Picard’s Time Travel Creates A Borg Queen & Android Plot Hole
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 2 — «Penance»
Jean-Luc Picard's (Patrick Stewart) Star Trek: Picard season 2 plan to time travel back to 2024 Los Angeles has a couple of plot holes regarding the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) and Soji (Isa Briones). In Star Trek: Picard's season 2 premiere, the Borg Queen tricked Picard and nearly assimilated an entire Starfleet armada thanks to the Borg technology from the Artifact built into the new USS Stargazer. When Picard initiated the self-destruct that annihilated himself and the Starfleet and Borg vessels, he awoke to a new reality created by Q (John de Lancie) traveling back in time and rewriting Star Trek's Prime Universe history.
The new Star Trek reality is the aftermath of Q traveling back to 2024 Los Angeles and creating a divergence in time. Instead of resulting in an alternate timeline, like what happened in J.J. Abrams'Star Trek 2009 when the destruction of the USS Kelvin created the alternate Kelvin Timeline, Q's meddling birthed a new Prime Universe going forward. In this reality, the human race became a xenophobic and authoritarian regime, founding the Confederation of Earth to wipe out other alien species. At the dawn of the 25th century in Star Trek: Picard season 2, which is set in 2401, the Confederation is at war with Vulcan after decimating the Romulans, Cardassians, and even the Borg. The Confederation's conquests are due to its 'greatest hero,' the bloodthirsty General Picard, who captained the CSS World Razer. The Confederation is ruled from San Francisco by President Annika Hansen (Jeri Ryan), who was never assimilated by the Borg to become Seven of Nine. The Confederation also captured the Borg Queen, the last of her cyborg race,
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