I think that there's probably more going on for one who actually experiences the Admonition than just the images we saw flashed onscreen. They're getting an infodump that's only hinted at to us.
We finally see another side of Narizzo...perhaps a bit too late to do the character any good.
Nobody's mentioned how Clancy told Picard to STFU--am I the only one who loved that?
Raffi said that she was surveilling the Cube, indicating that she could see what the xBs were drawing...when/how did this happen?
It seems like Picard's going out of his way to be extra-sensitive to Soji since last week.
Picard and Soji's discussion of Data was touching; it's particularly interesting how Picard likened Data's lack of emotion to himself. (And will there be nerdrage for his not taking the emotion chip into account?) Anyway--and I'm probably going to get pelted with rocks and garbage for this--that one scene did more for me than the entire Riker/Troi reunion last week. I hadn't been able to put my finger on why I wasn't getting as much out of "Nepenthe" as so many others seemed to, and now I'd say that it was taking a nice idea and overindulging in it. Less is more.
We got a better look at Raffi's conspiracy obsession / intel operative side this week. And see? She locked herself out of the booze. She's taking care of herself. The assemblage of holograms was a great scene, and a very clever use of what just seemed like a gag.
Jurati's wonder at meeting Soji was endearing. I was particularly struck by this bit:
"Do you eat?"
"When I'm hungry."
A deliberate
Superman(: The Movie) callback?
"Actually...I don't know how to work this."
"The future is left for us to write." Now
that's the old Picard--saying exactly what some here were saying Picard would say if Oh had shown him what she showed Jurati.
I think that Seven, Elnor and the Borg Cube will show up and save Picard's bacon in the season finale.
I was just thinking the same thing. So many have speculated about a Starfleet vessel coming to their rescue in the finale...a Borg Cube would be a nice twist.
I'm glad the theories that the Romulans are all synths and that the Borg were created by Romulans were just bad theories.
Hear, hear! I'd say this episode removed a lot of the basis for those theories.
I was REALLY hoping to see Deep Space 12
Ah yes, I won an imaginary wager there...
Fun callout to Marta Batanides from "Tapestry."
Totally did not catch that!
Again, you do realize that Star Trek was doing all this stuff long before any video games came along.
But not before pinball!
And where exactly does PICARD show us "Lizard People"?
The henchman on Freecloud.
Who caused the super nova?
I doubt the show intends to go there. There's been nothing in the show to indicate that the supernova was anything but a natural occurrence. That something "caused" it is pure fan speculation. OTOH...
It was during the Age of Makto when the central star of their home system destabilized and went supernova, ending the Empire.
If the Tkon are involved, that's a mighty interesting parallel...
