Star Trek: Picard Breaks Its Own Borg Cube Timeline
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard season 1, episode 8.
A pivotal flashback in Star Trek: Picard episode Eight breaks the timeline of when the Romulans captured the Borg Dice referred to as the Artifact. The villainous Romulans play an integral position within the backstory of the Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology sequel collection in regards to the twilight years of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). Equally, the derelict Borg starship is crucially linked to the destiny of Soji (Isa Briones), the artificial daughter of the late Commander Knowledge (Brent Spiner). Nonetheless, Star Trek: Picard episode 8, “Damaged Items,” calls into query when precisely the Romulans took possession of the Borg Dice.
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The thriller of how the Romulans gained management of the Dice and turned it into the Artifact was steadily solved all through Star Trek: Picard season 1: In some unspecified time in the future within the 2380s, across the time the Romulan solar went supernova, the Borg Dice assimilated the Shaenor, a scout ship belonging to the Zhat Vash, the key faction of the Tal Shiar that bears an unassuageable hatred of synthetic life. Quickly after the 26 Romulans aboard the Shaenor had been assimilated, the Borg Dice suffered a submatrix collapse. The Dice was instantly severed from the Borg Collective, leaving 1000’s of Borg Drones aboard in stasis. The Romulans took possession of the dormant Dice and turned it right into a Reclamation website housing the Borg Reclamation Challenge. Managed by the Romulan Free State and overseen by its government director (and former Borg) Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco), the Challenge reclaimed the Drones and restored their authentic sentience whereas the Romulans harvested their know-how for revenue.
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Nonetheless, the flashback that opens “Damaged Items” contradicts the Artifact’s timetable established in Star Trek: Picard episode 2, “Maps and Legends”. “Damaged Items” begins by exhibiting the Zhat Vash gathered on Aia, the Grief World, 14 years in the past for a ritual referred to as the Admonition. Below the steerage of Commodore Oh (Tamlyn Tomita), who’s a Romulan mole in Starfleet, the feminine Zhat Vash members realized the traditional fact of the Armageddon that occurred lots of of 1000’s of years in the past when synthetics developed and attacked the galaxy. Among the many Zhat Vash on the Admonition had been Narissa (Peyton Checklist) and her aunt, Ramdha (Rebecca Wisocky). Though Narissa maintained her sanity, the Admonition broke the minds of the opposite Zhat Vash, together with Ramdha. “Damaged Items” then cuts to Picard‘s current of 2399 the place Narissa speaks to her mentally broken aunt (who was “by no means completely sane to start with”) and divulges that it was Ramdha who broke the Borg Dice “by the sheer drive of [her] despair”. So, it was Ramdha’s madness that in some way brought about the submatrix collapse when she was assimilated.
“Damaged Items'” flashback establishes that the Admonition occurred in 2385, the identical yr because the assault on Mars by rogue androids that led to the United Federation of Planets banning artificial lifeforms, which was a plot Oh devised after Narissa survived the ritual. Since Ramdha was on the Admonition, which means her assimilation and the following seize of the Borg Dice additionally occurred afterward. The issue with that is it contradicts an indication that is clearly seen aboard the Artifact in “Maps and Legends” that claims “This facility has gone 5843 days with out an assimilation”. 5843 days equals 16.1 years earlier than 2399, which signifies that based on that signal, the Borg Dice was captured in 2383: two years earlier than the Admonition.
This looks like an enormous error however, moreover the chance that that is merely a manufacturing oversight, the simplest in-canon rationalization is both the signal is just in error or there is a disparity between the Romulan and Federation’s calendars. However in any other case, the contradictory dates is a obvious flaw in Star Trek: Picard‘s intriguingly complicated story, which appears inexplicably obsessive about the yr 2385. In spite of everything, Star Trek: Picard now says that the Admonition, the Borg Dice’s seize, the Mars assault, the synthetics ban, the tip of the Federation’s Romulan rescue mission, and Jean-Luc Picard quitting Starfleet all occurred in 2385 — a really eventful yr — when the collection may have merely set the Admonition in 2383 to line up with the signal within the Artifact.
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