Star Trek: Picard
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A long-ago civilization passed a threshold in innovating synthetic life that invited the coming of destroyers.
(The series doesnt use the term the singularity, but thats the concept its playing with.)
Many dont survive with their sanity intact, leading some to kill themselves on the spot.
And even those who do survive, like Narissa, find themselves changed by the experience.
Thats true even of those who learn the information secondhand, like Agnes.
Did Data love him, she asks?
Datas capacity for expressing and processing was limited, Picard replies.
I suppose we had that in common.
Soji, on the other hand, isnt quite so hesitant to find love in their relationship.
But its others who drive the action in this installment, some onLa Sirena, some far away.
They wont want to be released, she explains to Elnor.
I… might not want to release them.
Except, that is, those who remain behind to kick Romulan ass.
The biggest question along those lines belongs to Soji.
Does she have any choice but to become (or somehow usher in) a destroyer of worlds?
The powers that be specifically the Zhat Vash and the Starfleet elements under their control certainly dont think so.
It turns out hes seen her before.
But to figure that out, Raffi first has to interrogate all five ofLa Sirenas emergency holograms.
(This includes Ian, an engineering hologram with a Scottish accent, of course.)
In the midst of some grim images robot holocaust!
Borg drones sucked into the cold vacuum of space!
Then, stricken with guilt and Rios disappointment, Vandemeer killed himself.
No wonder Rios doesnt want to get attached to captains anymore.
Where did they come from?
And how did they slip away?
Code 47s
This was a good episode for Narissa (and Peyton List).
Its no small thing to be the conveyer of a cosmic admonition with apocalyptic consequences.
Good to see Seven of Nine again, whos downright scary when switching into Borg mode.
I think about suicide every day.
Thats how I comfort myself.
That definitely sounds like the mindset of a woman who would murder her mentor and former lover.
It doesnt necessarily solve the problem of how Agnes redeems herself and sticks around the ship.
(Ifshe does, of course.)
Also in Rios cabin: some vinyl records.
Thats probably why he only has a handful.
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