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last week's episode ended with the Titan narrowly avoiding capture by the Intrepid
thanks to the sacrifice of Roe laryn changelings have infiltrated Starfleet at the highest levels
Jack has something very wrong with him and it is confirmed Wharf and Rafi have been investigating
this undercover all along Picard season 3 has realized a revitalized Jean-Luc with
powerful performances by all principal cast members with heartfelt story arcs that feel
true to the characters we knew before as well as the spirit of Star Trek as a whole some of
the things we hope to learn from this episode include what happened at daystrom how did the
changelings find a way to infiltrate Starfleet and what turned Jack into Jason Bourne we begin
with three star Fleet ships zeroing in on a Titan decoy transponder vatic is frustrated
that she can't find them the Titan has been shedding these decoys and then jumping to warp
at intermediate intervals to stay one step ahead of the changelings hunting them vatic
gives a speech about being exhausted wearing the faces of the Federer Nation she says there
will be a day of lifeless bodies burning in space that bring unity and peace at first
we will have Vengeance when one of our underlings mentions that Frontier day is only three days
away and they still don't have Picard's son she has him murdered vatic wants the names of every
friend or loved one Picard knows and might turn to back on the Titan Beverly and John Luke are
talking about Jack and looking at a scan of his brain he finally confided with his mother what
he was experiencing and it appears the young man has aromatic syndrome inherited by his father in
the TNG finale episode all good things Picard had developed Advanced aromatic syndrome his condition
caused many of his friends to doubt his claims that he had been shifting back and forth in time
in 2399 Dr benawan informed Jean-Luc during the events of Picard season 1 that his brain defect
was fatal regardless of treatment and as Jean-Luc looks at Jack's brain scan the mirrored words
terminal diagnosis shows up so just as everyone thought Picard was hallucinating during all good
things Beverly believes Jack is also hallucinating what he is experiencing Visions waking nightmares
erratic bursts of aggression it also appears Jack has been having these experiences since
he was a child back on the Holodeck jack isn't handling the news of his Newfound Affliction well
he points out the irony that his mother thought to protect me from you the lateral damage in the
life of Jean-Luc Picard maybe I was doing before I was even born and then we get visitors to the
Titan Wharf and Rafi transport in and we get our favorite Klingon back in the room with his TNG
friends for the first time 11 years five months four days apparently Wharf has been keeping count
the inside joke of Chateau Picard continues as Wharf tells Jean-Luc it is quite tart sir Beverly
gives Wharf a heartfelt hug that he hates that's our Wharf and very much to our Delight Rafi refers
to Picard as Jean-Luc and not JL sure which we always thought was a bit too personal for anyone's
relationship with Picard everyone gets caught up with wharfs meditating and we get an awkward
moment between Rafi and seven who are no longer in a relationship and are doing their best to be
professional you all right well the production team and actors handle that underlying tension
very well as we don't dwell on it but we get on with the adventure at hand Warf acknowledges that
Beverly and Picard have a son and he is insistent that they do not let Ro laryn's death be in vain
in the ready room Wharf breaks down a history of the Dominion War and the retaliation by Starfleet
with a virus which Jean-Luc points out also supplied a cure directly to the changeling great
link Homeworld through this Shaw points out a few changeling zealots were created Rafi explains that
whatever these Rogue changelings have planned it's going to happen on Frontier day in less
than 48 hours it's somehow tied to starfleet's Frontier day it is here that we learn we need to
go to daystrom station and investigate what the changelings did there any volunteers daystrom
station is named after Richard destram one of the most influential scientists of the 23rd Century
we first meet him in the TOs episode The Ultimate computer where he came aboard the USS Enterprise
to test a revolutionary tactical computer that he loses control of and ends up putting nearly 2
000 people in danger daystrom was considered a boy wonder and he would go on to have a big
impact on the Star Trek universe The daystrom Institute one of the most prominent Federation
research centers would end up named after him as we learn in the TNG episode The Measure of a Man
the daystrom station we see here in Picard season 3 is a black site of the daystrom Institute and
houses some interesting Federation Secrets the next scenes feel like a high Setup movie as we
learn the crew will need to break into the station and burgle a manifest list of everything on board
the station to figure out what the changeling stole and what they planned to do with it on
Frontier day the plan is dangerous and potentially lethal but they are out of other options the Titan
arrives at destrem station as Wharf Rafi and Riker plan to leave on an away Mission the
breakup of seven and Rafi is hilariously handled by Warf who suggests seven come along and then
is relieved because it would have just ended up in Bloodshed that is a relief I was practicing
deceit the team has an hour to find the onboard manifest Riker makes a joke that they might need
some old-fashioned Klingon violence to which we get the controversial line from the preview clip
you should know that I now prefer pacifism to actual combat we all understand now that this
was just a joke since Wharf is already killed and maimed multiple people in the first half of
the series on destrem station Wharf uses the key provided by krin and it seems to work Starfleet
vessels begin showing up anyways despite the Titan using its usual tactics to escape detection Sydney
laforge has a great moment where she points out that those vessels have the ability to track
the Titan if they hit the ship with a weapon the Titan has to leave the away team to protect them
now on their own the team explores the station looking for the internal logs we learn that this
is where section 31 is hiding some of its secrets of course section 31 is an arm of Starfleet which
allows for Extraordinary Measures to be taken in times of extreme threat our official design
section 31 it frequently operates on its own without starfleet's knowledge of consent here
we see Riker looking at a Genesis 2 device behind glass of course we remember the Genesis device
from Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Khan which was designed to turn uninhabited planets into m-class
planets ready for colonization the original Genesis device was detonated by Khan aboard
the USS Reliant inside of the muttara nebula and a new planet was born it should surprise none of
us that section 31 is hiding a second Genesis device here on daystrom station it was also
interesting to learn that the station has been harboring the body of Captain James T Kirk who
died sadly under a bridge rather than on one Rafi pauses for a moment as we see the digital skeleton
of Star Trek's most famous Captain we then see Wharf Paws in front of a genetically modified
Tribble who isn't so soft and cuddly looking of course Tribbles are one of the most popular
aliens as well as a toy favorite that goes all the way back to the original series when a holographic
Crow pops up out of nowhere Security on board the station is monitoring them and then we suddenly
see Professor James Moriarty who says I think therefore I am Moriarty is a famous TNG villain
who was a hologram that became aware he was a hologram and attempted to escape the Enterprise
Moriarty tells them greetings old friends back on the Titan they have arrived at Ethan Prime the
fleet Museum here we see many of the Great ships in Star Trek's history this is truly one of the
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oh I'm just trying it out as we Circle the fleet Museum in a beautiful shot that pans out from the
Titan we see the original TOS Enterprise ncc-1701 USS Voyager USS defiant the HMS Bounty which spent
some time on Earth in 1984. we also see the nx01 from Star Trek Enterprise a Romulan bird of prey
a Klingon battle cruiser and more they move into park and are hailed by Commodore Geordi laforge
who seems angry with his old Captain listen to me very carefully we do see a warm glimpse of
our old engineer as he gives Beverly a hug but he speaks curtly to his daughter Sydney and you
know there is something going on there Jordy tells them they don't have much time he's been
riding Starfleet telling them it is a bad idea to bring the whole Fleet together for Frontier day
he is also concerned someone is going to fly by and see the Titan and realize it doesn't belong
we get our first look at the laforge sisters together the daughter standing with Jordy is
LeVar Burton's actual daughter Mika and she seems to be the one not in trouble with dad
40. we get our first conversation between Jack and Sydney who realize they both have
something in common with difficult fathers I was woman cuddling Picard wants Jordy to
clone the Titans transponder signal to lure them away from daystrom station so they can
go back and get their away team Jordy says he can't do that apparently all of the Federation
ships are now linked together and talk to each other which makes the Titan a beacon that went
close enough will notify other Starfleet ships every ship in this Fleet is now fully integrated
which means they talk to each other back on daystrom station Moriarty begins firing at
Riker Wharf and Rafi they Retreat as musical notes blare loudly Riker says this is not the
same self-aware Moriarty from the Enterprise he thinks he might be a projection Moriarty is
firing live rounds and Riker realizes the notes that Moriarty is playing Riker begins to realize
it's pop goes the weasel from the first episode of TNG where he meets data for the first time
Riker whistles the tune and Moriarty disappears The Three enter a room and
suddenly before us is data an old gray-haired data
back at the fleet Museum Jordy says he wants to help but he will be court-martialed and is
worried about his family laforge thinks Picard put his daughter into danger and Picard tries to
explain the truth to him there is a sweet scene between Jack and seven where they look at the
USS Voyager and seven talks about her time on the ship as we get to hear a bit of the Show's theme
song oh she's abusing it is a beautiful moment for Voyager fans then Jack asks about the HMS Bounty
and he recalls its cloaking device because the cloaking device it reactivated back on daystrom
station Riker comes to the realization that this Android looks like data but can't be him because
data was killed during the events of Star Trek Nemesis he also says he wasn't trying to hurt
them with Moriarty but instead trying to reach out to them he recognized them but he is not data we
also see b4's head whom data copied himself into apparently once Alton soon passed away daystrom
took an interest in his work a video of soon explains what he was trying to accomplish back
at Fleet Museum Museum Jordy tells Picard about his difficulties with Sydney in Parenthood in
general they talk about not having control of what you pass on to your children nor having control of
what your kids become it's something all parents struggle with as their children become adults
back to soon he explains this age data looking Droid is actually a combination of law B4 lore
and a great deal of data but this time with the wisdom and true aesthetic of age law was of course
data's daughter in the TNG episode The Offspring following her death data transferred her memories
and experiences into his own brain so she would live on we also learned soon died before he could
complete the project and the integration effort failed and all of the personalities remain at
Odds inside this new Android back with Jordy he is telling Picard he can't help him and protect his
daughters Picard prepares to leave but Jordy wants to talk to his daughter before they go
wanting to protect Sydney he tells her she's going to stay with him but Sydney wants to go
with her crew Jordi thought because his daughter didn't want to follow in his footsteps that she
was rejecting him but she thought it was actually bringing them closer together she tells him you
would believe in this if you believed in me nah your family yes they are and you taught me that
she challenges her father and he looks shook over with picardin 7 they are considering taking the
fleet ships head on themselves Sydney decides she is staying with a Titan Jack seems to be flirting
with Sydney let's reset our phasers and then asks the sisters if they would like to partake in some
minor back on daystrom station we learned that this data like Android is the Manifest they've
been looking for just as they begin to search for what was stolen they are found out and need to get
off the station immediately back on fleet Museum Captain Shaw's fumbling all over himself talking
to Commodore laforge it's apparent that as a former engineer he looks up to Jordy and the
irony is not lost on Picard as the Titan starts to disappear Jordy wants to know what Jean-Luc
is doing but it's not him there is a great moment when both men realize their offspring
are responsible for what's happening they have stolen the cloaking device from the HMS Bounty
and attached it to the Titan what they don't know is that stealing that cloaking device tripped an
alarm and Starfleet is on its way Jordy finally agrees to help but tells Jack stay away from my
daughter awesome dad line no matter what century you're in back on daystrom they've decided to take
data with them he has all the answers they need to solve the mystery Riker starts a firefight with
Starfleet security while the others get away he is captured but Wharf data and Rafi get off the
station I will bring William Riker home the look on jordy's face when he says data's name is enough
to make any TNG fan emotional Jack takes a moment to tell Picard all of the things that he gets from
his mother and also what he gets from his father he is finally starting to connect with his dad
Jordy and Sydney also make up as he realizes her differences are a good thing now with data Jordy
explains that there are personality partitions and he will need to remove them to wake it up
and he has no idea who they're going to get when data first wakes up it does seem like our old data
as he recognizes Jordy and Picard shorty it's not quite white data he is more human now than he was
before Picard wants to know what the changeling stole and his data tries to sort it out lore
comes forth then before and soon data is finally able to show them what was stolen we learned the
changeling stole the human remains of Jean-Luc Picard back on daystrom Riker is being beat up by
the changelings they want the location of Picard and Jack the changeling questioning him suddenly
turns and kills the two changelings behind him and then it morphs into vatic now on the shrike
she takes Riker with her to find the Titan Riker says he will not give up his friends and then
vatic shows him who she has it's his wife our favorite TNG counselor Deanna Troy this episode
finally brings all the TNG team together in some shape or form on the screen oh well finally seeing
what Jordy has been up to all these years and that he has prioritized his family as a change
to the character and one that fits him well how Terry and his team were able to bring back all
of these Legacy ships is completely mind-boggling and incredibly awesome its history wrapped up in
awe and sprinkled with Nostalgia for all fans but it's not simply fan service getting the cloaked
device seemed to be playing an important role moving forward and what can we say about data
it's incredible seeing him on the screen again and suddenly the show feels more complete and with
Riker and Deanna in trouble and the Titan team still fumbling for a plan to stop the changelings
we still have many questions left unanswered why did the changeling steal jean-luc's body what is
the final form of data we've just seen and most importantly what is going to happen on Frontier
day all will be revealed as the showrunner and his team leave no stone unturned and every plot Point
earned did seeing Jordy and data there together together warm your Star Trek heart if so give
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link is in the description below and now Star Trek Picard season 3 showrunner Terry matalis
it actually came from they just need they were on the run and they needed to to hide
um the the organic trace of that was they're like well it's in a weird way
they need a cloaking device and and we knew they were going to go to Jordy for help
and and and then the next question was like well maybe Jordy has a cloaking device and then the
thank you
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