CBS All Access' "Star Trek: Picard" (Season 3)

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by drb999

Michael Dorn has lost quite a bit of weight. He had cancer a little over a decade ago so he’s probably trying to live a more healthy lifestyle.

Didn't he have a fair bit of padding on back in the day?

[Snikt]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Didn't he have a fair bit of padding on back in the day?

He had the shoulder padding back in the day. I think by the end, at least in the movies, they dropped the shoulder pad look, lol.

[drb999]

Shoulder pads. It was the 80’s for sure.

[Deathbymonkeys]

Originally Posted by LeftHandedGuitarist

AKA the best episode in the entire Trek franchise?

It's the best episode of Television period imo.

[BluGalaxy]

Originally Posted by Deathbymonkeys

It's the best episode of Television period imo.

Sorry, that's still Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, Episode 4, Exodus (Part 2)

"Brace for turbulence!"

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by Just_Discovered_3D

I thought changelings could transform right quick? But maybe it wouldn't have mattered as Worf was able to track him in the crowd with impressive accuracy.

But still I find myself asking "why not morph into a bird and fly away" or "why not punch out Worf?"

In TNG, there was a scene where a Klingon wants to test Data's mettle (and metal), so he headbutts him and ends up worse for it. From what I recall of Odo having dust-ups with rowdy folk on DS9, Worf vs a changeling would go down similarly.

When Jack punched another changeling in the face, the face rippled like liquid. Offhand I can't recall this happening in DS9. Are these nu changelings not as skilled as the OGs?

I wouldn't over think it,

[Show spoiler]the changelings work by stealth, misdirection etc so they would want to keep knowledge of their return as low key as possible, they will maintain the illusion as long as possible until there is absolutely no other option, in that context it works fine because sure the changeling could have gotten out of there at any time but it chose not too hoping their line of questioning would go no where and being good little starfleet lapdogs who obey the rules they would let him go before it became necessary for him to reveal his true identity.

[mrjeff]

Originally Posted by drb999

Michael Dorn has lost quite a bit of weight. He had cancer a little over a decade ago so he’s probably trying to live a more healthy lifestyle.

Dorn definitely shifted to a vegan lifestyle, he's said so in interviews (caught this at the Vegas Trek convention). He even got Brent Spiner on it for a while, but I think he admitted he fell off of it.

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by Deathbymonkeys

[Show spoiler]I thought this as well but I think it will be the Enterprise F personally. Or maybe the E. But they have shown pics of the F and have referenced it as getting an early decommission for the fleet museum.

They sure do destroy a lot of Enterprises in the various shows/movies.

Look! It's a new Enterprise....that's destroyed by the time the credits roll.

[Bond84]

Nobody else thinks that Vadic may be

[Show spoiler]the Female Changeling

?

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Bond84

Nobody else thinks that Vadic may be

[Show spoiler]the Female Changeling

?

[Show spoiler]Did she survive the Dominion War?

[drb999]

Originally Posted by Batman1980

[Show spoiler]Did she survive the Dominion War?

[Show spoiler]yes, she did. She surrendered to Federation custody

[BluBonnet]

Wow, so it seems they are saving a Big Reveal for next week

[drb999]

Oh wow…

[Show spoiler]Tuvok! Oh damn, he’s a Changeling!

[Lutz]

Originally Posted by Bond84

Nobody else thinks that Vadic may be

[Show spoiler]the Female Changeling

?

If Vadic is telling the truth in this episode then that’s a NO because

[Show spoiler] all the gamma quadrant changelings are dead. The only surviving changelings were the ones being kept for experimentation.

[BluGalaxy]

How they hell didn't they lock down the turbolift?? They had control back at that point.

Or why Data didn't pin-point the changelings in the bridge and beam them to space?? The knew how a few minutes before!

[BillieCassin]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Didn't he have a fair bit of padding on back in the day?

As others said, just the shoulders.

But Dorn has been talking a lot lately about his weight loss - he is like 50-60 pounds lighter these days. He said he was something like 230-240 back in the day, and is like 170-180ish these days.

[drb999]

Originally Posted by Bolty

Yeah, I'm getting why Sirtis is supposedly pissed.

But honestly, it's a crowded show and they have a lot of balls in the air at once.

Yeah, she hasn’t even had 5 minutes of screen time yet.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by drb999

Yeah, she hasn’t even had 5 minutes of screen time yet.

This is true, but she had already appeared in earlier seasons of Picard. Some of the "special guest stars" hadn't revisited their characters for much longer (since the movies IIRC)

[drb999]

True but Frakes was in season 1 and he has a ton of screen time this season. But it makes sense because of his rank/position.

[Josep5349]

It’s somewhat pathetic that even now, after all these decades, she still doesn’t get that she’s nowhere near as important as she likes to think she is.