P for Picard

Narek escapes the android compound to the Borg cube and tracks down Narissa who is trying to bring the Borg weapon systems back online. Don’t worry about that though, there is no reason for this to be there. Seven kills her not long after so that she can learn killing is wrong. Narek takes some grenades and goes to La Sirena where Raffi and Rios are fixing their ship using a magic stick. They decide to work together to take down the synths who are building a beacon to contact the ancient synth civilisation. Obviously, their plan fails too so it’s down to Picard ,who has been broken out by Jurati, to stop the beacon and take on a 200-strong fleet of Romulans. They use the magic stick, actually a fundamental field replicator with a neural-catomic interface, to perform an elaborate version of the Picard maneuver with multiple La Sirenas appearing at once. This buys them enough time for Starfleet to arrive with a fleet of ships commanded by Captain Riker to allow Picard to deliver his big speech to Soji about the importance of life and sacrifice. He convinces her but it’s too late for him and he dies of unnamed brain disease. Then we get a weird coda to Star Trek Nemesis where Picard says goodbye to Data, who has been living in a hard drive for the last 14 years. Picard’s consciousness is then downloaded into a new body and everything is fine, let’s never speak of this again, and the crew of La Sirena set off on a new adventure. Don’t you wish we could have reached this point after two episodes?

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James decided to read  Star Trek: The Next Generation writers bible since Star Trek: Picard claims to be based on it. Is the new show still following the old rules? Of course it isn’t. Why would they lumber themselves with a bunch of rules from 1987. Listen to our short discussion below.

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Rios finally meets Dahj and realises she looks exactly the same as Janna, an alien woman who was murdered by his former captain before he took his own life. Jurati wakes up and admits that she murdered Maddox and she agrees to hand herself in. but first they head for Soji’s home planet pursued by Narek. On the Borg cube, Seven arrives to save Elnor and decides to activate the sleeping collective to kill the Romulans, but that doesn’t work so it’s all a bit pointless but the former Borgs seem to eat Narissa and the rest of the Romulans bugger off to Soji;s planet where Picard and crew have already arrived. They meet a colony of friendly androids on a college campus in California led by Doctor Altan Inigo Soong, the son of Data’s creator – because Brent Spiner has to get paid and they didn’t have the budget to de-age him. It’s just like the Augments episodes of Enterprise …but worse.  Could this apparently peaceful place actually be something more sinister? Well, yes because a Soji double is actually bad, you know like Lore… but worse. And we’re probably heading towards a big space battle in the finale but honestly who cares?

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Before the Star Trek: Picard season finale  arrives, we’ve been asking all the important questions. Will Lore return? Will Picard have to become Locutus? Is Soji really the destroyer? Will the Enterprise show up for some reason? All this and more will be discussed in our predictions for the finale. No, we don’t really care either.

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In a short and sweet bonus episode, we discuss the adult content in modern Star Trek, with a focus on the gratuitous violence in Star Trek: Picard.

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The crew of La Sirena are finally heading towards the Borg cube and Raffi secures Picard credentials to visit Huge as a diplomat. But Narek is getting closer to discovering Soji’s secrets and she realises that her life may not be all it seems. He  invites her to play the crystal maze so he can explore her dreams and find her homeworld using clues in her subconscious. After she reveals where she is from, he tries to kill her in a really convoluted way but she activates and escapes. Picard finds her and they use some technology from that episode of Voyager you don’t remember to escape to Nepenthe, home of Riker and Troi and their daughter Kestra. This gives Soji time to consider who she is and do that TNG episode where Data makes friends with a child and the audience time to remember that it’s nice to spend time with likeable characters. Meanwhile, Elnor stays on the Borg cube with Hugh and proves to be a terrible bodyguard and stuff happens on La Sirena but we’ll get to that later. This synopsis is already too long. 

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The ragtag crew of La Sirena are finally on their way to Freecloud but Picard requests a diversion to Vashti, a planet where he once helped Romulans relocate before the full evacuation where Picard once befriended a child named Elnor who in the years since has become a socially awkward master assassin. Meanwhile back on the ship, the crew has to deal with the local warlord and all looks lost until the intervention of Seven of Nine, a former Borg now working as a Fenris ranger, a sort of frontier law enforcement agency. The crew with Elnor now sworn as Picard’s bodyguard then travel to Freecloud and find Maddox is being held by Bjayzl, a criminal and loan shark who trades in used Borg parts and they decide to do a classic heist for some reason with elaborate costumes and accents. And in B plots no one cares about, Narek and Soji slide in a corridor and Raffi visits her estranged son. 

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Picard continues to investigate Dahj’s death and visits her apartment with Laris to try and figure out the identity of the Romulans who killed her and to find clues to help locate her sister. Based on their methods, Larisa determines the perpetrators were the  Zhat Vash, a secretive Romulan intelligence agency who stand against synthetic life in all forms. Picard asks a friend to fake his medical so he can go to Starfleet to ask for a ship and a crew to continue his work but is told in no uncertain terms that he will not be welcomed there and is instead investigated by Starfleet security. Instead he turns to his old colleague Raffi who puts him in touch with a charismatic pilot and he begins to assemble a crew to search for Maddox. Meanwhile on the artefact, Soji forms a relationship with sexy but clearly a baddie Narek and continues to work on the Borg under the supervision of Hugh, who is now the head of the Borg artefact research institute. 

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20 years on from the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, Picard is still haunted by dreams of his fallen crewmate and friend Data. Having become disillusioned with Starfleet’s behaviour during the Romulan crisis Picard has retired to the family vineyard and has lost his drive and purpose. But all that changes when he meets a young woman named Dahj who has suddenly developed superhuman abilities. Could she be part of a mystery that is deeply connected to his past?

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