Our Picard Season 3 Episode 10 Breakdown is here! The series finale is a huge Star Trek blowout, featuring a showdown with the Borg, the final ride of the Enterprise-D, and a set for a new spinoff that HAS to happen! #StarTrekLegacy Thanks for supporting our channel! Check out our MERCH Store Here → http://shopzeroedition.com/collections/screen-crush-merch Go here → http://screencrush.com/ TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@screencrushnews Like us → https://www.facebook.com/ScreenCrush Follow us → https://twitter.com/screencrushnews Get our newsletter → http://screencrush.com/newsletter/ Written by Ryan Britt (http://twitter.com/ryancbritt) Hosted by Ryan Arey (http://twitter.com/ryanarey) Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado #StarTrek #Picard Even before the episode starts, there’s a great series of Easter eggs as both the Borg and Next Generation nostalgia assimilate the Star Trek logo introduction. All season long, we’ve had the Titan warping around in this intro, but now, it's the Enterprise-D. We see a Borg Cube here, and the Star Trek logo gets Borgified. The music here ditches the boiler-plate intro and we get much more ominous tones here, including cues from Jerry Goldsmith’s Borg themes from First Contact. And then, the first voice we hear in this episode is….Chekov! Doug: Wait, you mean like the celebrated Russian author of such classics as The Cherry Tree? Was he assimilated by the Borg too? Is this kinda like when Mark Twain showed up and Data’s head got blown off? No, we’re talking about Chekov, from Star Trek: The Original Series. Doug: But he’d be dead by now. This is like 110 years after we saw him in Generations. That’s true! Although the voice of the President of the United Federation of Planets is played by the one and only Walter Kay-ning, this unseen character is the son of Pavel Chekov from TOS and the classic films. The first name Anton could reference the famous author, but more likely is a reference to the late Anton Yelchin, who played Pavel Chekov in the reboot films. President Chekov’s warning is overlaid with a spacescape taken directly from the opening sequence of The Next Generation when he says: [CLIP] Saying “do not approach Earth” and “save yourselves” references a similar speech from the President of the Federation in The Voyage Home, when he said: [CLIP] In crediting his father, President Chekov also references Spock when he says “there are always possibilities,” a line from The Wrath of Khan, which Kirk mentioned after Spock had died. [clip] After Data explains that no other ships — Federation or otherwise — can come to assist Earth, we realize the Enterprise-D is the last hope for all of Starfleet, and probably, the galaxy. The Borg Cube is nested inside of Jupiter, and as the Enterprise heads to intercept, we see a very close-up flyby of the ship, which, gives us a glimpse of Ten Forward and the conference room behind the bridge. This kind of detailed flyby of the Enterprise-D was something we never saw in TNG, ever. As everybody reels from the Borg just being parked inside the gases of Jupiter, Riker puts his foot up on one of the consoles, which he did all the time in The Next Generation. Picard has had it with all these mother-flipping Borg on his mother-flipping starships and says [CLIP] Doug: Hey, home come Picard says over 35 years ago? Why not just 35 years? Well, he probably says this because for him, 35 years ago would have been when he was assimilated in “The Best of Both Worlds,” in 2366. But, it’s dicey as to when it started, because the Enterprise crew first encountered the Borg in “Q, Who” in 2365. Doug: Oh, and don’t forget, Seven was assimilated in like 2350, but her parents started researching the Borg in 2340, so that’s like over 60 years ago… Yes, true. But also don’t forget that Pavel Chekov helped Gunian out in Generations, and she was probably fleeing from the Borg at that point, back in 2293, so that’s over 108 years ago.. Doug: Enterprise improv. When we rejoin the Titan crew, Seven and Raffi have rigged the phasers to beam people up by firing at them. This tech actually existed way back in the TNG episode “Gambit” in which Picard went undercover as a mercenary, and hung out with a wretched hive of scum and villainy, who could also use their weapons to beam people and things up just by firing at them. After Worf makes an awkward reference to threesomes [clip], everybody argues about who should go on the away team to destroy the Borg beacon and save Jack. Data mentions he should go because of his experience with the Borg, which is ironic, because the last time Data faced the Borg, the Queen tried to give him real skin, which he now has anyway. After it’s decided that the threesome of Picard, Riker, and Worf are going to the Borg Ship, Picard leaves Geordi in command of the Enterprise-D saying:
