Maybe the "captain" whose brains he saw splattered all along the bulkhead was the real Rios!
His existential horror is he knows the "real him" is dead - and he can't join Starfleet because he's not a living being.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x04 - "Absolute Candor"
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Maybe the "captain" whose brains he saw splattered all along the bulkhead was the real Rios!
His existential horror is he knows the "real him" is dead - and he can't join Starfleet because he's not a living being.
A fistful of holograms... sounds like deja vu.
Maybe the whole ship is just a hologram... Someone managed to extend the power of the mobile emitter.
Imagine the scene: Picard finds a thing on one of the bullheads that kinda looks like a mobile emitter. "Don't touch that!!".. Too late he touches it and the whole ship disappears around him and he's left with the mobile emitter in the palm of his hand.
Interesting. I hadn't thought of that. But his being away from any type of holo-emitter when he goes down onto a planet next week would undercut that. Unless the emitter is concealed. But I'm leaning towards no.
As is the average episode of South Park.
See, I like this idea, and it gives all the holograms a purpose to integrate for S2. Adds to the mystery of what mission his ship was on when he went ppfftt.
Could be. It’s an interesting theory. But at this point, you have a quest towards saving a synth/android, a Romulan who has issues with Picard, a human who has issues with Picard, a human who may or may not (probably) is spying on all of this and a guilty hologram as Captain of the whole thing?
That’s a lot of fucking angst and trickery on that ship.
That’s a lot of fucking angst and trickery on that ship.
Not to mention that there are only six episodes left to solve all this!!
Bullet Points:
- Great way for Seven to make her grand reintroduction: right in the thick of everything.
- Looks like things will have no choice but to move forward on the Narek/Soji front.
- Good way to introduce Elnor.
- "Rizzo" looks and feels like a TOS Romulan.
This whole thing's not getting resolved in six episodes. They'll hit a stopping point at the 10th episode. Leave some for next year, then continue on.
Discovery wraps everything up by the end of the season. Picard doesn't look like the type of series where it will.
"Rizzo" even has Joanne Linville Romulan Commander-like boots. 
I suspect the choice of book was just a little in-joke, a nod to Santiago Cabrera, who played Aramis in BBC's The Musketeers for three years.
I assumed the 'shrapnel in shoulder' scene when he was first introduced was intended to demonstrate that this one is flesh and blood, contrasted with the holograms all around him.
You're not supposed to kiss and tell dude!
I think if Rios is a holo that reveal might be the season one cliffhanger.
The book is 400 years old. I doubt he'd take it as a blueprint for modern human life and culture anymore than someone introduced to James I Malleaus Malificarum would think that's how Wiccans need to be handled.
I just screamed 'holy shit!!" when Seven showed off. I always look forward to any Jeri Ryan's scene
I wish I could have been surprised - after the 4th or 5th clunky reference to the pilot as 'he' I knew it would be Seven.
Did Picard give it to him like a sign from god?You mean like what didn’t happen in ‘A Piece of the Action?”
Not head-canon, then?
