Star Trek: Picard EPs Shed Light on the Series Premiere’s WTF Final Scene
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Thursday’s series premiere of Star Trek: Picard.
Whoa… is that we think it is, Star Trek fans?
Thursday’s Star Trek: Picard premiere ended on a mystifying note, taking us to a Romulan reclamation site in space, where we met Dahj’s twin sister Soji (also played by Isa Briones). After she and a Romulan named Narek had a little introductory chit-chat, the camera zoomed out to reveal they were standing on… a giant Borg cube! What is going on here?! And we have to wait until next week to find out?
To get answers, TVLine turned to Picard executive producer Akiva Goldsman, who assured us our eyes weren’t deceiving us: “Clearly, the Romulans and the Borg are dripping with history in relation to Jean-Luc Picard, so not coincidentally, they exist in our season.” He confirmed that the site where we first meet Soji and Narek “is both a Romulan base and a Borg cube”… but “in a way that is probably not the way you’re thinking.”
That shot of the Borg cube “is a weird place to leave after the first episode,” fellow EP Heather Kadin admits, “but hopefully, it makes people go, ‘Wait, what’s going on?’ And then they have to keep watching.”
We won’t learn more until Episode 2 debuts next Thursday on CBS All Access, but Goldsman encourages fans to stay tuned to get the whole story: “For us, the first three episodes are the pilot… By the end of Episode 1, you’ve met maybe two-thirds of the cast. We’re starting these relationships, and over the next couple of episodes, they will at least solidify in the earliest form… So the first three episodes of our ten are really the first act.”
But what can we expect from Soji? Is she anything like her sister Dahj, who tragically died earlier in the premiere? “Just as you know with any two sisters, they have a lot of similarities, but they also have a lot of differences,” Briones teases, adding that we’ll learn “their paths are very different.”
Beam down to the comments and share your thoughts on the Picard premiere.
Kinda bummed about Dahj (I was really digging her indie-loner vibe) but I absolutely freaking loved the premier. It was amazing, interesting, new while remaining nostalgic. Everything someone like me could truly get into.
I liked Dahj as well. I was hoping we’d see some regenerative scene when we saw the burns on her face. But then she exploded and I was like…..well, ok maybe not.
In the finale the final episode. He’s back looking through his window looking in the Orchard a bit of a satisfying but sad look. When he hears a whisper you look miserable Picard or El Capitan, in a split-second he finds himself back on the Enterprise before it all began his first mission farpoint. Before you could say what are you up to Q? He only thinks back and Whispers thank you to himself. The scene Fades away
for credits
Not a huge suprise as it has been teased Picard would be Borg centric with Seven and Hugh.
How do we know this isnt a show for real trekkies? Explaining the ending. Trekkies have never needed someone else to explain the show.
“Real trekkies.” You crack me up.
I can’t tell if he’s insulting the show or insulting trekkies (anyone remember the ancient fight about whether we were properly called trekkies or trekkers?)! Well played, kvorshk.
First episode of Picard was good. Could have been better. Surprised there was no anti-Trump message. Babylon 5 is on prime.
no anti-trump message? the anti-refugee sentiments? the xenophobia?
This Was Friggin AWSOME….and I don’t normally use that word.
Seeing Picard and Data back together (in a way ) was a bit emotional . I’ve watched every episode of yesterdays Next Generation.
So frustrating waiting for the next show.
This I series definitely will have one twist and turn after another and keep us riveted. It is amazing how much you actually miss in the background until you watch it a couple more times. Simple things like the flute Picard used playing the TNG tune hauntingly in the background of the theme music and Picard singing Data’s Blue skies as the Enterprise cruises onto the screen as the show opens and that’s just for starters.. There is so much detail that has been incorporated from TNG that lay dormant in our minds that suddenly awakens like the essence analagy of data’s neurons that is used. Just from this episode 99% of us will be hooked and we know that Stewart himself is to star trek like Attenborough is to wildlife documentaries.
Are you all stupid haha the borg in first contact had time travel plus the ability to make data feel and gave him real skin hmmm to me the answer is that station is the first and the begining of the borg that would actually answer the locutus of borg why me question and why the queen got angry with that question
The begining of the borg timelines dugh would answer why the borg have a fascination with picard, they made the borg from data and time travel the borg gave data feel skin
Gonna be a great series if they continue doing wth moments like when Dahl died. She was seriously kicking some butt before the spit of death? Slowed her down. Didnt know a romulan could do that but whatever, I’m flexible.
We’ve known the Borg interacted with the Romulans from the first season of The Next Generation. They were attacked just as the Federation was in the episode “The Neutral Zone”. We got to see how that played out for the Federation. If they choose to show us how it played out for the Romulans here, all the better.