Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x10 - "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2"

You're right. That hadn't struck me yet.

 

Now what of Jurati? Off to DS12 with her?

 

Nah. Rura Penthe for her.

 

Five seconds before the episode fades to end credits:

QUARK(Beaming aboard with two Dabo girls at his side): "Guess who, hew-mons? It's your old pal Qua..."

[*Fade to black*]

"NEVER MIND."

 

With any luck, Philippa Louvois is still around to prosecute.

 

Spoilers are looking juicy but haven't seen it yet.

So in a nutshell:

Picard gets an extension until the end of the series
Riker appears and stares down the Rommies
Romulans chicken out and go home when confronted like usual
Rissa gets the sidious treatment from Seven
Seven joins crew
Ship porn
No cliffhanger

This is why I didn't use a 10 for any of the earlier episodes, kept it in reserve.

 

Nah. They'll just handwave Jurati killing Maddox. No big deal - Voyager did that shit all the time. Seven knows what's up.

 

No resolution of the condition of refugee Romulans, condition of synths handwaved away, and the only thing not making this the new Khan blood is personal choice.

 

I was not clear from watching. Maybe I missed it and they did say. Does she carry it with her? They just happened to have a separate copy handy? She grabbed a copy to take with her from Earth and decided to upload it to a computer there for some unknown reason? Or maybe Soong had a copy? Not sure where it came from. But there it was a on the shelf. The goal seemed to be, for it to interact with Picard, since there was no named plan to bring Data back.

 

The "ship porn", such as it was, was easily the worst part of the entire episode, and it just provoked a "meh". So I guess you could say I liked the episode!

That ship done sailed, bruh. Remember "The Schizoid Man" (TNG)?

 

The episode where the guy realizes transferring his mind into a machine only made him an ueber-dick? That ship sank, bruh.

 

Agnes had nothing to do with the Data simulation. Maddox was the one who recovered Data's neuron from B4 and smuggled it out of Daystrom when he left Earth. It was all Maddox. We've been told that from episode one.

 

I am always happy to see new ships, not a surprise that Starfleet would design more outright warships after the Dominion War and attack on Mars, its just a continuation of the thinking behind the Akira, Steamrunner and Defiant classes designed in response to the Borg.

It also explains the use of the term squadron in the earlier episodes, it is essentially a Destroyer/Battlecruiser Squadron.

Would like to see Riker on board a larger flagship of some kind but that is a minor niggle and will have no bearing on my enjoyment of the episode.

It would be nice to see a true Explorer ship again before the end of the series, the Odyssey class would be ideal, seeing STO ship designs in Picard supports the idea that the USS Verity we saw in the comics will eventually be shown to be canon, although they are clearly not sticking to STO launch dates for them.

It makes sense that the larger Explorer ships would be out exploring leaving Destroyer Squadrons to defend home territory and react to threats.

 

@The Old Mixer -- Riker and Troi were both in the previous episode's "previously on", so I didn't give it a second thought.

 

I dont remember them saying that he suceeded in recreating the Data Soul/Katra, put it in a box, and took it with him to another planet and then leaving in on a table wherein his consciousness was living in a Holoworld where he listened to music and dreamed of being turned off permanently. Maybe you only meant that the DataKatra was taken from Earth by Maddox, but I don remember that being est either. Not before today.

 

When Data said "my brother", for a brief moment I thought he was going to mention Lore, but it was Altan.

 

Many of us guessed that Riker would probably show up, leading a fleet, but Riker was so bad ass in that scene!

My only nitpick is why did Riker just leave and not stay to be with Picard in his final moments. Riker should have been there beside Picard when he died.

 

We're introduced to the concept of fractal neuronic cloning by Agnes in episode one, who says it was what Maddox was working on before the ban. Soji and Dahj are the product of that process, created by Maddox. Soji and Dahj are created from Data's neuron. Therefore Maddox had Data's neuron and took it with him to Coppelius. The rest should fall into place pretty easily.