The Ending Of Picard Season 2 Explained

Season 2 of "Picard" took viewers past the final frontier and toward a bold new generation of characters and concepts within the "Star Trek" universe. With the season finale, "Farewell," finally released, there's even more to dig into to see how loose ends are wrapped up and minor bits of confusion cleared up. If you're looking for someone to give you the rundown of what happened, we can make it so. From a long-awaited cameo that few saw coming to the explanation for why this whole season's plot turned out the way it did, this is the ending of "Picard" season 2 explained.
#Picard #StarTrek #Season2
A tale of two Renées | 0:00
Soong's final gambit | 1:36
A traveler arrives | 2:53
Picard's skeleton key | 4:21
Q's final trial | 5:16
Rios leaves, Elnor returns | 6:39
The Borg plot revealed | 7:53
The Europa Mission | 9:04
Picard finds love | 9:40
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[@Looper]

What did you think of the ending of "Picard" season 2?

[@TwistedSecrets777]

As a trekky i Love it and the borg part was awesome they finally get to be a part of the Federation but its no longer the Borg from TNG :)

[@brantheblazed4322]

Hot garbage.

[@joyroman7620]

This was the best episode ever!

[@sinistan1002]

garbage. resurrected by q with his dying breath? q were never mortal nor had breath they were supposed to be omnipotent entities and more than one of them, picard sucks and is ending therefore they want to kill off OG Q..

[@resiplayerz]

@@sinistan1002 Ramifications from Voyager? When Janeway helped end the Q civil war and Q had his son they said it may affect the continuum in ways none of them can predict. Maybe the Q are all mortal now?

[@alanmaxwell5932]

Humans think so three dimensionally. Q might have been at the end of his life but he could still show up at any place and time as he is outside of time. This is just what he does at the end

[@Sserxe]

Loved an older more mature Q also.

[@Toastrackman]

Any ideas what happened to Jean luc's elder brother Robert in this series, no mention of him, or did i miss something 🤔

[@bitslasher89]

@@Toastrackman He died, 30 years ago in the Generations movie, in a fire along with his son Renee (Picard’s nephew)

[@Toastrackman]

@@bitslasher89 The scenes were Jean-Luc remembers his childhood with his Mother and Father is where his Brother Robert should still have been mentioned.

[@TChalla616]

@@Toastrackman I read somewhere that Robert was away at school at the time, they really should have mentioned him though, maybe something that mentioned the connection between Robert naming his son Rene, and their ancestor Renee.

[@Anonymous99997]

Many great comments both pro and con on this show. All I can say is that to me it was like driving down I-95 to Florida and watching the mile markers and state borders go by. I looked forward to each episode, but just so I could get through it and closer to the end.

[@mikej9470]

I still come back to this comment and it makes me laugh each time. It helps that I have to hit read more to see the punchline!

[@manarod]

there are no pros

[@robertabrams8562]

Now the ending is crystal clear…thank you (great job) 🖖🏼

[@narrowjay0]

These videos are hilarious! NO ONE needs the ending explained. ITs pretty upfront and not complicated.

[@marcobaker1475]

Agree lol and they really didn't explain anything. Just recap what we all saw 😂😂😂

[@JuricksEnterprise]

The bit with Wesley/Traveler was just silly and sounded like an insurance commercial - "Welcome to the Travelers!" LOL!!!

[@Panwere36]

Raping the original canon is so ridiculous...but then Wil Wheaton being brought back is just proof of that.

[@xyz.ijk.]

That was one of your best videos ever. Maybe your best video ever.

[@buklao8000]

That space event what happend.. Is possible that was Q´s death?

[@billkeithchannel]

Several have postulated that.

[@excelents]

So was Wesley a Traveller when he attended Riker & Troi's Wedding in Nemesis ?

[@neochozo]

I was asking myself this question, too. Especially since Wes is wearing a Starfleet uniform at said wedding.

[@varianschirmer9375]

Q wore an Admiral uniform several times. He wasn't actually Starfleet.

[@davesmith5482]

I think the writers of Nemesis just plain forgot that Wesley's arc on TNG had finished with him becoming a Traveler.

[@jay_te3]

Not going to lie the ending of Q and his speech brought tears. It was a very captivating and emotional speech...John de Lancie is a masterful actor. Ever since TNG I love his character. It was a fitting and excellent closure to his character. It kind of made me sad knowing he's gone...as Q

[@Ajnin42]

butterfly tears.

[@ninamatthews8747]

Well, it annoyed me. I wanna know why he had to die. I thought he was immortal. What happened to make that not so? Is the universe dying in his true time? What is the problem?

[@bursegsardaukar]

What if the anomaly is Q's death like how stars become supernova as they die and the transwarp conduit is what is left of Q after his death.

[@kyorin6526]

Interesting...

[@burleyscott2910]

@@kyorin6526 That would relate to the 'civil war' the Q had in Voyager. Supernovas all over the place.

[@alanwalker6708]

That's far too clever for these "writers"

[@stephen1569]

Fine idea. I like it !

[@ricksanchez1365]

If you ask me and you didn’t… my guess is Iconians returning like in Star Trek online.

[@sistakia33]

Thank you so much for this video! I can't afford to get the service this show is on but I still wanted to know how this season went! It seemed like a good one!

[@justathought7221]

I got the DVDs from the library. They got them in for me. FYI 😇

[@sistakia33]

@@justathought7221 So jealous! 😉

[@brendangkelleher2669]

It wasn’t

[@albundy8192]

surprised whoopi was not at the bar with the other crownies from the view

[@dmfraser1444]

About the deleting of Soong's data, any fool these days with data that important will have backups made daily to an external backup that is disconnected completely from the network once the backup is completed. We call that establishing an air gap. I do it myself and rotate through multiple external terabyte sized USB drives. I even carry one in my handbag at all times just in case. With the sensitive data in 256 bit encrypted vaults. I'm a 70 year old retired electronics engineer and I still have all the data created on my first PC in 1985 and everything since then. So let me guess, he was dumb enough to totally trust cloud storage? From a single provider! While the deletion is pretty well essential to the story, this is a fail that even the most inexperienced system administrator in 1985 knew better than to allow happen.

[@riopato2009]

Maybe that's why Soong couldn't exactly get his work right and created so many versions of his "daughter". Every time his drive corrupted, he had to start from scratch. LOL. Something this important, one would think he would at least have hard copy documentation of his experiments. I still printout my tax returns every year as an analog record, yet this dummy didn't keep a summary printout of his successful results? Why would he even have documents on his genetic enhancement project that created Khan? Also why would he call it Project Khan anyway? Khan was just one result to multiple different test subjects. Were all of those super humans all called Khan?

[@dmfraser1444]

@Les Bravo Any sensible sys admin will have backups that are not connected to the network. What we call air gapped backup on a drive that is unplugged from the network cannot be deleted remotely. Because there is simply no way to access it. My multiple backups cannot be deleted and with my rotation a total loss of what is accessible would set me back never more than a week. I also swap out a backup,in my safety deposit box every 2-3 months. This is a system I picked up from people administering banks and government systems. Whoever set up his computer systems that vulnerable deserves a pat on the cheek from Dr Soong. This is security 101 stuff dating back to the earliest days of computing. The whole bit was so we could see that Soong was involved in the Khan project and I assume the Eugenics wars to come. But the premise used was incorrect. In something this critical he could have spent a few hundred dollars buying a half dozen USB hard drives. The project budget would have not even noticed.

[@FlamethrowersAgainstSnowflakes]

Soong's 'Data'.... lol I see what you did there

[@SoranoGuardias]

@@dmfraser1444 Adam Soong's research was illegal. Following the end of the Eugenics Wars that largely took place in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, the world's nations signed the Shenzhen Eugenics Accords basically outlawing any research into artificially created or augmented humans. If anyone where to find out exactly what he was doing, and how many "failed" children he had, he would have been arrested and possibly executed. Storing that data external to his lab would increase that risk significantly, so it makes sense for such secretive research to be in one place. And who knows, maybe Koree discovered when his backup systems where scheduled to come online and chose that moment to attack?

[@dmfraser1444]

@@SoranoGuardias He still should have had private offline backups he kept in his lab or even on himself. Protecting your data is a basic part of having computers critical to your mission. I mean not even computing 101 level. Way below that level. A bright man such as him should have had multiple encrypted archives on non-networked drives. And for cloud stored data it has been feasible to have it stored in uncrackable encryption for quite some time now. I do such a scheme myself and it costs very little considering how important some of my data could be. But then Star Trek writers have also lost the technology of the seat belt and the circuit breaker. Control panels do not explode like the way they do on the show.

[@bubkusjones]

Here's my big question. How does Jurati joining with the Borg Queen and their deal to change how the Borg act affect the rest of the timeline? This new direction for the Borg doesn't seem to be compatible with how the Borg acted in TNG/First Contact/Voyager. So, does that mean these events no longer happened as we saw them? Do the Borg no longer invade, assimilate Locutus, and take out the fleet at Wolf 359? Does that mean Jennifer Sisko never dies? Maybe she still dies, but the circumstances change? How does that change Ben or Jake Sisko? Do they still end up on DS9? What about the events of First Contact? Do the Borg no longer go back in order to prevent it? That'll change how certain events in Enterprise play out, because they do reference the events of First Contact and encounter some remnant Borg. Or maybe the Borg still play the role of this antagonistic species, in order to "preserve" the timeline up to that point? Or is this now another parallel timeline, where the Borg were less antagonistic, but not necessarily "friendly", occupying a position similar to the Cardassians for most of the TNG era, prior to the Dominion War, or the Romulans, for that matter?

[@BastetFurry]

@@jonfreeman9682 this. From what i understand there is the Collective and then now the Cooperative, much like the Romulans split from the Vulcans but this time from an evil fraction the split resulted in a good faction. And as this plays after Voyager the Collective Queen is currently gone anyway. Besides, to somewhat quote my favorite captain, temporal things make my headaches worse. 😅

[@christopheraaron1255]

The Traveller thing is bollocks.

[@gambitx9581]

Like the end of Series 1, where Picard (apparently) confessed his love for data, this ending again has an illogical detail. I'll let Picard hug Q at the end because of the overall situation. Even if the Picard from the TV series never hugged Q. But what didn't make sense to me was young Guinan's behavior. Apparently she didn't even know Picard in the season. However, in the old series, the two had known each other long before that. But now Guinan didn't seem to remember. I thought so at first because this is a whole new timeline. So both the future and the complete past. But old Guinan could remember those meetings very well. Before Picard landed in the past. So if it all seemed to have always been part of that main timeline, why couldn't young Guinan remember Picard? Either the writers didn't take that into account, or they didn't care because they found it more interesting that way.

[@paulbabcock2428]

That botheredme to. Idt the writers of Picard have even watched many episodes of pre Abrams/Kurtzman Trek. Imo that is forgivable, in and of itself, but they ought to, at least, have had some proofreader or something on staff who had watched it.

[@captainkane1984]

Humble hypothesis worth considering: the confederation timeline negated the events of Time’s Arrow pt 1 and 2 because there was no enterprise, data, etc.

[@bitslasher89]

@@captainkane1984 That would work, except that hadn’t been determined yet. The branch in the timeline hadn’t happened yet.

[@hubbsllc]

@@bitslasher89 More correctly, the La Sirena crew traveled back to a timeline on old Earth in which the events that result in a Federation and a Picard commanding the NCC-1701-D does not happen...in which the events of no episode of ST:TNG occur

[@bitslasher89]

@@hubbsllc That’s not right. They traveled back to BEFORE the event that made that future. They prevented the “bad” future and restored the one we know. They showed this in multiple ways: 1. Soong opens the “Khan” project, which we know leads to the Eugenics Wars, and all the events around Khan we see later with Kirk. 2. Picard comments about the bullet holes left by the Borg queen’s goons, as being bullet holed he remembered as a child. 3. He left the key for himself to find, accepting his fate, the death of his mother and all the paths it would lead him down. 4. Romulan lady (can’t remember her name) as she’s dying, she ask him how many life’s has his grief saved? 5. Final scene of movie is the characters back where they started, in the PRIME timeline, with the “strange” Borg queen on the bridge. The timeline wasn’t just restored, the sequence of events demonstrated that these events had always been what happened! We weren’t aware because we hadn’t seen the future yet where the bootstrap paradox loop was closed. What seemed like the same instant to everyone else in the prime timeline, Picard and his friends were taken back to the past so that the Borg queen would be able to be on the bridge in the first place!

[@anthonyju6392]

What happened to the temporal time accords? And the division of the Federation who are supposed to monitor time in the 29th century? I am betting that the new entity are the Sphere builders from Enterprise.

[@time391]

Yeah they need to figure this stuff out. In the Star Trek DTI novels, beta-canon at best now, the Temporal Accord included the Travelers and all Temporal powers in the galaxy. The group that Gary Seven was part of had the name "Aegis", and they protected all history for all civilizations. The Q and the temporal powers have an understanding and limits, I guess it must be similar to what happened with the El-Aurian and Q Continuum. If this gets retconned to DTI novels, then it would mean that Aegis is similar to UN Peacekeeper force, while the Federation Temporal Department and groups like Krenim Temporal Agency are local powers like US or Russia. You can have an international peacekeeping force alongside national military forces/agencies.

[@thomas.parnell7365]

If you mean the anomaly at end small chance could be the iconians.

[@riopato2009]

Yeah and since Wesley came back as a traveller, once again leaving Star Fleet. WTF was he doing all this time? Watching? The writers can't come up with anything that would make Wesley useful?!?! I thought that Q's death caused the spacial anomaly wormhole that opens a portal from where he came from.

[@time391]

@@riopato2009 Time travel, it's confusing as heck and there's also the prospect of a Trek Multi-verse, Wesley might actually be "traveling"

[@time391]

@@thomas.parnell7365 I remember the Star Trek Online Iconian incursions, maybe they're playing that up to make it Canon

[@Korodarn]

So they told the story of Tapestry again, but over a much longer time period, with a Picard that is somehow less confident and fairly useless most of the time with a new "deeper" tragic backstory that now also involves an ancestor who finds a wonder-organism that fixes a post apocalyptic world thereby eliminating the future where humans overcome the post apocalyptic world through technology in a way that makes humans into super xenophobes that are somehow more successful in general despite choosing conquest over cooperation - and the lesson to take from this whole series of events is to forgive yourself and try to find love or something. Deep.

[@bitslasher89]

LOL. Well written.

[@lcflngn]

Welp, that’s certainly one way to look at it. Well written critique! I’m a patsy, fully admitted. Trash, but still my trash. I adore the actors, and the dialogue was mostly great, and those are my priorities. (See Doctor Who 13 for some unbelievably bad dialogue surprisingly presented in public, it’s sometimes shocking tbh, warning.) Bad story, not good story-telling, terrible pacing. Mostly a sad waste of Patrick Stewart’s invaluable time. Sigh.

[@scotttild]

I agree They pulled a JJ Abrams and took a story re worked it and bam they had something so called new. All Hollywood is interested in is an agenda not making good movies or shows. Strange New Worlds was fine until they had the crew, all woman. Come on can you say overkill.

[@captainnes8520]

Or something! clear you know nothing jon snow... this is a 100 yr old Jean Luc...not the cadet in Tapestry.. DOY! I'm guessing Maturity and wisdom are not part of your lore? smh.. as fantastic as DS9 was... it wasn't all gloom and boom ya know... some of it's best episodes were, aaaahhhhh, meh, nevermind. you all are just immature haters.. looking to just hate watch.. just so you can hate some more.. FB droids feeding the algorithm, I tell ya! i pity the fools.

[@nigeljohn6676]

Wow,.. this synopsis is good,.. really really good,... wow!

[@matthew90276]

The problem with Picard(among many) is that they told a story which could have been in done 6 episodes over 10 instead. There was too much filler.

[@JuricksEnterprise]

Yes, it's too bad that they spent all their money on Episodes 1 and 10, and didn't squeeze the rest in to about 3 episodes total!

[@habibabdul1538]

This isn't the fast and the furious like Discovery

[@dustinjoosen5901]

That is actually one of the better things. 40 percent filler is absolutely nothing compared to old-trek. And it's a good thing! It allows for more characterization and worldbuilding

[@LazyRare]

​@@dustinjoosen5901I prefer having filler over 25 episodes a season rather than filler over 10 episodes

[@BaronSupremacy]

Bet there'll be a "Star Trek: Watchers" series of some sort, bringing Wil Wheaton back. I'd watch that.

[@Gojira1701]

Did anyone else notice that, while Tallin was dying, her eyes kept turning more and more bloodshot (red)???? She's a Romulan. She should have green blood. :( Little things like that missed just makes me feel the creators are lazy.

[@nooneatall8072]

My headcannon (to explain this away) is that Tallinn is part Human.

[@Freshbrood]

Blood is not the same color inside us until it reacts with oxygen, aka blue.. blue/green/red being adjacent on the spectrum makes sense, so it's still very plausible a Romulan could have bloodshot red eyes but bleed out green.

[@bitslasher89]

The two Renee's comment could also refer to the female Renee (in this series who must live) and Jean Luke's nephew Renee (the boy) who we was close to, but died in a fire in the Generations movie.

[@christopheraaron1255]

But it doesn't. They aren't that clever.

[@bitslasher89]

@@christopheraaron1255 sadly you are 99.99999% likely to be correct

[@JohnsTrainVideos]

He wasn't that close to him, he only met him one time.

[@bitslasher89]

@@JohnsTrainVideos That you saw in the shows, it was written as though they were very close. That was like his whole drama arc of the Generations movie.

[@chriskwakernaat2328]

thta was my first thought too. too many renee's in star trek.

[@user-uc9fx4ru7p]

Anyone watch this and had the same feeling as with the last Matrix Movie. Want to like it but can't help to be disappointed. And deep down know that if it wasn't original show/movie we wouldn't have watched it all. Will say last episode of Picard was good. Better than other early episodes.

[@JohnsTrainVideos]

Like so much today, it just seems like good writing is way undervalued and name dropping and exagerated stupid personal interactions plus good visuals is all that matters when making shows or movies. It makes me very sad.

[@DonCristoBaal]

Plus, the "woke message" that turned 7of9 into a lesbian ... hey, im all about equality and representation but cmon, write your own damn story and stop fucking existing ones, mkay! And the borg becoming a bunch of hippies flower power goodie 2 shoes, WTF!

[@dennysnowden9418]

Ya, this series does not fit Picards character they created in the TV series. I find it hard watching another show I enjoyed being destroyed. Feels that way to me anyway.

[@PoconoRob]

Season 3 ends with Picard sacrificing himself. Q then makes an appearance telling him the trial is over. Picard goes to the Continuum to be Q.

[@mikej9470]

Close, but it ends with Patrick Stewart saying 'good news, everyone!' and becoming Dr. Farnsworth from Futurama

[@schumi9xwdc]

Anika Hansen becomes Captain Hansen in Star Trek-Borg

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Between this and RLM, Picard has provided me with a lot of entertainment without even watching it.

[@andrewboteler7522]

Morbid curiosity for me, will be fun to see rich n mike talk about this weird lame shit :P

[@paulbabcock2428]

Episodes 1,2, and 10 were ok. But, yes it was overall filed w canon contradicting, nonsequator, pointless wheel spinning,

[@williamgarner6779]

Try Nitpicking Nerd/Major Grin. He is a Star Trek officianado and very funny.

[@Sea-Bass]

🧐I believe now Q is not dying, this is another one his things just to say goodbye to Pacard knowing he won’t be back to see him before Pacard dies. ALSO he did say “see you in the stars” so maybe?

[@southbridgeforestHOA]

hes dead, good riddance, annoying character.

[@Sea-Bass]

Ha, 11 months later and I was right.

[@Sea-Bass]

Anyone remember Q has a son? We totally got screwed this season.

[@Sea-Bass]

@@oidgiasinger maybe, but the Q was made before our society lost its mind and Star Trek went Woke.

[@annegolden3119]

We truly believed that Q was unstable because someone else changed the timeline and wiped out everything that happened during ST:TNG and Voyager, including the birth of his son. It made so much sense given all the things he was saying to Soong in episode 5. Too bad as I thought it would have been better than Q changing centuries of history just so PIcard can work out his commitment issues. And Q wouldn't have been alone at death is his son were there. Oh, well.

[@FrankAboutTech]

I don't think there were ever any other Q. There was only Q, no continuum out anything else. It was all Q.

[@samsadeniz]

@@FrankAboutTech what about the Q civil war?

[@paulsegrue5133]

@@Sea-Bass Star Trek has always been woke since the first episode in the 1960's.

[@sm7eric]

Great series enjoyed

[@jamescrabb8766]

Even God's have their favorites, and you are mine." Q and Picard, a relationship that almost seems real. Good actors make you BELIEVE, that's what story telling is all about, believing.

[@glennmiller9491]

Great show, thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@jfilm7466]

The best thing about the end of season 2 is that it ended.

[@maestrojint]

Are there two borg queens? They altered the past and now Agnis is queen. So what happened to the original queen from TNG and Voyager? Is Agnis from a different universe or dimension? That can’t be true either as Chris’ photo is in Guinan’s bar. So what happened to the borg during the time in between? A big butterfly effect I think. Did Picard become Locutos? Can someone elaborate for me? Thanks.

[@Hobgoblin88]

From what i gathered the Agnis Queen created her own seperate collective of people who they helped and willingly joined. So the OG Borg have always been there and still are, and Jurati's Borg are simply their own entity hiding from the federation until the right time.

[@riopato2009]

There are many Borg Queens. Odd that there are no Borg Kings but usually the Queen are the only Borg that thinks for themselves and is the actual species of her race. Jurati is a newer Borg Queen unlike the other Borg in the Delta Quadrant. This version of Borg makes a formidable ally to the Federation and could change their future drastically. Question is, how many species did Jurati assimilated for the past 400 years. And what happened to human Jurati's present? Did her past happen or did she just vanish? Are there two Agnes now?

[@Hobgoblin88]

@@riopato2009 Q never transported Rios and Agnes back. Someone on the bridge even asks where captain Rios has gone. Also past Agnes is no longer there when they are back on the bridge. I too always assumed there were multiple queens and no they are not from the original species, atleast one (played by Suzanna Thompson in Voyager) besides Jurati anyway. She said she's from species 125, so that's not the first species.

[@riopato2009]

@@Hobgoblin88 The Crew remembers Rios but do they remember Agnis?

[@Hobgoblin88]

@@riopato2009 they get transported to moment right before the self destruct so only the last few seconds are altered in the time line so to everyone else but the picard group just sees Agnis disappeared and sees her revealed as the queen moments after that. I guess they are confused, but when they get informed of what happend it'll make sense to them. I mean, it's not like it's the first time star fleet has heard of time travel or Q before.

[@tmnt2105]

Awesome

[@aaronxu7781]

Though it is a central concept in many sci-fis, I don't like producers messing with time travel. Elnor is an example of what happens when time travel mess up. Let's assume that Stargazer blowing up is the main timeline. Changing history would cause an alternate timeline (mirror universe) to be formed, which is the one with the Confederation. But when Picard went back to 2024, did his actions create another alternate timeline in which Guinan kept a photo of Rios? Or did they meant to happen in the main timeline? Also, when Picard called-off the self destruction, he must have created the third alternate timeline, because in the main timeline, the Stargazer self-destructed, resulting in his death.

[@oldylad]

She said she had the photo before the time travel, and the burg Queen was always jurati

[@larryharris8044]

So now there are Travelers, Watchers, Q, the Time Prime Directive cops, and any number of warp capable species that can time travel with a slingshot maneuver or some extra tachyon and a trans warp drive. This is Marvel Star Trek now!

[@time391]

Not really, higher being always had this power to go back in time. Even Sisko's Prophet had that ability, because they were non-linear beings. Star Trek exists in multi-dimensional universe where highly evolved life forms can manipulate space and time at will, since the show's inception in TOS. Essentially it's more like Warhammer than Marvel, except humans love Xenos for the most part, unless the plot requires something else.

[@thomas.parnell7365]

They had time warp in the original star trek movies

[@lisag5002]

Apparently that is the norm now. Star Wars did it The Last Jedi and and you see how fans turned on them.

[@aladinkapic6615]

lol this is most boring illogical star trek ever with disco. and you are right star trek was about exploration not about how many super power spiecies can we bring in one show to play in their persona universe

[@michaelstaengl1349]

@LARRY HARRIS Seems like there's someone desperate to have something to complain about: - Travellers alreaqdy had been introduced in Startrek way before the MCU movie series, in the late ´1980s. They were introduced in ST:TNG - The Watchers were introduced in the mid-1960s in ST:TOS in a time the Watchers from the Marvel comics were only minor charackters not known to manny comic readers. - Q as depicted in Star Trek TNG, VOY, DS9 and PIC are a genuine creation of Star Trek. Everay science fiction series have higher ups. The German PErry Rhodan Series did that with the super intellicences too since the early 1960s. - The temporal agents were introduced in the 1990s in ST:DS9 equally way before the Marvel Cinematic Universe. - This certain kind of time travel in the whole Star Trek canon only had been observed by just one species, the humans. First time seen in Star Trek Voyage Home done by Kirk and Spock and on screen the second time in ST:PIC. All the things seen in ST:PIC are genuine Star Trek and happened before the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There's more reason to argue that having the Borg as allies of the Federation is stolen from the German science-fiction series Perry Rhodan in which the Posbi, who were cyborgs have cubic space crafts too and became an ally to the human lead Solar Empire which is a bit like the UFP.

[@Digi20]

A good recap. I was quite unimpressed by the ending. Which is a shame, because the individual plot lines, especially picards past and Qs ending i found great, also evolving the Borg into new allies - awesome! that alone is enough material for a whole new show. But the way it was presented with a very weird pace, direction and cuts felt lackluster. i have the feeling this could have been a great great season, but some things behind the curtain (covid, changed funding, rotating executives etc.) lead to a sub-par final product. this might have worked much better in and episodic approach with most of the individual storys beeing told and finished in their own episode at the right pace.

[@jay_te3]

Not going to lie the ending of Q and his speech brought tears. It was a very captivating and emotional speech...John de Lancie is a masterful actor. Ever since TNG I love his character.

[@Digi20]

@@jay_te3 yes, that was definitely the highlight of the show.

[@MediaSubliminal]

Noonian Soong: " Ahhh! They're deleting Data!

[@ZeyphodZeyphod]

So is just "Q" dead or is the rest of the "Q-Continuum" dead/gone as well? Don't know if they ever said anything about the fate of the other "Q's" including Q's son (and Amanda Rogers from Next Gen episode True Q)

[@JaredCastello]

He seemed ready to love in Insurrection. 😆

[@BobBob-kr5wr]

So many unanswered questions. Like WHY is Q dying. Where are the other Q? Why does the new Borg with tech 400+ years more advanced than the federations tech need the federations help? Etc. Etc.

[@delafe]

I hope the surprise from Q was not Elnor, but something else. Perhaps Data?

[@butoolkhan2715]

But Jean-Luc had a brother, an older brother. In this series while he confronts the trauma of his childhood it appears that he’s an only child. What happened to the brother who looked after the vineyard while Jean-Luc was off captaining?

[@nooneatall8072]

Robert was mentioned by Yvette in Episode 1. Robert was off "toiling at school".

[@cameronoppenheim7249]

I was innocent Kellogg’s on Star Trek next generation I am so happy to hear the cast is back together.

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

So the other Renee is the one that dies in the fire? Are you sure it's Tallinn?

[@FreeSpirit47]

Loved the recap! Thank you. All the twists & turns with Wesley Crusher at the end was thrilling!

[@VigsVic]

There were actually THREE people named "Renee" -- Grandma Renee, Tallin pretending to be Grandma Renee, AND Picard's nephew, Renee, who died in a fire that killed brother, Robert. So, 1 lives but TWO die.

[@mikej9470]

By the end, I wished I was named Renee so I could die and not have to watch any more

[@TsarVladolfPutler]

@@mikej9470 Why?

[@mikej9470]

@@TsarVladolfPutler It was awful. I saw it said best that at the start of Season 1 it was Picard but rapidly just turned in to Patrick Stewart. So many plot holes. So many wasted opportunities.

[@JohnsTrainVideos]

So Wesley was in star fleet, dropped out, went mucking around the universe with the traveller, then ditch him and went back into star fleet for a while, then ditched starfleed again and went back to being a traveller again, and also doesn't go by wesley crusher anymore. So that's his timeline we're going with? Also when jurati borg queen went off in the space ship to make a new collective, what happened to the collective we already know and fear? They had been around for thousands of years. Did jurati's new collective somehow take that one over? Or did they hide from it for 400 years. Hide from the other collective, from starfleet, from everyone. Because no one knew anything about them. And Rios had a rough time since his other captain killed himself, but he was fully back on track, the captain of a star ship again. But he meets a pretty girl for a few days and decides to throw his whole life and future away to stay 400 years in the past. With BTW a 3rd world war on the horizon. Have the writers of this show ever watched star trek?

[@riopato2009]

The writers suck. They completely discarded the fact that Guinan met Picard and his crew back in the 1800s who helped solved the mystery of Data's destruction. It was also the reason why Guinan befriended Picard before they even met. This version of Star Trek the Next Generation must be the JJ Abram's timeline that craps on everything that is cannon over the decades. Also time travel stories are dumb, all those deaths in the past and no consequences. None of those soldiers had any effect to the future but Rico happens to fall in love with the mother of the son that saved earth? Absurd. Also Jurati just gets wiped out of existence and becomes the new Borg queen? Ridiculous.

[@hubbsllc]

@@riopato2009 OK, this has come up before. The explanation for the Picard/Guinan/Mark Twain problem is that in the timeline Picard et al. went back to the "fork" of in ST:P S2, the events of that ST:TNG episode never happened; there *was* no Federation; no Captain Picard of the Enterprise NCC-1701-D. So when Picard finds "young" Guinan in that bar, they well and truly have never met, but hearing the name "Picard" has an effect on her because Guinan is sensitive to alternate timelines (including, apparently, the one(s?) in which they *had* met in the 19th century).

[@riopato2009]

@@hubbsllc so this explains when Guianan was asked by Picard why she was drawn to him and how they were so close she said that a bald man was kind to her, she wasn't referring to that episode ? How? Wouldn't those events happened already in her timeline, regardless of the fact the timeline changed because of Q? If that was the case, how did Ensign Kim send himself a message?

[@riopato2009]

Also how was Guianan able to know Tasha wasn't supposed to be on the Enterprise when they encountered yesterday's Enterprise but she doesn't remember her old friend? Time travel is dumb. This would've been a better story if this was a mirror universe and Q put them there to show the future of what could have been without love since that universe is exactly the antithesis of Picard's.

[@billkeithchannel]

I still like the idea that the Wesley at the wedding was a Holodeck NPC. Or none of the theatrically released films are canon.

[@MrChupacabra555]

One big question: Is World War 3 going to happen in the New Trek Canon now? First contact was set Post WW3 apocalypse, so if they change that aspect, they change one big part of established Trek history.

[@zolij86]

It is (Strange New Worlds premier mentioned it). But WW3 is a long war, dated between 2026 and 2053 and nuclear bombs are not launced until the last years of it.

[@riopato2009]

@@zolij86 Soong's "project Kahn" is part of WW3 with a major part of the eugenics war involved within it. First Contact didn't happen until after that war.

[@zolij86]

@@riopato2009 eugenics war and ww3 are not the same. Eugenics war happened in the 1990s (as earlier lore - except ds9 - and Project Khan paper cover said) and ww3 starts in 2026. Adam Soong just continued that work (which was already banned that time) and Arik Soong finished it in the NX01 era.

[@riopato2009]

@@zolij86 Picard and strange new world retcon the dates of the Eugenics war and www3 both of which started in the 21th century not late 20th. Project Khan was obviously just a experiment of documentations started in the 90s that Adam Soong eventually continues and implemented in the mid 2020s. Because of these wars, records were lost and some experts believe the eugenics wars are the beginnings of WW3 while some believe they are the same war.

[@thomasmitchum4162]

I just purchased star trek: Picard today and I am currently watching episode 4 and it reminds me a lot of battle star Galactica 1980, but on steroids

[@carolbriscoe9337]

I wondered how Picard and the rest of the crew returned to Tallin's quarters? Was her transport portal made available to them? And what happened to her body? He couldn't leave it at the base for fear of discovery; her obvious features screamed ALIEN!

[@mikej9470]

He ate the body. Scene was cut to keep show in time limits

[@joetrolo7076]

I disagree, I think that answered a lot more questions than it raised and really tired things together better than I thought they would be able to, in just one episode. Was really expecting a season cliffhanger and was honestly delighted everything was wrapped up so cleanly...

[@MadScientist512]

Gotta love how Soong's daughter knows how much effort her dad put into her cure and then tells him that he never intended to cure her; truly one of Picard's greatest facepalms (punintended:) that sadly wasn't picked up by the major YT critics.

[@alanwalker6708]

They wanted a nice little "emotional impact" moment, whilst not giving a shit that they destroyed their own narrative, and backstory for some millenial tears.

[@MadScientist512]

@@alanwalker6708 It was her emancipation from her abusive father who she believes never intended to let her go by not curing her, yet she knew of his tireless efforts to do so and his belief that using Q's cure would work. It'd make a tiny bit of sense if she didn't know that the first limited cure also came from the same Q that gave her the true 'Freedom' cure, but even glaring discrepancies don't matter because they know their shows' audience won't notice or care, which makes writing very easy! :)

[@alanwalker6708]

@@MadScientist512 Exactly. A tuly toxic controlling father who never meant to cure her, rather treat her as an expirment to be dropped when of no more use, would NOT be motivated to help Q at all as the "bribe" was curing his daughter, he likely had neough data from the short term cure to advance his research. In one episode they try and make you care about a good man doing bad deeds to help his daughter, and use it as his entire motivation to do evil, then a few episodes later they drop all that and ignore his willingness to do anything to save his daughter, and just say he gave zero shits about her from the start, to add a new emotional kick later on in the series. Maybe they just couldn't stomach the idea of a father who actively tries to "save" his female child. All fathers must be toxic to these gen z writers. (picards father, Q, etc etc) What's the definition of confusion? A Picard writer on fathers day.

[@ninamatthews8747]

I don't understand why she was so angry with him. I guess she felt like he didn't really love her, he just wanted to make a scientific marvel but still, that's iffy.

[@sylfae]

As far as Picard’s romantic interests, I wish Vash had returned. I always found her to be the perfect person for Picard.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

NO. Picard's ideal love would be Anij on the Ba'ku planet. They should have sent him there for a rejuvenation session.

[@TndX]

So... nobody noticed the cigar on Rios hand after he said goodbye to Picard???

[@scottprice1943]

Loved the final episode, borg queen was obvious, Q and Picard final moment really touching, awesome linkage with Wiilllllll Weatoooooon! Very touching that we find out Picards story, why he is distant and how Q helps him finally connect and be open to a relationship, well done...

[@SoranoGuardias]

Hwill Hweaton.

[@fanonpatterson6132]

You missed something. The Guinan and Q factor. What was their history. How do they know each other. This was revealed in Picard season 2.

[@mikej9470]

Underwhelming explaination of her being a dangerous imp.

[@michelleweintraub945]

There is a major mistake in season II, it has to do with the new Jurati Borj Queen. This new development in season II makes certain things that were supposed to have happened in season I impossible.

[@IIIAnchani]

but only after the past was changed, branching that reality into a different reality and thus it isn't impossible what happened in season 1 because then the past wouldn't have been changed yet.

[@jurigagarin3966]

Funny how the drone controlled by Rios was destroyed after the impact of the very last drone but not the first. Potholes everywhere

[@schumi9xwdc]

Commander Anika Hansen Liaison to the Borg Alliance, Commanding the USS Titan

[@celestekent1236]

What's with the 6 different "Executve directors"???? Is this merely some titular title or are there truly too many chiefs? Maybe you can explain just what an executive director is and how there can be more than a single one? Or are they really creative consultants and not really directors at all. You're right about this series going so incredibly slowly. And the throw away scene with a certain "traveler" from TNG connecting with so many other points along the Trek timeline. Is this going to be a plot stub (going nowhere) or are they going to do something with it???? I streamed this whole season over the last three days and seeing them in close order does make it seem shorter. Thanks for all the effort you spend on this and keep it up.

[@Sliferzero]

I Think that this Ending was Excellent my friends. Thanks.

[@WhittyPics]

I can't help but think that this new Borg over the last 400 years had to change every interaction with the Borg and Federation from that time forward?

[@jeffcoleman5947]

Let me start by saying I am a huge star trek fan, and I think Jean-Luc Picard (from TNG) is the ultimate character and leader, not just for Star Trek, but anywhere. I just discovered these "can we try to explain and make sense of these Picard plotlines" videos. Ultimately, any story that requires multiple videos to dissect, postulate, and TRY to explain, means the root story is garbage. There are so many parodoxical "red flags" here that you would think the story took place in the Russian Embassy. One flaw I havent seen mentioned: I can accept science "flaws" for science fantasy stories (as opposed to true science fiction, ala Arthur C Clarke). However the lack of science that a natural phenomena (neutrino something?) needs to be "blocked?" ASAP to avoid destroying 1/4 of the galaxy, is too far. Yes that phenomena would destroy any life in its path, but it still cant travel faster than light. Therefore the galaxy should have ample time to avoid it.

[@re575817]

Season 2 was better than season 1. This was so very AWESOME!

[@nikkipat8609]

I think one of the biggest problem is if Jurati version of hybrid borg queen is more embracing of weak culture instead of the resistance is futile mantra. Then technically, the voyager trip and all the adventures should also have changed along with this new Borg identity isn't it?

[@chungwong1010]

I through of that but maybe it mean there are 2 different borg collective?

[@ChrisDIYerOklahoma]

SO. How does Admiral Janeway fit into all this?

[@yzz9833]

I hate what they did with Seven.. she acted nothing like an ex-borg would act, and I have a feeling Jeri isn't impressed her character was forced down this road. A fucking ranger? Really? A being that craved order and perfection in a previous season suddenly losing this character trait is extremely unbelievable and just an insult. What beats me is Rafi dealing with technical tasks MORE THAN SEVEN? The knowledge Seven has is beyond what a human is capable of understanding. It's so dumb, she was my favorite character from my favorite season and I just feel betrayed.

[@time391]

Part of it does make sense, the Federation had issues with the Borg and Starfleet never quite liked former Borg officers like Picard. It's equivalent to a form bigotry based on fear, despite how far humanity has come, I think especially after the Dominion War, there's still a lot of issues.

[@TheRealThunder]

Did you really watch the same show as the rest of us...? Seven clearly stated in the first season, she joined the Fenris Rangers to "bring order to the chaos" in the wake of Romulus destruction. Sounds like a very Borg/Seven thing to do. Perhaps it's just you who didn't pay close enough attention.

[@justinvanhorne9958]

things aren't always black and white, they also aren't always as they seem. i did not go through college, i don't have any professional certification, but if someone needed a task done in my field, they would come to me before they went to an engineer. I'm not bragging or talking out of my @#$ here, just showing you that perceived skill and education doesn't always equal results. also could be other things going on, she isn't borg in this "timeline" until she gets her implants back from the queen, so she wasn't an ex borg at all. sure she was taken from a timeline where she was an ex borg, but jesus do any of us have enough actual scientific knowledge here to be commenting on the accuracy of this? LOL

[@yzz9833]

@@TheRealThunder I paid very good attention and that’s a sorry explanation to why her entire character fundamentally changed. I’ve watched voyager over 20 times, I know her character inside and out. This show was an insult.

[@yzz9833]

@@justinvanhorne9958 she literally single handedly stabilized the omega particle, and you think she can’t figure out for example how to hijack the drones in the final episode? Y’all clearly ain’t trekkies to understand the absolute stupidity of brining a deus ex machina character back to a show just to be a stupid fucking “ranger” as of seven would EVER go down that path.

[@caleclayton1987]

Very disappointed with the ending and some of the pointless characters and how the Borg had turned out

[@carrieellis8847]

why it opens up all those delta quadrent species being able to get to earth even the enemies voyager had left behind so the kayzon, spiecies 8472 etc could have some new intresting storylines, i think the borg needed to be either destroyed as they kinda over ran them as an enemy gives others a chance to be the big bad for a change.

[@Aseinou]

jean luc 70 yrs old and final his first real relationship...theres hope for me still

[@DsUrgert]

70 years?! It's above 90!

[@Aseinou]

@@DsUrgert ya but the first 20 dont count

[@GreenGearMood]

"It was very very bad" That's much shorter, right? Pay me.

[@christ6927]

As a old school Trekkie, is this any good? As in, worth my precious time watching ?

[@crisvaylon4280]

the borg are joining the federation mate. all you need to know, just NOOO

[@ShaneEnochs]

Absolutely not.

[@deepblue2]

I'm an old school Trekkie and I've watched the entire season. Just watch the first episode and the last. That sums up the story. The writing is absolutely horrible.

[@billybobby7607]

No I would rather stay in a pain booth than watch this shite

[@chenling2937]

As someone who has watched all of the shows and movies, it's worth watching. It's not perfect, but enjoyable. Lots of fan service too. Not at the level of the height of TNG or DS9, but a lot better than for example the first two seasons of TNG.

[@annierosha5946]

Am I the only one who wonders at the 20 year age gap between Picard and Laris?

[@MSG685]

Don't Romulans age Slower the Humans? Maybe she is older then he is.

[@GerardScroogeGoes]

LOL the comments are the main show here. Wonderfull how diverse the reactions are. Proves again that in this day and age the public may jab at everything but the story line of the show may not be influenced by it. Everything that can be said will be said. So writes.... just make up your own mind. May inspiration be with you. Fans.... just keep an open mind and do not expect more of the same. If you like that just watch the re-runs ;)

[@matthewgreenwood4286]

I wonder what the joke was that Wesley made that messed up time.

[@mikej9470]

Trailer for season 2 that made us what the whole season

[@nikk-named]

I don't think I'll watch the last season. Everything in this season felt stretched, Picard literally doesn't do anything important, they set up a romance plot in the beginning and then spent most of the season doing nothing about it, it just... The whole way they handled plotlines felt bad to me.

[@TwistedSecrets777]

that was perfect!!

[@scigene8244]

I loved the episode and also love this show and all of Trek. I'm very happy we keep getting new Trek. It's easy to be super picky about what did happen, could have happened or what should be happening, I just sit back and enjoy the fact that TOS has inspired and continues to inspire such awesome science fiction! The alternative would be boring and life less interesting. 🖖🏼

[@NGEvangeliman]

Are you on drugs?

[@karmasong74]

@@NGEvangeliman Buahahaha!!

[@amigajoe1]

One loose thread... what happened to _La Sirena_ -Rios' ship. It was left in the past...

[@jgunnels6773]

I thought it was taken by the Borg Queen Jurati.

[@akiro9635]

Picard an Laris in this time line might be why Ni'var might of happen in discovery but meh can only hope he doesnt break up with her

[@timtrowbridge6787]

Some interesting elements this season but overall a D, and the finale was a cluster

[@cryptechblues]

So the Borg was no longer bad in this new timeline? I thought that was what you were going to address?

[@brandongranger4057]

They never should have killed off Q. He was the main reason of the shows sucess.

[@Jarial7]

People say how wonderful Pickard I was born in 1953 so you can imagine seeing the first-ever star track watching it through the years now seeing all the main characters die is incredibly depressing for the young it may be emotional for me it watching your mortality lol

[@viewlesscheese]

I don't know how to feel after the finale...

[@lonniediep1033]

what is the new threat

[@AwakeTruthSeeker]

Maybe Laris was leaving because she was the Watcher called Tallinn, ready to go back in time to protect Renée Picard after having completed her mission of looking after Jean-Luc Picard.

[@nooneatall8072]

Laris was leaving because Picard turned her down and staying after that would be too awkward for both of them. She took the relationship risk to broach the topic in episode 1. She was determined to leave, but not on bad terms - they both still cared for each other a great deal. But then Picard surprised her and seriously asked for a 2nd chance. Laris looks to have accepted that request. That acceptance would mean that Laris is not leaving, but staying. It is still possible for Laris to go become Tallinn. She will likely outlive Picard. It is also possible that Laris and Picard have a daughter that Picard insists be named Tallinn.

[@cameronfullerton2006]

So is Q now dead?

[@WhittyPics]

I got a big kick when Cory deleted all of Soong's files

[@PassivesAbseits]

In all honesty... that Drone Chase Scene wasn't a nail biter... I mean, they told us in the opening, that we would see Whoopie Goldberg again... And yes, they tried to give every character something to do... but there was no way those drones would be successful and we all knew it...

[@mikej9470]

Why launch them all at different times to prevent them from stopping him when they all end up in one group? Was so lame and the CGI must have cost them tens of dollars.

[@PassivesAbseits]

@@mikej9470 well... it was a classical "Give every character something to do" scenario. Which is technically a good idea. But it only really works, when the side characters need to achieve something, so the main characters can progress. A simple example is Jurati hacking the security from within earlier in that season. If "the rest of the squad" had to overcome an obstacle, so Picard can beam into the launching facility, it might have worked.

[@JohnDoe-rj9ql]

Commander Darren

[@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel]

Q changes past: Everything is different to how the main timeline was before the change. Agnes and Rios change past: Everything is as it was before and the main timeline is the same. This makes no sense. Is the thing that threatened the sector the show's planet sized plot hole?

[@Kmac005]

I wish I had skipped the first nine episodes and just watched the final one with the minute-long recap at the beginning. The story was a two-parter at best stretched into 10 episodes. Anyhoo, I'm guessing the events of "The Inner Light" do not count because it was all in Picard's head, but he didn't know that for the 50-some years when he got married and raised his children. He certainly got close to her. It's true that he seemed to have little choice, but he did have one. He could've spent the remainder of his years exploring the planet and trying to leave. Instead, he chose to fall in love and have kids. Since to me the episode does count, it makes the entire Picard story of shunning love not true. Which means in order to accept this version of events, I will have to pretend that this Picard and this entire series is not from the same universe as TNG. That would explain a lot.

[@kyorin6526]

"The Inner Light" is one of all time favourite STNG episodes.

[@Kmac005]

@@kyorin6526 It's one of mine as well. Seems it was not a favorite with the writing staff of this series.

[@thisjustin6150]

@@Kmac005 or tng really...I mean..to cram 50 years of living suddenly into your mind.....Picard would not have been allowed to return to active duty...I got to assume his memories faded really quickly..

[@Kmac005]

@@thisjustin6150 The revisited it a season or two later when Picard falls for one of the crew. So, at least in TNG his memories of what happened did not fade quickly. If anything, they seem to become a core part of his character. He knew that he could get close to someone because of that experience. So, it's not surprising that they tossed it out for this season of Picard.

[@safiremorningstar]

There a couple of problems with Picard one of the problems is is that it is if gun has never met P card when we know the Guinan met Picard back in the 1890s you know the whole business with her date is had mentioned in the first season right so how does she not know Picard in this one? Another problem Rios not being where he supposed to be in time doesn’t just leave a big hole in time if it’s in theory if you go by quantum mechanics you cannot actually do that. So just like they would be he would need to have two Renees one dies one lives you’d have to have the same thing with real it just it it doesn’t make sense otherwise but then again I think whoever was doing the writing including Patrick Stewart I don’t think they remember the past very well. It has more holes in swiss cheese. Don’t get me wrong it’s corny as it comes off it ties up the strings very nicely except for the fact that Gannon doesn’t know him I’m using voice to text and this is just not working well I hope this makes sense to somebody.

[@aaronxu7781]

I think that Q's gift is not bring Elnor back alive, but sending the group back to the 25th century. Elnor's death was likely outside of the temporal causality loop, since he was killed only because history changed. But Rios and Jurati were meant to have left in 2024, as demonstrated by Guinan and the 25th century Borg Queen. Q sent the team back before the Stargazer self-destructed, so Elnor is alive by then, not revived by Q.

[@davidharcrow8343]

I don't thing they should have made Data's maker/Dad the bad guy here

[@tjp72675]

Picard had to go to sometime in the past before he found the key as a boy. Q created the Alternate timeline so that Picard would be willing to go in the past. If they were not in an alternate timeline, Picard would have never gone back, Q had to give him a reason to go to go. Picard had to accept the past and place the key there for his younger self to find in the future.

[@riopato2009]

But Q said Picard didn't even have to go to the past to Guinan. There's multiple ways to travel back in time, Picard chose this way.

[@Azphreal]

You missed out the Khan reference.