* Episode 7 is called "Nepenthe," which i'm pretty sure was a planet in Mass Effect.
* Which is appropriate because the first thing that happens is a flashback to when Karen O met with Agnes before she joined Picard's crew.
* "Embrace eternity!" Karen O shouts as she does a Vulcan mindmeld. Agnes has a quick-cutting apocalyptic vision of destruction and people being killed by machines.
* She vomits (that's once) and Karen O says that she will have to something terrible to prevent this future.
* In present day Picard and Soji arrive at the other end of the Stargate on Nepenthe, where Riker and Troi live in an isolated cabin in the woods with their 12-year-old daughter Kestra.
* Kestra is Hunger Games cosplaying and appears out of the woods with an arrow drawn on Picard.
* "You may want to point that at my head instead of my heart because my heart is made of duranium (?)" Picard says.
* I assume she would recognize Picard on sight so it's weird that she would be pointing a deadly weapon at him, especially when, as she explains as she leads them to her parents' cabin, that the arrows are real but she would never use them on a person.
* Riker is like "let's have pizza!" and starts baking one in his brick oven in the backyard.
* The camera cuts to Soji very conspicuously tilting her head to the side, an action she has never done before in any previous episode, and Riker deduces that she must be Data's daughter because of this dead-giveaway.
* I don't understand why they're still going with this "Data's daughter" thing when Bruce Maddox made her but ok.
* Soji says that she doesn't trust any of them and this could all be another deception. Picard cheerfully exclaims "You're right, it could be! Who knows!"
* Soji violently pushes past him and storms off. Riker yells after her but Picard says he's just glad she didn't break him in half with her android strength. Troi yells at Picard for being an asshole.
* We learn that Riker and Troi also had a son named Thaddeus who would have been 18, but he died of mendaxic neurosclerosis.
* This disease is easily curable by exposure to a positronic brain but since androids had already been outlawed there were none of those around so their kid died.
* Great!
* Troi tells Picard to treat their dinner table as his ready room on the Enterprise. They all gather around to eat and Soji describes her Romulan vision quest, where she saw the planet with two moons and lightning storms.
* They're like "we've got to find out what planet this is" but Kestra holds up her phone and says "It's a planet in the Whatever system that has a number instead of a name, I asked Some Guy and he knew what it was immediately."
* Meanwhile on the Borg cube Hugh has been captured by the incestuous Romulan sister spy. Legolas is nowhere to be seen. Not sure how this happened since at the end of the previous episode they were still together but who cares I guess.
* Romulan lady (no idea what her name is) starts killing the unassimilated Borgs one by one to make Hugh tell her where Picard went but he refuses, so she has all the ex-B's executed while Hugh is forced to watch.
* "I would kill you too," she tells him, "but that would violate our treaty with the Federation."
* Isn't she part of the SECRET secret police?
* Like two levels of secrecy?
* Why would she care about a treaty?
* Is Hugh even a Federation citizen?
* Why is this cube called the Romulan Reclamation Center in the first place? Why are Romulans unassimilating Borg in Federation space, or with Federation aid, or... what's happening here again?
* Oh shit I forgot an important thing from the opening.
* Karen O gave Agnes a tracking device so the Jacques Vash would be able to track her.
* For some reason Agnes immediately put it in her mouth without any prompting or indication that this was the correct thing to do.
* I would have just put it in my pocket.
* "It must be chewed" Karen O corrects her.
* So anyway Brother Romulan is tracking Picard's crew through Agnes, who keeps trying to discourage them from rendezvousing from Picard and says they should just go home instead.
* I guess she's feeling remorseful about betraying her friends, which shows that she is still a good person capable of redemption despite brutally murdering the man she loved for... no reason?
* Raffi synthesizes a cake to cheer her up. Agnes eats it, then vomits it up on camera (that's two).
* Rios approaches Agnes in private and confides in her that they're being tracked and he thinks Raffi is a traitor.
* Agnes bursts into tears and exclaims that it's not Raffi. Rios laughs this off.
* Once he leaves Agnes injects herself with some toxic compound. Not sure if she is trying to disrupt the tracer or to commit suicide, but she collapses on the floor and starts vomiting up foam directly into the camera (that's three).
* The EMH appears and says "Please state the nature of the medical emer-- Oh snap!" I guess he was still working fine and just never told anyone about the murder he witnessed.
* Back on the Borg cube, Legolas emerges from the shadows and reunites with Hugh. Where was he all this time? How did they get separated? Not important!
* Hugh leads him back to the hidden Stargate, angrily explaining that they will use its power to drive the Romulans off the cube and avenge the murdered Borgs, but suddenly Sister Romulan and two guys emerge through a door!
* "Surprise, we were listening to you the whole time! Planning to attack us violates the treaty so now we can kill you!"
* This is like almost verbatim dialogue.
* Legolas draws his Hanzo sword and makes quick work of Sister Romulan's bodyguards after uttering his trademark saying that was kind of badass the first time he said it but is starting to wear thin: "Please, friends, choose to live."
* Sister Romulan says "This is not how Jacques Vash fights Kuat Mulat." She puts down her disruptor and Legolas puts down his sword and they kung fu fight each other while Hugh hides behind a box.
* Hugh pokes his head into the open to see what's going on and Sister Romulan throws a knife into his throat, then is randomly beamed off the cube by someone (?????) before Legolas can revenge-kill her.
* "You'll need an ex-B to help you," Hugh says as Legolas cradles his dying body. He says something like "You taught me to hope again. Thank you." and then he dies.
* That's three secondary characters they've brought back and immediately killed off for no reason.
* I love Star Trek!
* Remember how Geordi was the one who helped Hugh rediscover his individuality after the rescued him from the Borg? Not even mentioned!
* Rios gets in touch with Picard and tells him they're on the way to Nepenthe. As Picard prepares to leave, Kestra tells Soji: "I don't completely understand it, but something bad happened to you. Something bad happened to me too. You know what got me through it? My parents. I have my parents, and you have Picard."
* Then she gives her a broken compass as a remembrance. "You'll have to pretend it works."
* I will not be remotely surprised if the compass is never used or never comes up again.
* But by the same token I will not be remotely surprised if she does eventually use the compass and the power of her belief makes it work.
* Picard and Riker have a nice scene together where they sit by the lake and reconnect. Picard tells him about his new crew. "They seem to have much more baggage than you all ever had," he says, then turns to the camera and winks.
* They say their goodbyes, then Picard contacts Rios on the communicator: "Two to beam up." The TNG theme plays as the camera pans up to the distant mountains.
* Next episode: Seven of Nine returns! Vulcan seers rend the flesh of their own faces! "I saw a vision of hell," Agnes says, "and if we don't stop it--" "Hell is coming back," finishes Picard.
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