Picard's Star Trek: First Contact Redo Wastes Season 2's Potential
Warning: SPOILERS forStar Trek: Picard season 2, episode 8, «Mercy.»
The cliffhanger ending to Star Trek: Picard season 2, episode 8, «Mercy» suggests that the final two episodes of this second season will replay the events of Star Trek: First Contact. The Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) in the body of Agnes (Alison Pill) has formed an alliance with Dr. Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) to take the La Sirena. Using Soong's government connections, they employ the services of military contractors, reminiscent of the Jonathan Frakes-directed Star Trek: The Next Generation action movie. In that film, Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the Enterprise crew attempt to defeat a Borg incursion on the ship while Riker and an away team try to keep history on course.
Star Trek: Picard season 2 has an incredibly similar plot, only emphasized by the flashbacks in «Mercy» to Agent Wells encountering Vulcan scientists out in the woods as a child. Like the Enterprise-E, the La Sirena has used Borg technology to travel back to 2024 to avert Star Trek: Picard's Confederate future. As with First Contact, the momentous historic event revolves around a rocket launch, the Europa mission, piloted by Picard's ancestor Renée.
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While Star Trek: Picard hasn't been shy of lifting previous plotlines from Star Trek history, from Star Trek: The Voyage Home to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode «Past Tense,» it's been applying those storylines to the world of today. It's realized the Sanctuary Districts of DS9 in a post-Trump world of over-zealous immigration controls while replacing humpback whales with global warming and pollution. The upcoming Borg/Soong siege of the La Sirena isn't
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