"Where no one has gone before"
It's there.
Herta Ware played "Maman" in that episode and she appears a certain way as an old woman: in these episodes of Picard she is a much younger woman with a much different fate.
Picard explains it to Laris: how both images of his mother are true.
It is kind of uncomfortable to see Brent Spiner playing the crook, but he is just as good playing Adam Soong as he was playing Arik soong or "often wrong" Noonian Soong.
Data's family has always been dichotomized like this, all the way back to next generation season one where we met Lore.
What I have found in this series is not "canon breaking", there has always been an explanation as to why things were slightly different than in next generation.
Guinan for instance. Despite meeting a Picard from the future, we forget that she was still bound by her first meeting with Picard in the 19th Century, to not speak about that meeting until 500 years had passed. In the years depicted of this episode, that time has not yet passed. There was a specific date in the future where it was allowed to circle back onto times arrow, that time was not in this episode or this series.
So? She does not speak about it, not even to an older Picard.
I have found the twists and turns in this story satisfactory, and as far as "time travel" stories go, this one has been unique.
It's there.
Herta Ware played "Maman" in that episode and she appears a certain way as an old woman: in these episodes of Picard she is a much younger woman with a much different fate.
Picard explains it to Laris: how both images of his mother are true.
It is kind of uncomfortable to see Brent Spiner playing the crook, but he is just as good playing Adam Soong as he was playing Arik soong or "often wrong" Noonian Soong.
Data's family has always been dichotomized like this, all the way back to next generation season one where we met Lore.
What I have found in this series is not "canon breaking", there has always been an explanation as to why things were slightly different than in next generation.
Guinan for instance. Despite meeting a Picard from the future, we forget that she was still bound by her first meeting with Picard in the 19th Century, to not speak about that meeting until 500 years had passed. In the years depicted of this episode, that time has not yet passed. There was a specific date in the future where it was allowed to circle back onto times arrow, that time was not in this episode or this series.
So? She does not speak about it, not even to an older Picard.
I have found the twists and turns in this story satisfactory, and as far as "time travel" stories go, this one has been unique.
