Star Trek: Picard
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By now showrunners claims of making a ten-hour movie rather than a TV series have grown wearisome.
It doesnt conclude with a title declaring this the end of Act One, but it easily could.
And that requires another brief trip into the past.
We learn right away shes correct on the second point.
To what degree shes correct on the first feels like it will be central to this seasons overarching story.
Raffi drinks and vapes to excess.
She also nurses hurt feelings that Picard hasnt checked up on her, which seems legit.
Now theyre decidedly not close.
Will they be close again?
Whether that will change also seems to like it will play a major role in how the season progresses.
Not that he hasnt encountered problems along the way.
This apparently extends even to ex-Borg Romulans, the center of Sojis research in this episode.
The one who dies?
Or the one who lives?
If only these two halves of the story could come together somehow.
To do that, theyll need a starship and a pilot.
One arrives in the form of Cristobal Chris Rios (Santiago Cabrera).
He likes to read.
He has a grudge against Starfleet (one that Picard diagnoses as a kind of failed idealism).
His last captain died tragically.
(Thats a fun element of this episode.
Will it continue to be fun?
Anything could happen from here, but the end of this episode bringsPicards launch phase to a successful conclusion.
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How do we know Picard likes and respects Raffi on a deep level?
He lets her call him J.L.
Theres other business aboard the Artifact.
Also Narek says he might be falling for her and her reaction is kind of hard to read.
Whats going on with Soji?
A lot, apparently.
Theyve been among the seriess most compelling characters.
Each episode has revealed a little bit more about who they are, and what they do for Picard.
Beyond caring for the vineyards, they can shut down intruders with extreme prejudice.
Rioss reading material,The Tragic Sense of Life, comes from Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo.
Published in 1912, it lays out a philosophy hed arrived at after trying out the eras prominent movements.
To develop a tragic sense of life should be seen as admirable.
Rios clearly aspires to reach this state.
Has he found it?
Will he see it in Picard?
Is snake leaf legal in the Federation?
Do the laws vary from planet to planet?
Is it for medicinal use only in some regions?
The next two episodes are directed by none other than Jonathan Frakes.
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