From: john@localhost.net   
      
   On 02/17/2020 08:01 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
     As I stated in my earlier post, this major plot hole, could in fact be   
   explained later.   A similar thing happened when I was struck by the   
   fact that enemy combatants (the Romulan Ninja Commandos) could just beam   
   down so near SFHQ undetected (an unobserved by the presumably many video   
   recording devices)  I thought that was a gaping plot hole too.  But   
   later it was explained that they had help from an insider in SF.  You   
   even hear her complain later about the sloppy video editing job her   
   accomplices did when they left reflection of a disruptor flash.   
      
   On the years-long mourning... I think Data was only a part of it.   
   Picard's life was defined by SF.  And to have it turn into (in his eyes)   
   the antithesis of what SF should be... was just too much for him to   
   bear.  He disconnected from everything.   
      
   -John   
      
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