2.04: Star Trek: Picard - Watcher

[Vladd67]

But at the time Picard met Quinan in the bar the future had not been changed yet. That crucial moment still lies 3 days in the future.
You're right though about the headaches...

But from Picards point of view it had, so they were now occupying the timeline where the change had occurred with its ripples into the past. Picard isn't trying to prevent the change, it had already happened/ will happen, he is trying to make a change to the modified timeline to create the original timeline he is familiar with. Because in the original future Picard had traveled back past the point of change, and in the new future this did not happen this would mean both the future and past has been altered, so that although the date of change still lies in the future it has already happened thereby changing the past.

 

[Glaysher]

But from Picards point of view it had, so they were now occupying the timeline where the change had occurred with its ripples into the past. Picard isn't trying to prevent the change, it had already happened/ will happen, he is trying to make a change to the modified timeline to create the original timeline he is familiar with. Because in the original future Picard had traveled back past the point of change, and in the new future this did not happen this would mean both the future and past has been altered, so that although the date of change still lies in the future it has already happened thereby changing the past.

Cue Scanners head.

 

[Dave]

Guinan looks different in 2024 to how she did in 1893 and 2401.

 

[ctg]

Guinan looks different in 2024 to how she did in 1893 and 2401

Paramount cannot afford deep fakes.

 

[ctg]

How old Guinan is at the moment? Thing is, to keep it consistent, if she's really immortal they should have deep faked her from TNG days and not even give Whoopie a chance to show the old lady face. I appreciate that they didn't wanted to do that, but in that regards Disney goes further to make their depictions of SW timeline feel more solid.

 

[Dave]

Memory Alpha says that El Aurians have an "extremely long lifespan" covering "many centuries", rather than being immortal.

I was joking, and to be fair, when they made Times Arrow pts I & 2, I doubt that anyone could have expected that a Picard series featuring Whoopie would be made 35 years later. I think the problem here isn't that they used another actress in this episode, but that they used an aged Whoopie in the first episode of this season (but it was a touching and sentimental scene, which would not have been improved by "a deep fake" no matter how much it cost.)

You say that Disney goes further, but Ewan McGregor doesn't look much like Alec Guinness, and he still won't, even if we wait another 20 years.

 

[ctg]

Well that's their decision. And yeah, you're right, they should have used younger Guinan in the firs episode, even though we don't know how old she is, really.