Star Trek: Picard

Previously on Star Trek: Picard…

Rios, this is Doctor Asha.

When that girl beamed aboard today…

I mean, Raffi, it's the same girl.

They were synths.

That's why they had to die.

I saw it, Picard. Oh showed me.

Unless we act quickly and destroy even the possibility of synthetic life…

Hell will come again.

Is this where the Borg Queen lived?

I can explain, or I can steal this Cube.

We are Borg.

Now.

No!

Raffi said the Romulans call her the Destroyer.

What if they're right?

I'm fine.

Maddox left Earth right after the ban.

Maybe he went to this planet with the two red moons.

And resumed his work creating synthetic life-forms.

Narek's located the synthetics' nest.

We've got our work to do.

Captain Rios, please take me home.

I got you.

Please be over.

Be over. Be over. Be over. Be over. Be over. Be over.

Chroniton field integrity at 90% and holding.

Ghulion system, fourth planet.

That the one?

Did we beat them?

Well, long- and short-range scanners show no Romulan presence.

No ships of any kind.

Nice work, honey. You got us here really damn fast.

And I am never going to do that ever again.

What happened to Deep Space 12?

Am I still under arrest?

There was a change of plan.

We just came 25 light-years in 15 minutes.

I noticed a little turbulence.

Hmm…

Is that…

We call it… Coppelius.

¡Puta madre!

Our Romulan shadow is back.

Agnes, sit down.

Strapping in.

She disabled the tracking device. How the hell did he find us?

He must've extrapolated from our last known course and position.

His cloak's fritzing out.

Raffi, status.

He's alive. Barely.

His pulse is almost undetectable.

It's a trick.

And if it isn't? We just let him die?

He attacked us. He has no one but himself to blame.

There's a difference between killing an attacking enemy

and watching a wounded one die.

Beam him to sick bay immediately.

What just happened?

He reversed his cloaking device, used it as a projector.

¡Malparido!

Put him on screen.

He's powering up his disruptor cannons. We better…

That's unexpected.

- It's supposed to be broken. - Its weapons are coming online.

So, not broken.

I'm picking up a bogie from the planet's surface.

No, make that five bogies. One of them's coming right at us.

What kind of bogie?

Um, okay. I wanna say like a giant flower.

Hold on tight.

What just happened?

- They hit us with a flower. - Looked like an orchid.

What is it?

I'm pretty sure we just call them orchids.

- All power's gone. - What do we do about it?

Nothing.

Brace yourselves!

JL?

Thank you for coming…

everyone.

What just happened?

- Picard? - Picard?

You really wanna go back out into the cold?

More than ever.

I may never pass this way again.

Welcome back.

How do you feel, mister?

A bit confused.

Uh… we had Chris manually open the shutters.

I didn't know there were shutters.

I didn't know there were windows.

The ship seems all right, but we have no power.

Nothing works.

I didn't know how I was gonna run a scan on you.

And then, I found this.

An old-school medical tricorder.

You were really out.

At first I thought head injury,

but I couldn't find any signs of trauma.

Is something wrong?

I don't know. It, uh…

It might just be a tricorder showing its age.

Or?

I suspect the tricorder is fine.

Hey, JL. You okay?

Can I please have your attention?

Thank you.

Um…

I am going to return Soji to her people,

and we will tell them

that a Romulan force is on its way to exterminate them.

One more thing.

Uh, I have a brain abnormality. I've known for years.

Uh, I never had any symptoms, so I never thought much about it.

However, just before we left the Earth,

I learned that my condition was more acute.

The prognosis was terminal,

and there is no effective treatment.

There will be no further discussion.

Anyone who treats me like a dying man

will run the risk of pissing me off.

Is that clear?

Good. Status and situation, Rios.

Um…

The ship survived the Snakehead attack and the landing structurally intact,

but the orchid knocked our systems off-line, including power.

Raffi.

Uh, it's a Class M planet.

Smaller and denser than Earth.

Before that space flower knocked us off-line,

our sensors showed a small settlement.

Coppelius Station. I'd say we're about five or six kilometers from there.

Tell us about it.

I think that I was born there.

But I'm pretty sure that I didn't live there very long

before Maddox took Dahj and me away.

Pretty sure?

My memories are all jumbled.

It's like watching a holo that I know I've seen before

but can't really remember.

Do they hate us?

I really don't think so.

What you said about Data, how he was open-minded,

unprejudiced, free of bias…

They crashed my ship without even asking my name.

I don't know. That feels a little biased to me.

Raffi, do we have any idea when the Romulans will arrive?

They had a solid head start, but we made up a ton of time with the conduit.

I'm gonna guess a day, maybe two. Soon.

But we have no idea of their numbers.

Well, I suggest we all take a walk.

We might run into, I don't know, angry reptiloids out there.

Homicidal fungi.

It's a thing.

Or somebody's asshole Romulan ex.

Hot.

I think that's the Artifact.

Good riddance.

We had friends on that thing though.

Soji, I know time is of the essence,

but if by any chance Elnor and Hugh survived…

Something that massive falling that fast?

I… The odds are not good.

Well, hope and the odds make poor bedfellows.

True.

Synthville is in the opposite direction.

We could split up.

Hugh is my friend too.

Anyway, we should probably stick together.

In case we run into any homicidal fungus.

Now it's broken.

We both survived.

It didn't.

Those flowers didn't give them a very soft landing.

I doubt they were designed to bring down something as big as a Borg Cube.

Locutus.

Picard. You're alive.

This fills me with joy.

Heads up!

So, you here to help with the cleanup, or do you just make messes?

I don't believe it.

For a few minutes, I felt connected to everything.

I saw everything.

I saw La Sirena in the transwarp conduit. I saw the Snakehead chasing it.

So, you opened another conduit and came after us?

You needed our help.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Poor Hugh.

It must have taken appalling brutality to turn such a gentle soul to violence.

- What are they doing? - Using a battery pack

to try and get the food replicators back online.

Are other systems operational?

- What do you need? - Long-range scanners.

They can be.

Okay. Yeah.

Right.

Oh, my God.

How many?