Another reason why Star Trek Picard season 3 was absolute bullshit (aside from it completely shitting on the Voyager series finale, wasting the Changelings/stealing from DS9, ignoring every thing and every one from seasons 1 & 2, a bullshit plot that made no sense, falling into the nepobaby trap) - the Borg should have known about Michael & the USS Discovery.
Picard is assimilated at the end of TNG s3. Not 10 episodes prior, he has a mind meld with Sarek of Vulcan, and proceeds to be tossed around in the washing machine that is 200+ years of suppressed Vulcan emotion.
Do not start with me “oh it was the 90’s and Discovery wasn’t a thing yet” Discovery was VERY MUCH A THING when season 3 of Picard was being developed. It was infact so much a thing that Star Trek Picard wouldn’t even exist in the first place if not for Discovery. (Same holds true for Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Prodigy, &Section 31)
Finding a way to tie Discovery into Picard s3 would have been a way to cement Discovery’s place in the Trek canon and also acknowledge that we would not have this new era of Trek if not for Sonequa Martin Green, Captain Michael Burnham, and the USS Discovery NCC-1031.
Like remember the probe that got all advanced during the red angel arc that also looked like the synth savior/biological apocalypse in Picard s1 and how both were never touched on and then oh yeah we had a whole fucking dimensional space time WHATEVER in season two along with a whole new Borg queen in Dr Jurati and did we use ANY OF THAT?!
No. We just wasted it all so Terry Matalas could once again give himself a TNG themed nerdgasm and hijack a series finale.
