It’s time we face facts, we’re at the end run for Star Trek: Picard Season 2. It won’t be long before we’ll be discussing our ending theories for the second season.
Thankfully, we’re not there just yet.
However this week we do have Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 8 “Mercy”.
I have to say that the episode title alone is mysterious.
Is someone begging for mercy, are the crew giving mercy to the Borg Queen? Who knows.
Perhaps we’ll start to see plot threads wrapping up for Star Trek: Picard.
. However this week we’ve got the usual promotional pictures, trailers, and previews.
Additionally, we’re finding ourselves looking at one detail in particular.
This would be the apparent appearance of Vulcans in the teaser trailer. What in the galaxy are Vulcans doing on Earth before First Contact?
SPOILER WARNING - We’ll be talking about the upcoming episodes of Star Trek: Picard Season 2, you have been warned!!
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Episode 8, “Mercy” is written by both Cindy Appel and Kirsten Beyer, while being directed by Joe Menendez!
The official synopsis reads as follows, “With time running out before the launch of the Europa Mission, Picard and Guinan must free themselves from FBI custody. Seven and Raffi come face-to-face with Jurati and the horror of what she’s become.”!
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As usual, we can’t show you the actual trailers on-screen due to the lords at Paramount smiting us down if we do so, but if you do want to watch both the Teaser Trailer and Ready Room trailer,
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Sadly it does appear that Paramount are not allowing International fans to have fun,
as the trailers for Star Trek: Picard Season 2 and many other series like Strange New Worlds, are being Geo-blocked once again on Twitter and social media.
Honestly, this is such a a weird stance to take, as you would want more people to watch your show and spread awareness. And here was me thinking that Star Trek was for everyone…
Alright, let’s break down the teaser trailer!
It appears that this week’s episode will give us more Q. Well, we hope it will, but the latest teaser trailer does feature him.
While doing so, it also features the character of Agent Martin Wells, who swopped in and arrested Jean-Luc and Guinan last week.
The character is a wonder and a mystery to Star Trek fans right now. Mainly due to the man playing him.
Actor Jay Karnes is well known by Trekkies for playing Lieutenant Ducane in Star Trek: Voyager.
Now many are wondering if he is doing so again. Sadly it looks like this is not the case.
Additionally, as the trailer points out, It looks like Well’s had a run-in with aliens, specifically Vulcans.
We’ve covered Picard’s Vulcan problem in this article, so hopefully, Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 8 expands upon it.
The trailer for this week's episode opens with Agent Martin wells, trying to interrogate both Jean-Luc and Guinan following their arrest last week
Asking them if they are extraterrsital, obviously trying to work out how the hell a man beams in from thin air in a back alley.
The pair laugh it off, but that does not seem to stop Agent Wells, as he has his own agenda it would seem. This is based on this trailer and The Ready Room Clip we’ll talk about in a moment.
Finally, our next segment is back with Isa Briones’s Koree Soong, daughter of Adam Soong.
She was absent from last week's episode, even with the startling discovery of what her father had actually been doing all along.
Well, it appears the game might be even more afoot when Q invades her VR headset.
I’m thinking this is a modern VR headset, as the on-screen HUD displays “Non-native code detected”.
Q states that he is a friend, awaiting for Koree to arrive at this very moment. Perhaps hinting that he is in fact the key to something?
When we think about the Time Divergence, it may be several factors at play, rather than just the obvious one in Renee Picard. Hopefully, this episode might tell us more as we go on, it remains to be seen.
Flashback to Picard now alone with Martin Wells, he says he knows a Haunted Man when he sees one. We also get a shot of Q looking sort of sad. Along with Doctor Soong overlooking his daughter, perhaps after Q has stuck his ore in.
This is also where the trailer gets even more interesting. As Picard is giving this speech to Agent Wells, we see a young child approaching a group of aliens in a dark forest.
This young child is alluded to be Agent Martin Wells, aka Jay Karnes’s character who many think is Lieutenant Ducane.
What would he be doing with Aliens on Earth in the past? And who are they for that matter?
These unknown aliens appear to be Vulcans.If we had the teaser trailer scenes to the elusive scenes we saw in the main trailer for Picard Season 2, it now makes a lot more sense.
Picard Season 2’s full trailer revealed Vulcans on Earth meets a young boy and potentially mind-melding with him. Why are Vulcans on Earth before First Contact though?
Well, we do know that Vulcans did observe Earth before First Contact. As an example, this is explored through the Star Trek: Enterprise episode, Carbon Creek.
Could it be the same character seen in this episode? I’m personally not sure, but given the deep cuts we have had with Star Trek: Picard Season 2, It wouldn’t surprise me if this was the case.
We’ve already had a fair few Enterprise references so far.
Finally, Jurati is getting stronger. Her finger sorta glows with Borg Tech, as Raffi and Seven prepare to take her down. There is this great shot of Jurati running over cars as she prepares to attach Raffi and Seven.
Thinking about how it may play out between Jurati/The Borg Queen and the crew, I would imagine they don’t kill her but rather stun her.
Forcing her to then work with the crew to return to the future and fix what is happening in the past.
That is what I imagine is going to happen then again, with the way the story is going, we simply do not know right now.
In terms of this week's promotional pictures, there aren’t many. Most of them are of Guinan, Jean-Luc, and Agent Wells. But we do have two good ones featuring Raffi and Seven of Nine, which looks fantastic.
This week’s Ready Room Aftershow clip also focuses on Agent Martin Wells. I think it is clear to say that we’ll be getting more detail on him in this episode.
Additionally, there appears to be a connection between him and some trespassing aliens on Earth.
Perhaps the time divergence stood right in front of us hidden in plain sight. The Vulcans could have been the cause of this all along as we mentioned earlier.
Guinan does cross-examine Agent Wells rather well. It shows more of the character that Whoopi Goldberg brought to life in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Guinan has always been really good at reading and understanding people, likely due to her species being so good at listening to people.
Jay Karnes’ character is named Agent Wells. Wells is the class of starship of the Relativity in the Voyager episode of the same name.
And yes, I think this adds more evidence that he is Ducane.
Maybe not, but it certainly is the case that there is more to Agent Wells than meets the eye.
Especially as he interrogates Jean-Luc and Guinan. Take a look at The Ready Room trailer clip below to find out more.
The main questions and theories we have this week revolve around the Vulcans.
You’ll be able to see them both in this week’s preview trailer, as well as the main trailer for Star Trek: Picard Season 2.
Why would the Vulcans be on Earth in the past? Are these the same Vulcans we see crash land in Carbon Creek? This would be the Star Trek: Enterprise episode.
We’ve also got to deal with the Borg Queen this episode. Personally, I am still waiting for the moment the crew capture her, but we might get close to this episode.
I’m thinking Jurati runs into Seven and Raffi, cue action sequence fight. It’s clear that some of our Picard characters are taking different paths, but does it mean we’re losing Picard’s crew before they return home? Also, Rios, we need to see what is going on here.
Lastly, I’m simply wishing that Jay Karnes’s Agent Martin Wells is just Lieueant Ducane.
. I know we’ve mentioned it before and 101 other times, but common. The USS Relativity was a Wells-class Timeship and now Karnes is playing Agent Wells?
Yes, this looks to be a reference to HG Wells, but still. I can dream okay!
Don’t forget, Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Episode 8 airs on Thursday via Paramount+ and on CTV Sci-Fi Channel and Crave in Canada
Additionally, the episode will air on Friday for International viewers via Amazon Prime Video.
Star Trek: Picard Season 2 is still warping along as planned, though it does appear that the later episodes of the season are coming under heavy criticism from fans.
Rightly so in some aspects, it does feel like the end of the second season is sort of dragging and following some of the ways the first season..
While episodes like last week are good, when you have a limited 10-episode series, you do wonder if there is time to fit all of this in. The main plot, I.e fixing the future and ensuring the crew has a future to return to, seems to have been sidelined slightly.
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