with only two episodes left we are approaching the exciting conclusion of Star Trek Picard season 3
and the story is building into its climax so continue to join us every week welcome
to the party pal as we explore each episode and reveal all the details you may have missed and
please stay tuned to the end to get a special inside look at this episode directly from the
mouth of showrunner Terry matalis himself so you don't want to miss this episode in
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last week's episode ended with vatic and her crew taking over the Titan and her Proclamation
that it was time for Jack to learn who he truly is we learned that vatic was experimented on by
section 31 as a prisoner during the Dominion war and lore has a lot more control of the body he
shares with data than we expected with Frontier day now eminent and Jack and vatic's hands what
can Picard and his crew do to get themselves out of this dire situation some of the things
we hope to learn from this episode include why jean-luc's body is important to the changelings
as well as why Jack is so important to vatic's plans and how was Jack able to control Sydney
why did you do that this episode begins with us seeing a reflection of vatic lighting her
cigar as she sits in the Titan captain's chair vatic begins turning off systems around the
ship to take away access from the crew and Jordy unplugs lore slash data's connection
to the ship as well we hear the screams of the crew as people are being corralled and hunted
in medical Picard Beverly Jack and Sydney are trying to regain control but Jack decides to
take matters into his own hands his eyes turn red as he takes control of a crew member and takes
them down the passageway he sees other dead crew members over the shipwide announcement vatic tells
them all the horrible things she is about to do to them if they don't give her Jack Crusher oh Jack
Crusher to the bridge would you please over on the shrike Riker and Troy are imprisoned and they have
a few moments together that show the depth and closeness these two characters have developed
over the years Riker calls her imzadi which is a beta Zed word that essentially translates
into Beloved the term was used between will and Deanna in 10 episodes of The Next Generation as
well as the movie Star Trek Nemesis and in Picard season 1. apparently a changeling came to their
home pretending to be will but she knew he was an imposter immediately even though she can't
read changelings will gave up the compromise code to stop them from torturing Deanna Riker insists
Picard has vatic on the ropes but we know that isn't the case over on the Titan right now he's
at a classic Captain Picard trap and as we speak he's got it on the ropes seven and Captain Shaw
whisper angrily to each other Shaw wanted her to blow up the turbo lift when he and the changelings
were in it seven wouldn't trade lives and Shaw reminds her that she is a Starfleet officer and
she doesn't have that luxury he reminds her that there are consequences for her choice not just for
them but for the entire ship vatic taunts Jack in an attempt to draw him out she tells him she will
kill a bridge crew member every 10 minutes until he shows up Jack wants to turn himself in but his
mother and father try to talk him out of it Jack insists that he is different and something has
changed in him Jack tells them he thinks he can take back the ship but he needs to see the bridge
he tells them he can control people and they don't believe it but Sydney comes to his defense and
they let him try Jack gets control of lieutenant mura and tries to put an override code into the
console while vatic has her back to him but she catches him and realize it's Jack controlling the
officer vatic tells Jack you are finally living up to all your potential she then puts esmar and
Mira on their cheese and vatic uses them to taunt Jack we find out that mura has a son seven tries
to fight back but Shaw stops her before she gets herself killed vatic puts the phaser to esmar and
then at the last minute turns it and shoots lieutenant tavine in the head vaporizing her
over on the shrike we learned that Deanna has been using her abilities to remove the pain
will was feeling over the death of their son and Deanna was feeling all the pain of everyone around
her feeling connected once more they decide they are leaving the planet they were living on during
the events of Picard season 1 to move back to the city and just at that moment a changeling comes
to their cell to take Deanna again and we see a curleth pierce its chest as Wharf unexpectedly
Saves the Day Wharf immediately begins talking to Deanna about how he has been thinking about
her all these years and will asks if this is a rescue mission or a continuation of the torture
it's a great moment because at the end of tng's seventh season Deanna and Wharf were a thing when
we get to the events of Nemesis of course will and Riker are married but what happened to Deanna and
Wharf has never been explored this is a nice tongue-in-cheek nod to that relationship as I
think most TNG fans were glad Diana and Riker ended up together as Warf went on to another
romance with Jed Zia Dax on DS9 I didn't like the fact that he totally became uncleing on like when
he was with Troy he kind of became I liked better the relationship he had with dats over on DS9 back
on the Titan Jack insists he needs to go to the bridge but his mother implores him not to Sydney
has tried everything to gain control back of the systems she said she would need a year but an AI
could do it in minutes as the camera Zooms in on Picard we all know the answer is data
as Jordy tries to reach data Jean-Luc and his little band show up and everyone draws
weapons on each other not knowing who might be a changeling Picard proves it's him with some quick
wine snobbery and everyone drops their phasers they explain to Jordy that they need data to
help get control of the ship again Jordy tells them data could be erased by lore because data
isn't programmed to take a life Jordy finally agrees to do it when Sydney tells him they are
out of time and Jack goes to the bridge to buy time Jordy warns them that once they remove the
partition between lore and data there's no going back now inside the positronic brain we see lore
taunting data as data looks through old things he remembers but before we show you data's memories
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with extra today evolution foreign my dear Watson the first two items of data we see are a hat and
a pipe from when he played Sherlock Holmes on the Holodeck during TNG in the episode Elementary deer
data interestingly this episode is also where we meet Professor Moriarty who served as data
Century at daystrom station earlier this season as the partition comes down lore immediately begins
overtaking data back to wharf Rafi Riker Indiana over on the shrike they find Picard's body it
looks as if the changelings have removed parts of his parietal lobe which contained aromatic
syndrome Rafi downloads the information and they hurry to return to the shuttle Strange Days huh
you're telling me download complete back on the Titan Jack shows up on the bridge with what looks
like a bomb Jordy tells Picard lore is slowly taking over data Laura's taking everything data
holds as a symbol that Laura is consuming him Laura then takes his tricorder and data pulls
a curious item out of the air it's a miniature Hollow image of Tasha Yar Tasha was data's friend
and she was also the security officer on the Enterprise during the first season of TNG she was
killed during the episode's Skin of Evil by a tar pit doubling as a physical manifestation of evil
called armis Picard urges data to fight and Jack is doing his best to distract vatic on the bridge
the bridge crew gets locked in the captain's ready room but seven refuses to go as she decides to
stay with Jack we learned that vatic wants Jack's gifts she taunts him and asks him if he's always
known what he is vatic offers to help him put the pieces together but he has to make the choice she
asks him if he is curious about what's behind the red door data is almost gone as he holds a deck of
cards symbol advising all of the poker games he played with his friends on the Enterprise
over the years he tells lore these belong to you now Laura's confused he wants to know why data
is just giving him these things data tells him because I have had everything and you have had
nothing data is showing him empathy even as he is being destroyed and then we see perhaps the
best Roddenberry of all of them its spot data's pet cat and close companion we first meet spot in
the episode data's day and she represents a big piece of data's effort to become more human in
this moment she represents the love that data has learned to understand and when he gives it to lore
it is Data telling his brother he loves him even as he is about to destroy him and that love is the
one thing lore truly never had data tells him this is the last of me and then he disappears Jordy
tells Picard that's it he's gone but then suddenly we see lore as an electrical current runs through
him and data returns stronger than ever before lore doesn't seem to understand but data tells
him that he discovered the error in his deception and his lore was taking the things that were
data he became his brother data consumes lore as they become one and data is back [Music] goodbye
brother Picard tells data they are in trouble and his old friend says no more and immediately goes
into action the feeling is electric as data like we've never seen him before challenges vatic and
her henchmen hurling insults and describing what is about to happen to them this is your friendly
positronic pissed off security system back online This truly is data to the rescue Rafi begins
fighting her way to the bridge and Wharf saves her as one of the changelings is about to shoot her in
the Back Jack's bomb is actually a shield that he puts around himself and seven as Picard orders the
evacuation hatch open vatic hurls an expletive about solids and is sucked out into space get
off my bridge vatic's body freezes as she floats through space and breaks into a thousand pieces
as her body dashes against the hull of the shrike Star Trek fans might initially say hey changelings
don't need air and they can survive the vacuum of space but we need to remember that this changeling
has been modified with human DNA during the experimentations and that is likely the reason
she can no longer survive in space Shaw and his crew come out of the ready room and he takes
his chair in order seven to destroy the shrike Wharf disintegrates the rest of the changelings
on board but is still able to take the time to criticize rafi's fighting technique data is back
and he shares that he is now truly beginning to experience what it's like to be human data
explains that he is still data but he is also B4 and lore and everything soon put into this
body data with a tear in his eye says he can feel data also expresses to Jordy his gratitude
for his friendship and for the first time this season our entire TNG crew is back together as
Deanna gives data a big hug Picard tells data that the last time they spoke he wished to experience
death but data assures him that this version of himself doesn't want to be anywhere else in the
universe and we have to agree this is where he belongs Beverly tells her friends that she
missed them after all these years Wharf makes a fantastic joke where he says he has slaughtered
many enemies over the years and wanted to send the head to each of his friends but has learned that
that is passive aggressive Picard says all that matters is that we are together once more and
then he tells them because I need you I need all of you and this moment is important because most
of these friends were not with him in the first two seasons of Picard and in our hearts we feel
that they should have been with him and perhaps he now feels this way too he explains to them
that their situation is dire as we learned that Frontier day is only hours away Deanna confirms
that whatever the changelings have planned for Frontier day it has to do with Jack and whatever
is happening it's getting stronger Deanna tells us the voice inside him is ancient and weak but
it is not his own Troy meets with Jack and they are trying to get to the truth together
as Deanna works with him she encourages him to open the red door they are together in
his mind and as he puts his hand around the handle to open the door a woman's voice says
episode 8 comes to an end and if you're asking yourself how are you supposed to wait another
week to see what's behind that red door you're not alone showrunner Terry matalis and his
whole writing team have done an amazing job this season and this episode written by Matt akumura
is another wonderful piece of the 10-hour movie that is Picard season 3. we finally have all of
our main TNG crew back together again and they are ready to take on whatever or whoever it is they
need to defeat to save the Federation getting data back finally and seeing the transformation from
the data we once knew combined with lore and this new and improved very human-like data was a joy to
see what TNG fan didn't ultimately want data to be able to truly understand and experience what
it is to be human what fan didn't want the soons to ultimately achieve what they had been creating
for so long Brent Spiner is the best he's ever been effortlessly slipping from one character
into another he plays three characters in this episode and it's a joy to experience we don't know
how badly we need data in our crew than when he finally arrives now with vatic dead and out of the
picture it seems that the darkness is surrounding Jack but what exactly does that mean what is
behind the red door and can Deanna help him once he opens it we are now just hours from Frontier
day and what awaits our TNG and Titan crew did you love episode 8 and seeing a transform data
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you think did your heart soar when data defeated lore save the Titan and sent vatic to her Doom
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popcast the link is in the description below and now Star Trek season 3 showrunner Terry matalis
change links Dominion War yeah how did you know we all wanted to go there and what made
you well I didn't know that everybody wanted to go there I just knew I wanted to go there
they seemed like an amazing villain to to do because they they could look like anyone
um and and to do an infiltration within Starfleet was such a tantalizing idea uh to go there
um especially after how it ended into Space Nine well then almost attempted genocide
um it didn't feel like that was a happy ending for all parties involved you know gosh you wish
you really wish Renee Bourgeois was around and he would totally be in the season that
was one that was an idea that was around right from the very beginning as well I
have slaughtered countless enemies over the years and considered sending their heads to all of you
thank you
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