The system was built by an ancient species, "thousands of centuries ago" Agnes tells us, whose "hubris" lead them to create artificial life. It was a disaster, so they left The Admonition behind—marked by the octonary stars—as a warning to future species attempting to develop their own synthetic life. Raffi starts the explanation, from hints she pieced together with the help of the ship's various holographic subsystems: "This warning says: don't do what we did.
We created synthetic life forms and—". They created a group, the Zhat Vash, dedicated to finding and terminating all synthetic life. But here's where it gets strange. Because it seems the threat isn't the synthetic life itself, but instead what its creation will eventually prompt. Rios compares it to a deadly version of what happened when Zefram Cochrane activated Earth's first warp drive in , which caught the attention of a Vulcan starship, leading to our first contact with an alien civilization and, eventually, the United Federation of Planets.
Who or what might arrive to destroy humanity should they create synthetic life remains a mystery. And, yet, soon after we meet him, Picard is suddenly feeling hopeful, again. And Stewart has been going around collecting his old cast members for cameos, just as the reanimated Picard goes around collecting a new crew for one last mission into space.
For half a dozen seasons, Guinan advised the crew members on everything from how to flirt to how to find humanity in the nearly irredeemable collective known as the Borg, a hive of creatures that violently turned every species they encountered into half-mechanical automatons. Chabon, along with his co-writers, have made attempts to change that.
There are gratuitous fight scenes and some antihero grittiness, too: most of the new faces that surround Picard are premium-cable scoundrels and Daniel Craig—era Bond villains, full of worldly resentments, overcooked ideologies, and self-centered intentions. Picard did not come away without damage from all his investigations of alien strife. He has had his mind repeatedly hijacked by the concerns of other beings. The Borg once assimilated him.
Watching Picard and his crew explore the galaxy has always been as much about finding differences in the realms beyond our solar system as about finding the possibility of difference inside ourselves. Notable Examples. Search Interest. Latest Editorial And News. Recent Videos 1. Add a Video. Add an image. Tags snowclone advice animals of angry star trek advice animal jean luc picard reaction image. The other sister is called Seb-Cheneb the destroyer who carries a horn from the great pale hell beast called Ganmadan.
When she blows a blast on that horn, it will unleash all the ch'khalagu who have been waiting since the beginning of time. It's well delivered by Treadaway and, with the exception of the Zhal Makh scene in episode six , this is probably his best performance in the show so far. Staying with Rios, Raffi, Elnor and Narek, it's morning now and Narek is explaining how the wide-dispersal, molecular solvent grenades can now be used against the transmitter instead of the Space Orchid Defense System.
The plan is to go through the front door, naturally. The thing is, La Sirena is repaired and operational now, so quite why they don't just fly in and blow it up isn't really explained. It would've been quite easy to solve this dilemma, since even Will Riker's Jonathan Frakes house had a shield , so briefly mentioning something similar that Coppelius Station could have had would've worked, but no.
The gang arrives at the house and present Narek as a prisoner that they found to gain entry. The explosive will need a delivery system, however, it has to be non-metal. There's a transporter block over the compound no shield though so they can't beam it in.
Rios, the genius that he is, puts it inside one of his futsal balls. Related: 'Star Trek: Section 31' to start filming when 'Discovery' season 3 wraps. Actually inside the compound, Jurati uses her "third eye" sorry, Saga to get past the retina scan and into the quarters Picard has been locked inside, busting him out of his cell-of-sorts and dragging him back to La Sirena.
Soong meanwhile is marveling over the fact that his Golem is now ready to receive neural engrams. In the background, he's been downloading Saga's memories and stops his work as he sees her very last memories, which of course, were of being stabbed through the eye. He can see Narek, obviously, but also Sutra also played by Isa Briones. In fact, it's Sutra who fatally stabs her android associate. Picard and Jurati reach La Sirena and learn that the Romulan fleet is just seven minutes away.
Picard gives one of his bite-sized speeches; this one on how the synthetics have life yes, but no one is teaching them what it's for. The "Star Trek" fanfare plays softly in the background to add further grandeur to the moment. It's all good fun and is a nice reminder of what "Star Trek" is really all about without overdoing it, this time at least. Picard powers up La Sirena and Jurati turns from her helm control chair, smiles and says, "Make it so," which on the whole, probably wasn't really necessary, but it's hardly a major complaint.
That comes later. Back at the compound, Sutra is giving her evil monologue to all the other synthetics. Soong marches through the crowd to confront his artificial offspring and finally deactivates her.
The others get ready to deliver the explosives, but they have to get past Soji, who's still brainwashed to follow Sutra's cause and hell-bent on completing the beacon. Rios launches the drone containing the charge but Soji catches it and throws it some distance away before it detonates harmlessly, without even scratching the beacon. And then, we unexpectedly cut to the Borg cube, where Narissa has finally managed to get the weapons systems online.
She tries to target lock La Sirena, but out of the shadows comes Seven, blaster in hand. Narissa vs. Seven is something we hadn't even considered — what a match-up! Sadly, the fight is a major disappointment, it's brief and poorly choreographed: from Seven's obvious over-extension while holding her blaster surely a Fenris Ranger would've heard of center axis relock giving Narissa ample opportunity to disarm her, all the way to Narissa's eventual demise.
It's a monumental missed opportunity. We all wanted it, especially after the death of Hugh. Out of all the disturbing ways to die as seen in "Star Trek" — incinerated by a Horta, having all the salt sucked out of your body, blown out into space or being ripped apart at a sub-atomic level while half formed in a transporter — Narissa plunges down a shaft.
They form a net of sorts and while they're destroying quite a few Romulan Warbirds, it just isn't enough. And just in case there was any question that it was the Picard Maneuver that was being referenced last week , it's definitely referenced this week.
If only they had some kind of whacky fundamental field replicator with a neural atomic interface. Thankfully, the mysterious MacGuffin is lying there on the control console and quicker than you can say "redundant melacortz ramistat kiloquad interface modules," they've created the illusion of hundreds of ships, all identical to La Sirena, dropping out of warp and facing off against the Romulan fleet.
If only General Oh Tamlyn Tomita could say "fire" quicker, this would've all been over ages ago. Picard makes one last plea to Soji to power down the beacon; she refuses, so he tells her that he's going to offer her people the synthetics one last thing in an attempt to convince them to change their minds, his life. Related: The penultimate episode of 'Star Trek: Picard' will blow your socks off. The fight above the planet continues, but if the fundamental field replicator with neural atomic interface has created hundreds of projections of La Sirena, wouldn't they all be twisting and turning and generally flying in an identical manner to the original ship?
Soji activates the beacon and a giant, red bolt streaks into the sky, opening some kind of Eye of Sauron-looking, trans-dimensional portal, or something. And Oh is just about to give the command, again , to engage planetary sterilization pattern number five, when the "Star Trek" fanfare plays once again and a few hundred starships arrive.
Apparently the United Federation of Planets has designated the planet Ghulion IV in the Vayt sector as under the protection of Starfleet according to the terms of the Treaty of Algeron. And he's right, they all look identical: very much like the Pathfinder Class from Star Trek Online, which raises a few questions. Is Starfleet really only building one class of starship now? Well, according to TrekCore , the visual effects work for the season only got completed last week and VFX supervisor Ante Dekovic said that a wider range of ship variation simply wasn't possible due to a lack of available production time.
And that just sounds a bit odd.
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