Picard’s Major Character Death Fixes A Season 1 Failure
Warning: SPOILERS forStar Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 3 — «Assimilation»
Elnor (Evan Evagora) died in Star Trek: Picard season 2, episode 3, but his exit (which may only be temporary) helps fix an issue with his character from Star Trek: Picard season 1. At the start of «Assimilation,» the Magistrate (Jon Jon Briones) shoots Elnor with a phaser when he and his Confederation soldiers boarded La Sirena. The young Romulan dies from his injuries and is mourned by his surrogate parents, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd). Elnor's sudden death also means that the Romulan warrior nuns are currently no longer a factor in Star Trek: Picard season 2.
The Qowat Milat, along with the villainous Zhat Vash, are inventions of Star Trek: Picard season 1's showrunner, Michael Chabon. The Qowat Milat were, essentially, the opposite number to the Zhat Vash, which was an extremist faction of the Tal Shiar secret police. The sword-wielding Qowat Milat are different from traditional Romulans in that they practice «absolute candor» and freely express what they think. The Qowat Milat also only bind their swords to lost causes. Although the Qowat Milat are women, Elnor was adopted into their fold and trained as a warrior after he was orphaned during the Romulans' evacuation when their sun went supernova. Elnor and the Qowat Milat also befriended Jean-Luc Picard, who has known the young male Romulan ninja since he was a child. Overall, the Qowat Milat are part of changes Star Trek: Picard made to Romulan lore.
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Before his death, Elnor already moved away from the Qowat Milat in Star Trek: Picard season 2. Indeed, when Star Trek:
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