Future Restored I Guess

Story: Farewell

Written By: Christopher Monfette and Akiva Goldsman
Series: Star Trek: Picard
Year: 2022

Stranded in the past, they must at least make sure Renee gets off on her flight.  Soong bullies his way into meet with the astronauts because he gave money to the mission or whatever, and he meets Renee and poisons her to kill her. But it wasn't really Renee, but Talin masquerading as her.  Soong's whole life is fucked. He heads back to his lab mad that his plan failed and he won't be super king of a fascist future or whatever. Then his daughter logs into his computer from a VR device, and deletes everything he has on there. So now his work is destroyed too!  The only thing he has left is a folder titles "Project Khan" which is quite possibly the fucking dumbest thing this show has done yet. 

Picard and the crew accept their fate of being stuck in the 21st century, though good luck Seven getting around normal with those implants!  But Picard has his final conversation with Q, where Q tells him that accepting his past will help him move on and not die alone like he is going to do.  Q offers to send them all back to their right time, though Rios stays behind to have a happier life with the Doctor lady instead of his pathetic life where most of his friends were holograms of himself. I suppose that's a good choice. 

Everyone else is sent back and Elnor lives (who gives a shit), and it turns out the Queen on the bridge of the Star Gazer is Agnes, and the Borg do actually want to help, by having all the starfleet ships in a certain place with their shields in harmony, they can prevent a galactic event from destroying worlds.  And it works, and the Borg ask to be provisionally in the Federation to protect the transwarp conduit which has been created by someone or something who knows the writers sure as hell don't.  

This is a finale where it just has the last threads to tie up...but by this point nothing matter and I no longer care. It just doesn't feel like Star Trek to me, but some other universe.  In fact one scene almost makes everything makes sense to me.  Wesley Crusher shows up as a Traveler to recruit Soong's daughter for some unknown reason.  He states that Supervisors like Talin or Gary Seven are actually run by the Travelers, which is something I guess.  But the most important thing Wesley says is that he told a joke once and it screwed up history somewhat. So that is what the Kurtzman Trek all belongs in, Wesley Crusher's fucked up joke universe. Makes a lot more sense that way.  

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