I just saw the Star Trek Facebook page posted the motion poster for Narek with a tantalizing caption: "Treacherous Enemy or Mysterious Ally?" That got me thinking, who exactly is the Main Antagonist of this series? After all, unless they're keeping an additional main character's casting under wraps, the "Big Bad" is already amongst the announced cast and we just don't know it yet.
Narek seems to be the obvious choice. Dahj's attackers were Romulan, and we see the La Sirena fighting a Romulan War Bird in the trailers. The Borg experimentation also glimpsed in the trailers doesn't give me confidence the "Reclamation Center" is entirely on the up-and-up. Finally, Narek's appearance at the end of the episode coincides with the ominous updated orchestration of the "Balance of Terror" theme.
But it seems too easy and all of that foreshadowing could just be deliberate misdirection. Narek is in the trailer speaking with an unnamed Romulan woman who says, "She was sent here for a reason"; he responds "I'll get the information we need." He is also heard saying, "She has no idea what she truly is." Plus, the Romulans at first only tried to extract Dahj and only started trying to take her out after she activated.
I'm starting to think Narek and the Romulans are only trying to protect themselves from some unknown plot that Dahj/Soji are unwitting pawns in. A Romulan and a liberated Drone both refer to Soji as "The Destroyer" in the trailers, and Dahj certainly seemed lethal once she was activated.
I believe the main villain is actually going to be Jurati/Maddox, and that this plot is in retaliation for the (apparent false flag) attack on Mars and subsequent Synthetic ban destroying their "life's work" and "everything that ever mattered to me. Maddox definitely seemed the ego maniac and not someone to let his creations be co-opted.
Thoughts?
Narek seems to be the obvious choice. Dahj's attackers were Romulan, and we see the La Sirena fighting a Romulan War Bird in the trailers. The Borg experimentation also glimpsed in the trailers doesn't give me confidence the "Reclamation Center" is entirely on the up-and-up. Finally, Narek's appearance at the end of the episode coincides with the ominous updated orchestration of the "Balance of Terror" theme.
But it seems too easy and all of that foreshadowing could just be deliberate misdirection. Narek is in the trailer speaking with an unnamed Romulan woman who says, "She was sent here for a reason"; he responds "I'll get the information we need." He is also heard saying, "She has no idea what she truly is." Plus, the Romulans at first only tried to extract Dahj and only started trying to take her out after she activated.
I'm starting to think Narek and the Romulans are only trying to protect themselves from some unknown plot that Dahj/Soji are unwitting pawns in. A Romulan and a liberated Drone both refer to Soji as "The Destroyer" in the trailers, and Dahj certainly seemed lethal once she was activated.
I believe the main villain is actually going to be Jurati/Maddox, and that this plot is in retaliation for the (apparent false flag) attack on Mars and subsequent Synthetic ban destroying their "life's work" and "everything that ever mattered to me. Maddox definitely seemed the ego maniac and not someone to let his creations be co-opted.
Thoughts?
Now there's a Murder by Death...
