From: jbn@forestfield.org   
      
   Faux Dameron  wrote:   
   > 3. Why beam attackers into Dahj's apartment when they could have   
   > just beamed her into a shielded cell? Even with her android Kung Fu,   
   > speed, and strength, she couldn't break through shields. They could   
   > have even just beamed out her head. Sure, that's nasty but it would   
   > have given them access to her brain without needed to worry if she   
   > would fight them.   
      
   This question exposes a plot hole so great it undermines the major   
   mystery of the series (or at least the major mystery of this   
   season). The moment the Romulans do as you suggest there's virtually   
   no mystery that would propel Picard to investigate and likely no   
   show. That's a big problem for the writers.   
      
   The only reason I can think of requires taking a production point of   
   view which means the show messed up when they laid out the major plot   
   points.  Perhaps laying out mysterious characteristics over a few   
   episodes and tying in information from other Soong-type androids into   
   a larger picture would have helped make this make more sense. But I   
   think that TNG knowledge and consideration are well beyond what Star   
   Trek: Picard staff are willing to aim for. I don't think the writers   
   really watched TNG. Picard's life was saved many times by many people   
   (the heart surgeons who replaced his heart with an artificial heart   
   after he recklessly got into a barfight with some Nausicaans,   
   countless fellow Starfleeters including Riker his former   
   second-in-command, Q since the de Lancie Q both introduced and saved   
   Picard from the Borg early on and let Picard see what his life would   
   be if he had made safer choices when he was young, etc.) so why the   
   big interest in Data (whom Picard merely tolerated when they served   
   together)? Why the years-long mourning?   
      
   > This group is probably dead but the #1 way to bring back usenet is   
   > to use it.   
      
   I agree; widely-distributed netnews groups are much more censor   
   resistant than any so-called "social media" website (which are each   
   single points of censorship). At least here you know your posts are   
   being propagated and hidden only for that reader.   
      
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