Funny / Star Trek: Picard

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Season 1

1x 01 — Remembrance

• As sad as the Data dream is because Picard doesn’t want it to end, he confuses Data on the tells he has, getting Data confused on “what deception to employ”.
• Dahj's boyfriend goes to get her something from her replicator, complaining that the menu selection is... tragic. In particular, he highlights the preponderance of vanilla-flavored options.
• Picard employs a pair of Romulans in his household. While they are wholeheartedly grateful for what Picard has done for them and their people, they are not above laying on the dry snark. Zhaban in particular enjoys needling Picard when he's being stubborn.
  Zhaban: [Number One] won't take breakfast from me.
  Picard: Old dogs.
  Zhaban: Which one?
  (Picard groans)
• Picard's drink order: "Tea, Earl Grey. Decaf."
• Picard describes himself as a "codger." Laris doesn't recognize the word, so Zhaban translates: "Somewhere between a 'coot' and 'geezer', I believe."
• When the time comes for Picard's interview:
  Picard: Bien, à la guillotine, alors. (Well, to the guillotine, then.)
  Zhaban: Oh, the drama.
• Picard visits the Starfleet Archive where a holographic interface attempts a humorous line. Picard's response? "Don't give up your day job."
• Doctor Jurati, upon realizing the magnitude of the situation Picard has brought to her, sits down and remarks thus:
  Jurati: I really... really wish you'd come here on my day off.
• During the rooftop fight, Dahj, far from limiting herself to typical dance-based Waif-Fu à la River Tam, suplexes one opponent. Another unfortunate mook gets unceremoniously kicked off-screen down a stairwell, and a third is thrown over a balcony, only to be beamed up and then beamed right back into the fight a few moments later.

1x 02 — Maps and Legends

• This exchange between a synth and a technician at Utopia Planitia:
  Tech: Yo, F8. You get into any trouble last night?
  F8: Hell yeah.
  Tech: Oh yeah? Doing what?
  F8: Nothing.
  Tech: (Beat) Hell yeah.
  F8: Hell yeah.
• Another tech gets in on the fun and tells the synth a dad joke: "What's brown and sticky?" F8, being an android, treats the joke as if it was a legitimate question.
  F8: Teratogenic coolant. Isonucleic residue. Boson-enriched nanopolymer.
  Tech: (Beat) A stick. You get it?
  F8: (after grinning like an idiot) No.
• While Laris is telling Picard about the myth surrounding the Zhat Vash, Zhaban adds a few things that are less than helpful. Apparently, Laris learned of them after her handler (Zhaban's mother) got drunk (Zhaban's father) and let slip.
  • She also points out that calling the Tal Shiar the Romulan "Secret" Police is... redundant. You could apply the word "secret" to any aspect of Romulan culture and it would be just as valid.
• Laris dropping the most awesomely Irish Precision F-Strike in all of Trek: "Cheeky feckers..." If you've never been lucky enough to have an Irish mam, it's the subtext that makes it so funny. It's not that she sees them as a terrifyingly efficient kill squad — that's a mother's reaction to finding out the kids have been up to mischief.
  • And if you're just not that familiar with Irish accents, it's possible to miss the F-strike entirely and assume it was a Romulan curse instead.
• When Narek says that he also has to go to work, Soji teases:
  Soji: Oh, you have a job? Thought you were just some Romulan lounge lizard.
• Narek trolls Soji in what is the most humorous exchange about Romulan secrecy in the franchise.
  Soji: Can I ask you a question?
  Narek: Sure, just don't expect an answer.
  Soji: Are we allowed to be sleeping together, or is that a secret?
  Narek: Very much the latter.
  Soji: Is everything Romulans do a secret?
  Narek: Ooh, I'm not at liberty to divulge that.
  Soji: Is your name actually Narek?
  Narek: It's one of them.
  Soji: So is there anything you can tell me about yourself?
  Narek: Yes. I'm a very private person.
• Picard visits Starfleet Academy and goes to the reception to register. The guy manning the counter doesn't recognize him, so Picard has to state his name. His expression indicates he's not too happy about it, made even funnier when he slaps on a badge that says VISITOR like he's some sort of nobody.
• An out-of-universe example, but there is something rather amusing in knowing that the actress who played Admiral Clancy was once the frontwoman of a satirical faux-metal band called Vulcan Death Grip.
• The facility studying the damaged Borg cube has a sign up reading "THIS FACILITY HAS GONE 5843 DAYS WITHOUT AN ASSIMILATION".
• Soji and her Trill pal check out Narek.
  Trill: I didn't know Romulans could be so hot.
  Soji: Me neither.
  • What makes their exchange even more amusing is that this is same reaction among longtime Trek fans (especially the female ones), as Romulan men were never depicted as being attractive in the franchise before, so it's a case of Leaning on the Fourth Wall. In retrospect, it also foreshadowed the introduction of Elnor, who is arguably an even hotter Romulan than Narek.
• The Romulan safety briefing to the technicians. You can see many the technicians in the crowd carrying on various sidebar discussions rather than paying attention, and Soji notes that Romulans love to be dramatic. The last bit of the briefing is also not exactly helpful, along with the Romulan's playful tone of voice:
  Briefer: And if your Gradient Badge starts to blink green... run.
  • Given typical sci-fi horror tropes, the Briefer has all but guaranteed that some horrific disaster will inevitably befall the Romulan Reclamation Site. In the latter half of the season, it is subjected to a Romulan purge, a Borg uprising, and is eventually attacked by giant flowers and sent crashing to the surface of a planet.
• When Laris learns that Picard has decided to go on one final (and very dangerous) mission, she tells him what for, alright. Her boss. In his own house.
  Laris: WHAT?! Have you gone mad? Is it dementia?
  • Even Zhaban isn't safe from her anger after he offers to go with Jean-Luc. He points out that it's far too dangerous for Picard to go without Laris and Zhaban's protection, and earns himself a Dope Slap.
    Laris: If it's important to Jean-Luc Picard, it must be important to the whole galaxy! Go. (points to Zhaban) And take that one with you! You can die together. (storms off in a hissy fit)
• Upon seeing Jurati reading Isaac Asimov, Picard says that for some reason he’s never really been able to "get" science fiction.
• Picard doesn't want to go to his old crewmates for help. The mission is very dangerous and they'd go along without question out of personal loyalty, so he decides to go instead to someone who would at least consider it first, Raffi Musiker. As he approaches her home with a bottle of wine in hand, she draws a gun on him before he can start to speak.
  Raffi: You can turn around, and call that cab to take you back right where you came from.
  Picard: I just want to talk.
  Raffi: There isn't anything you could say that I'd want to hear.
  Picard: (slowly turning around and walking away) Secret Romulan assassins are operating on Earth.
  Raffi: (eyes the bottle) Is that the '86?
  Picard: (waves the bottle at her)
  Raffi: (lowers her gun) God... damn it. (tosses the contents of her cup)
• The Rubber-Forehead Aliens trope gets turned on its head when Narek needles Narissa for her "ridiculous" human disguise, specifically making fun of her "round ears" and that they make her look like a "plucked wakak." (It's presumably a furry Romulan animal with round ears.) She tells him to shut it.
  • When Narek and Narissa discuss getting information out of Soji by any means necessary, the former reassures the latter that he's "on top of it." She pointedly looks at the rumpled bed where he and Soji spent the night together: "So it would seem."
  • Even funnier when you recall Romulan attitudes towards synthetic life, which would make Narissa's snark likely due to considering her "baby brother" a sexual degenerate.
  • And even more so with all the Incest Subtext between them, suggesting that Narissa's jealous in ways that a sister should never be when it involves her baby brother.

1x 03 — The End Is the Beginning

• Commodore Oh's appearance involves her finding Agnes in a exterior courtyard... wearing sunglasses. An oddly surreal sight that conceptually makes sense, but still feels unexpected and strange.
  • While Oh approaches Jurati, she looks off into the distance as dramatic music swells... and then she notices someone standing behind her and takes her earbuds out, killing the music.
• There is something oddly funny about the fact that Captain Rios has holographic versions of himself running around his ship. With English and Irish accents.
  • In fact, their accents are so bad that you have to wonder if they're Ríos' idea of the accent rather than what is meant to be a "real" accent.
• After Rios listens to Picard telling him that he's still Starfleet at heart despite his disillusionment, he hangs a lampshade on an assessment that millions of Tropers would agree with:
  "Raffi warned me you were a speechmaker."
• When Romulan assassins attack Picard, Laris and Zhaban in the chateau, the trio proceed to fight back with the several phasers they have stashed about the place. And that's just in the dining room!
  • After Dr. Jurati shoots the final assassin, she desperately hopes that the weapon was set to stun:
    Laris: ...Romulan disruptors don't have a stun setting.
    • Cue Jurati nervously and very carefully placing the disruptor on the floor.
• Zhaban notes the futility of interrogating a Tal Shiar assassin, and Laris agrees with him... by pointing out that the assassin is a "stubborn northerner" like him. Then she gives the assassin a Dope Slap.
• Narissa, done away with her human disguise and restored to her original Romulan appearance, announces her arrival on the Borg Cube by telling her brother Narek, "I'm back." His response? "So are your ears."

1x 04 — Absolute Candor

• In a flashback, a Romulan grocer disparages Elnor after he steals a fruit, and the boy exclaims Bart Simpson-like (in Romulan), "Bite me!"
• Doctor Jurati is living every Trekkie's dream, blazing a path across the cosmos with Jean-Luc Picard.
  Jurati: So... space turns out to be super boring. Go figure.
  Rios: ...What were you expecting?
  Jurati: I don't know. It's so... empty. I mean... of course, right? It's right there in the name.
• The Emergency Hospitality Hologram mispronounces Zhaban's name as "Chee-ban."
• Doctor Jurati learns of an order of Romulan Warrior Nuns.
  Jurati: ...That's a real thing?! How bizarre.
• She soon learns that the Romulans in question operate under the Way of Absolute Candor, which is to say a degree of Brutal Honesty untempered by even the thought of trying to filter their emotions.
  Jurati: Anyone else think the Way of Absolute Candor sounds potentially annoying?
• We meet two more of Rios's emergency holograms, beginning with an Emergency... Hospitality Hologram. He freely admits that he's only there because he was part of the basic installation package, implying that Rios never figured out how to get rid of him. Later on, we meet an Emergency Tactical Hologram who acts as if he's either drunk or high, and he and Rios spend much of the space battle bantering back and forth in Spanish. He's also ridiculously calm about the fact that the ship they're in is about to hit Vashti's planetary security net.
• To request Elnor's aid, Picard must tell him a story.
  Picard: I had a friend, called Data...
  Elnor: ...It's usually a sad story...
  Picard: He died. [Waits to see if Elnor is going to interrupt again.]
• When Picard introduces Elnor to Raffi, she's not exactly impressed.
  Raffi: A boy with a stick. (glances at Picard with a "Seriously?" expression)
• Picard explains the requirements for worthiness in the eyes of the nuns. Jurati is...off-put by the answer.
  Picard: A qalankhkai would only bind herself—himself—to a lost cause.
  Jurati: [Oh, Crap! face]
• Shortly after Emmet materializes on the bridge, Elnor looks very confused as to why there's a second guy who appears identical to Rios.
• The Reveal of Seven of Nine being the pilot that came to their aid during the space battle.
  Seven: You owe me a ship, Picard. (Promptly passes out and hits the floor with a THUNK.)

1x 05 — Stardust City Rag

• When Picard offers Seven of Nine a drink, she asks for "Bourbon. Straight up.". Anyone who watched Voyager may remember the scene in "Timeless" where Seven got completely plastered on a single glass of champagne (and it was synthehol).
• In a old home video Jurati has of her and Maddox, he is explaining to her that he replicated all of the ingredients (eggs, milk, flour, etc.) to bake cookies. She's in hysterics because she can't figure out why he wouldn't just replicate the cookies.
• Upon arriving at Freecloud, almost everyone is immediately assaulted with surprisingly personalized animated pop-up ads. For Rios, a starship-service garage; for Picard, a hotel lounge serving high tea; for Raffi, a joint that would let her "pick your poison." Poor Jurati is literally assaulted by a holographic robot representing an AI/media school; she has to punch its head off to make it go away. Elnor gets no pop-up, much to his disappointment, especially as he looks like he was prepping himself to attack whatever hologram was going to pop up.
  Elnor: I didn't get one.
• Rios and Picard's flamboyant undercover outfits are ridiculous; the former looks like a pimp, and the latter has an eye patch.
  Picard: Raffi, are you serious, sending us down there looking like this?
• During the preparation for the op on Freecloud, Elnor (the guy raised on the philosophy of "absolute candor") takes a little while to catch on to the idea of going undercover. He's extremely confused when Rios tells him that he's not actually a 'facer, and when Elnor eventually puts two and two together:
  Elnor: (excitedly) It's a lie! Everyone's behaving as if they were someone else! (quietly) Everyone except me.
  • When he finally makes this realization, everyone else looks at him like, "You're just figuring that out?"
  • After Elnor puts on his disguise, he exclaims, "Agua-arrrrdiente!" Rios, Raffi and Jurati roll their eyes and utter "Ugh" in unison before they leave the room.
  • A disappointed Elnor says, "I don't know how not to be Elnor." Picard and Seven offer him different advice.
    Picard: Then be Elnor.
    Seven: An Elnor who never talks.
  • When Seven upends the plan, Elnor then asks Picard, "Are we still pretending?"
• After Raffi explains to Jurati that a Beta Annari can smell what you had for dinner and the last person you had sex with, Rios then adds:
  Rios: If they're not the same thing.
  Jurati: Because that's not disturbing.
• Rios was injected by Raffi's cocktail of drugs which suppresses his scent glands, so when they do kick in, he starts behaving like someone who's high.
• When Raffi expresses her concern that Rios may "mess everything up, somehow," he replies, "Which he will not," in a low, hurt voice, like he's saying, "Hey! I can't believe you don't trust me!"
• Remember that two-parter in TNG when Picard went undercover as a smuggler? Evidently he doesn't, because his idea for going undercover this time is an eyepatch-wearing French Jerk Large Ham villain with an overdone Maurice Chevalier Accent that even Raffi thinks is over the top.
  Picard: I thought I looked (in exaggerated French accent) appropriately sinisterrrr.
  Raffi: No comment.
  • It can't be emphasized enough: Jean-Luc Picard, born and raised in La Barre, France, is speaking with a fake French accent.
  • Elnor, who's standing behind Picard, glances at him with a "What the heck is my father figure doing?" expression.
  • Seven gives Picard the side-eye when he gets right in her face while hamming it up.
• Picard addresses Mr. Vup as "Mr. Vip."
• Seven is talked out of taking her vengeance upon Bjayzl for Icheb, if only because of the heat it would bring down on Picard and Elnor. Bjayzl evidently wasn't expecting Seven to beam out, part ways with Picard and his crew, and then immediately beam back down and start shooting up the place, judging by how her guards were caught completely flat-footed. What makes it really funny is Seven's deadpan "Hi" right between beaming down and opening fire.
  • The casino's patrons flee on foot, running for the exits and screaming. The casino's staff immediately beam out without saying a word.

1x 06 — The Impossible Box

• Instead of asking if he should "butt out" or "butt in" a conversation, Elnor (who's a Romulan, so English would be a second language to him at best) has misinterpreted the terms as "out-butt" and "in-butt(ing)."
  Elnor: Maybe that's none of my business, I should out-butt.
  Elnor: Was I in-butting?
• After Picard mentions the Borg, Elnor is obviously ignorant of just how terrifying these cybernetic zombies are because his response is:
  Elnor: (excited) Borg like Seven of Nine?
  • It's cute that he thinks Seven (who's an Action Girl fighting a "lost cause" of sorts, and he was raised by an Amazon Brigade that does the same thing) is cool.
• When Narek catches Narissa messing with his tan zhekran (a sophisticated Romulan Rubik's Cube), he says, "That's mine. Give it back. You'll break it." He sounds just like a little kid annoyed at his bullying big sister (which, of course, she totally is). Narissa, meanwhile, is annoyed that her baby brother still plays with toys.
• Elnor notices a Meaningful Look between Jurati and Rios (who have slept together the night before), and instead of keeping this observation to himself, the Qowat Milat in him blurts out:
  Elnor: The obvious tension between you makes me uneasy.
• There are some comedic highlights between Raffi and Emmy (the Starfleet captain she speaks to), including:
  • Emmy's summary of the bad blood between the Federation and the Romulans is quite the Understatement.
    Emmy: The Romulans are in a 250-year bad mood.
  • Raffi apparently has been saying some unflattering things about JL behind his back.
    Raffi: You know Picard. Every part of that guy that's not ego is rampaging id.
    (Picard raises both his eyebrows in surprise)
  • Considering that Picard was a highly-decorated and famous Starfleet officer, it makes perfect sense that the Federation had once used him as a poster boy.
    Raffi: Picard is so Federation, his face is still probably on the damn brochures.
  • The following line is rather dark because Raffi is an alcoholic, but it's her lighthearted tone that makes it amusing.
    Raffi: I don't want to end up on the wrong side of a disruptor cannon, Emmy. I'm still planning on drinking myself to death.
  • And when Raffi jokes about knowing where all of Emmy's bodies are buried, Elnor gets an odd look on his face, possibly taking it literally and wondering if Emmy really has been burying bodies.
• When Picard and Hugh are hurrying through the derelict Borg Cube to find Soji, Picard briefly turns around when he hears some random xB calling him "Locutus?" in a puzzled tone.
• Picard doesn't always follow orders, and his surrogate son has clearly picked up this bad habit. Welcome to Parenting 101, Jean-Luc; remember that kids tend to do what you do, not do what you say.
  Picard: (irritated) Elnor, I told you to stay on the ship.
  Elnor: (shrugs) Yes. I didn't listen.

1x 07 — Nepenthe

• One of the earliest shots of Nepenthe includes an adorable bunny rabbit with a small horn on its forehead like a unicorn, and we later learn that the name of this animal is bunnicorn and that it carries venom sacs, which makes it a Killer Rabbit.
• Picard and Soji have arrived on Nepenthe, and are immediately greeted by a mysterious teenage girl wearing warpaint and holding them at arrow-point. Picard's response?
  Picard: You might want to point that thing at my head. Uh, my heart is solid duritanium.
  • The girl immediately shifts her aim to Picard's head, and poor Soji can only muster this in response.
    Soji: I thought you said this was a safe place!
• Our reintroduction to Will Riker shows him toiling away in the kitchen while his kid shouts at him from outside.
  Kestra: Daaaad!
  Riker: What?!
  Kestra: Get out here!
  Riker: STOP YELLING!
  Kestra: It's Jean-Luc Picard!
  [Riker stops toiling]
• Apparently Will actually said to Picard when he embarked on his famous rescue mission, "So you want to be ass-deep in Romulans for the rest of your life?" Makes one wonder if the interaction of the Enterprise crew was a lot more "earthy" than we got to see on screen.
  Riker: Smooth as an android's ass, eh Data?
• It stops being funny pretty quickly, but Raffi suggesting that Agnes have a glass of chocolate milk to go with her chocolate cake is good for a laugh, especially because she keeps calling herself "Auntie Raffi."
• It's been thirty years since Riker attempted to make scrambled eggs for his friends, and he still hasn't entirely shaken his Lethal Chef tendencies; he leaves his pizza unattended long enough for the tomatoes to get charred into carbon.
• Funny Background Event: Kestra playing with a PADD under the table while the adults talk, then blurting out the location of the mystery planet.

1x 08 — Broken Pieces

• Picard's Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer moment, where (based on her expression and voice) Clancy gets to say something she'd wanted to say for years (at least in this context).
  Clancy: Admiral Picard, with all due respect, and at long last, shut the fuck up.
• When Raffi kisses Enoch (the Emergency Navigational Hologram) on the forehead, he smiles and holds his own face like a little boy who has just been kissed by his crush.
• Seven quickly puts an end to Elnor's line of questioning because, being Constantly Curious, he could potentially be doing this all day long.
  Elnor: Is this where the Borg Queen lived?
  Seven: No.
  Elnor: But she used to visit sometimes?
  Seven: (irritated) I can explain or I can steal this Cube.
  (Elnor rolls his eyes in a "Fine, I'll shut up now" gesture)
• Mister Hospitality's No Sense of Personal Space is so extreme that Raffi ends up falling on to her bed trying to avoid him.
• Elnor continues to display his ignorance of how horrible it is to be a Borg after Seven grimly contemplates forming a micro-Collective to fight off the Romulans.
  Elnor: (enthusiastic) That sounds amazing, do that.
• Raffi's attempt to investigate Rios's past involves her interrogating his five holographic copies to put the pieces of his life together. Special mention goes to Emmet (the tactical hologram) being so bored that he isn't even paying attention half the time. Another special mention goes to how all the holograms engage in Percussive Maintenance simultaneously when attempting to recall information, with Raffi left perplexed by the synchronicity. And the part where five pairs of holographic eyes simultaneously go Matrix-y while the holograms try to recall certain details, further exasperating Raffi.
• The interactions between the holograms is hilarious too.
  • To begin with, Ian (Emergency Engineering Hologram) greets Enoch and gets a friendly wave in return.
  • The simulacra don't all quite get along with each other. The Hospitality hologram is constantly nagging Emmet to sit up or to keep his feet off of the (holographic) furniture, all while Emmet keeps dozing off.
    Mr. Hospitality: (slams a book in Emmet's face) Sit. Up.
    Emmet: (mutters in Spanish)
    
    Emmet: (starts snoring)
    Raffi: Emmet!
    Emmet: (wakes up and puts his boots on the table) Wha?
  • When Raffi asks why Captain Vandermeer killed himself, Ian replies "It's one o' those things you 'ken', but you cannae say." Hospitality snarks (after pushing Emmet's boots off the table) that "It turns out we don't actually 'ken'." This gets a possibly-sarcastic laugh from Ian in response.
  • Raffi is aware of the silliness of the scenario she has placed herself in, referring to the holographic cohort as an "absurd spectacle" and wondering if putting them all in the same room was a mistake.
  • To cap off the entire exchange, Ian says something... very Scottish, which only Enoch seems to understand. Raffi, on the other hand, is left completely clueless.
    Ian: And he's sae fou as a piper an' awfu aff the fang.
    Enoch: So true, Ian.
    Raffi: I mean...(grasping at the air) it's not even a language.
  • Let's not overlook... Of course the engineering hologram is Scottish.
• When Raffi points at the record player, she asks Rios if it was Vandermeer's Walkman.
• The episode has its denouement! The path before our heroes is clear! The title music leitmotif kicks in with an inspiring reprise! Everyone's resolved to to go Soji's homeworld and save the day! Picard resolutely/reflexively sits down in the La Sirena's command chair, brings up the command console... and realizes he hasn't the foggiest clue how to operate Rios's ship as the dramatic music peters out.

1x 09 — Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1

• When the Artifact emerges from the transwarp conduit:
  Jurati: It's supposed to be broken!
  Raffi: Its weapons are coming online!
  Jurati: So... not broken.
  • Later, when they find the smoldering wreckage of the Artifact after it was forced to crash-land on the planet's surface.
    Jurati: Now it's broken.
• All three ships are attacked by giant flowers.
  Rios: What kind of bogey?
  Raffi: Uhm... okay... I wanna say like... a giant flower?
  • For context, consider that the viewscreen is currently filled with the aforementioned giant flowers, which Rios can see just as plainly as Raffi can.
• After the flower envelops La Sirena, the power cuts out. Rios uses his lighter to provide some illumination, and Picard breaks the Stunned Silence:
  Picard: What just happened?
  Jurati: They hit us with a flower!
  Raffi: It looked like an orchid... [looks at Soji] What is it?
  Soji: I'm pretty sure we just call them... orchids.
• As they prepare to set out in search of the synth settlement, Raffi offers a reluctant Soji a phaser:
  Raffi: We could run into... I dunno, angry reptiloids out there. Homicidal fungi.
  Soji: [skeptical raised eyebrow]
  Raffi: It's a thing! Or... someone's asshole Romulan ex.
  • And as for the "homicidal fungi" thing, May Ahern can tell you that Raffi's not kidding. You'll have to talk to Kirk about the reptiloid, or she was referring to a Beta Annari.
• When Rios observes that the Coppelian weather is "Hot," it's amusing because he is also hot.
• Arcana has just been told about the fleet of two-hundred and eighteen Romulan Warbirds headed towards them, and they discuss defenses.
  Picard: These orchids... how many more do you have?
  Raffi: Please say two-hundred and eighteen.
  Arcana: We had fifteen. Now we have ten. We can make more, given time.
  Rios: You have two days.
  Arcana: [Stunned Silence]
• The fact that they actually have a cat — an orange tabby, no less — named "Spot II." It's a synth as well.
• Narek whining to Saga about being thirsty, and complaining that this is no way to treat prisoners.
  Saga: We've never had a prisoner before. How do the Romulans treat their prisoners?
  Narek: (Beat) Let's change the subject.

1x 10 — Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2

• When Narissa and Narek meet up, she asks him if he found the synth settlement. After he responds in the affirmative, her next question seems to come from absolutely nowhere.
  Narissa: Have you fucked any of them?
  Narek: Hmm, not yet.
  • She then describes her hiding place like a real estate agent would.
    Narissa: Oceanfront, crashing waves. You'll love it.
• Narek needs to enlist the help of Rios and Raffi to stop Soji and Sutra from completing the transmitter. How does Narek get their attention? He stands outside the ship and throws rocks at it, like he's tossing pebbles at his ex-girlfriend's window.
  • How does he gain their trust? He shows them the bag full of grenades he's carrying, and contrasts that with the fact that he's throwing rocks.
  • And Rios says he knows that sound. As in, he's had someone throwing rocks at his ship before. Possibly multiple times.
• When Rios and Raffi decide to hear him out, Elnor (who was secretly tailing Narek) pops out and puts a sword to his throat. Narek seems to take a moment to register what's happening before he reacts.
  • Elnor says, "Feldor stam torret" (which is "Please, my friend, choose to live" in Romulan), and Narek leaps out of his seat in fright and replies with an Eye Take, "I do. I very much choose to live." He's clearly among the Tal Shiar/Zhat Vash agents who are terrified of the Qowat Milat, and he's the first and (thus far) only person who actually chooses to live.
• During the episode, both Narissa and Elnor manage to sneak up on Narek and put a blade to his throat. Both times establishing shots made it clear that Narek was nowhere near any place that would have offered them any concealment, and in the second case, Elnor managed to sneak up on everyone despite the fact that Rios and Raffi were facing the direction he came from. Narek's specialty is clearly more in people skills than in stealth.
• It's a subtle detail, but it's amusing that Raffi and Rios must have arranged for Elnor and Narek to be sitting across from each other at the campfire. Narek has chosen to live, but Elnor is obviously itching for an excuse to chop his head off. You get the sense that Elnor regrets Narek's choice for a completely different reason than Tenqem's.
• After Raffi mentions that they know about Seb-Cheneb, Narek begins each subsequent sentence with "You know..." while continuing to recount the myth in all of its disturbing, gory, gruesome detail. Once he's done with the story, Rios can only say:
  Rios: ...No, we did not know any of that.
• At the entrance of Coppelius Station, Elnor occasionally shoves his fake prisoner Narek, and since the former is a Bad Liar, pushing the latter around is Elnor's honest way of expressing his hatred towards Narek.
• After Jurati asks Picard how will they delay 218 Romulan warbirds, he remains silent.
  Jurati: Are you not answering to build suspense, or...?
  Picard: At the present moment, Dr. Jurati, I'm trying to pilot a starship for the first time in a very long time, without exploding or crashing! If that is alright with you?
  Jurati: Nope, totally, good call.
• When Jurati and Picard are trying to figure out what to do against the Romulan fleet, Jurati says that when he figures something out, she'll name the maneuver after him. Then she remembers that there's already a maneuver named after him.
  • Jurati has an "Eureka!" Moment, grabbing the imagination tool Saga gave to Raffi, and using it to create a swarm of grinning Jurati heads to demonstrate her plan of creating fake La Sirena decoys to fool the Romulans.
• After a moment of panic worrying that he's now going to be immortal, Picard is informed his new synth body will live as long as his old one would have been expected to had it been in perfect health. He's relieved, but then notes he wouldn't really have minded if they'd tacked on an extra decade. Or two.

Season 2

2x 01 — The Star Gazer

• During the In Medias Res opener, we see Starfleet officers sprinting through the hallways as the power fluctuates and the ship lurches. A Security team boards a turbolift and is forced to submit to an Uncomfortable Elevator Moment as they make the trip to the Bridge before the chaos resumes.
• Jurati, quite drunk, gets hit on by a man at a bar. So she gives him an infodump summarizing her character arc in the first season to try and get him to run off and leave her alone.
  • Jurati notes while talking to Soji that she and Rios had agreed that they'd be able to work together without problems, but evidently it's been a bit weird for both of them.
  • When Jurati gets recalled to the Stargazer she is still obviously drunk as she stumbles onto the bridge, in contrast to the polished and professional Starfleet officers on duty.
  • When trying to decode the signal from the anomaly, Jurati drunkenly stumbles over to the comm station before remembering herself and asking permission. Rios just sighs and tells his officer to humor her.
• Raffi has arranged for Cadet Elnor to be assigned to the same ship as her for his middie cruise. She wants to keep an eye on him because his Qowat Milat upbringing and penchant for Brutal Honesty (aka Absolute Candor) mean that he constantly has others wanting to kick his ass due to his ingrained lack of tact.
• The address of Guinan's bar is #10, Forward Avenue Historic District. She keeps bar in Ten Forward.
• Picard goes to talk to Guinan, and she asks if he wants "top shelf" or "hooch." Given how he's feeling, Admiral Jean Luc Picard, renowned archeologist and historian, idealistic hero of the Federation, immediately opts for the hooch.
• Q being Q.
  • Picard’s reaction to hearing his voice for the first time in decades. It just screams "This Is Gonna Suck".
    Picard: What is happening here...?
    Q: An excellent question, Jean-Luc... Mon Capitaine. How I’ve missed you.
    Picard: No… No… no, no, no, no, no…
  • When he first pops up, he looks just like he did when TNG went off the air thanks to digital de-aging...for three whole seconds. When he takes in how much older Picard looks, Q decides to age himself up to make Picard more "comfortable" with his own age. Fans predicted this was how it would go down and there were mass cries of I Knew It! afterward.
    Q: Oh dear. You're a bit older than I imagined. Let me catch up.
    (Snaps fingers. Adopts grey hair and a beard.)
    Q: There. Now we're even.
    • Which is immediately followed by Picard’s exasperated, "Q… Goddamn, Q!"

2x 02 - Penance

• Picard exasperatedly yelling at Q, "I am too old for your bullshit!"
• Q summing up how he wanted to see Picard; "…so I just followed the nearest explosion."
• Jurati's virtual talking cat, demonstrating that Cats Are Snarkers. Meow.
• Jurati's Bad Liar abilities shining bright as Seven comes in with the Magistrate, attempting to keep up the facade in this new mirror universe by mentioning to Jurati that "The last time I saw you, you were...gazing at the stars", only for Jurati to immediately respond "Yes! The Stargazer!" Seven just gives her a look that screams "Oh my god, how are you so bad at this?"
• Picard's utter disgust at his Evil Counterpart's drink order.
  Picard: BLECH! What the hell is this!?
  Valet: Colombian Roast, black.
  Picard: (Beat) This really is the circle that Dante overlooked...
• Upon hearing that Seven is the President of the totalitarian empire of that timeline, Raffi remarks that Seven will "wear that gracefully."
• Jurati spinning a hilariously implausible story about why the fearsome General Picard, President Hansen, Raffi, the Romulan terrorist Elnor, and the freaking Borg Queen are hanging out in her basement lab. Oh, and also why she accidentally called the President "Seven" that one time:
  Jurati: Good old President Annika Seven Shots!
  • The Magistrate (Annika's husband, no less) is at best suspicious of Jurati's cover story, but buys the nickname without question. I guess he knows his wife!

2 X 03 — Assimilation

• When looting the lockers on the Bad Future version of La Sirena, Seven finds a jacket with a stylized Confederation patch featuring a skull. Evidently cringey skull moto patches are still a thing in the 24th century.
  • She then rips it off and tosses it away nonchalantly.
• Raffi ends up being mugged in 2024. She's actually amused at this ("oh, right, money") before taking the guy down. And then robs him.
  • Seven's reaction to discovering Raffi rifling through the man's wallet is akin to You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!.
    Raffi: I don't see you contributing to the apocalypse fund.
• Raffi and Seven need to convince a security guard to leave them alone in an empty part of a skyscraper, so Seven claims that they're on a date and looking for some privacy, and that his "round co-worker", whom he identifies as Kevin, let them go there when they first started dating. He doesn't want Kevin to be funner than he is, does he?
• Jurati's trip into the Borg Queen's mind can be as darkly hilarious as it is frightening. She rants at Picard hiding his feelings only to drop it with "New room."
  • The Queen finds the room where Jurati's sense of humor is. Joke's on her: it's full of mirrors, only useful for deflection.
• At the climax of Jurati's dive into the Borg Queen, both of them start fighting over both bodies, ending with a hilariously childish "Mine!" fight over who is moving Jurati's arm to stop Picard from unplugging her.
• The Queen snarking that she wants legs and a Collective now that she's lucid, but will settle for the ship under the circumstances.
• Jurati calls the file where she saved the data from the Borg Queen "Shit I stole from the Borg Queen".
• This exchange, after said theft:
  Queen: What you've done is more difficult, and far more dangerous, than you realize.
  Jurati: And what's that?
  Queen: You've impressed me.
  Jurati: [smirks, then looks terrified]
• Rios ends up in a clinic after he falls and hits his head, and the pretty doctor asks him to tell her his favorite childhood memory, ostensibly so she can check if he has a concussion. When his story hits its emotional peak, she yanks his dislocated finger back into place without warning.
  Doctor: Cool story!
• Seven is scanning for future tech and gets a hit on Rios' commbadge that keeps flickering on and off.
  Seven: What is that, Morse?
  [cut to a Bratty Half-Pint messing around with Rios' badge]

2 X 04 — Watcher

• Raffi and Seven ride a bus with a familiar looking punk playing an equally familiar obnoxious song loudly. They ask him to stop like Kirk did 40 years ago. This time, the punk rubs his neck and meekly complies.
  • Later, Seven's concern at Raffi's plan to steal a police computer...via breaking into a police car, in front of a police station, as she pulls out her phaser to melt a window.
  Seven: Whatever happened to 'no phasers'?
  Rafi: <looks at Seven, down at her phaser, and back at Seven> I have no idea how this got here.
• Guinan siccing her guard dog on Picard, only to launch into a Rapid-Fire "No!" when Luna pads over to Picard as happy as a good girl who's being paid a visit by her grandpa.
• Guinan saying to Picard that she doesn't want to know him, given how Guinan says in the Star Trek TNG Episode "The Best of Both Worlds" that their relationship is beyond friendship, beyond family.
• Rios tells an ICE officer exactly who he is and where he's from, knowing he won't be believed. As part of this, he admits to being confused about how Picard can be a flesh and blood robot.
• The Watcher warning Guinan to leave, threatening that if she didn't do so quickly The Watcher would lose her very tenuous grip on her need to put her boot through Guinan's face. Guinan confirms to Picard that she means it before she immediately does as she is told.
  • What makes it funnier is the fact that The Watcher is threatening Guinan while she is speaking through a little girl.

2 X 05 — Fly Me To The Moon

• After Raffi and Seven disable the ICE bus, Rios goes mano-a-mano with the ICE agent who has been antagonizing him for two episodes. The man Rios stood up for in the previous episode joins in, and since his hands are bound, he ends up knocking out the agent with the Kirk Double-Fisted Chop.
• Q has a calling card. It is naturally an obnoxiously trendy metallic card produced by hacking into the 3D printer in Adam Soong's lab. Prominently featured is a US phone number, which fans quickly discovered went to Q's answering machine.
  • The answering machine message: Q suggests that you not leave him a message, because he already knows what you want. And he doesn't care.
• Adam Soong gets to wield the first Precision F-Strike of the season, when he lumps Q in with all the people who've been bugging him from "basement dwelling Nazis to rich heiresses who want me to clone their fucking cats." ^note There's also the hilarity of seeing Spiner, who started off playing calm, emotionless and innocent Data (who had a cat himself), now getting to speak such lines.
• Picard and the Watcher arrive on La Sirena, and Picard assures his new reluctant teammate of the quality of his crew just as they appear, dragging the evidently dead body of a local French policeman towards the hatch. The best Picard can do at this point is to declare, baselessly (but correctly) that the police officer is probably still alive.
• During the infiltration, Jurati gets taken in by the security guards, All According to Plan. One of the guards questions why Jurati is handcuffed to a chair after she's been taken in, noting that they're likely going to get sued afterwards.

2 X 06 — Two of One

• Adam Soong and Jean Luc Picard have a faceoff, and Adam gives the stock villain You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With speech... before walking away and informing the event organizers that Picard is an intruder.
• The team needs a distraction at the party and, boosted by the Queen, Jurati shuts off the lights...then starts singing a version of the Pat Benatar song "Shadows of the Night." And it works.

2 X 07 — Monsters

• Teresa is ticked to find Rios having locked the door to Picard's room, switching to Spanish to yell at him. Her son sighs in English "you didn't even use the good swear words!"
• When Rios slowly approaches Teresa, she asks "why are you coming at me like a serial killer?"
• Needless to say, Teresa's "WTF" face when a device is beamed into Rios' hand is priceless.
  • Topped by her reaction when she and her son are beamed on board the ship. She just drops her cup and stares while the kid gleefully races around yelling "I'm going to touch everything!"
• A nice Call-Back:
  Teresa: Are you from outer space?
  Rios: No, I'm from Chile. I just work in outer space.
• Amid an otherwise dramatic scene, a funny line from Picard's father.
  Maurice: You lived longer than I did. But I got to keep my hair. Not a fair trade.
  • Which makes for a hilarious plothole if you have ever watched the TNG episode Tapestry, as Maurice's depiction there was as bald as his son.

2 X 10 — Farewell

• Wesley Crusher is now a Traveller of space and time, but he's still Wesley Crusher...
  Wesley: A long time ago, I was known as Wesley Crusher. But now, I am a Traveller of space and time.
  Kore: You’re kidding, right?
  Wesley: The last time I told a joke, I inadvertently changed a century’s worth of history. So I work really hard to not be misunderstood.
  Kore: ...That’s a lot.
  Wesley: You have no idea.
  • He also gently asks Kore not to interrupt his grand recruitment speech while he's giving it.

Season 3

3 X 01 — The Next Generation

• Riker and Picard meet with Riker complaining about having to do a speech for "Frontier Day."
  Riker: Who wants to hear some old fart drone on about "going boldly" for the last 250 years?
  Picard: I'm giving a speech too.
  Riker: And that's going to be great.
  • On a meta note, of course Picard is planning to give a speech.
• Picard playing the "surprise inspection" for all it's worth to the point he stops to adjust an ensign's com badge.
• Riker brings up how Geordi's daughter was known as "Crash" at the academy for smashing up two shuttles, with her embarrassed as the rest of the bridge crew smirks.
• Captain Shaw tells Picard and Riker how he thinks the mission's gonna go: "Well, we won't be blowing things up. Taking or engaging in fire. Crash landing expectedly or unexpectedly. You know, the usual for you boys." Oh, geez, buddy...
• Stuck in small quarters with bunk beds, Riker complains this reminds him of his Academy days "only I didn't have to get up to pee as much."
• Riker summing up the pair about to go on a hostile ship.
  Riker: Your hands are stiff, my knees are killing me. As long as we don't have to move or shoot, we should be fine.

3 X 02 — Disengage

• When Picard, Riker, Jack and Beverly are rescued, the first three are brought to the bridge of the Titan and they start getting into a Snark-to-Snark Combat with Shaw. When one of the bridge crew calls out "Captain!", Riker, Picard and Shaw all reply "What?!" Jack rolls his eyes.
• There's a bit of black comedy after Vadic demands Jack's surrender and throws the Eleos at the Titan. After everyone processes this, we get Shaw, Seven, and Picard all slowly turn around to stare at Jack. The collective looks on their faces scream "What the hell did you do, kid?!" and "How are you worth it?!".
• Thanks to Memetic Mutation associated with the name, it's difficult not to find a Ferengi named Sneed completely hilarious.

3 X 03 — Seventeen Seconds

• Worf uses the same bold tone of voice to both introduce himself (as a Badass Boast, of course) and offer tea to Raffi.
  "I am Worf, son of Mogh, House of Martok; son of Sergey, House of Rozhenko; bane to the Duras family; slayer of Gowron. I have made some chamomile tea. Do you take sugar?"
• Worf's tendency to state formal declarations, pose polite questions, and crack jokes in the same Deadpan Snarker tone. Sometimes back to back. For example, when Raffi tells him that his warrior outfit is too conspicuous, he replies that it's casual wear, and she sarcastically asks him if he wears it to a Tuesday beheading. After they catch their quarry...
  Worf: Beheadings are on Wednesdays.
  • The space between Raffi's barb and Worf's retort makes it funnier. Either he was holding on to it for a dramatically appropriate moment. . . or it took him a whole foot chase to think up a comeback.
• The flashback of Picard and Riker having a drink at Ten Forward when they are interrupted by Deanna Troi venting at Riker about how much of a handful baby Thaddeus is while Riker is out having fun. Evidently the kid projectile vomited all over Engineering, and Deanna suggests he be studied for science just to figure out how he could do that. She demands his immediate return to help with the kid.
  Deanna: Bring the whiskey.
  • Deanna's tone, speech pattern, and body language are eerily, frighteningly familar. . . she's turning into her mother!
• In a great Leaning on the Fourth Wall moment, Picard asks about Jack's accent, with Beverly saying, "he went to school in London and never shook it. Maybe it's his DNA."
  • The fact that this ends up being critical foreshadowing by series end.
• Riker remarking that he spent two decades watching Jack being "cooked up" easily offers one the impression that he even was the one organizing the betting pool on how long the process would take.
• Raffi's You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! reaction to realizing Worf has taken on a pacifist mentality and talking to their prisoner on not letting his anger dictate him.
  Raffi: I think I feel my chamomile tea coming back up.
• Jack knocks out the security guard at Seven's door. There are a few seconds where the door repeatedly tries to close on said guard's foot.
  Seven: (approvingly) Well, you're insane.

3 X 04 — No Win Scenario

• When talking to Picard, Jack decides to address the elephant in the room:
  Jack: The hair...when did it go?
  Picard: (chuckling) You're what, 23, 24? Enjoy it while you can.
• When discussing how to find the Changeling saboteur, Shaw suggests that Seven find its pot. Seven has to clarify that he doesn’t mean cannabis, which Shaw sadly confirms. (With everything he's going through, he might actually want some pot.)
• Shaw explains that the Changeling can flawlessly imitate appearance but can't do the same for personality. He demonstrates this by telling Seven that despite their rocky relationship, he can see that she's captain material — and Seven dryly notes that this is something he'd say if he were a Changeling and not just a dick, a fact Shaw doesn't dispute. (And you just know that Seven has been aching to say something like that to his face.)
• Picard comes to Shaw for help with their wave riding plan, despite Shaw being a "dipshit from Chicago." Shaw has to admit having Picard throw that back at him was Actually Pretty Funny.
• Upon escaping the nebula, they watch the creature inside giving birth, which leads Beverly uttering “To seek out new life” in awe. In response, Riker suggests they “boldly go the hell out of here”.
• There is a flashback of Picard sitting down for a meal at Ten Forward, when he is approached by a group of awestruck junior officers wanting to talk to him about his exploits. Throughout the episode, we keep cutting back to this scene, with Picard's repeated attempts to eat his lunch being interrupted by "just one more question."

3 X 05 — Imposters

• Raffi pushes Worf on sacrifice and he throws a dagger at her feet.
  Raffi: Can you not put holes in my floor every time you want to make a point?
• Worf and Raffi end up confronting Vulcan gangsters, led by Krinn, who sports facial tattoos and an IDIC medallion worn like a stereotypical gold chain. Needless to say, he still justifies his criminal actions as logical choices.
  "There can be no utopia without crime, ergo an organized criminal enterprise is logical."
• And at the end of said confrontation Krinn's mooks are dead, they have him by the throat, but Worf is slowly bleeding to death. It's worth a chuckle how both of them are so casual about it they use it to hasten the interrogation. This line sums it up:
  Krinn: You were dead.
  Worf: I have mastered the Kahless technique of regulating my heart rate to nearly impercep... [grunts in pain, more annoyed than anything] ...let us skip to the interrogation. I'm in desperate need of medical attention.
• Crusher does the autopsy of the Changeling posing as Sidney and, for the record, asks the real Sidney to say this isn't her. Seeing a perfect replica of herself lying dead, Sidney throws up.
  Crusher: For the record, Ensign LaForge has indicated yes.
  • As Crusher and Ohk continue their discussion of the new Changeling biology, LaForge eventually (wordlessly) rejoins them, having taken a few moments to compose herself.
• Riker figures that saving the galaxy several times should buy them some goodwill with Starfleet. Shaw happily rattles off a list of their equally spectacular failures — breaking the Prime Directive, destroying the Enterprise-D, and nearly wiping out humanity with a temporal paradox — and describes their relationship with saving the galaxy as a "chicken or egg" situation. Picard's response?
  Picard: Those were the days.
• Shaw cheerfully announces that Starfleet is sending a ship to take Picard, Riker, and Seven off of his hands, and asks Seven if she'd prefer to be reinstated or not before she's arrested. Seven opts for reinstated, and Shaw gives her a mock-knighting in response (with a chopping motion over each shoulder like a king with a sword).
  Shaw: Oh, and, um, as a courtesy, because of the harrowing ordeal that we all survived together, I'm gonna step outside so the three of you can get your bullshit story straight.

3 X 06 — Bounty

• The heartwarming reunion between Picard, Riker and Worf takes an unexpected humorous turn:
  Picard: It's been far too long.
  Worf: Eleven years, five months, four days. Minus your infrequent messages and your annual bottles of sour mead.
  Picard: "Sour mead"?
  Riker: Chateau Picard. (Picard looks at Riker in surprise)
  Worf: It is... quite tart, sir. (Picard can only look in surprise at that)
• Picard remarks on how their only apparent course of action is to burgle the Daystrom Institute. Riker remarks on the excellent use of the word "burgle." Shaw silently agrees.
• Worf notes the tension between Raffi and Seven.
  Worf: I have gone into battle with lovers countless times, it can be therapeutic...
  Seven: I'm not going.
  Worf: That is a relief. I was practicing deceit. Breakups on my homeworld seldom ended without bloodshed.
  • Bonus funny when you remember Worf considers Earth his homeworld as of TNG's "Family".
• Riker talks of using some "old-fashioned Klingon offense."
  Worf: Captain Riker...
  Riker: Worf! Call me Will!
  Worf: You should know, I now walk a path of pacifism.
  Riker: ...We're all gonna die.
• The Daystrom A.I. isn't short of being humorous.
  Daystrom A.I.: Welcome Daystrom Visitors, please Identify. [Worf casually pulls out the key; an alarm sounds - causing Raffi and Riker to cover their ears in agony, but not Worf] Daystrom Visitors, please identify yourselves immediately or lethal security protocols will engage. [Worf casually inserts the key into the console] Th-Thank you. Have a wonderful day, and please, no food or beverages in the research area.
• Worf is thrown when a Tribble attacks the glass, causing some mockery from Riker.
  Riker: A mighty Klingon taken aback by the even mightier attack tribble!
  Worf: I see you still find comfort in humor. And humor in other people's discomfort.
  Riker: You used to poke back. What happened to you?
  • The mere fact that someone modified a Tribble into a lethal Attack Animal.
• Riker cannot get over the new Worf.
  Worf: We will not be prey, we will be...friendly energy.
  Riker: I don't understand the world anymore.
• Riker laments how much Worf has changed, but when they are faced with Professor Moriarty, slinging insults to their intelligence while holding them at gunpoint, Riker dryly notes that at least he hasn't changed.
• Captain Shaw, who refused to give Picard and Riker the common courtesy of welcoming them aboard his ship, is reduced to nigh-incoherent fanboying upon meeting the living legend himself, Geordi La Forge. Geordi meanwhile notes that Shaw's ship is barely holding together, and says that this is why, if they didn't have so many more pressing things going on, he would happily geek out with Shaw over the amazing work his crew has done keeping the Titan in action.
  Shaw: Yeah, it's been a weird week.
  • Picard and Seven silently glance at each other when they see Shaw's personality completely change around Geordi.
• Jack shares a significant look with Sidney. Seven notes this and gives him a snarky look of her own.
• Jack then goes to sit in Shaw's chair, earning a stern "Off" from Seven.
  Jack: I'm just trying it out.
• While speaking with Sidney and Alandra, Jack starts bragging about Sidney's piloting skill while obviously pouring the charm on her. Alandra tells him to "reset your phasers."
• The Titan unexpectedly cloaks, and Geordi accuses Picard of being behind it, much to Picard's protests. After a few moments, they both have very similar realizations about who is responsible:
  Picard: Jack.
  Geordi: Sidney.
• Geordi La Forge walks in on Jack and Sidney trying to get the stolen cloaking device to work. He turns to Jack and simply orders:
  Geordi: Stay away from my daughter.
  • Even funnier is Sydney utter a "Daaad..." under her breath like "You are embarrassing me here!" while Jack has a look of "Okay, I don't know how he figured it out..."

3 X 08 — Surrender

• When Picard, Crusher, Jack and Sydney catch up with Geordi, Alandra and Data, Geordi uses a Trust Password about a gift he gave him six years ago. Picard responds with an annoyed tone that it was a Chateau Picard that he didn't like because his tastes were "pedestrian" at best, prompting Geordi to look at Alandra and nod that it was Picard.
• Data shows off his newly enhanced personality when he retakes control of the ship from Vadic:
  Data: Greetings, USS Titan. This is your friendly positronic pissed off security system, back online. Unwanted guests and monologuing protoplasms, I am initiating an immediate shift change.
• Vadic's final fate is to be vented into space. Her reaction to her imminent death is hilariously succinct. Doubly so when it comes off not as a final declaration of hatred, but more along the lines of, "...Well, shit."
  Vadic: Oh, fucking Solids...
• Data then trolls Geordi by using a contraction and then claiming that he didn't.
• After being rescued, Riker and Troi embrace Worf.
  Worf: One's personal space is a right.
• Worf then gushes in a poetic manner to Deanna with her and Riker exchanging "what is going on?" looks.
  Riker: Is this a rescue mission or a continuation of the torture?
• Earlier, Riker was joking along with Troi about how his Changeling replacement was "good in bed, bad in the kitchen," but he seems genuinely threatened by Worf being emotionally open with Troi.
• Worf explains how he has undergone self-improvement:
  Worf: I have slaughtered countless enemies over the years and considered sending their heads to all of you, but I was advised that that was ... passive aggressive.

3 X 09 — Vox

• Seven of nine responds to Data's analysis regarding the shuttles not being connected to the network by saying "the robot's right". Data's response is to shoot Seven a resounding Death Glare.
• As Geordi and Data are preparing to launch the maintenance shuttle:
  Geordi: Hopefully, we have enough juice to get us there.
  Data: What makes you think "there" hasn't already been destroyed?
  Geordi: Data, could you try and be a little more positive?
  Data: (Beat, then a mock-cheerful expression) I hope we die quickly!
• Geordi remarks that they couldn't use the Enterprise-E and everyone gives Worf sidelong glances.
  Worf: That was not my fault.
• As the crew return to the Enterprise-D's bridge, there are a ton of levity moments here:
  • Upon looking over the bridge, Riker has to question if he got taller or the bridge got smaller.
    • There's also an additional subtle bit of humor preceding that quip. If you remember the Bridge Layout from the Technical Manual and other sources, then you remember that the Head is located in the Aft Starboard alcove that Riker was checking out before making the above observation. In other words, Riker was literally checking if the toilet was still there.
  • Worf starts to complain about how the E had better weapons than the D, causing Troi to snap "Worf!"
  • Data approaches his old seat at Ops and happily proclaims "Hello, chair!"
  • Picard wistfully suggests that he finally figured out what he missed the most of all about everything: the carpeting. Even better, Geordi and everyone else crack up.
  • The computer addresses Picard as Captain Picard because the crew manifest is three decades out of date. Knowing it's a bad idea to set the record straight, Picard is all too happy to accept this "field demotion".
  • Right as he sits in his chair for the first time in thirty years, Picard performs the famous "Picard Maneuver" of tugging on his shirt.
  • There is also a bit of fridge-funny Brick Joke here, as pointed out on the episode main page: back in the season premiere, it was mentioned in Ten Forward that rarely anyone buys an Enterprise-D model because "nobody wants the fat one". Well, the other saying is: "It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings". Well, ladies and gentlemen: the Fat Lady is back, and she's about to sing.

3 X 10 — The Last Generation

• A stealth one where we see another instance of the Riker Lean on the D.
• When Worf elects to join Riker and Picard on the Borg Cube, he declares that he "will make it a threesome".
  Riker: Do you even hear yourself?
• After being told the targeting computer isn't fully ready and she'll have to do it manually, Beverly performs an epic bombing run on the Borg cube from the tactical console of Enterprise. Everyone else gives her "what the hell" looks.
  Beverly: A lot's happened in the last twenty years.
• Riker complains that Worf had hidden a phaser inside kur'leth.
  Worf: Swords are fun.
• Troi's response to Data when he goes with his "gut" and pilots the D into the cube:
  Data: Here goes nothing
  Troi: Wait, what do you mean "nothing"?
  • Also, note that "Here goes nothing" is the same thing Lando Calrissian says before flying the Millennium Falcon into the Death Star in Return of the Jedi.
• When Data pilots the ship into the Borg Cube, he is actually enjoying it
  Troi: (utter confusion) Why am I sensing enjoyment? (focus on Data and his humongous shit-eating grin)
• The Borg Queen’s confused and shocked reaction to the D literally dancing through the Cube firing as she goes and then damn near landing on her is absolutely priceless! The Collective’s clearly never experienced someone/anyone crazy/desperate enough to pull such an insane stunt like this on them before and are clearly taken by surprise! Han Solo would’ve been proud!
• Worf initiates a hug with Raffi after spending all his time complaining about being people hugging him.
• Doubling as a heartwarming moment, the reunion on the Enterprise-D’s bridge. Picard introduces Jack to the rest of his crew. Jack and Riker happily embrace Beverly and Troi respectively. Worf...slumps down in the portside command chair to take a nap, snoring audibly. Data and LaForge sitting in the other two chairs witness this and both decide to let sleeping Klingons lie.
• Data is wrapping up a session with Deanna - an hour late, he runs into Will, responding to an enquiry of how Data was with "okay", before slugging Will on the shoulder.
  Riker: Still batshit crazy...
  Troi: Stop it.
  (they both laugh)
  • During the therapy session, Deanna looks to be making notes on a PADD while Data's talking. Another camera view shows she's actually browsing the web for potential vacation destinations. That choice extends to the poker game, where Riker mentions the top two choices on Troi's list at the time:
    Riker: We're torn between the luminescent beaches of Kaphar Prime...and Orlando.
    Geordi: Tough choice.
• Jack walks onto the the bridge of the Enterprise-G barking orders and lounging onto the command chair. Cue Seven with Raffi at her side telling Jack to get out of her chair.
  Jack: (walks onto the bridge) Helm, set a course for the M'Talas System, maximum warp. Tactical, ready torpedoes and phasers. I don't know what we're walking into here. (sits in the captain's chair)
  Seven: Out.
  [...]
  Seven: Helm, it goes without saying to ignore everything he just said.
  Sidney: I usually do.
• A bit of Lampshade Hanging between Raffi, Jack, and Sev—err, Captain Seven on their particular lot being put in charge of the Enterprise-G.
  Raffi: I still can't believe Starfleet saw fit to give a thief, a pirate, and a spy their own ship.
  Jack: Bunch of ne'er-do-wells and rule-breakers, really.
  Seven: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
• Seven is hit with a little Catchphrase Interruptus trying to think of a signature order.
• The Pakleds in the last episode of Lower Decks Season 1 refer to the Titan as "another Enterprise." It turns out that they were more correct than everyone thought at the time...
• A more subtle one: when we see the Enterprise-D in her final resting place in the Fleet Museum it's clear that she easily dwarfs the other ships, being so huge she can't rest inside the walkway dedicated to her. Starfleet really over-engineered the Galaxy-class.
• When Data is offered a chance to make a toast, he starts reciting that limerick about the young lady from Venus. The others stop him at the first line, leaving Data mock-pouting that he's never going to get to finish it (which then causes everyone to crack up).
• The Stinger shows that after being relentlessly pursued by rogue Changelings and (briefly) assimilated by the Borg, Jack will now suffer another horrible fate: being the next mortal plaything for the Q Continuum.

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Behind the Scenes/Other

• At the start of the series, Evan Evagora was listed as being born in 10 AD, which would make him over 2000 years old. This led to jokes that he's either a real Tolkien Elf or an El-Aurian.
• Custom Lego figurine of Rios enjoying a large cigar while reading a giant copy of The Tragic Sense of Life.
• Custom Lego figurine of Jurati with an Oh, Crap! expression while she's holding a disruptor rifle and an over-sized Daystrom Institute folder.
• Custom Lego figurines of a young Elnor stick-fighting with Picard.
  • The same person also made an Elnor figure in his full Qowat Milat get-up. Notice how his tan qalanq is taller than he is, and his plunging V-neck is deeper than on the show.
• Elnor was included on a chart which compared attractive male characters from the fantasy genre (Elnor counts as Science Fantasy) based on their level of prettiness or ruggedness and whether they had dark or light hair. According to Tumblr at least, Elnor is the prototypical example of Pretty with Dark Hair.
• Elnor of Rivendell.
• The Wuxia-like Elnor resembles Lan Wang Ji from The Untamed.
• This amusing post directly compares Elnor to a cat, which is a very good analogy because he has pointy ears, he's cute, pretty, agile, graceful, his tan qalanq is the equivalent of fangs/claws, and he usually aims for the neck when killing his "prey." And he talks about wanting to see a cat.
• Fanart of Elnor, Rios and Picard in their Freecloud costumes.
• Custom Lego figurine of Riker (with a very thick beard) cooking pizza.
• Evan Evagora had replaced the audio of Elnor's action scene in "Broken Pieces" with the song "Kung Fu Fighting".
• Fanart of Sutra, Narek and Elnor sporting sunglasses. It was inspired by Commodore Oh's Sinister Shades, so the artist decided to poke fun at the idea by drawing two Romulans and an android who's passionate about Vulcan culture with Cool Shades.
• If there are animal rights activists on Nepenthe, one of their slogans would be that bunnicorns are friends, not food.
• Fanart of a Lethal Weapon-style Buddy Cop Show starring Worf and Elnor.
• It's inevitable that someone would make a Friends-style opening titles parody for this series. Considering that Picard is the darkest show in the franchise to date, it's hilarious that the clips can be edited in such a way that it seems like a sitcom.
• Fanart of Hugh reclaiming Borgified Tribbles.
• During First Contact Day 2021, Wil Wheaton is talking to Patrick Stewart about the upcoming Season 2 when he gets word of someone else joining the stream. Cue John de Lancie himself dropping in with a “Bonjour, mon capitain!” as Sir Patrick utters out “D’oh!” and facepalms.
• The phone number on Q's calling card from "Fly Me to the Moon" is an hysterical bit of viral marketing.