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| Date | Episode | Title |
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| 11-14 | LD 5x05 | "Starbase 80?!" |
| 11-21 | LD 5x06 | "Of Gods and Angles" |
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I imagine this is closer to what fans were looking forward to when the Picard show was first announced. I still massively cringe to the memory of Han Data flying the Millennium Enterprise through the Borg structure, but otherwise I like it.
Flying into the Borg cube to blow up its core was so fan fictiony I actually laughed when I first saw it.
Haha yes. I was accepting of it because it felt like Data's retrospective in-universe fan fiction, especially in the new Data-Lore form. Like he started to wonder how far he could push the Enterprise D, and given that they had nothing to lose, he was basically like "fuck it, let's see what happens".
And honestly, from a "technical" stand point, it made a lot of sense that only Data could do that, which I wish they'd made a tad more clear with a line or two about what the actual challenge of that would have been. Obviously he'd have to be making all sorts of calculations ahead of time, reading in output from the console faster than any human could and hitting the controls similarly fast. Maybe a line about the margin of error for swinging the ship's momentum around being stupidly slight but Data's precision being up to the challenge and that he'd actually been modelling the problem of maximising the ship's agility for years without telling anyone ... cuz he's Data and can literally do that.
I don't doubt it's a very cool scene, it's just that it's reminiscent of fan fiction I read as a kid back in the day so it amused me.