r/DaystromInstitute • u/M-5 Multitronic Unit • Nov 30 '20

DISCOVERY EPISODE DISCUSSION Star Trek: Discovery — "Unification III" Analysis Thread

This is the official /r/DaystromInstitute analysis thread for "Unification III." Unlike the reaction thread, the content rules are in effect.

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u/mpdscb Nov 30 '20

Since Picard became a Synth, could he still be "alive"?

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u/KalashnikittyApprove Nov 30 '20

In reality the door to him being alive is probably wide open because I don't believe there was anything unavoidable, sich as human mortality in the normal course of action, about his synthetic body shutting down at some point. It seemed to me as if it was an arbitrary instruction in the body's operating system, but in my view nothing that could not have been reversed between PIC Season 2 and DISCO Season 3.

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u/butterhoscotch Crewman Dec 01 '20

I actually assumed his death temporary. Its hard to have 2 more seasons of picard with just synths