1 00:00:02,869 --> 00:00:04,871 Previously on Star Trek: Picard... 2 00:00:05,539 --> 00:00:06,748 I don't totally get it. 3 00:00:06,832 --> 00:00:09,459 But I do know something really bad happened to you. 4 00:00:09,543 --> 00:00:12,879 You don't have a mom and a dad. You have Captain Picard. 5 00:00:12,963 --> 00:00:14,965 -I don't have Picard. -But you could. 6 00:00:15,048 --> 00:00:18,218 And he could have you. And you could both have each other. 7 00:00:18,301 --> 00:00:21,471 I already had one grand heroic captain in my life. 8 00:00:21,555 --> 00:00:23,557 The last thing I need is another one. 9 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,976 Ten years on, I still can't close my eyes at night 10 00:00:26,059 --> 00:00:30,897 without seeing the last one's blood and brains splattered all over a bulkhead. 11 00:00:33,775 --> 00:00:36,695 We are gonna take this Cube away from them forever. 12 00:00:36,778 --> 00:00:39,030 That sounds like a treaty violation to me. 13 00:00:42,033 --> 00:00:43,410 Activate the Queencell. 14 00:00:44,119 --> 00:00:45,954 In case you ever need a vigilante. 15 00:00:48,498 --> 00:00:49,624 What is the nature of your medical emergency? 16 00:00:49,708 --> 00:00:50,917 Deactivate EMH. 17 00:00:54,004 --> 00:00:57,674 I wish I didn't know what I know. I wish they hadn't shown me. 18 00:00:59,384 --> 00:01:01,470 Narek, the Tal Shiar agent, 19 00:01:01,553 --> 00:01:04,514 was looking for an implanted memory of a real place. 20 00:01:04,598 --> 00:01:07,225 And when I told him about the lightning and the moons, 21 00:01:07,309 --> 00:01:09,019 he said, "You found home." 22 00:01:09,102 --> 00:01:12,189 I want to help you to get back to that home. 23 00:01:13,982 --> 00:01:17,402 Somebody's tailing us. Must be since we left the Cube. 24 00:01:38,632 --> 00:01:41,927 Our foremothers came to this system 25 00:01:42,677 --> 00:01:47,974 looking for an answer to the riddle of the Eightfold Stars. 26 00:01:49,643 --> 00:01:54,189 What they found was a storehouse of preserved memories 27 00:01:54,814 --> 00:01:59,110 that showed them the grim fate of the civilization 28 00:01:59,194 --> 00:02:02,030 that perished here long ago. 29 00:02:02,781 --> 00:02:05,909 We still do not know the name of the mighty race 30 00:02:05,992 --> 00:02:08,286 who left behind this object, 31 00:02:08,662 --> 00:02:10,163 this Admonition, 32 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:16,461 warning us of the horror and annihilation that came from the skies. 33 00:02:17,087 --> 00:02:20,632 When our foremothers first endured the Admonition, 34 00:02:20,715 --> 00:02:23,802 we, the Zhat Vash, were born. 35 00:02:25,303 --> 00:02:29,808 For hundreds of years since, we have worked in shadow 36 00:02:29,891 --> 00:02:34,813 to prevent a second coming of the Destroyers. 37 00:02:37,023 --> 00:02:43,029 It is this dreaded work that you must now carry on. 38 00:02:44,322 --> 00:02:47,826 What you are about to experience will drive some of you mad. 39 00:02:48,952 --> 00:02:51,621 But those of you who endure... 40 00:02:52,622 --> 00:02:54,291 will be stronger. 41 00:02:56,293 --> 00:02:59,838 Witness the devastation that must be prevented. 42 00:03:01,339 --> 00:03:03,258 Endure the Admonition... 43 00:03:05,885 --> 00:03:07,345 if you can. 44 00:03:41,630 --> 00:03:43,298 No more! 45 00:04:09,908 --> 00:04:11,493 We have to stop them. 46 00:04:12,118 --> 00:04:13,119 We will. 47 00:04:15,747 --> 00:04:16,748 How? 48 00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:20,502 Where do we begin? 49 00:04:21,419 --> 00:04:25,298 On the world the humans call Mars. 50 00:04:29,344 --> 00:04:30,428 Auntie? 51 00:04:31,137 --> 00:04:32,138 Auntie? 52 00:04:34,516 --> 00:04:35,517 No more. 53 00:04:42,649 --> 00:04:43,942 We have our work to do. 54 00:04:58,832 --> 00:05:02,460 Doctor Kabath says there's no medical reason for this, Auntie. 55 00:05:03,586 --> 00:05:05,588 I do believe you're malingering. 56 00:05:08,758 --> 00:05:12,178 You were never entirely sane to begin with, were you? 57 00:05:14,305 --> 00:05:19,185 It was folly taking in Narek and me after our parents died. 58 00:05:20,854 --> 00:05:24,691 And sheer madness submitting yourself for Admonishment. 59 00:05:28,611 --> 00:05:32,198 Though, when you lost your mind, you certainly did it with panache. 60 00:05:36,619 --> 00:05:41,541 Breaking a Borg Cube by the sheer force of your despair. 61 00:05:43,877 --> 00:05:48,047 The Collective picked the wrong Tal Shiar ship to assimilate that day. 62 00:05:52,469 --> 00:05:54,179 They ought to have picked mine. 63 00:05:54,888 --> 00:05:57,140 I'd have made a much better Borg than you. 64 00:05:58,183 --> 00:06:01,936 "Resistance is futile." 65 00:06:08,651 --> 00:06:11,070 Narek's located the synthetics' nest. 66 00:06:12,655 --> 00:06:14,073 I've dispatched ships. 67 00:06:16,034 --> 00:06:19,621 I'll be joining them as soon as I've shut down this house of horrors. 68 00:06:23,291 --> 00:06:24,501 If you wake up... 69 00:06:26,503 --> 00:06:27,712 you can come along. 70 00:06:34,719 --> 00:06:36,221 We've our work to do. 71 00:06:57,075 --> 00:06:59,327 Tell me you found the freak. 72 00:06:59,410 --> 00:07:00,411 Yes, Colonel. 73 00:07:00,495 --> 00:07:01,704 We've tracked him to the office 74 00:07:01,788 --> 00:07:03,998 of the former director of the Reclamation Project. 75 00:07:50,211 --> 00:07:51,212 Where's Hugh? 76 00:07:53,256 --> 00:07:54,757 What is happening on this Cube? 77 00:07:59,512 --> 00:08:00,513 All right. 78 00:08:01,556 --> 00:08:03,224 I'm here. It's all right. 79 00:09:45,660 --> 00:09:46,661 Rios? 80 00:09:49,998 --> 00:09:50,999 Rios? 81 00:09:55,253 --> 00:09:57,171 Rios, this is Doctor Asha. 82 00:09:59,632 --> 00:10:02,051 I need a secure subspace link. 83 00:10:05,638 --> 00:10:06,764 Rios? 84 00:10:09,475 --> 00:10:10,476 Hey. 85 00:10:10,977 --> 00:10:12,353 -Rios! -What? 86 00:10:13,271 --> 00:10:16,983 I need a secure subspace link to Starfleet Command. 87 00:10:17,442 --> 00:10:18,443 -What? -What? 88 00:10:18,860 --> 00:10:20,570 And what's the nearest starbase? 89 00:10:23,031 --> 00:10:24,240 Deep Space 12. 90 00:10:24,323 --> 00:10:25,533 Lay in a course. 91 00:10:29,495 --> 00:10:31,372 Hey, lay in a course. 92 00:10:34,167 --> 00:10:36,169 I will lay in a course for DS12. 93 00:10:36,836 --> 00:10:38,671 But after that, you're on your own, Picard. 94 00:10:39,756 --> 00:10:40,965 I'm done. 95 00:10:41,049 --> 00:10:42,884 You said you'd take me home. 96 00:10:42,967 --> 00:10:44,761 Yes, and I will. 97 00:10:45,219 --> 00:10:47,847 But we face a powerful enemy. 98 00:10:48,681 --> 00:10:50,308 We can't do it without support. 99 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:54,729 Look, you have no choice but to trust me. 100 00:10:54,812 --> 00:10:57,732 And I know that would make me angry too, but... 101 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:00,193 I understand. 102 00:11:01,319 --> 00:11:02,904 Let me find you a cabin. 103 00:11:05,823 --> 00:11:07,950 Hi. Raffi. 104 00:11:08,034 --> 00:11:09,243 Soji. 105 00:11:09,327 --> 00:11:12,663 Soji, I'm sorry, but your new best friend, Jean-Luc, 106 00:11:12,747 --> 00:11:15,541 already brought us one adorable little homicidal double agent. 107 00:11:15,625 --> 00:11:17,001 What the hell are you talking about? 108 00:11:17,085 --> 00:11:19,629 I'm talking about how big a fool you really are. 109 00:11:19,712 --> 00:11:22,465 Yeah. Come. I'm sorry about her rudeness. 110 00:11:24,133 --> 00:11:25,134 Raffi! 111 00:11:25,218 --> 00:11:27,970 A neuron. That's all you know about her. 112 00:11:28,054 --> 00:11:29,889 You built this whole giant fantasy 113 00:11:29,972 --> 00:11:34,519 of rescue and sacrifice and redemption out of one pissant little neuron. 114 00:11:34,602 --> 00:11:37,855 Now you put that away or be prepared to use it on me. 115 00:11:39,941 --> 00:11:43,069 Agnes Jurati had a tracking isotope in her blood. 116 00:11:43,152 --> 00:11:44,654 She's a Romulan spy. 117 00:11:44,737 --> 00:11:46,239 Fact or theory? 118 00:11:47,824 --> 00:11:48,908 Theory. 119 00:11:49,408 --> 00:11:51,869 -Come. -We think she killed Bruce Maddox. 120 00:11:57,416 --> 00:11:59,669 Who is "we"? 121 00:12:00,795 --> 00:12:03,256 She injected herself with a hydrogen compound. 122 00:12:03,339 --> 00:12:04,882 She was trying to destabilize 123 00:12:04,966 --> 00:12:07,343 the viridium tracker already present in her system. 124 00:12:07,426 --> 00:12:11,013 And as soon as she did, we shook our Tal Shiar tail. 125 00:12:11,097 --> 00:12:12,723 Fact. Not theory. 126 00:12:12,807 --> 00:12:17,103 But to say that she's a Tal Shiar agent? 127 00:12:17,186 --> 00:12:20,523 Maybe she didn't know about the viridium until you picked up the tail. 128 00:12:20,606 --> 00:12:25,111 Maybe. Or maybe they put her on this ship to kill Bruce Maddox. 129 00:12:26,904 --> 00:12:29,323 Right after they got done killing Soji's sister. 130 00:12:29,407 --> 00:12:30,533 Tell me about Maddox. 131 00:12:30,616 --> 00:12:33,035 His injuries need not have been fatal. She deactivated me. 132 00:12:33,119 --> 00:12:34,120 Mm-hmm. 133 00:12:34,203 --> 00:12:36,789 Then she turned off the hematic micro repair unit 134 00:12:36,873 --> 00:12:39,417 that was stabilizing his cardiovascular function. 135 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:41,169 She was in distress. 136 00:12:41,252 --> 00:12:44,463 Ugh. I-- I told you it was careless to bring her along. 137 00:12:44,547 --> 00:12:48,009 Now you're telling us that we need to trust the synth girl too? 138 00:12:48,593 --> 00:12:51,762 Tell me, JL, what is Soji really like? 139 00:12:52,388 --> 00:12:53,431 Hmm? 140 00:12:54,307 --> 00:12:55,308 Do you know? 141 00:12:57,518 --> 00:12:58,519 Does she? 142 00:13:01,939 --> 00:13:04,317 Yeah, that's what I thought. 143 00:13:05,526 --> 00:13:06,903 Where are you going, Raffi? 144 00:13:07,570 --> 00:13:09,655 To tell Rios I was right about Jurati. 145 00:13:10,948 --> 00:13:13,242 See if it feels any better to rub his face in it. 146 00:13:20,708 --> 00:13:22,126 That's a hell of a report. 147 00:13:22,668 --> 00:13:25,379 And you thought I was a desperate old man. 148 00:13:25,463 --> 00:13:28,299 Quixotic, paranoid, possibly senile-- 149 00:13:28,382 --> 00:13:29,842 Let's just leave it at "quixotic." 150 00:13:29,926 --> 00:13:34,096 And now the windmills have turned out to be giants. 151 00:13:34,180 --> 00:13:35,389 You want an apology? 152 00:13:35,473 --> 00:13:36,974 -I want a squadron. -Jean-Luc-- 153 00:13:37,058 --> 00:13:38,351 Clancy! 154 00:13:38,434 --> 00:13:41,270 Out there, in the Vayt system, right now, 155 00:13:41,354 --> 00:13:44,649 beings who have as much right to life and liberty as you and I 156 00:13:44,732 --> 00:13:45,983 or Commander Data 157 00:13:46,067 --> 00:13:50,071 are being hunted down by an enemy who seeks to exterminate them-- 158 00:13:50,154 --> 00:13:51,530 -Jean-Luc! -No, Clancy. 159 00:13:51,614 --> 00:13:53,616 If you say this is not a job for Starfleet, 160 00:13:53,699 --> 00:13:55,743 then I'm sorry, but you are a waste of space! 161 00:13:55,826 --> 00:13:58,788 Admiral Picard, with all due respect and at long last, 162 00:13:58,871 --> 00:14:00,456 shut the fuck up. 163 00:14:00,539 --> 00:14:03,709 I'm sending a squadron to rendezvous with you at DS12. 164 00:14:04,210 --> 00:14:06,003 Now stay put until they get there. 165 00:14:06,420 --> 00:14:07,505 Clancy out. 166 00:14:08,589 --> 00:14:09,715 Hmm. 167 00:14:12,093 --> 00:14:13,302 You all right, buddy? 168 00:14:14,387 --> 00:14:16,472 You seemed a little rattled back there. 169 00:14:16,555 --> 00:14:17,807 Tell me how I can help you. 170 00:14:18,516 --> 00:14:22,061 The Tal Shiar had a tracker inside your girl Jurati, 171 00:14:22,144 --> 00:14:24,981 and it looks like she killed Bruce Maddox. 172 00:14:25,064 --> 00:14:26,983 Well, that's bad news. 173 00:14:27,525 --> 00:14:29,860 Uh. Yeah. 174 00:14:29,944 --> 00:14:34,031 Unless you like giant, all-encompassing, paranoid conspiracy theories, 175 00:14:34,115 --> 00:14:36,158 then it's, you know, kinda awesome. 176 00:14:36,242 --> 00:14:38,160 You know, in a horrible way. 177 00:14:38,244 --> 00:14:43,082 In bad situations, it's so important to try and find something positive. 178 00:14:43,165 --> 00:14:46,210 Goddamn it. Which one are you? 179 00:14:46,711 --> 00:14:50,381 Navigation. ENH. Call me Enoch. 180 00:14:50,923 --> 00:14:52,258 Where is Rios? 181 00:14:52,341 --> 00:14:54,885 After he laid in the course for Deep Space 12, 182 00:14:54,969 --> 00:14:57,930 he activated us holograms and went to his quarters. 183 00:14:58,014 --> 00:15:00,349 Did he tell you why he got so freaked out by that girl? 184 00:15:00,433 --> 00:15:02,310 No, but... 185 00:15:02,393 --> 00:15:05,313 he said if I kept smiling at him, he would punch me in the face. 186 00:15:06,647 --> 00:15:09,108 Let me see if I can identify her for you. 187 00:15:11,110 --> 00:15:12,194 Yes. 188 00:15:12,695 --> 00:15:16,115 Her name is... Jana. 189 00:15:16,198 --> 00:15:18,242 Mm-mmm. Her name is Soji. 190 00:15:20,036 --> 00:15:21,787 -Ask me about astronavigation! -Ugh. 191 00:15:22,913 --> 00:15:28,294 This caught my eye while I was surveilling the Cube. 192 00:15:28,377 --> 00:15:32,465 All these Romulans sitting around drawing this over and over. 193 00:15:32,548 --> 00:15:34,383 Eight circles. See? 194 00:15:36,344 --> 00:15:37,428 Could those be planets? 195 00:15:37,511 --> 00:15:39,847 Looks like an attempt to depict an octonary. 196 00:15:40,348 --> 00:15:41,349 A what now? 197 00:15:41,432 --> 00:15:44,685 A planetary system with eight component stars. 198 00:15:44,769 --> 00:15:47,271 This is Nu Scorpii, 199 00:15:47,355 --> 00:15:50,066 a septenary system, which are extremely rare, 200 00:15:50,149 --> 00:15:52,693 -but an octonary? -Hmm. 201 00:15:54,236 --> 00:15:57,656 There are accounts of one in some ancient Romulan star atlases, 202 00:15:57,740 --> 00:16:00,868 but... they're considered apocryphal. 203 00:16:01,619 --> 00:16:03,871 They don't appear in any of their modern charts. 204 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:07,124 The gravitational mechanics would have to be... 205 00:16:07,917 --> 00:16:10,044 incredibly complex. 206 00:16:13,422 --> 00:16:16,175 A-- All this time I've been thinking that the Conclave of Eight 207 00:16:16,258 --> 00:16:19,095 was eight people who planned the attack on Mars, 208 00:16:19,178 --> 00:16:23,849 but maybe the name refers to the place where they met. 209 00:16:28,687 --> 00:16:30,731 You are my favorite holo. 210 00:16:35,611 --> 00:16:38,072 Killed by a phaser. 211 00:16:40,282 --> 00:16:41,826 The boy has a confederate. 212 00:16:44,870 --> 00:16:50,668 Sub-sectors gamma 8.11 through .17 are currently in secure lockdown. 213 00:16:50,751 --> 00:16:52,253 Fenris Rangers. 214 00:16:54,046 --> 00:16:56,132 And it's not hard to guess which one. 215 00:17:01,762 --> 00:17:03,305 Why didn't you go with them? 216 00:17:03,389 --> 00:17:04,640 Picard released me. 217 00:17:04,723 --> 00:17:06,559 I found a cause even more lost than his. 218 00:17:09,645 --> 00:17:11,439 Is this where the Borg Queen lived? 219 00:17:11,522 --> 00:17:12,523 No. 220 00:17:13,524 --> 00:17:14,900 She used to visit sometimes? 221 00:17:15,943 --> 00:17:18,362 I can explain, or I can steal this Cube. 222 00:17:54,982 --> 00:17:56,400 What the hell is going on? 223 00:17:57,485 --> 00:18:00,654 The Cube. It seems to be-- I would almost say it's regenerating. 224 00:18:01,572 --> 00:18:04,408 We have to get rid of every Borg still held in stasis immediately. 225 00:18:05,075 --> 00:18:07,411 Can they be gassed? Electrocuted? 226 00:18:07,995 --> 00:18:10,998 We can blow the seals and jettison them directly into space. 227 00:18:11,665 --> 00:18:13,834 Oh, I like that. See to it. 228 00:18:13,918 --> 00:18:15,002 Yes, Colonel. 229 00:18:15,085 --> 00:18:16,837 I'll get started on the xBs. 230 00:18:18,506 --> 00:18:19,715 I'll need this one too. 231 00:18:20,758 --> 00:18:21,759 Come. 232 00:18:48,953 --> 00:18:49,995 Is it all right? 233 00:18:50,746 --> 00:18:51,872 It's good. 234 00:18:52,289 --> 00:18:53,958 Is there something you'd prefer? 235 00:18:55,709 --> 00:18:57,419 Honestly, I don't know. 236 00:19:02,591 --> 00:19:04,093 You don't know what it's like... 237 00:19:05,261 --> 00:19:08,347 to have this vacuum inside of you, Picard. 238 00:19:08,889 --> 00:19:12,601 To have someone ask if you like eggs and have no idea 239 00:19:12,685 --> 00:19:16,605 if the answer is coming from you or your instruction set. 240 00:19:17,106 --> 00:19:18,190 You're right. 241 00:19:19,149 --> 00:19:21,610 I don't know what that's like. 242 00:19:22,111 --> 00:19:25,489 I can only try and imagine it. 243 00:19:26,574 --> 00:19:29,660 Your memories, your history, 244 00:19:29,743 --> 00:19:33,914 to you feel like incidents you heard about, 245 00:19:34,707 --> 00:19:36,834 something that happened to someone else. 246 00:19:38,544 --> 00:19:39,545 Yes. 247 00:19:40,462 --> 00:19:43,048 You feel that you don't have a past anymore. 248 00:19:43,132 --> 00:19:45,301 -Because I don't. -That's not true. 249 00:19:45,759 --> 00:19:47,303 You have a past. 250 00:19:47,386 --> 00:19:51,807 You have a story just waiting to be claimed. 251 00:19:52,683 --> 00:19:54,184 You're talking about Data. 252 00:19:55,728 --> 00:19:57,521 Among other things, yes. 253 00:19:59,982 --> 00:20:00,983 All right. 254 00:20:02,651 --> 00:20:03,777 Tell me about Data. 255 00:20:04,403 --> 00:20:05,613 What was he like? 256 00:20:06,780 --> 00:20:10,200 Well, Data was brave. 257 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:12,161 Curious. 258 00:20:13,954 --> 00:20:15,122 Very gentle. 259 00:20:16,498 --> 00:20:18,334 He had a child's wisdom... 260 00:20:19,335 --> 00:20:22,463 unclouded by habit or bias. 261 00:20:23,881 --> 00:20:25,507 He made us all laugh, 262 00:20:26,175 --> 00:20:29,094 except when he was trying to make us laugh. 263 00:20:31,472 --> 00:20:32,473 And you loved him. 264 00:20:34,433 --> 00:20:35,517 I... 265 00:20:38,937 --> 00:20:41,190 Yes. In my way. 266 00:20:42,149 --> 00:20:43,233 Did he love you? 267 00:20:47,488 --> 00:20:53,327 Data's capacity for expressing and processing emotion was limited. 268 00:20:56,705 --> 00:20:58,707 I suppose we had that in common. 269 00:21:05,339 --> 00:21:09,051 If I could see you with his eyes, with his memories, 270 00:21:09,885 --> 00:21:11,095 what would I see? 271 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:13,055 How would I know that? 272 00:21:13,764 --> 00:21:15,474 What do you hope I would see? 273 00:21:15,557 --> 00:21:17,810 How do you wish he would remember you? 274 00:21:18,644 --> 00:21:23,148 You mean, if he had survived me rather than the other way around? 275 00:21:24,358 --> 00:21:29,905 I hope he would remember Jean-Luc Picard as someone who believed in him, 276 00:21:30,531 --> 00:21:32,700 who believed in his potential. 277 00:21:34,034 --> 00:21:35,911 Celebrated his successes. 278 00:21:36,662 --> 00:21:38,997 Counseled him when he fell short. 279 00:21:39,081 --> 00:21:40,708 Helped him if he needed help, 280 00:21:40,791 --> 00:21:44,586 and if he didn't need it, got out of his way. 281 00:21:47,047 --> 00:21:48,549 Words to that effect. 282 00:22:00,310 --> 00:22:01,311 He loved you. 283 00:22:15,159 --> 00:22:16,285 Chris? 284 00:22:16,910 --> 00:22:17,995 Are you Chris? 285 00:22:18,412 --> 00:22:22,124 No, lassie. I'm the Emergency Engineering Hologram. 286 00:22:22,207 --> 00:22:23,292 But I go by Ian. 287 00:22:23,375 --> 00:22:25,794 First of all, I'm gonna ask you never to call me "lassie" again. 288 00:22:25,878 --> 00:22:26,962 Duly noted. 289 00:22:27,588 --> 00:22:28,881 Have you seen Rios? 290 00:22:29,506 --> 00:22:32,801 No. Captain's still hiding out in his cabin. 291 00:22:34,178 --> 00:22:36,513 Hiding out? From what? 292 00:22:36,597 --> 00:22:37,765 From Soji? 293 00:22:37,848 --> 00:22:41,018 I dinnae ken for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised. 294 00:22:41,101 --> 00:22:44,188 Sight of that lassie's bound to stir up unwelcome memories. 295 00:22:44,605 --> 00:22:47,816 And why is that? Where does he know her from? 296 00:22:51,695 --> 00:22:53,530 I dinnae have the faintest notion. 297 00:22:54,364 --> 00:22:57,242 I ken it's true, but I dinnae ken why. 298 00:22:58,035 --> 00:22:59,036 Mm. 299 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:00,245 Lot of that going around. 300 00:23:01,997 --> 00:23:05,667 Uh, engineering, right? Let me ask you something. 301 00:23:05,751 --> 00:23:06,960 What are the chances 302 00:23:07,044 --> 00:23:09,922 that an octonary star system would occur naturally? 303 00:23:10,005 --> 00:23:11,340 Close to-- 304 00:23:12,758 --> 00:23:14,051 Close to nil, I'd say. 305 00:23:14,134 --> 00:23:16,470 Meaning it would have to be built. 306 00:23:17,554 --> 00:23:19,807 You'd have to capture eight suns. 307 00:23:20,432 --> 00:23:23,894 Move them across light-years of space and set them in motion. 308 00:23:26,438 --> 00:23:27,940 Why would you want to do that? 309 00:23:29,107 --> 00:23:32,027 Showin' off. Saying, "Look what I can do." 310 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:37,825 Or maybe you had something really important to say, 311 00:23:37,908 --> 00:23:40,244 and you wanted to make sure that people were paying attention. 312 00:23:41,495 --> 00:23:45,123 Like, if you wanted to leave them a warning. 313 00:23:46,667 --> 00:23:50,295 I'm getting closer. Ian, I can feel it. 314 00:23:50,879 --> 00:23:53,882 Aye. And how's it feel? 315 00:23:55,759 --> 00:23:57,177 Absolutely terrifying. 316 00:23:59,763 --> 00:24:00,764 Burgundy. 317 00:24:04,518 --> 00:24:05,811 Red wine. 318 00:24:05,894 --> 00:24:09,398 What is the nature of your hospitality emergency? 319 00:24:09,481 --> 00:24:11,358 I need a glass of red wine. 320 00:24:11,441 --> 00:24:14,486 You disabled alcohol service from your quarters two days ago. 321 00:24:14,570 --> 00:24:16,488 Reinstate it. Override. 322 00:24:16,572 --> 00:24:20,117 You locked yourself out of override and... 323 00:24:20,868 --> 00:24:22,244 out of meta-override. 324 00:24:23,704 --> 00:24:25,414 Then shoot me in the head. 325 00:24:28,041 --> 00:24:30,752 What's with Rios? Should I be worried about him? 326 00:24:31,211 --> 00:24:33,213 He could use someone to talk to. 327 00:24:33,297 --> 00:24:37,634 Someone who doesn't look exactly like him, only better groomed. 328 00:24:38,010 --> 00:24:39,553 How do you know that? 329 00:24:39,636 --> 00:24:42,097 Are you all networked directly to Rios? 330 00:24:42,180 --> 00:24:46,643 When Captain Rios acquired La Sirena, he selected the self-scan option. 331 00:24:46,727 --> 00:24:50,814 He claims it was an accident, but he never bothered to revert it, so... 332 00:24:50,898 --> 00:24:52,900 So, you're all Rios? 333 00:24:52,983 --> 00:24:55,027 Overlaid on the five basic installs? 334 00:24:55,110 --> 00:24:57,112 Not, not, not precisely. 335 00:24:57,195 --> 00:25:00,657 He went in later and made some deletions. Careless ones, I must say. 336 00:25:00,741 --> 00:25:03,368 Ask me the proper temperature for making Yridian tea. 337 00:25:03,452 --> 00:25:07,497 I no longer have any idea. In any case, it's hard to explain. 338 00:25:07,581 --> 00:25:09,249 But I am aware, or rather 339 00:25:09,333 --> 00:25:12,586 my algorithms allow me to predict with a high degree of confidence, 340 00:25:12,669 --> 00:25:19,259 that Captain Rios is in sore need of a confidant right about now. 341 00:26:22,990 --> 00:26:25,367 Rios? Honey, it's Raffi. 342 00:26:25,909 --> 00:26:27,703 Thought you might need some company. 343 00:26:28,286 --> 00:26:29,287 Piss off. 344 00:26:30,914 --> 00:26:32,416 Pissing off. 345 00:27:19,838 --> 00:27:21,757 These are the ones Hugh reclaimed. 346 00:27:22,382 --> 00:27:24,217 Thousands more are still in stasis. 347 00:27:25,010 --> 00:27:27,054 -Wake them up. -They'll be useless, 348 00:27:27,137 --> 00:27:29,181 lost without the voice of the Collective. 349 00:27:33,435 --> 00:27:37,981 I could reactivate and reconnect their transceivers. 350 00:27:38,732 --> 00:27:42,277 Create a kind of micro-collective of just the Borg on this Cube. 351 00:27:43,028 --> 00:27:47,074 Coordinate their movements, deploy them against the Romulan troops. 352 00:27:47,157 --> 00:27:48,825 That sounds amazing. Do that. 353 00:27:49,826 --> 00:27:50,994 Assimilate them. 354 00:27:51,953 --> 00:27:54,623 Invade their minds. Suppress their identities. 355 00:27:54,706 --> 00:27:56,958 Enslave them again. 356 00:27:57,042 --> 00:27:58,502 You can release them when we win. 357 00:27:59,878 --> 00:28:02,172 They won't want to be released, and I... 358 00:28:05,717 --> 00:28:07,803 I might not want to release them. 359 00:28:12,808 --> 00:28:13,850 Hmm. 360 00:28:14,392 --> 00:28:15,977 Maybe this was a mistake. 361 00:28:19,022 --> 00:28:20,857 All right. Somewhere, 362 00:28:20,941 --> 00:28:25,487 underneath this absurd spectacle I see before me, 363 00:28:25,570 --> 00:28:29,032 are five broken pieces of Captain Rios. 364 00:28:29,950 --> 00:28:32,577 It's like you each got dealt a hole card. 365 00:28:33,829 --> 00:28:35,580 How about you turn them over, hmm? 366 00:28:38,458 --> 00:28:39,751 Sit up. 367 00:28:42,295 --> 00:28:44,881 Okay. L-- Let's start with the girl. 368 00:28:44,965 --> 00:28:49,010 Um, Ian, you called her "Jana." You said you recognized her. 369 00:28:49,094 --> 00:28:50,637 I did. I do. 370 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,013 -I do too. -Huh? 371 00:28:52,097 --> 00:28:53,723 Yes, Jana. Poor thing. 372 00:28:53,807 --> 00:28:56,601 It was just so tragic. 373 00:28:57,227 --> 00:28:58,228 I... 374 00:29:00,272 --> 00:29:01,857 No. Sorry. 375 00:29:01,940 --> 00:29:05,068 It's like my knowledge of Medusan astrogation techniques, totally gone. 376 00:29:05,569 --> 00:29:09,364 It's something to do with his time on the ibn Majid with his captain. 377 00:29:09,447 --> 00:29:12,367 Aye. Captain Alonzo Vandermeer. 378 00:29:12,450 --> 00:29:14,870 Oh... What about him? Were they close? 379 00:29:16,204 --> 00:29:17,205 Is he alive? 380 00:29:17,289 --> 00:29:18,582 It's, um... 381 00:29:20,834 --> 00:29:23,211 The information's there somewhere. I can feel it... 382 00:29:25,922 --> 00:29:27,132 but I can't quite get at it. 383 00:29:29,259 --> 00:29:30,385 Emmet! 384 00:29:34,055 --> 00:29:36,141 - What? - Ugh. 385 00:29:38,810 --> 00:29:40,145 What happened to Vandermeer? 386 00:29:40,645 --> 00:29:42,355 - Capitán Vandermeer? - Mm. 387 00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:47,736 Oh. Well, that's awful. 388 00:29:48,361 --> 00:29:50,405 - Do we know why? - It's one of those things 389 00:29:50,488 --> 00:29:52,365 you ken but you do not say. 390 00:29:54,618 --> 00:29:59,164 Turns out we don't actually "ken." 391 00:29:59,247 --> 00:30:03,251 I can feel the answer, or a ghost of it. 392 00:30:03,335 --> 00:30:06,004 This may violate my Hippocratic coding, 393 00:30:06,087 --> 00:30:08,882 but after the whole thing was over, 394 00:30:08,965 --> 00:30:11,301 Captain Rios suffered some kind of breakdown. 395 00:30:12,594 --> 00:30:14,012 That's why he was discharged. 396 00:30:14,095 --> 00:30:17,057 Wh-- Um. "Whole thing"? What whole thing? 397 00:30:18,308 --> 00:30:21,186 Something happened on the ibn Majid, 398 00:30:21,269 --> 00:30:25,857 something that had to do with Vandermeer and a girl named Jana. 399 00:30:25,941 --> 00:30:29,486 Don't bother searching for ship's logs or personal records on the ibn Majid. 400 00:30:29,569 --> 00:30:31,279 -Why? -It was all classified. 401 00:30:31,363 --> 00:30:32,364 Because? 402 00:30:34,199 --> 00:30:38,161 Oh. Oh, come on. One of you knows. 403 00:30:38,662 --> 00:30:40,956 What happened on the ibn Majid? 404 00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:43,625 One of us knows. 405 00:30:43,708 --> 00:30:46,836 And he's sae fou as a piper an' awfu aff the fang. 406 00:30:48,129 --> 00:30:49,089 So true, Ian. 407 00:30:50,006 --> 00:30:51,007 I mean... 408 00:30:52,008 --> 00:30:53,760 it's not even a language. 409 00:31:03,770 --> 00:31:04,854 Did it work? 410 00:31:05,522 --> 00:31:09,693 You neutralized the viridium, if that's what you mean. 411 00:31:10,777 --> 00:31:13,321 We're no longer being tracked by the Tal Shiar. 412 00:31:14,072 --> 00:31:17,367 We are now headed for Deep Space 12. 413 00:31:17,450 --> 00:31:21,037 When we arrive, you will surrender yourself to the authorities 414 00:31:21,121 --> 00:31:23,123 for the murder of Bruce Maddox. 415 00:31:32,382 --> 00:31:34,801 I have been trying to work it out. 416 00:31:36,052 --> 00:31:38,972 How you could have done such a thing. 417 00:31:40,307 --> 00:31:41,683 He was your mentor. 418 00:31:42,726 --> 00:31:45,687 Your... lover? 419 00:31:52,819 --> 00:31:54,070 Why? 420 00:31:58,658 --> 00:31:59,784 I had to. 421 00:32:00,702 --> 00:32:03,538 When Commodore Oh came to find me that day, she-- 422 00:32:07,125 --> 00:32:09,085 She did something to me. 423 00:32:09,627 --> 00:32:10,795 Poisoned me. 424 00:32:10,879 --> 00:32:16,885 So, the head of Starfleet Security had you ingest a viridium tracker? 425 00:32:16,968 --> 00:32:17,969 Yes. 426 00:32:18,803 --> 00:32:20,805 But that's not what I'm talking about. 427 00:32:23,933 --> 00:32:26,644 She put poison in my mind, Picard. 428 00:32:26,728 --> 00:32:27,729 She... 429 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,859 put her hands on my head and poured in... 430 00:32:38,948 --> 00:32:42,035 She put in a psychic block to keep me from talking about it. 431 00:32:42,118 --> 00:32:43,953 Oh... you must fight-- 432 00:32:44,037 --> 00:32:45,538 I don't want to talk about it! 433 00:32:49,376 --> 00:32:50,752 Do you believe in hell? 434 00:32:53,171 --> 00:32:55,006 Yeah, neither did I. 435 00:32:56,424 --> 00:32:57,759 Until I saw it. 436 00:32:58,426 --> 00:32:59,427 Now... 437 00:33:00,970 --> 00:33:03,056 I think about suicide every day. 438 00:33:04,307 --> 00:33:05,975 That's how I comfort myself. 439 00:33:08,686 --> 00:33:10,980 Was this experience, 440 00:33:11,064 --> 00:33:15,527 this... vision of Oh's, 441 00:33:16,027 --> 00:33:18,530 one that she lived through herself? 442 00:33:18,613 --> 00:33:20,407 No. No. 443 00:33:20,949 --> 00:33:22,117 It happened... 444 00:33:25,328 --> 00:33:27,997 thousands of centuries ago. 445 00:33:28,873 --> 00:33:31,709 Because of hubris. Hubris like Bruce's. 446 00:33:31,793 --> 00:33:34,379 Because of synthetic life? 447 00:33:35,213 --> 00:33:37,215 We are at a threshold. 448 00:33:38,216 --> 00:33:40,468 I saw it, Picard. Oh showed me. 449 00:33:41,970 --> 00:33:46,808 Unless we act quickly and destroy even the possibility of synthetic life... 450 00:33:46,891 --> 00:33:49,644 Hell will come again. 451 00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:54,899 And this threshold... 452 00:33:54,983 --> 00:33:56,818 Is the coming of Seb-Cheneb... 453 00:33:57,861 --> 00:33:59,279 the Destroyer. 454 00:34:03,950 --> 00:34:04,951 Me. 455 00:34:51,247 --> 00:34:52,248 So... 456 00:34:53,708 --> 00:34:56,794 Captain Alonzo Vandermeer. 457 00:35:00,131 --> 00:35:02,342 Is that his Walkman? 458 00:35:06,638 --> 00:35:08,723 I used to pretend he was my father. 459 00:35:10,850 --> 00:35:12,685 Called him "Pops" in my head. 460 00:35:13,269 --> 00:35:15,355 Couple of times, it almost slipped out. 461 00:35:16,731 --> 00:35:20,026 Kind of a surprise when he turned out to be a cold-blooded murderer. 462 00:35:21,152 --> 00:35:22,153 Who? 463 00:35:22,779 --> 00:35:24,405 Who did he murder? 464 00:35:26,324 --> 00:35:27,408 Do you sleep? 465 00:35:29,118 --> 00:35:30,119 Every night. 466 00:35:32,497 --> 00:35:35,166 You sleep every night. My God. 467 00:35:37,710 --> 00:35:38,795 Do you eat? 468 00:35:39,546 --> 00:35:40,713 When I'm hungry. 469 00:35:42,715 --> 00:35:44,425 What do you do when you're sad? 470 00:35:44,926 --> 00:35:45,927 Cry. 471 00:35:46,803 --> 00:35:48,096 Thirsty? 472 00:35:49,013 --> 00:35:50,098 Drink. 473 00:35:51,349 --> 00:35:53,101 You drink when you're thirsty. 474 00:35:56,980 --> 00:35:58,606 That is so beautiful. 475 00:35:59,816 --> 00:36:02,235 We were way the hell out in the Vayt sector. 476 00:36:03,194 --> 00:36:05,530 Picked up a diplomatic mission out of nowhere. 477 00:36:06,030 --> 00:36:08,700 Tiny ship. Unknown design. 478 00:36:09,450 --> 00:36:10,743 Two passengers. 479 00:36:10,827 --> 00:36:12,954 We scanned them. They checked out. 480 00:36:13,037 --> 00:36:18,126 We sent the info to Starfleet and notified them of a first contact. 481 00:36:18,710 --> 00:36:19,961 Then we beamed them on board. 482 00:36:20,795 --> 00:36:23,548 The ambassador, Beautiful Flower... 483 00:36:25,425 --> 00:36:27,135 and his young protégé. 484 00:36:28,011 --> 00:36:29,262 Jana. 485 00:36:31,097 --> 00:36:35,602 You have a constellation of three beauty marks on your right cheek. 486 00:36:36,603 --> 00:36:38,271 Which is a good thing? 487 00:36:38,354 --> 00:36:39,689 Which is artistry. 488 00:36:40,773 --> 00:36:44,235 Noonien Soong, who made Data, thought of himself as an artist, but... 489 00:36:45,820 --> 00:36:48,031 he never gave Data three beauty marks. 490 00:36:49,115 --> 00:36:53,286 I also have a mole on my chest. And a crooked pinkie toe. 491 00:36:53,745 --> 00:36:55,830 You are a wonder. 492 00:36:55,913 --> 00:36:59,876 A... technological masterpiece and a work of art. 493 00:36:59,959 --> 00:37:01,294 Am I a person? 494 00:37:02,629 --> 00:37:03,796 We shake hands. 495 00:37:04,297 --> 00:37:06,883 We sit down, have a bite to eat. 496 00:37:06,966 --> 00:37:10,637 Few hours later, Alonzo Vandermeer kills them both in cold blood. 497 00:37:11,971 --> 00:37:14,641 Takes them both out with two quick pops of a phaser. 498 00:37:14,724 --> 00:37:15,725 Why? 499 00:37:16,559 --> 00:37:17,685 Am I a person? 500 00:37:20,396 --> 00:37:21,731 Not in theory. 501 00:37:22,899 --> 00:37:26,235 To you, right now, looking at me, talking to me. 502 00:37:28,780 --> 00:37:31,199 Do you consider me to be a person like you? 503 00:37:32,283 --> 00:37:36,496 It was a black-flag directive, straight from Starfleet Security. 504 00:37:36,579 --> 00:37:40,500 He told me they said if he disobeyed, 505 00:37:40,583 --> 00:37:43,169 the ibn Majid would be destroyed with all hands. 506 00:37:43,252 --> 00:37:44,253 What? 507 00:37:44,337 --> 00:37:45,505 I went at him hard. 508 00:37:46,673 --> 00:37:47,674 Pretty hard. 509 00:37:56,557 --> 00:37:59,143 That's when he put the phaser in his mouth and pulled the trigger. 510 00:38:01,104 --> 00:38:02,647 Oh, Chris. 511 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,442 Raffi, then I covered it up. 512 00:38:09,737 --> 00:38:11,489 Like he was supposed to do. 513 00:38:14,409 --> 00:38:16,119 So it wouldn't all be for nothing. 514 00:38:16,202 --> 00:38:19,414 So they wouldn't blow up the ibn Majid and everyone on it. 515 00:38:20,164 --> 00:38:23,835 I beamed the bodies into space, deleted it from the transporter log. 516 00:38:26,629 --> 00:38:29,215 Let the whole fleet know that Alonzo Vandermeer 517 00:38:29,298 --> 00:38:31,634 had killed himself for no fucking reason at all. 518 00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:41,185 Six months later, I was out of Starfleet. 519 00:38:42,186 --> 00:38:46,274 They called it "post-traumatic dysphoria." 520 00:38:48,609 --> 00:38:50,111 -But I was just-- -Broken. 521 00:38:55,074 --> 00:38:56,576 I'm so sorry, babe. 522 00:38:59,996 --> 00:39:02,081 When that girl beamed aboard today... 523 00:39:03,207 --> 00:39:04,667 I mean, Raffi... 524 00:39:06,586 --> 00:39:08,171 it's the same girl. 525 00:39:09,714 --> 00:39:12,091 The other one sketched it while we were talking. 526 00:39:12,842 --> 00:39:14,302 They were synths. 527 00:39:15,261 --> 00:39:16,596 That's why they had to die. 528 00:39:18,890 --> 00:39:19,891 Chris. 529 00:39:21,476 --> 00:39:22,685 Who gave the order? 530 00:39:24,061 --> 00:39:26,397 Commodore Oh ordered you to kill me too. 531 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,362 I would never give you the opportunity. 532 00:39:34,530 --> 00:39:36,282 Now that I've met you, 533 00:39:36,365 --> 00:39:38,367 I would never take it. 534 00:39:38,451 --> 00:39:41,204 Never, ever again. 535 00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:46,501 Okay? 536 00:40:10,191 --> 00:40:11,526 I'm afraid I broke your gun. 537 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:13,945 Someone get me another weapon. 538 00:40:15,947 --> 00:40:17,156 The lights are going out. 539 00:40:20,535 --> 00:40:22,370 Are those Borg life signs? 540 00:40:26,374 --> 00:40:28,292 This is not a protocol drill. 541 00:40:28,793 --> 00:40:31,629 If you will not reach your evac station in the allotted time, 542 00:40:31,712 --> 00:40:34,340 seek immediate shelter and employ all possible measures... 543 00:40:34,423 --> 00:40:36,175 -Do they frighten you? -...to avoid detection. 544 00:40:36,259 --> 00:40:37,760 I'd be a fool if they didn't. 545 00:40:40,096 --> 00:40:42,598 Something far worse is coming, Centurion... 546 00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:45,685 if I fail in my work. 547 00:41:10,167 --> 00:41:11,836 We are Borg. 548 00:41:12,503 --> 00:41:16,924 We are Borg. We are Borg. We are Borg. 549 00:41:17,008 --> 00:41:18,634 -We are Borg. -Now. 550 00:41:18,718 --> 00:41:19,802 We are Borg. 551 00:41:24,098 --> 00:41:25,182 No! 552 00:41:25,266 --> 00:41:26,517 No! No! 553 00:41:58,674 --> 00:41:59,675 Well... 554 00:42:01,385 --> 00:42:03,262 I'm done murdering people. 555 00:42:05,097 --> 00:42:07,516 So, that's a good thing. 556 00:42:11,187 --> 00:42:13,773 When we get to Deep Space 12, I'm gonna turn myself in. 557 00:42:18,527 --> 00:42:19,612 Are you all right? 558 00:42:34,835 --> 00:42:35,836 I'm sorry. 559 00:42:38,047 --> 00:42:41,008 You all are the closest I've come in a long time... 560 00:42:42,468 --> 00:42:45,221 maybe ever, to having a... 561 00:42:48,099 --> 00:42:49,100 crew. 562 00:42:51,644 --> 00:42:53,521 I'm sorry I had to fucking ruin it. 563 00:43:00,277 --> 00:43:01,529 Should we get into it? 564 00:43:12,957 --> 00:43:14,375 I'm sorry too. 565 00:43:14,959 --> 00:43:17,169 Peppermint. French fries. 566 00:43:17,253 --> 00:43:21,340 To me it looks kinda disgusting, but you love it, right? 567 00:43:21,424 --> 00:43:23,342 How did you know? 568 00:43:24,552 --> 00:43:26,220 We'll get there, honey. 569 00:43:28,764 --> 00:43:29,890 Now listen. 570 00:43:29,974 --> 00:43:33,436 200,000, 300,000 years ago, 571 00:43:33,519 --> 00:43:37,106 somebody drags eight suns together. 572 00:43:37,690 --> 00:43:40,568 They hang a planet in the middle. 573 00:43:40,651 --> 00:43:43,654 And on this planet, they place a warning. 574 00:43:43,738 --> 00:43:47,241 The Romulans call it the Admonition. 575 00:43:47,324 --> 00:43:51,162 This warning says, "Don't do what we did. 576 00:43:52,163 --> 00:43:54,915 We created synthetic life-forms, and"-- 577 00:43:54,999 --> 00:43:56,042 And they evolved. 578 00:43:57,460 --> 00:44:00,713 And it did not go well... at all. 579 00:44:01,964 --> 00:44:02,965 Meaning? 580 00:44:03,049 --> 00:44:08,262 Apparently, these people believed there was a threshold of synthetic evolution. 581 00:44:08,345 --> 00:44:09,513 A dividing line. 582 00:44:10,473 --> 00:44:12,767 Like the Zefram Cochrane warp drive? 583 00:44:12,850 --> 00:44:16,395 When you cross that line, somebody shows up. 584 00:44:16,479 --> 00:44:17,897 Somebody really bad. 585 00:44:19,273 --> 00:44:23,486 The Romulans, it seems, took this Admonition very seriously. 586 00:44:23,569 --> 00:44:26,447 They created a group, 587 00:44:27,156 --> 00:44:29,158 the Zhat Vash, 588 00:44:29,742 --> 00:44:31,744 dedicated to finding 589 00:44:32,661 --> 00:44:35,623 and terminating all synthetic life. 590 00:44:36,791 --> 00:44:40,002 So, imagine 30, 40 years ago, 591 00:44:40,086 --> 00:44:43,339 Doctor Noonien Soong starts turning out synthetic life 592 00:44:43,422 --> 00:44:47,593 that's equal to human beings, superior in some ways. 593 00:44:49,261 --> 00:44:51,680 The Romulans send in a mole, 594 00:44:52,139 --> 00:44:56,143 a half-Romulan Vulcan named Oh. 595 00:44:58,145 --> 00:44:59,772 She burrows into Starfleet, 596 00:44:59,855 --> 00:45:03,150 rises through the ranks and becomes head of Security. 597 00:45:04,944 --> 00:45:07,029 And all the while she has one mandate... 598 00:45:08,197 --> 00:45:12,493 to put a stop to the Federation's research and development of synthetic life-forms. 599 00:45:13,786 --> 00:45:14,870 To this end, 600 00:45:15,371 --> 00:45:20,584 she decides to engineer a situation so terrifying 601 00:45:20,668 --> 00:45:22,878 that the Federation's only response 602 00:45:22,962 --> 00:45:26,215 will be to ban synths forever. 603 00:45:27,424 --> 00:45:29,802 The Romulans were behind the attack on Mars. 604 00:45:32,221 --> 00:45:34,598 Has a certain ring to it. 605 00:45:35,474 --> 00:45:36,725 Am I right? 606 00:45:36,809 --> 00:45:37,935 Carry on. 607 00:45:38,018 --> 00:45:40,688 But the commodore's work wasn't done. 608 00:45:41,814 --> 00:45:45,109 Nine years ago, a Starfleet vessel had first contact 609 00:45:45,192 --> 00:45:48,237 with a pair of emissaries from a strange new world. 610 00:45:48,821 --> 00:45:50,781 One called himself Beautiful Flower. 611 00:45:52,575 --> 00:45:53,993 -The other one was-- -Jana. 612 00:45:58,539 --> 00:45:59,540 How do I know that? 613 00:45:59,623 --> 00:46:02,710 The same way I know you like to dip french fries in peppermint ice cream. 614 00:46:04,712 --> 00:46:06,797 Jana and this Flower 615 00:46:07,381 --> 00:46:10,217 came from the world that Bruce Maddox fled to 616 00:46:10,301 --> 00:46:12,219 when he left Earth after the ban, 617 00:46:12,303 --> 00:46:15,472 bound and determined to carry out his work. 618 00:46:16,557 --> 00:46:21,353 And the Zhat Vash have been searching for this world ever since. 619 00:46:21,854 --> 00:46:23,731 Which they have now found because of me. 620 00:46:33,073 --> 00:46:34,074 Excuse me. 621 00:46:45,669 --> 00:46:46,921 Soji, what are you doing? 622 00:46:48,923 --> 00:46:49,924 Emmet, ayuda. 623 00:46:52,343 --> 00:46:54,511 - Emmet! - I deactivated them. Don't worry. 624 00:46:54,595 --> 00:46:57,014 I'm not going to hurt anybody. I just need to get back home. 625 00:46:57,097 --> 00:46:59,099 You'll get your ship back, Rios, the minute we're there. 626 00:46:59,183 --> 00:47:01,227 Kid, I understand why you're doing this, but it's not right. 627 00:47:01,310 --> 00:47:03,896 -We wanna help you. You cannot just-- -How can you possibly understand? 628 00:47:04,688 --> 00:47:08,067 Is someone trying to wipe out your family? Do you even have a family? 629 00:47:08,859 --> 00:47:10,027 I do not. 630 00:47:11,028 --> 00:47:15,449 Wh-- What is that? Is that some kind of subspace tunneling? 631 00:47:15,532 --> 00:47:17,701 It's a map of the Borg transwarp conduit network. 632 00:47:17,785 --> 00:47:19,912 At this speed, we're about nine hours from the nearest node. 633 00:47:21,163 --> 00:47:22,915 I don't actually know how I know that. 634 00:47:23,415 --> 00:47:26,919 I must have picked it up on the Cube while I was busy being Doctor Soji Asha. 635 00:47:27,670 --> 00:47:30,923 The second I heard the truth about the ban, the Admonition, 636 00:47:31,006 --> 00:47:33,092 and what happened to my brother and sister on the ibn Majid, 637 00:47:33,175 --> 00:47:34,843 I suddenly seem to know a whole lot of things. 638 00:47:37,179 --> 00:47:38,430 Do you know this? 639 00:47:51,402 --> 00:47:53,529 It's a lullaby my mother used to sing to me. 640 00:47:54,780 --> 00:47:57,366 She didn't like other people playing with her things either. 641 00:47:59,868 --> 00:48:02,705 She's done it Maddox's way. She's done it my way. 642 00:48:02,788 --> 00:48:04,790 Let's try doing it her way 643 00:48:05,291 --> 00:48:07,626 and hope we get there in time to warn them. 644 00:48:20,973 --> 00:48:21,974 Actually... 645 00:48:23,183 --> 00:48:24,685 I don't know how to work this. 646 00:48:26,979 --> 00:48:30,649 So, your plan is just fly into a transwarp conduit, 647 00:48:30,733 --> 00:48:33,986 don't set up a structural integrity field, no chroniton field, 648 00:48:34,069 --> 00:48:37,156 just jump right in, gravimetric shear be damned? 649 00:48:40,367 --> 00:48:42,911 Sirena is my goddamn ship, hija. 650 00:48:46,665 --> 00:48:50,544 Captain Rios, please take me home. 651 00:48:53,339 --> 00:48:54,965 For Jana's sake. 652 00:49:18,864 --> 00:49:19,990 I got you. 653 00:49:27,623 --> 00:49:30,250 The fleet has the coordinates for the synthetic homeworld. 654 00:49:30,334 --> 00:49:31,543 They're leaving now. 655 00:49:31,627 --> 00:49:33,462 -Have all the Borg been jettisoned? -Yes, Colonel. 656 00:49:33,545 --> 00:49:36,048 In an hour, we'll have the xBs mopped up and be ready to embark. 657 00:49:36,131 --> 00:49:37,800 And is my ship ready for departure? 658 00:50:14,044 --> 00:50:15,129 They are gone. 659 00:50:16,672 --> 00:50:19,258 It is over. The Cube is ours again. 660 00:50:20,134 --> 00:50:21,135 So... 661 00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:24,888 are you gonna assimilate me now? 662 00:50:27,975 --> 00:50:29,977 Annika still has work to do. 663 00:50:47,119 --> 00:50:50,664 You know, I remember standing the night watch 664 00:50:50,747 --> 00:50:53,375 as a young ensign on the bridge of the Reliant, 665 00:50:53,917 --> 00:50:57,588 feeling I was the only one awake... 666 00:50:58,964 --> 00:51:02,092 in all that emptiness, 667 00:51:02,718 --> 00:51:04,219 all that silence. 668 00:51:06,054 --> 00:51:07,139 I'd forgotten, 669 00:51:07,890 --> 00:51:08,891 until... 670 00:51:10,309 --> 00:51:11,393 just now... 671 00:51:12,811 --> 00:51:14,313 how much I loved it. 672 00:51:18,275 --> 00:51:20,527 I knew Alonzo Vandermeer slightly. 673 00:51:21,695 --> 00:51:25,532 He was first officer to an Academy classmate of mine. 674 00:51:25,616 --> 00:51:27,910 Captain Marta Batanides. 675 00:51:28,577 --> 00:51:29,578 You knew her? 676 00:51:29,661 --> 00:51:32,581 No, but... I felt like I did. 677 00:51:33,290 --> 00:51:36,418 She was a legend to the old man, my old man... 678 00:51:37,586 --> 00:51:39,004 Captain Vandermeer. 679 00:51:40,214 --> 00:51:41,215 Hmm. 680 00:51:50,015 --> 00:51:53,810 Did he know they were synthetic? 681 00:51:54,728 --> 00:51:56,355 I have to believe that he did. 682 00:51:57,564 --> 00:51:59,983 He must have thought that because of that... 683 00:52:01,235 --> 00:52:02,903 he'd be able to live with it. 684 00:52:02,986 --> 00:52:05,864 I didn't know him well, as I said, but... 685 00:52:08,075 --> 00:52:10,077 I felt he was a good man. 686 00:52:10,661 --> 00:52:13,247 One of the best that Starfleet had to offer. 687 00:52:13,747 --> 00:52:14,748 He was. 688 00:52:16,250 --> 00:52:17,251 I, um-- 689 00:52:18,210 --> 00:52:21,797 I hate that he died thinking it was really Starfleet that betrayed him, 690 00:52:22,464 --> 00:52:23,549 betrayed itself. 691 00:52:23,632 --> 00:52:26,093 But Starfleet did betray him. 692 00:52:26,176 --> 00:52:28,887 We did betray ourselves, 693 00:52:28,971 --> 00:52:32,724 long before Oh gave Vandermeer that order. 694 00:52:33,725 --> 00:52:36,562 The ban itself was a betrayal. 695 00:52:36,645 --> 00:52:40,023 Oh, the Zhat Vash, they set the trap. 696 00:52:40,107 --> 00:52:42,734 But we could merely have sidestepped it. 697 00:52:42,818 --> 00:52:44,778 Instead, we gave way to fear. 698 00:52:47,447 --> 00:52:50,617 It took her all of five minutes to hack my ship, Picard. 699 00:52:50,701 --> 00:52:54,413 And now maybe there's a whole planet of them? 700 00:52:54,997 --> 00:52:57,749 Raffi said the Romulans call her The Destroyer. 701 00:52:59,835 --> 00:53:01,253 What if they're right? 702 00:53:01,336 --> 00:53:06,341 They may be right about what happened 200,000 years ago. 703 00:53:06,425 --> 00:53:11,346 The past is written, but the future is left for us to write, 704 00:53:11,430 --> 00:53:13,682 and we have powerful tools, Rios. 705 00:53:13,765 --> 00:53:16,727 Openness, optimism 706 00:53:16,810 --> 00:53:20,105 and the spirit of curiosity. 707 00:53:20,606 --> 00:53:23,191 All they have is secrecy and fear. 708 00:53:23,275 --> 00:53:26,445 And fear is the great destroyer, Rios, not-- 709 00:53:28,113 --> 00:53:29,114 We're there.