“Broken Pieces” is a bottle episode, an installment that takes place entirely indoors to save money, built largely around a number of conversation scenes between characters. And the hospitality hologram has… a Brooklyn hipster accent?) Remember the classic “TNG Season 8” parody account’s tweet about a hypothetical episode in which Brent Spiner “plays an astonishing 86 characters.” Santiago Cabrera basically has to do a smaller-scale version of that, in which he’s playing five holograms in one shot. How funny that each of these has a different accent? (Of course the engineering hologram has to have a Scottish accent. She interviews all the different holograms he has of himself. It takes a little bit of detective work by Raffi for her to figure out what’s actually going on with Rios. He’s seen someone like her before: apparently there’s a race of android women who all look exactly the same - an extremely “Original Series” Trek concept.Įlnor (Evan Evagora) and Seven find a way to kick the Romulans off the cube - of course, the bad guys are leaving the cube already. That scene with Narissa and her aunt is carried entirely by Peyton List’s acting, as is a similar scene with Rios bonding with Raffi later on, in which he finally confesses his damage. That’s a pretty big revelation to be handled in such a throwaway manner.īut exposition-dispensing is far from this show’s strength. So wait, if that was 14 years ago that her aunt went through the Admonition, and that was before she was assimilated… that means the Borg Collective still does exist in a potent and powerful form, regardless of whatever Janeway did to apparently destroy them in the “Star Trek: Voyager” finale. “The Collective picked the wrong Tal’Shiar ship to assimilate that day.” Why is it only being revealed just now that this ex-Borg Romulan myth expert who freaked out at Soji being The Destroyer is Narissa’s aunt? And apparently, she was the reason this cube completely shut down: “Breaking a Borg cube from the sheer force of your despair,” Narissa says. If there are valid criticisms to be leveled at “Picard” - and there are - much of them come down to the writing: the story structure especially. Develop artificial intelligence that’s just sophisticated enough and you will summon The Destroyer.Īs with so many of the concepts on this show, that’s just conveyed through ponderous dialogue, without the slightest stab at dramatization. Zephram Cochrane invented warp drive in 2063 and the Vulcans noticed and made first contact. Later on it’s suggested that humanity’s development of artificial life has a threshold, like when warp drive was being developed: go too far and someone will show up. Yes, she was the one who freaked out when she saw Soji many episodes ago and called her “The Destroyer.” Apparently, The Destroyer will be the synthetic lifeform who brings about a galactic apocalypse. The only two who survive this round are Narissa and her aunt, who we know was later assimilated by the Borg before being reclaimed by Hugh. Those who can endure it, though, become members of the Zhat Vash, the secret society dedicated to the destruction of all synthetic life. This vision, the Admonition, is clearly not something everyone can handle. One immediately blasts her brains out with a disruptor, another crushes her skull with a rock, one even seems to tear her face, green blood spilling out. Most of these Romulan women couldn’t handle what they saw. It was the destruction that followed the first creation of artificial life. These women gathered in a circle on this dusty planet were to reach out and touch a strange altar, and upon doing so they’d receive a vision of untold destruction that happened across the galaxy hundreds of thousands of years ago. Jurati in “Nepenthe.”Īll those things Jurati saw? Well, they actually happened. Episode eight of this series, “Broken Pieces” began, like so many of these episodes have, with a flashback: 14 years ago on Aia, “the grief world,” we got a glimpse of those people gathered in a circle we saw oh-so-briefly in Commodore Oh’s mind-meld with Dr. Well, if you’re the Romulan secret society, the Zhat Vash, your response is extreme. Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 35 Films the Director Wants You to SeeĮvery Scripted Broadcast TV Show: Cancelled or Renewed? 'Star Trek: Picard' Season 2 Review: Finally, this Show Is What We Hoped It Would Be Entire 'The Next Generation' Main Cast to Return for 'Star Trek: Picard' Season 3
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