Star Trek: Picard spend her spare time telling a story that, at times, tries to balance nostalgia of the past through interrogation of what is unhealthy for its past a time of sorrow it means. The first season, whether for better or worse, decides that the best thing any of us can do is to embrace that memory wholeheartedly.
"Et Arcadia Ego, Part 2" naturally begins with the tragic fate our heroes face in the climax last week's behavior set. Tthe Romulan ship sails for minutes the androids, convinced to escape Narek's assassination in exile, are preparing an organic apocalypse at the hands of some unknown supreme being; and Jean-Luc Picard looks like he can't get anyone to listen to him as he tries to get both sides to stand down. Ah, and Narissa is hiding in a small Borg Cube that has taken it down without anyone noticing – Seven and Elnor are just hanging out waiting for the battle to continue, beware of any Romulans doing the rampant task of approaching them – It's time for a survivor Nareki to meet her. Overall, a bad time!
Narek and Narissa began to draw up their plan to destroy the Copellius station – with the origins of some of the sexually purged bombs – and before Oh and his army got there to clear the map, but from here the episode took a step further. It turns out Narek plays a much longer game than his sister, and instead of taking bombs at the Coppellius station … he takes them to The Sirena, giving Raffi and Rios a waiting (which repairs their engines a bit with Coppelian tech which, when greatly reduced, is actually a magic trick that lets you think of anything you like and make it happen) an unpleasant alliance.
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Nareki is not the only one who seems to be repenting, because back at the station – where Soji and Soong are now working on a beacon to bring about a mysterious alliance of construction to destroy the whole civilization – Dr. Jurati, who was with Songong in the first round, arrives to rescue Picard. One quick trip back The Sirena (not knowing that Narek, Elnor, Raffi, and Rios have now gone to camp to put in their plan to destroy the basket), they both see Romulan fThe arrival of the leet is imminent. Here we are, after episode after episode just touching on it, Picard it eventually goes inside a picture of heroism of Jean-Luc whom we know and love.
To take The Sirena in the sky itself while Jurati stares in astonishment at the nearest station, Picard is like a Romulan floral flute. It is very painful as it is pointless and confused, as Picard and Jurati set sail for Coppellius & # 39; introduced orchids, pulled by a devastating fire trying to identify the Romulans – while on top of that, the world team system is backfires, leaving Nareki blocked as Soji continues to build the beacon. It is bizarre and frustrating but with the approval driven by that happiness of simple happiness. Although happy as it is, it does illustrate a fatal flaw: Emost of the time when you ask the question of how or why it happened, "Et in Arcadia, Ego Part 2" simply gives a bucket of nostalgia instead of actually answering it.
What Picard hopes to accomplish is to take over The Sirena on a suicide mission against hundreds of Romulan Warbirds? But isn't it good, Jean-Luc is flying the atmosphere and making this happen! How synth wand Rios had used it before to fix it The Sirena and suddenly they had the ability to move the ship to deceive the Romulans? Don't worry, they say it's Picard Maneuver, or it isn't Picard Maneuver himself it worked! Why did Nareki disappear completely from the episode after restraining himself and never to be mentioned again? Forget that, Starfleet offered to be alone with Riker in the Captain's chair!
There are parallels to this Star Trek: DiscoveryS end of season, which also spends most of its time exploring the business in a rational structure in conjunction with nostalgia. But what makes it more worrying here is that Picard it was equally limited in subjection to it TNG roots so far. It also, at times, used it as an opportunity to ask if this nostalgia was a good thing from the start, if Jean-Luc himself started to find out for himself at the expense of hurting people around him. Its complete return to it at the conclusion of its climax only serves as a fulfillment Picard he seemed to have never been genuinely brave in those questions from the beginning, or perhaps, unintentionally, that he was too afraid to do so when it came to the myth the show was set for.
As soon as you give in to that reminder, however, the end seems momentary like it's going to get out of it. After Jean-Luc makes one final request not to stop the Romulans and Starfleet from exploding on their own, but Soji closes the beans before the Synth Alliance & # 39; s robotic-tendril appears, he heads home to a discussion about what it means to sacrifice this week's episode ago. They have chosen to give up their lives during these times, Jean-Luc argues, because they are there to save others, not to save themselves. Picard and the Fed do not help because it will prevent them from being killed by mysterious synth executives, but because they believe it is the right thing to do.
Not only does the request work, but Picard's self-sacrifice becomes a reality. With Soji standing on the ground and the Fed and Zhat Vash both quietly leaving Coppellius out of contention, this powerful striker finally catches our hero. Given what he believes is the ultimate path to Riker, the abnormality of the brain as an all-time hit on the show eventually creates its own danger of exposition, and, surrounded by his new band, his new friends, Jean-Luc Picard dies.
Maybe it's the most honest moment in the episode for this episode, not just the fall of the purge, as everyone from Seven of Nine (who is also emotionally frustrated with wanting to kill Narissa for revenge – oh, by the way, that's happened in the previous issue – and actually doing so) on Elnor takes a sad moment for Picard's death. But it's also because it's the first moment of this episode that sounds worthwhile in regards to set logical ideas at “Et Arcadia, Ego"& # 39; the first part in reference to the sacrificial value. Picard completes his mission, and in doing so, he realizes that he was really willing to give his life for another, paying the small amount he had sacrificed. Star Trek: Nemesis.
And that thing wrapped up at home almost immediately afterwards when Picard suddenly felt he wasn't dead – well, he's not alive, either – and reunited with his old friend Data (played by Brent Spiner) in some sort of computer limbo. It turns out, just as pieces of data & # 39; s positronic neurons (in fact, his soul) were stored to create new synths, Soji, Soong and Agnes managed to keep Picard's mind. It gives Picard one gift that seems to be the end: to reunite with his android friend.
Yes, it is questionable as it is in this episode, but here it is mind-boggling and binding the broad message of the article. Tit is not a moral to say "Make it so" because that is something that comes up TNG, using these figures We know and like to say something about life, and, in this case, death. The data belief that life is not truly lived without experience – that we must have the ability to sacrifice something of value in order to make it our priority – is a great idea that can only remind us of his personality from the time of the recurrence. Nemesis, but of great value to what Picard has now done for Soji and his people.
… that is, up to our actors, too Picard personally, he has decided that Jean-Luc is more important to make that sacrifice.
Carrying a request from Data to actually have his last neurons shut down then he he can die and live a fulfilling life – Picard is brought back to the grave by Soji, Soong, and Jurati, his mind stored in the golem formation that Soong had made for himself. The body is not developed in the way Dahj or Soji is, but his large brain is gone, he may eventually die, and In the meantime, Jean-Luc has returned from the world of the living, and is better than ever.
It was expected that Picard could cheat this death otherwise. After all, labor unions, Patrick Stewart included, have repeatedly noted that there are plans for them many periods of Picard beyond this. But the way it is done here – Picard peacefully and ends to make it disappear for someone – completely proclaims the whole meaning of the episode with a sense of surrender, the very essence of the conflict between the Romulans and the synths, and all the data that had just been said about the point of life. Instead it sends something very bizarre: Data can make that contribution because it's Data. He was a supportive character. Beloved, yes, but not a hero. Jean-Luc Picard? Jean Luc Picard is too important to sacrifice, whether he wants to be or not.
And finally, we have to ask – no PicardNudity, mind-what me Is Picard allowed to contribute this season? He never had to talk about his hubris in the form of a Romulan supernova or how the return to that hubris has hurt people around him like Raffi and Elnor. His deepest regret about the sacrifice of Data to him is not only resolved peacefully, he discovers that there is a the best its kind more than he had, saying good-bye to his friend and paying taxes as much as he could for the first timearound. Not only does she get a beautiful new body, but, in the end, she finally gets a ship to order again, a group of her loved ones, and not only is she proven right in the eyes of the Federation, but is accepted and accepted by them as well. Out of curiosity, Jean-Luc is once again a hero, but now as a fairy tale.
Finally, this nostalgia leaves “Et in Arcadia, Ego Part 2” and Star Trek: Picard with so many unanswered questions, he rubs aside many threads of residency because of it. How did the Federation end its synth ban so quickly? Why is Agnes so wrong not to commit to the murder of Bruce Maddox? What is the Federation itself like now, with the obvious decay of its previous restoration—iit's magically okay and? What now, Zhat Vash, and the remainder of Romula? What will be the Sutra, paralyzed by Songong for his anointing? And seriously: Where to hell Nareki?
All of that, it seems, will have to wait for the second season, as new times are coming now as Picard and Rios seem to be sharing the order The Sirena with a full smile, happy crewmember (even the Seventh seems to be inconsistent). But the new season is hopeful bring in addition to the answers to these current, but new, questions as well. With the creation of a bright new future, what more will be required Star Trek: Picard you really have to say?
Hopefully in the future it will decide if it's worth saying anything more than saying "Get involved," because of the past.
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- Since the overlap of this episode disappointed me, I'll say this: Jonathan Frakes looks really good at that at 2399 Command Red. It's real good.
- I find that Starfleet is said to have been far behind and its construction infrastructure was badly affected by the attack on the Utopia Planitia but … did Riker stand out with the rest of the same class of ship? It was a look of course it doesn't bother me.
- Interestingly, when talking about Starfleet & # 39; s, uh, ships, the design looked very reminiscent of the hybrid between the Emperor-Class presented as Nemesis& # 39; Business-E and its emergence, the Odyssey Class, was filled Star Trek Online. It's not exactly the same though, so it's probably possible that, this new section of the ship was just meant to kick off the design, but nonetheless, it could be a clean little Eastergg.
- It talks about well-made nostalgia, anyway: Deadlines for data set to "Blue Skies" – a song he had sung at Troi and Riker's wedding Nemesis—it was a lovely touch. Everything about the data visibility in this episode was pretty much a good post for him, actually.
- Was it just me, or was it the muscle of whatever the hell the Synthetic Alliance actually was looks familiar in the tracks of future-Control A.I. search Discovery supervised staff "Light and Shadows”? I have no idea if that was the intention, or the light-headed robots from tomorrow are really into tentpenterns.
- One of the very last shots we see in the clip as its crew The Sirena makes its way to the bridge with Picard by Raffi and Steven playing Kal-Toh, the Vulcan game of Tuvok's favorite plot in the middle Voyager (Seven once attacked him with one blow, much to Tuvok's strength). However More It is more interesting than the little Passover egg is that Raffi and seven, for a moment, hold each others' hands up close. Are they … in a relationship now? Somehow? Although LGBTQ representation has never been openly addressed Picard however, the royal show is Michael Chabon you have seen it before that it could have a subtle rendition of all the Raffi and Seven backstories, or it would be left unsafe on screen. If this is an opinion on something else, and something between the two, hopefully, PicardSeason two will make such introductions clear.
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