As a kid, anytime I’d fly with my mom (infrequent) I’d do “airplate,” and my mom would always say what the hell is an airplate, and I’d say a flying saucer.
I just want to see how happy and relaxed Ensign Picard is. No critical decisions to make. Able to make friends among the crew without his rank getting in the way.
We get to see Captain Picard in Ensign Picard’s body, but we never get to see the slacker who has big dreams but doesn’t bother to push himself.
What we don’t see in the episode is that Q does the same thing to ensign Picard and he is like: “This sad and lonely fellow would be me if I sacrificed everything for my career?”
Like… did Q just re-create existence around him? Or did he pluck Prime Picards consciousness and dump it into the body of Beta Picard? I like to think it’s the latter with Beta Picard in the background just like “Wait… what? What’s happening?” and then Q and Picard fuck off leaving this poor dude to desperately rely on therapy for the next couple years.
As the dinosaur on the left, this is excruciating. Sometimes I want to just pick up my friend and physically make them do the thing like some sort of horrible puppet. “OK WE’RE DOING THE DISHES NOW” “no i don’t–” “NOPE LOOK YOU’RE BEING MOVED INTO THE KITCHEN THE SPONGE IS IN YOUR HAND” “i don’t really” “SHUT UP AND WASH”
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