TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

I feel the end of one is misguided because the AI hole monster is still like a thing? i mean i’m not going to lie the picard gollum lives rent free in my brain so when i try to remember what happened to the AI Tenticles from another dimension I think they just closed it but i feel like that still could be an issue, felt like dealing with the symptoms not the root issue? Also yeah the terrible CGI ships don’t help me remember that ending.

The tentacle monster (god I hate that thing) was the thing that the Romulans feared would happen again and almost did. Their stance was destruction of all artifical lifeforms was the only way to ensure that something like that couldn't be called upon. Picard & Cos stance was that its bullshit and that they can co-exist. The portal was closed but not permanently. There is a chance someone in the future could open that up again. The symptoms were caused by the Romulans in the first place. They attacked synthetic life which drove the synths to fear their own extinction which caused them to open the portal. Showing them compassion and helping them out and proving that they can co-exist was what closed the portal more so than just actually closing it. Provided synthetic life isn't trying to be exterminated again (which was proven to be a Sisyphean task in the season) then the portal shouldn't need to be opened. And the tentacle monster itself seemed to be an artificial intelligence that someone tried to kill. It, in fear, exterminated everything else around it and only allowed synthetic lifeforms. The whole season was just basically dealing with racism against minority groups and saying that you need to stand up for everyone, not just yourself.

I would argue there is something very toxic about the borg queen & Jurati’s relationship but we know very little so i may be just imprinting bad experiences with codependcy.

I can see that argument but to be fair, the Borg do work a bit differently. That Borg Queen was losing her mind because she had no drones and no collective. Just her. As we saw from Jack in Season 3 and Picard in... everything that that isolation can hit hard. Especially when you're a being that seems to have just always been a hive mind. Or at least a hive mind so long that the past doesn't even matter anymore. Not trying to nullify your argument, just offer a different point of view for consideration.

But season 2 is time travel so its like did all that version of the borg already exist or was it different and then i have to stop thinking cause at this point i think time travel in Star trek is only damaging things, though it’s like pandora’s box, you can’t close it now.

Season 2 is a fucking mess and so hard to sort out due to that temporal fuckery. Luckily, I can't believe I'm saying this, a Q was involved. So we know that Q straight up rewrote the Prime Timeline. He didn't send them into an alternate dimension, he went back in the past and changed something which forced Picard & Co to do the same thing. I mean, lets ignore the fact that Q was trying to teach Picard a lesson that Picard actively ignored and made worse, but whatever. My guess is that Q wouldn't have let that shit go on for too long, just long enough to make his point. He's done it in the past. But when PIcard decided to shove his face further into everything, it complicated shit to such a massive extent for Q, Picard, the crew, and the fucking audience.

Jurati-Borg was created in the past in the 21st century by combining herself with a Borg Queen from an alternate timeline that they've now erased. Star Trek, however, couldn't give less of a fuck about Paradoxes. By normal Time Travel rules, that Borg Queen would have ceased to exist the second they changed the past. But by Star Trek rules, she lives and merges with Jurati. They then fuck off to whatever random direction and do their own private thing, letting the 'Prime' Borg Queen continue on as normal.

Season 2 also hits hard because some of the subject matter follows a pattern of irl things happening in my childhood & i think it was mishandled in that season. like as a kid watching trek i’d clung onto the thought that if i’d been around in trek times things may have played out different cause we were better as a whole but season 2 kinda poorly inserted that but again i may be marred by my own experiences?

Well, I can't speak to your experience but I'm curious what part of Season 2 made you think that things wouldn't play out differently for you in that world? Most of it takes place during the 21st century, to be fair. If it's the shitty father thing... Well, Worf. Unfortunately it seems to be that there are going to be bad parents around endlessly. Humans are complicated and while as a collective we go for better goals (Let us ignore the world at the moment) individually we... get messy.

took me a long time to write this cause mobile, some subject matter stuff & retrospective on picard (honestly got really confused trying to remember the series as its all over the place in what its trying to do). So, sorry for slow reply!