Star Trek comics answer one of Picard's biggest questions

Trailers for the final CBS All Access series, Star Trek: Picard made it clear that the show will also be touring more established ones Star Trek: The Next Generation bullets and nuns. In its first episode, for example, we got help collecting life at Chateau Picard, Jean Luc's ancestral home.

But we also encountered two new characters, the guardians of the Picard house, who have the unusual background of finding a retired Starfleet keeper. As of now, the show didn't explain much about who Laris and Zhaban are, but that's a topic Star Trek: Picard – Countdown

So in case you weren't reading it, here's how Laris and Zhaban met Jean Luc Picard.

(Vol. Note: This section contains spoilers for the first episode Star Trek: Picard on CBS All Access, as well Star Trek: Picard – Countdown.)

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Laris and Zhaban are Romulans, who are among the first major signs that something very important has changed in galactic history through time PicardThe first episode, "Memorial." On time Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Federation and the Romulan Empire have been in a long Cold War, seemingly on the verge of a pan-galactic conflict at any time.

How is it that Jean Luc Picard, a well-known politician and military commander, welcomed two Romulans to his home? It begins with a scientific prediction that the Romulus sun will soon travel through the supernova, destroying the heart of the Romulan civilization. As mentioned in "Remembrance," Picard was at the forefront of a radical effort to organize and organize the relocation of Romanian citizens.

Where "remembrance" leaves that effort is in the pain of history, Star Trek: Picard – Countdown goes for clarification, which shows that not all Romulans were prepared to accept the peace that the Federation did.

Picard meets Laris and Zhaban on the planet Yuyat Beta, where he is arrested by Romanian Commissioner Shiana for delaying the deportation of 10,000 Romulan people – after discovering an unknown traditional the number of numbers added to the millions; Resources that the Emperor intended to be left behind.

However, the indigenous rebels working with Laris and Zhaban knocked Picard and his first officer out of prison. Both revealed that they were not the only colonists in charge of the Yuyat Betan winist: They were agents of Tal Shiar, a Romulan intelligence service. During their time at Yuyat Beta, they are romantic and indigenous. However, in the strange way of Romulan, that ended up being a partial truth.

Photo: Kirsten Beyer, Mike Johnson, Angel Hernandez / IDW Publishing

In the last issue of this week Star Trek: Picard – Countdown Laris and Zhaban came out to be Tal Shiar's full-time advocates. They were just one of many workers entering the Romanian colonies, waiting for the arrival of the Picard in a certain Romulan colony. When Governor Shiana tried to hijack Picard's ship, Verity, to take out her people, they seized the opportunity to gain trust.

When Picard surrenders Laris and Zhaban's house to Verity, they will destroy her, as part of a campaign to destroy the Federation. You see, when the Romulan Council accepted the Federation's support, Thel Shiar continued to be corrupt, believing that everything was a Federation hoax to weaken the Roman Empire.

But when he made friends with Picard, Laris and Zhaban saw him show more care and interest in Romulan's life than their forefathers (the Yuyat Betans were almost abandoned, they were citizens of the State). In the end, they blocked twice from Council and Tal Shiar, returning Verity's control to Picard.

So, if you follow, the spies were just guessing they were made traditional – they even met Picard, in fact they did. But that meant that Laris and Zhaban now lost both power to the Romulan Council and its flawless intelligence agency, a wonderful reward for pursuing their goals. They needed a hiding place.

And Picard, being Picard, knew somewhere that they could do just that. They even had an amazing experience! Fast forward a few decades, and we see them happily settled on Chateau Picard. We also know that weird life probably won't last – the first episode of Star Trek: Picard given a lot of action and shock when it debuted last week – but it would be foolish to think that a couple of Romanian private-sector representatives have no plans to wrap their arms around him.