Star Trek Picard Season 2 Recap

season two kicks off a year and a half after the events of season one episode one is entitled the Stargazer and retired Admiral Jean-Luc Picard rejects the Romantic advances of his housekeeper Laris after the death of her partner jabon after giving a speech to a new class of cadets including his former Ward Eleanor in his role as Chancellor of Starfleet Academy Picard visits his old friend and bartender gainan to talk about his lifelong avoidance of romantic relationships in deep space Captain Chris Rios and Dr Agnes girati of the USS Stargazer investigate an anomaly that broadcasts a request to negotiate entry into the Federation with Picard they are joined by seven of nine a vigilante flying rios's Old Ship La Serena and a fleet of Starships including the USS Excelsior which has Eleanor and Picard's old first officer Rafi Massacre on board when Picard arrives a borg ship emerges from the anomaly and transports their Queen onto the Stargazer the queen begins assimilating the entire fleet prompting Picard to initiate the Stargazer self-destruct after the explosion Picard wakes up in a version of his home and is greeted by the extra dimensional B and Q who has returned to test Picard again in episode 2 Penance Picard learns from q that he and his companions are in an alternate timeline where Humanity has formed the xenophobic Confederation of Earth systematically eradicating or enslaving alien races Picard the confederation's greatest military commander has been granted the honor of executing the last Borg Queen by seven of nine who is the president of the Confederation and is married to the magistrate the group reunite and learn from the Borg Queen that they can prevent the confederation's formation by traveling to Los Angeles in 2024 which they can only do with the Queen's help Agnes Rafi and Elenor take control of communication and transporter systems in the Confederation headquarters while seven and Picard buy time at the public execution as the crowd and the magistrate grow concerned with their stalling the others complete their objectives and Picard Rafi 7 Agnes elnor and the queen are beamed onto rios's ship they are preparing to initiate time travel where the magistrate and security officer's Beamer board shoot and wound El norm and prepare to execute them all for treason in episode 3 assimilation seven distracts the magistrat long enough for the group to overpower and kill him and his officers the ship comes under attack and the queen takes advantage of the situation to directly connect herself to the ship's computers she destroys their pursuers and slingshots the ship around the sun creating a wormhole to 2024 she tells Picard that they must find The Watcher in Los Angeles who knows what Q changed to cause the new timeline the ship crashes near Chateau picardit France and the queen diverts all power to sustain herself elnor dies of his wounds and Rafi angrily blames Picard before departing with seven and Rios to start searching for The Watcher rios's transporter malfunctions and he is knocked out waking up in a clinic that secretly treats undocumented immigrants before he can leave immigration officers raid the clinic and arrest both Rios and his physician Teresa riyasa's Communicator is Left Behind despite Picard's warnings Agnes connects her mind to the queen and learns the exact location of the watch before she can be assimilated impressing the queen in episode 4 Watcher Picard and Agnes learn from Agnes's connection to the queen that the change the timeline they must prevent to avoid the dark future of the Confederation will happen in three days time on April 15 2024 Picard transports to the location Agnes learned from the queen and finds a younger version of gainan who does not know him and is planning to leave Earth after going disillusioned with Humanity seven and Rafi search for Rios who is processed by ice and sent to a sanctuary District on the U.S border they are able to track the bus that Rios is on with the help of Agnes who tricks the queen into improving La Serena's transporter systems after Picard Reveals His name and explains that he is looking for a watcher gainan leads him to someone who is also known as a supervisor that is acting as a guardian angel for someone on Earth the supervisor who resembles larus but appears to be human teleports away with Picard meanwhile Q approaches a woman who is working on the planned Europa space flight Mission he is surprised to discover that he is unable to change her Destiny in episode 5 Fly Me to the Moon the supervisor introduces herself as Talon and explains to Picard that she is tasked with protecting his ancestor Renee Picard the woman who Q had targeted earlier because Renee plays an important role in the future Q approaches Dr Adam sung a disgraced geneticist who is desperate to find a cure for his daughter Corey's terminal genetic illness in exchange for a vial of medicine that can save Corey's life Q requests song's help dealing with Renee seven and Rafi break Rios out of ice custody back on La Serena the queen Taps into the ship's Communications to broadcast an emergency call and lure a policeman onto the ship Agnes shoots the queen to prevent her from assimilating the policeman but the dying Queen injects Agnes with Borg nanopropes Picard knows that Renee is destined to find a sentient organism on Jupiter's moon IO and it is essential that she does not back out of the Europa mission to monitor her at a pre-flight Gala Agnes infiltrates the event to hack the system so they could all attend but the bald Queen's Consciousness is lurking within her mind in episode 6 two of one with the Queen's help Agnes gives Picard Talon and Rios access to the gala their Picard is confronted by song Who alerts security that Picard is dangerous Agnes and the queen cut the lights to create a distraction by singing a jazz cover of Shadows of the Night the resulting Rush of endorphins allows the queen to take full control of Agnes's body Q having taken the role of Renee's therapist Stokes her insecurity with text messages and she begins to flee the party Picard finds her and persuades her to go through with the mission by talking about his mother who also loved the stars and also had mental health struggles sung sees Renee and Picard walking together outside and attempts to run over Renee with his car Picard pushes her out of the way but is hit by the car and knocked unconscious after returning home song deliriously rants at Corey she investigates his research and learns that she is the only one to have survived the many apparent clones he created at Teresa's Clinic Talon decides to enter Picard's mind to help him wake up from a memory that his mind is fixated on in episode 7 monsters in inside his mind Picard relives a part of a memory from his childhood where his apparently abusive father Maurice chased Picard's younger self and his mother Yvette through the house Talon helps picardo realize that his mother was actually struggling with mental illness and Maurice was just trying to protect her and John Luke Picard wakes up from his coma and Talon reveals that she is actually a Romulan and possibly laris's ancestor Picard theorizes that Q may have a personal stake in his trial and asks gainan to summon Q using an elorian ritual the ritual fails just as an FBI agent Martin Wells enters the bar and arrests them based on surveillance footage of Picard using his transporter Rios secretly brings Teresa and her son onto La Serena confessing that he is a time traveler Rafi and seven discovered that the ship's computers have been sabotaged with Borg encryption codes and begin tracking Agnes they find a bar where she smashed a window and realized that the queen is trying to create more endorphins in Agnes until she has enough power to assimilate more people and become a newborn Queen in episode 8 Mercy Wells tries to make Picard and gunnan confess to being aliens he separates them and Ganon is visited by a q who explains that he is dying and that the trial is a final attempt to give his own life meaning he notes that all humans are stuck in the past and Gaiden uses astral projection to share this message with Picard Wells reveals that he encountered aliens when he was a child and he thought they wanted to kill him but Picard explains that these were Vulcans who were only trying to erase his memories Wells is forced to release Picard and geinan after the FBI dismisses him for conducting an illegal investigation meanwhile raffian 7 find the queen collecting car and phone batteries to modify gerardi's body and make it capable of assimilation she attacks them but Agnes is able to force her to stop and leave after learning about her true nature Corey leaves her father with the help from Q the queen persuades sung that he can save his legacy by helping her steal La Serena thereby enabling her to conquer the Galaxy soon provides her with a squad of mercenaries to convert into Borg drones in episode 9 hide and seek the queen song and the the drones be Monto last Serena while Picard Talon Rafi and seven beam to Chateau Picard Agnes's Consciousness blocks the queen from the ship's systems until Rafi and seven arrive they try to use the ship against the queen but she mortally wounds seven and they send Rios Teresa and her son to safety Picard and Talon escape from song and the drones in the tunnels Beneath The Chateau Picard recalls his mother having a mental break while lower playing hide and seek in the tunnels when he was a boy after which she ended her own life discussing this with Talon helps Picard come to terms with it song Corners them but Rios beams back and forces him to flee Agnes persuades the queen to change her ways and build a new board Collective through cooperation rather than assimilation truly becoming a newborn Queen the new Queen heals seven by adding her to the collective and then departs in La Serena for the Delta quadrant leaving a message for Picard there must be two versions of Renee one who will fly the Europa mission and one who will die in episode 10 farewell despite Picard's protests Talon interprets the Queen's message as her needing to sacrifice herself to save Renee she uses a holographic disguise to thwart song's attempted murder of Renee and dies in Picard's arms while Renee departs on the Europa mission after his failure song returns home to find that Corey has deleted his digital files though he still has a physical file labeled project Khan Corey is recruited to join The Travelers by Wesley Crusher and Rios decides to stay in the past with Teresa q and Picard discuss the purpose of the trial Q hopes the Picard has learned to let go of the past and accept love Q then uses the last of his power to send Picard 7 and Rafi back to the Stargazer in their own timeline where Eleanor is still alive Picard recognizes that this Borg Queen is Agnes whose Collective has detected a new transwarp conduit that they offer to monitor as provisional members of the Federation after reuniting with the older guynan and learning about rios's life in the 21st century Picard returns to his Chateau and asks Laris for a second chance at being together guys I hope you've enjoyed my recap video for Star Trek Picard season 2. don't forget to subscribe to Simon if you haven't already done so be sure to like and comment on this video and check out my merch in the merch store where you can pick up all range of Star Trek merchandise t-shirts hoodies mugs caps you name it I'll be back soon with my next video I'll see you soon [Music]

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Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 09 2023