After two wild episodes that killed the complete forged, revealed a brand new Borg Queen, a second new Borg Queen, a damaged Q, and a darkish alternate timeline, Star Trek: Picard‘s newest episode, titled “Assimilation”, lastly acquired to the large plot for the season. Spoilers previous this level, however because of a traditional slingshot maneuver and a few assist from that second Borg Queen (Annie Wersching), Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and crew have traveled again in time to 2024 Los Angeles to trace down the supply of the divergence attributable to Q (John de Lancie) that he’s utilizing to show Picard some kind of mysterious lesson.
Solely the journey didn’t come with out a price: Elnor (Evan Evagora), who was grievously injured whereas making an attempt to flee Seven of 9’s (Jeri Ryan) alternate timeline husband, died. Or… Did he? His dying is actually Raffi’s (Michelle Hurd) motivating issue, as she’s taking the slim probability that fixing the timeline will carry Elnor again to life, and working with it. And although Evagora was cagey concerning the risk, it does sound like we will be seeing Elnor again… By some means.
“Uh… that’s a very good query I don’t know if I’m allowed to reply it,” Evagora stated when Decider prodded him for information on Elnor’s closing destiny. “I do know Elnor seems once more, I simply can’t say in what capability or how. However, I don’t even know if I’m allowed to say that, however I did, so there we go!”
One storyline that may be talked about? An enormous cliffhanger involving Rios (Santiago Cabrera). Whereas the remainder of the group transported safely into Los Angeles, Rios was dropped midair on a hearth escape, and left bleeding and concussed on the sidewalk. Taken right into a hospital and handled by a pleasant physician, he nearly instantly misplaced his communicator, after which in a misguided try to assist the physician, was taken into custody by ICE. It’s a shocking transfer for Star Trek given the same old degree of metaphor inherent within the plotlines; however for Cabrera, it felt like a robust one.
“Star Trek has all the time tried to be truthful to the truth of the world at the moment,” Cabrera stated, “and it was an amazing alternative as a Latin-American, as an immigrant to this nation. It was a really related factor and I believe the essential factor was to make it truthful to the character and make it particular to who he’s and to what his actuality is, versus making it only a kind of an thought or a generalization. I believe we did that, and I believe it was nicely researched and the best way it performed out, I used to be very pleased with it ultimately. It attracts a lightweight to the world at the moment, to what’s happening. And it’s performed responsibly, and I believe true to Rios and to the circumstances that he all of a sudden actually and figuratively falls into. Crashes into.”
Whether or not Rios manages to flee ICE is a query for one more episode, as a lingering shot reveals his communicator has been left behind within the hospital. However there’s one different actor in the entire time journey storyline who’s thus far utterly lacking: Isa Briones, who performs androids Dahj, Soji, Jana and Sutra on the present. When she was final seen within the first episode of the season, she was fortunately serving to androids reintegrate into galactic society within the present’s important timeline, earlier than Q modified issues up. So the place is Briones in all these alternate universe/time journey shenanigans?
“I can’t fairly reply particularly, however I can say that you will note me,” Briones stated enigmatically. “You will note me. I can’t fairly specify to what capability, as Evan can also’t. However you’re positively going to see a variety of new character growth delving into very totally different components of all of our characters, particularly on this new actuality they’re all thrown into.”
So there you could have it: regardless of being taken in by ICE, being off-screen since Episode 1, and, uh, being useless, we ought to be seeing huge issues for Rios, Dahj and Elnor earlier than Season 2 wraps up.
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