weren't using, possible even the orignal one from the ''Enterprise'' and swapped it back in. It was supposed to be a Museum piece, so it both didn't need to be tactically up to date and the older module would fit it better as a piece of history.

* Vadic being a frequent smoker is out of place in ''Star Trek''. However, the revelation that she is in ''constant pain'' because of the experiments that led to her current condition gives it some justification, as among other things nicotine has a mild effect of dulling pain and reducing anxiety.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'' add more context to both the synth ban and the Federation's decision to abort the relocation. They were still rebuilding from the Dominion War when they had to start saving the Romulans -- and while that was going on, they had to deal with the AI threats of Peanut Hamper, AGIMUS, the ''Aledo'' (which nearly destroyed Douglas Station and the ''Van Citters''), and the Living Construct on the ''Protostar'' which made dozens of Starfleet ships tear each other apart. The Synth Rebellion was simply the last straw in a TraumaCongaLine that damn near broke Starfleet as a whole.

** Given how we saw Starfleet ships zipping about at Wolf 359 in the DS9 pilot "Emissary", it does seem the Doylist answer is the best one. The Fat One could ''always'' dance and punch like that, the SFX of the 80s and early 90s just couldn't properly depict it for the audience; by the time SFX had advanced sufficiently to properly depict such movement, [[Film/StarTrekGenerations the Battle of Veridian III]] had happened. Which in hindsight means Wolf 359 must have been a ''much'' more brutal fight than we ever saw suggested before, with an entire fleet of Starfleet ships swarming and unleashing a tremendous amount of firepower against a Borg Cube in fighting trim, and simply getting swept aside in minutes.

** Given how we saw Starfleet ships zipping about at Wolf 359 in the DS9 pilot "Emissary", it does seem the Doylist answer is the best one. The Fat One could ''always'' dance and punch like that, the SFX of the 80s and early 90s just couldn't properly depict it for the audience. Which in hindsight means Wolf 359 must have been a ''much'' more brutal fight than we ever saw suggested before, with an entire fleet of Starfleet ships swarming and unleashing a tremendous amount of firepower against a Borg Cube in fighting trim, and simply getting swept aside in minutes.

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* All this rigmarole about the overwhelming significance of Soong-style androids, but hologram AIs are ''still'' treated as disposable nothings? In a series with a bunch of hologram characters, no one even brings it up, ''decades'' after [[Series/StarTrekVoyager the Doctor]] and [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Vic Fontaine]] were running around? What became of the two of ''them'' when public sentiment turned against AI? For that matter, what about the sentient [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E9TheQualityOfLife Exo-Comps]] from ''TNG?'' [[note]]Hooray for [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E10NoSmallParts Peanut Hamper!]][[/note]] Or Wesley's [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E1Evolution sentient nanites?]]

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* How did Data so easily [[AssimilationBackfire subsume Lore from within]] after "surrendering" to Lore? Data may be younger in absolute age to Lore, but due to Lore's proclivity to act upon his highly immoral impulses, he has been inactive for decades at a time due to forcible shutdown and disassembly. Data, conversely, has had years straight of constant runtime, so his own neural net and all the memory engrams it has formed, is much more developed and complex. There was just so much more Data in Lore's memory engrams than his own now that he could not stop becoming Data because of it.

* Why was the ''Enterprise-D'' such a LightningBruiser compared to how cumbersome she seemed to maneuver before? Part of it is [[WatsonianVersusDoylist because of better special effects]] since the days of ILM models. But in-universe? Odds are good that the U.S.S. ''Syracuse'' that Geordi cannibalized to restore the ''Enterprise-D'' was one of the Dominion War builds, loaded out for combat as one of Starfleet forces' heavy hitters. The ''Enterprise'''s [[TheseusShipParadox replacement stardrive hull]] was basically a warship, and many replacement parts in the saucer were probably sourced from her wartime sisters too.
** Additionally, the ''D'' is only operating with seven people, not the 1,000 staffers and family members who were on her back in the day. Normally, the ship would have to be more cautious about what maneuvers they could perform since they had to protect their passengers, but since there's just the senior staff, they can fly her without having to put anyone else in danger.

* Why was the ''Enterprise-D'' such a LightningBruiser compared to how cumbersome she seemed to maneuver before? Part of it is [[WatsonianVersusDoylist because of better special effects]] since the days of ILM models. But in-universe? Odds are good that the U.S.S. ''Syracuse'' that Geordi cannibalized to restore the ''Enterprise-D'' was one of the Dominion War builds, loaded out for combat as one of Starfleet forces' heavy hitters. The ''Enterprise'''s [[ShipOfTheseusParadox replacement stardrive hull]] was basically a warship, and many replacement parts in the saucer were probably sourced from her wartime sisters too.