All the pictures I saw were from this episode. I mistook Admiral Shelby for Admiral Janeway, though.
Hanging a lantern on how weird it is that Admiral Shelby would be for such a Borg-like thing is not enough. It is difficult to grasp how Starfleet could be so short-sighted.
The Borg have always been doing some genetic resequencing to make various species networkable. Okay. I can go with that. There's been, probably, very little research on the children of XBs. It makes some sense. But then I am very surprised that the transporter wouldn't notice that Picard's DNA wasn't the same as it used to be. That point sticks on me. But apparently we have to go past that. It didn't get caught, but one of its results eventually got caught and it is actually pretty creative to retcon the irumodic syndrome as a misdiagnosis. It wasn't found until after he was assimilated. It all checks out cleverly. BUT what I still have a lot of trouble with is why they would be so desperate to get Jack. Can they not make whoever they want into a transmitter?
Blud said:
I disagree. They may have done fans that wanted Shaw to headline a new series dirty. Shaw himself spent a week with these people and then sacrificed himself to get the other heroes to where they needed to be to save the galaxy. He wouldn't have done that a few days ago. He learned something.
Lots of stuff was pointing to D being in Bay 12. Guinan is going to sell out of fat ones tomorrow. I have always thought D looked silly. That giant floppy saucer is going to make an easy target for the whole rest of Starfleet. I really HOPE HOPE they don't tell me that with expert handling it will be able to hold its own for any length of time in an actual battle OR go fight a Borg cube to rescue Jack. It is FUN to see the crew back aboard and a nostalgic treat for so many. I'll totally allow it, with my misgivings, but it isn't where I hoped the show was going. Nothing about this episode is.