This movie is terrible. It’s hilarious reading all the typos, spelling mistakes and bad grammar on the “English” newscasts (though, to be fair, American movies surely get foreign languages wrong a lot too).

What are the odds that Kim exits the pre-Breaking Bad era of the story via the Ed Galbraith express?

Jimmy doesn’t really know Fring is the ringmaster of everything, though, so I’m thinking Nacho pulls off something good in order to use Saul to get Lalo out of the picture without revealing his own connection to Gus.

I remember seeing the “trick the witness into IDing a false defendant” on another show before. I think it was The Practice or Boston Legal or one of those David E Kelly lawyer shows. Of course Jimmy/Saul seems like the kind of guy who would borrow tricks like that from pop culture.

“No good deed remains unpunished”.

“Hey - remember when you wanted to go saving all those Romulans’ lives and I told not to?”

From what I’ve gathered from behind-the-scenes details, the decision to do a Picard-Riker-Troi episode came very late in the production cycle. Frakes talks about having already directed an episode (he directed 4-5) before they even asked him to be a guest star. So what likely happened is that as they were rewriting…

If Kestra is as old as the actress playing her, she’s 14, so she was born around 2385, which would have made Deanna 49 when she had her.

Betazoids may indeed have a longer fertility period, as Lwaxana Troi was pregnant in the DS9 episode “The Muse,” taking place in 2372 when she would have presumably been in her 60s…

According to the tie-in comic book Worf is now captain of the Enterprise-E

Possibly. That would be just another parallel between the Romulan storyline and the Klingon storyline from Star Trek VI.

“I assume that, given Rios seems to be some kind of blockade runner/smuggler, he operates a lot outside of Federation space where he’d need money to live. Not to mention carry out his illicit operations.”

I seem to recall transporter rations being mentioned in relation to Starfleet Academy, as if they were privileges for cadets, or something akin to a meal plan.

Yeah, he depiction of Federation economics has been wildly inconsistent over the years. The idea of “no money” has been treated as a joke quite a few times, most notably Star Trek IV and DS9's “In the Cards.”

Raffi seems to be complaining that Picard retreated to his wealth and left her to rot in poverty. On Earth in the Star Trek future where they have no money and enough resources to provide for all, supposedly. Then Rios and Picard were talking about his fee. Interesting, given the whole no money thing. ;-)

Well, we know from the first appearance of the Borg in “Q Who” that they assimilate babies. I think one of the Borg kids on Voyager was a baby too. That implies there are too kinds of drones: the ones who have been Borg from birth (their aging accelerated, I think), and those who are assimilated later in life. So Hugh…

They had a Klingon agent who read as human to the sensors. How they did it wasn’t very material to the main point. All are equally “bizarre” and lead to the same outcome. The rest is just semantics.

There’s quite a few of them.

I said it was something dumb. There was V’oq and there was a Starfleet officer named Ash Tyler, and the two were merged somehow. Who was merged or transformed into whom isn’t really materially relevant in the scheme of things.

Crafting a show with a similar tone as DS9 because that’s the trend that most TV is going in is an entirely different thing than demonstrating specific understanding of the storylines and themes presented on that show.

**“The federation’s oldest enemy” line came from a clearly shitty interviewer who was trying to get a rise out of Picard. I wouldn’t take it as Starfleet policy.**