My concern with this season of "Picard" has been one of "what is the actual story?", it's a question I'm still struggling with having completed the penultimate episode. A couple of the storyline do appear to have finished, one in a way I sort of liked, kinda. . . But still I'm virtually none the wiser about how the disparate parts of this storyline fit together.
As Jurati/Borg Queen (Alison Pill/Annie Wersching) begin their assault of La Sirena, Seven (Jeri Ryan), Raffi (Michelle Hurd) and Rios (Santiago Cabera) look to defend the ship, but it's Jurati herself who has the most success in delaying the Queen from taking control. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Talinn (Orla Brady) head back into chateau Picard, chased by Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) there Picard must finally confront some of the demons that haunt him.
I'm going to give the series a pass on the resolution of the Jurati/Borg storyline. I'll let the writing of those scenes convince me that the Borg Queen could be won over, even if I'm not sure how fitting that it is with what we know about the Borg from elsewhere. The fact that, like Cybermen, you can't reason with them is supposed to be their defining trait, but again, OK... at least that particularly plot strand is done.
I'm less forgiving of all this Picard, repressed trauma storyline. Quite simply, why hasn't it ever come up before? Maybe if this was his first time at Chateau Picard, but it isn't, he lives there in the prime timeline . . . In the house where his mother killed herself. Why couldn't his ships councillor, Guinan, any number of psych' evaluations he must have had brought this up?
Again, Q is nowhere to be seen, even though he's supposed to be the antagonist of this story. I still don't quite get how the launch effects both the future so dramatically and the work that Soong is wanting to do - which Is something to doing with cloning, I'm not quite sure on that either.
I can't see how this gets wrapped up in anything like a satisfactory way, with just one more episode to go. Let's see if they can astonish me.
As Jurati/Borg Queen (Alison Pill/Annie Wersching) begin their assault of La Sirena, Seven (Jeri Ryan), Raffi (Michelle Hurd) and Rios (Santiago Cabera) look to defend the ship, but it's Jurati herself who has the most success in delaying the Queen from taking control. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Talinn (Orla Brady) head back into chateau Picard, chased by Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) there Picard must finally confront some of the demons that haunt him.
I'm going to give the series a pass on the resolution of the Jurati/Borg storyline. I'll let the writing of those scenes convince me that the Borg Queen could be won over, even if I'm not sure how fitting that it is with what we know about the Borg from elsewhere. The fact that, like Cybermen, you can't reason with them is supposed to be their defining trait, but again, OK... at least that particularly plot strand is done.
I'm less forgiving of all this Picard, repressed trauma storyline. Quite simply, why hasn't it ever come up before? Maybe if this was his first time at Chateau Picard, but it isn't, he lives there in the prime timeline . . . In the house where his mother killed herself. Why couldn't his ships councillor, Guinan, any number of psych' evaluations he must have had brought this up?
Again, Q is nowhere to be seen, even though he's supposed to be the antagonist of this story. I still don't quite get how the launch effects both the future so dramatically and the work that Soong is wanting to do - which Is something to doing with cloning, I'm not quite sure on that either.
I can't see how this gets wrapped up in anything like a satisfactory way, with just one more episode to go. Let's see if they can astonish me.
