Once
again, we start with a flashback.
Commodore Oh is leading a group of Romulans in The Admonition. They get to see exactly what happened to an
unnamed ancient civilization that fell victim to artificial intelligence. Most of the Romulans go crazy. Not Narissa or Rhamda, though. Rhamda is affected, but not to the point of
killing herself. Narissa seems to make
it through unscathed.
As
for the story’s present, Jurati has to face up to the fact that she killed
Bruce Maddox. Granted, it was on orders
from Commodore Oh, but she still killed someone. Oh’s involvement might not be enough to keep
her out of prison.
We
also learn why Rios’s captain killed himself.
It had to do with the fact that the captain was ordered to kill two
synthetics, one of which happened to look like Soji. It’s a bit of a coincidence that Rios was on
the ship to make first contact, but it is an interesting one.
Meanwhile,
all of Raffi’s conspiracy theories are proven correct. There was a plot behind the Mars
attacks. For this reason, she contrasts
really well with Picard. Picard wants to
see the best in everyone. He’s come to
expect it. Meanwhile, Raffi tends to see
the worst. It doesn’t help that she’s
proven correct, but it also doesn’t deter Picard from trying.
He’s
the only one on the ship that doesn’t take a pessimistic view of the
Federation, even though Starfleet let him down in a big way. He’s coming to realize that that’s no excuse
not to try. In a way, he also gave
up. Instead of going out to make things
better, he retreated in to a vineyard.
(He basically made alcohol rather than just drink it.)
I
have to wonder if the ancient race mentioned in this episode is the Tkon
Empire. It’s said that they lived
thousands of centuries ago. (Picard says
200,000 years ago, but I’m not sure where he got this number.) The Tkon Empire existed over 600,000 years
ago and had the ability to move stars.
It’s said that a race would have had to have moved stars to have an
eight-star system, as the most stars to occur naturally would seem to be seven.
Elnor
is still on the Borg cube, but he now has Seven helping him. It’s not clear if they’ll meet up with Picard
and crew. I guess I’ll be finding out
soon enough. As soon as I finish writing
this, I’m off to watch the two-part finale.
It should be an interesting one.
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