Broken Pieces
The eighth episode.
Picard and Soji's arrival on La Sirena causes Rios to go into
hiding. Jurati recovers. Seven of Nine arrives on the Artefact. The
scene where Rios seems to recognise Soji was done rather well. The
way he withdrew was very moving. More on Rios below. Raffi calling
out Picard for bringing Soji on board was done rather well. (Like, of
course, she would be suspicious of Soji!) Meanwhile, Jurati has
recovered and confesses that she murdered Bruce Maddox. This part was
done well also.
On the Artefact,
Seven comes to the rescue. Her line “What is happening on this
cube?” was rather good. Her and Elnor avoiding Narissa and the
other Romulans was done rather well, but the most impressive sequence
was when she temporarily became a Queen to defend the Xbs. Very
impressive indeed. Hearing “We are the Borg” while Seven tried to
save the XBs from being spaced by Narissa was rather chilling.
Elnor's innocent “Are you going to assimilate me now?” was also
rather good. But “Annika has work to do,” was the best line.
Back to La
Sirena, Raffi's detective work while she tries to coax Rios out
of hiding was very well conceived. Each Emergency Hologram is a
reflection of a different part of Rios' personality. The way Raffi
interviews each of them and then holds a group session was very good
writing, very well presented. Of course, the Emergency Engineering
Hologram didn't need to be Scottish, but it worked. The EMH and the
Emergency Navigational Hologram “Enoch”were the best of the
bunch. The scene where Raffi confuses Enoch for Rios was very good.
But there's another
revelation, that what had happened on the Ibn Majid involved
contact with synths, including one who looked like Dahj and Soji,
named Jana. This is why Rios went into hiding, as it caused his
captain to take his own life when Starfleet ordered him to kill them.
Certainly an interesting development. And the Ibn Majid's
design looks rather good, similar to a cross between a Sovereign
and a Crossfeild. Jurati trying to share what she learned
from Commodore Oh was done very well.
Some kind of warning
for the future about synthetic life, which the Romulans had
discovered and which is used by Zhat Vash for initiation purposes.
That the Collective cut off the Cube rather than let the information
disseminate through it seems interesting also. Overall a rather good
episode. 8.7.5/10.
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