The Impossible
Box
(Written before
viewing Nepenthe)
The sixth episode.
Soji is having recurring nightmares, and La Sirena is
approaching the Artefact. (More on Soji's dream below.) Jurati had
covered up her role in Maddox's death. (Wouldn't the EMH say that he
was deactivated by Jurati?) They have Raffi talk to a friend in
Starfleet to allow them to have access to the Artefact, to so Picard
can talk to Hugh. This was done rather well. And Raffi's downward
spiral, after her son's rejection, also continues to be depicted
well. However, given his previous experience with the Borg, Picard is
anxious about being on a Cube.
Indeed, the presence
of the Artefact, makes everyone nervous. Even more so when Picard
needs to go alone. His flashbacks, to being Locutus, once over there
were very well done, as was his meeting with Hugh. Hugh showing him
the reclaimation processes and asking him to advocate for the
xB/former drones was done well, as well as his realisation that the
drones are victims of the Collective, rather than monsters. Then
Picard aks Hugh to help him find Soji. Hugh is onto Narek's agenda...
Soji's recurring
nightmare. As a young girl, she's frightened of a storm, and goes to
her father's workshop, where she wakes up. Narek has her questioning
things, in his slimy narcissistic way (prodded by his sister) and she
discovers that everything she owns is only just over three years old.
That particular scene was rather moving, and showed her confusion
rather well. She confesses her discovery to Narek who takes her to
preform a Romulan ritual to look into her recurring nightmare to see
what her subconcious is trying to tell her.
The progress of the
ritual was interesting, and well presented. Narek prodding Soji all
the while (narcissim showing), she does come to the realisation she's
not as she thought she was, and he flat out tells her she's not real.
After finding out where she was made, Narek tries to kill her, but
she 'activates' and escapes, eventually running into Hugh and Picard.
Picard's plea to trust her was particularly well done. Hugh leads
them to the 'Queen Cell', where there is a spatial trajector,
technology assimilated from the Sikarians.
It's within
character for the Borg to have such technology and not use it to go
on an assimilation spree. (Otherwise they would have sent a whole
armada to assimilate the Federation at the end of 2366...) Overall a
rather good episode. 8.8/10.
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