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Spoilers Who is the mastermind in Season 3 of Picard?

Except Troi said she sensed something ancient and terrible...


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Is he a Marine? ;)
Wait, he's mad because Starfleet dumped their Marine Corps at JL's insistence that as a non-military organization they did not need Marines!!!!!
Solved it. I will wait for the kudos until after the episode airs.
Well after, I expect. ;)
 
The Borg theorists say that Vadic has already been injected by nanoprobes and thus her dialogue about wanting silence means she wants to silence the collective. How would Jack being a superborg and assimilating the Fed on Frontier Day help in that regard? If anything it would add countless more voices to torment Vadic.
 
So it's something legacy related to the transporters.
I'm starting to think it's the Borg again. What if the rogue Changelings modified the transporters in Starfleet to infect everyone who used them with special borg nanoprobes and Jack is needed because of his special abilities, granted to him by being the son of Locutus.

The Face (who only ever speaks in plurals) needs Jack to activate the nanoprobes at Frontier Day to mass assimilate all of Starfleet simultaneously, thus instantly restoring the Borg after being crippled by Janeway and allowing them to assimilate the Federation with no resistance.

GooTuvok said that death would be a relief from what they had planned for the Federation.
 
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I'm starting to think it's the Borg again. What if the rogue Changelings modified the transporters in Starfleet to infect everyone who used them with special borg nanoprobes and Jack is needed because of his special abilities, granted to him by being the son of Locutus.

The Face (who only ever speaks in plurals) needs Jack to activate the nanoprobes at Frontier Day to mass assimilate all of Starfleet simultaneously, thus instantly restoring the Borg after being crippled by Janeway and allowing them to assimilate the Federation with no resistance.

GooTuvok said that death would be a relief from what they had planned for the Federation.
This probably is it. But it's not a really emotionally satisfying ending. Picard doesn't really have to reckon with any guilt or rethink any aspects of his life (the way, say, Kirk had to grapple that he wasn't really that different from Chang by holding onto his hatred of Klingons). Evil Borg assimilated Picard, then assimilated Jack via his sperm, and now are going to assimilate the Federation. Mario--I mean Picard, then leaps over Bows--I mean the Borg and hits the switch and the Borg all fall into the lava.

If I wanted that I'd just go watch the Mario movie again. A different villain other than the Borg would at least be trying something different. It's Starkiller Base all over again, Death Star 3.0.
 
I'm starting to think it's the Borg again. What if the rogue Changelings modified the transporters in Starfleet to infect everyone who used them with special borg nanoprobes and Jack is needed because of his special abilities, granted to him by being the son of Locutus.

This explains a lot.

Including the DNA shots in the end credits
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Those DNA shots in the end credits (even when Edward Speelers' name shows up) are the only unaccounted for shots. They insinuate that someone's human genome is altered.

"We are not in control of what we pass on, weaknesses.. sins of our past"
 
It also explains why the Borg would specifically need Changeling agents to infiltrate Starfleet ships and modify the transporters.

The first infiltrator we met was the Titan transporter officer.

The implications of this are big. This means Riker, Sydney, Geordi, Beverly, Worf, Raffi, etc are all infected.

Leaving Picard, Data, Seven, Shaw and Deanna as the only main characters who may not be affected when Jack 'connects' the vines.
 
Shaw doesn't blame Picard for actions as Locutus that weren't his fault. He blames Picard for not killing himself before he got used as a weapon.

Shaw won't allow the same mistake to be made twice. All he needs to do is get a phaser, set it to vaporize, and fire at Jack.
 
It does seem like Vadic's boss is some eldritch monstrosity or a Borg, but honestly with something like Frontier Day in the plot it seems like a missed opportunity for him to give a moving evil villain speech in front of everyone: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewEraSpeech

The medical experiments have left me scarred and deformed. but my resolve has never been stronger!

for a safe and secure society, the federation will be reorganised into the second changeling empire!
 
Those DNA shots in the end credits (even when Edward Speelers' name shows up) are the only unaccounted for shots. They insinuate that someone's human genome is altered.

I feel like the show wasn't even hiding it, all the way back in "Seventeen Seconds:"

JACK: Can you please stop looking at me like that?

RIKER: Like what?

JACK: Like I'm the outcome of some science experiment.

RIKER: Sorry to tell you kid, but you are. I spent two decades in a spaceship watching you get cooked up before you were born.


It's barely even foreshadowing, more like the writers just saying it directly.
 
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