I watched the first season a while back and it ended with him being effectively turned into a robot.
Does this get referenced in the subsequent episodes much - i.e. is he like Data now - or do they quietly let this disappear from being a thing?
and he was worried that vadic would use his original body 2 make another clone....lol!!!!!!!!!
shareObviously not a Star Trek fan. The word is android, not robot!
shareThey kept it fairly quiet in Season 3, so if one just jumps in and watches only Season 3 of Picard after hearing how good it was, they may have missed any mention of Picard's synthetic body.
I was only able to resolve the android situation when I realized that transporter technology kills people and puts them back together almost instantly, no harm no foul and everyone carries on normally. Or when original Harry Kim dies and no one cares or when original Chief O'Brien dies and he never tells his wife, Keiko.
Robo Picard's synthetic body is a major plot point in S3 though.
In the ST universe the transporter does not kill, but transports the matter (via a matter stream) and reassembles the body afterwards. Technically it's still the same body.
Yes there are episodes in old Trek where characters die and come back, but the robo Picard story was not necessary at all, it did not add anything to Picard's character. It had nothing to do with good story telling, let alone science fiction, but certainly more about disrespecting old Trek and one of its main character.
Remember when a janitor in DSC was cleaning up a room of goo and they called him 'numbnut'? He answered with 'my name is Gene' (as in Gene Roddenberry) only to get "I've already forgotten that" as an answer. Yep, that's Nu-Trek in a nutshell.
The nostalgia factor in S3 was great, the story not so much.
Picard is an android in season 2, so yes for season 3, also.
shareIf they turned Picard into a B9 robot I would watch that.
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