Farewell
- Episode aired May 5, 2022
- TV-MA
- 48m
With just hours until the Europa Launch, Picard and the crew find themselves in a race against time to save the future.With just hours until the Europa Launch, Picard and the crew find themselves in a race against time to save the future.With just hours until the Europa Launch, Picard and the crew find themselves in a race against time to save the future.
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Did you know
- TriviaThis is the first time that Jean-Luc Picard indicates that he considers Q a friend. In Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Jean-Luc Picard always viewed Q as an annoyance and a nuisance who is always testing humanity via the USS Enterprise D Crew, mostly for his own amusement, as if the USS Enterprise D and her crew are his own personal crew, before moving on to the USS Voyager for Star Trek: Voyager (1995).
- GoofsTallinn's American accent constantly fluctuates into actress Orla Brady's natural Irish accent.
- Quotes
Q: You considered destroying it, didn't you? Well, let me ask, if that key's not there for the boy to find, does he grow up with his mother? Does the shame instantly lift? But you accepted your fate. You accepted *you*. You chose the Jean-Luc you are. You absolved yourself. And because you choose him, perhaps he will now be worthy enough for someone else to choose. Maybe this time, you will even give him the chance to be loved. I told you this was about forgiveness, Jean-Luc: yours.
Jean-Luc Picard: Why?
Q: Well, isn't that the eternal question? Know thyself.
Jean-Luc Picard: There's been so much loss. So much death.
Q: But you fixed all that.
Jean-Luc Picard: Elnor. Tallinn.
Q: Well... maybe not all of it. But Tallinn always dies in every timeline. This is the only one in which she meets Renee.
Jean-Luc Picard: I ask you once again, why?
Q: Finish the sentence.
Jean-Luc Picard: Me. From the very beginning, for over 30 years... why me?
Q: [hesitates] I am moving on. In your parlance, I am dying.
Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, I know.
Q: Alone. I am dying alone. I do not want that for you. Humans... your griefs, your pains, fix you to moments in the past long gone. You're like butterflies with your wings pinned. My old friend, forever the boy who, with an errant turn of a skeleton key, broke the universe in his own heart. No more. You are now unshackled from the past. As I leave, I leave you free.
Jean-Luc Picard: But... why does all this matter? Is something going to happen for which I will be required?
Q: Must it always have galactic import? Universal stakes, celestial upheaval? Isn't one life enough? You ask me why it matters. It matters to me.
[leans forward and takes Picard's face in his hands]
Q: You matter to me. Even gods have favorites, Jean-Luc. And you've always been one of mine.
- ConnectionsFeatured in re:View: Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 10 (2022)
- SoundtracksTheme from 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture'
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
Now without the help of Borg-Jurati (Alison Pill) Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) heads to the launch of Europa to kill Renee Picard (Penelope Mitchell) and ensure his role in the future. The team split up to try and stop him. Raffi (Michelle Hurd), Seven (Jeri Ryan) and Rios (Santiago Cabrera) head to his lab, only to discover his back up plan. Whilst Laris (Orla Brady) and Picard (Patrick Stewart) head to the launch site.
My main concern for this season of "Picard" was that the kept starting mini-plots and I wasn't convinced it was going to be able to pay them off. In the shows defence, I think it got back round most of them even if some of them were left with plot holes, or narrative leaps of faith. Rios gets on with that kid OK, but I'm not sure the relationship with Doctor Ramirez was established enough to just move to the past. Also, isn't that like me moving to the 1600's, I mean, sure I know what a building is and a ship, but I can't participate in the Huguenot rebellion, and wouldn't I be forever screaming about penicillin or something like that?
We also never got to the bottom of what was up with Q, sure we know he's dying but, why did his power fail in the park that one time, and who was laughing at him? And why did he go to all this bother anyway, wouldn't it all have been achieved by simply making Picard watch the memory of his mother's death, showing him the future without that decision and then deciding whether or not to put the key back? Remember Soong begging for capital in an earlier episode, turns out he's needs that because instead of funding his own research, he's given that money to the Europa mission and can now swan in as he feels like. Also, as with his attempted murder of Picard, he believes himself to be entirely above the law? Like nobody would have tracked the drones back to him or wondered why he was the last person to see Renee alive. There are dozens of other "oh yeah!" examples in the other reviews of this episode, of ideas from the show that we're never seen again.
The gist of my complaint is that this felt like it should have been one episode of a series, which then a room of writing staff tried desperate the pad and pad to make it out to 10 episode and to find something for the rest of the cast, who really aren't needed for the story, to do. "They go to the past", "They get arrested", "They mission impossible a party", "Picard gets run over", "Fox Mulder".
I hear that it's going to be a proper TNG reunion, which is fine - but I hope they decided on the story before arriving at the decision to get everyone back and not the other way around. I'll be back, but this season hasn't inspired much confidence.
- southdavid
- Sep 27, 2022
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- Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts - 450 N Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA(Europa launch base and Kore in the library)
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- Runtime48 minutes
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