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The actor is 34, so he's doing well :D

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Cue, the future series of "Young Picard"

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Ah, well there’s the answer then.

In-universe and in real life, Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 aired/occurred 34 years ago. The season Dr Crusher missed because she was spending a year ‘working at Starfleet Medical’. She left without fanfare and returned without comment after a year away.

They didn’t start developing the on-screen relationship between Crusher and Picard until much later, however there is a first season episode, The Naked Now (S1 E3) in which … well … this happened:

https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2023/02/2.jpg

The Naked Now is a sequel to an original series episode, The Naked Time, so if that’s where they’ve taken this they are very deep into backstory indeed. :D

(In real life Gates McFadden wasn’t getting on with the show’s lead writer and had really left the series, until the producers managed to coax her back).

*If* any of this is close to the mark, Crusher cut off contact with her former Enterprise friends when her son entered his mid-teens and presumably, if he’d been adopted away, managed to track her down, demand her attention or something of the sort.

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Crushers new son is way to good looking to be Picards son tho.

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Superb again. Won’t indulge in spoilers as it’s only just dropped, except to say the very last note of the musical score in this episode refers back to a similar scene in Wrath of Khan.

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I wasn’t as enthralled this week. It was alright.

But I found every scene with Raffi (apart from the obvious) as an entertainment vacuum.

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Really enjoyed it this week too.

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I'm sure there is a point to her storyline, but its painfully slow & boring atm, spoiling otherwise excellent episodes.

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What I'm hoping for is some epic effects of ship to ship battle.

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Really liked this weeks episode.
series baddies revealed?

Shapeshifters a plenty

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They heard you and delivered in spades. That new weapon on board the Shrike is quite something.

I think I’m kind of relieved they went for the simpler explanation re Picard’s son, making him early 20s rather than late 30s in age. A Naked Now/Starfleet Medical retcon would have been fun but maybe just a bit much.

Worf as a freelancer working for Federation security services is a great development for him. And the oblique reference to Odo was a nice touch.

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For a weekly series people want to watch and discuss as it drops I think it’s simpler to put the spoiler warning in the thread title (which I have now done).

I’ll give folks time to spot it, then remove your spoiler tags later. [Already done]

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I've removed the tag now.
It should be plainly obvious that these topics are going to have spoilers in them.
There is no need for spoiler tags, if you dont want to be "spoilt", dont read them until you have watched the latest episode.

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Or maybe not?
Mysterious face thing in No Win Secnario.

Glad this series has kept going at a good rate. The 2 previous seasons started out well but had started to go off track by now. Hopefully keeps it up.

Kept thinking Worf was going to feature somehow, maybe next week.

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The focus on the Enterprise Titan this week was good. I do actually like the other end of the plot with Raff and Worf pursuing some veiled threat, but as the peril began to build in the nebula last week the regular cut away to their scenes became quite jarring and spoiled the tension a bit. It was definitely the right thing to keep the focus on the Enterprise Titan this week.

Once they’ve finished Picard as a series, it will be a crime against Sci Fi if Jeri Ryan doesn’t get her own series.

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It was certainly a good episode again, and it does seem like maybe the changelings are being controlled by some other baddie(s).

Would be nice. :)