Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my Star Trek Picard Episode 1
video hopefully you've had a chance to see the episode if you're brand new
to my channel be sure to subscribe to get all the easter-egg videos there are
a whole bunch of callbacks and references to the other Star Trek series
most notably Star Trek The Next Generation in the next generation movies
so we'll break all that down as I go through my top 10 but careful for
spoilers if you have not seen the episode yet obviously starting with
number 10 though welcome back the card in data so they start on 10 Ford on the
enterprise you're in the future but you're basically inside the car it's
mine space he's having a nightmare about what happened to Marg that they talk
about later in the episode there was a big question about why he would ever
leave Starfleet so I'll address that in my list here because it's a pretty big
moment but this is all taking place about 20 years after the end of Star
Trek nemesis don't worry you don't have to rewatch that movie they also sort of
retcons some of the elements of the ending of Star Trek nemesis so if you
hated that movie they're actually kind of wiping it a little bit from the
timeline just a little bit although technically those events still did
happen like data did die at the end of Star Trek nemesis they're playing poker
just like they did during Star Trek next generation data trying to bluff him they
have a couple jokes about data being bad at trying to bluff then Picard gets a
bit of a call to action there are a couple lines of dialogue they give him
calls to action throughout the episode but it's not till way later at the end
of the episode before he gets the literal wake-up call that calls him to
action to help find out what happened to quote-unquote
the girl he wakes up from his nightmare we find that he's been living on his
family's vineyard in France Chateau Picard you see Chateau Picard show up
all over the place they're even drinking wine in the big scene after this - but
he has a dog he's named number one which is a Riker reference Riker comes back I
think in the next episode in seven of nine they're a bunch of familiar
characters from the other Star Trek series that are showing up
number nine the activation so you go to Boston you meet the new main
character or one half of the main character because she's a twin that we
learned later in the episode they referenced the daystrom Institute she's
a specialist in artificial intelligence and quantum consciousness that should be
the Day Giveaway that's like saying that she's an expert in data basically so
there should have been a bit of a lead off that she's connected to data somehow
we learned that it's a Romulan strike that's after her so they crash in they
kill him and try to take her before she can quote-unquote activate then we find
out what that means when they put the bag over her head and she just goes into
action just wasting all of em in no time at all she still doesn't understand
what's going on she's flesh and blood like a human would
be but she has this weird vision of Picard
so she eventually starts to track him down then number eight the brand new
intro sequence so you noticed that there's no intro narration from Picard
like they did during Star Trek next generation I was a little bummed out by
that but I guess that's what they're doing with all the new Trek shows no
opening narration it starts with a shard of glass cracking away from the sky like
the reality is cracking or it's fake it's a holodeck projection and we follow
the shard as it falls through layers of reality or layers of memory because
we're talking about spinning out a new consciousness and rebuilding data's
neural net it starts with Picard's vineyard because he's the main character
of the series then as it travels through that layer of reality you start to see
these little like memory engrams as it travels through the Borg cube we see
that later in the episode because that's where her twin is working it's the Borg
cube that the Federation in the galaxy has co-opted to use for the Romulan
people this pattern evolving here is what's talked about later when they're
at the daystrom Institute Alison pihl's character basically explains that they
can rebuild data so to speak or rebuilt his technology using a single neuron
that's basically what you're watching here the process of that happening it
evolves but it turns into Picard just because he's the main character the
series but we're also probably witnessing the act of creation of the
twin girls to when they were first created which they do explain during the
episode they play a couple notes from the Star Trek next generation theme song
at the end of this but it is a brand-new song for the most part the number seven
the backstory and the crossover moments with the 2009 Star Trek movie from the
Kelvin timeline so the big thing here you probably notice is that they're
connecting this to the JJ Abrams new Star Trek movies through the really big
act that destroys Romulus the big supernova if you're confused about what
Picard did that forced him or made him want to leave Starfleet he was actually
trying to help save the Romulan people but at some point during that process
the Federation decided that they didn't want to help the Romulans because
they've been their enemies for so long Picard revolted he refused to leave the
area without rescuing the Romulan so that was already a big act of
insubordination again Starfleet but while that was going on
they say that a rogue group of synthetics took advantage of the chaos
and wiped out the Utopia Planitia shipyards near Mars killing about 90,000
people because of that catastrophe there was a federation and a galaxy-wide ban
on synthetics so right now the Romulans aren't the most hated people in the
galaxy it's actually synthetic people which kind of makes this new girl
character or the surviving twin a baby Yoda so to speak so they're kind of
going for a baby Yoda vibe she has to be protected because everyone wants a piece
of her either to kill her like the Romulans or to exploit her like some of
the researchers probably want to do so after all that happens Picard is just
really upset with the decisions that the Federation is making he decides to
resign his commission and goes to live on his vineyard the number-6 a little
wild goes by the girl finds Picard he's not totally sure what's going on but she
seems kind of familiar to him she thinks that she knows him but she doesn't know
how just because it seems like all of her programming is subconscious and it
requires really heightened stress levels to activate it later Picard has a dream
where he sees data underneath a tree in his classic next-gen uniform Picard
himself in his classic next-gen uniform he's painting the picture of the girl
that's hanging in a study and later in the archives of the girl herself data
asks if he wishes to finish it this is another one of those call-to-actions
Picard's like I don't know how and data says no that's not true
you totally know how to do this it's basically Picard telling himself that he
does have the ability to take this mission on and save this girl so number
5 the big one Picard discovers the girl's true identity is data's daughter
in effect obviously not biological daughter but the way she's created she's
created from one of datas neurons so she is in effect data's daughter there's all
kinds of Easter eggs when he goes into the archives they have a funny joke
about the hologram trying to tell a joke we're trying something new don't quit
your day job there's a model of the enterprise
Efram the next-gen movies this was last seen during Star Trek nemesis don't
worry we don't have to speak of that movie ever again there's some of his
books his commendations things that were hanging inside his ready room there's
one of worf's bat'leth they even put the banner from the Picard Day episode in
there too and it's all signed by the kids that he had the adventure with
during that episode they made very clear to show you the name
those little kids just referencing the events of that episode he pulls the
painting out and it's not really clear why this is the original or if the other
ones a copy or what's going on to the really advanced version of Alexa tells
him no this was given to you as painted by Commander data over 30 years ago
the paintings title was daughter later when the girl flees into the street and
calls her mother worried about what to do and she tells her about Picard wait a
minute I didn't mention Picard it's pretty clear that the mother is
connected to the maddox figure from the daystrom Institute and knows exactly
what's going on go find Picard he'll take care of you so
keep in mind that none of these people her mother her father that she keeps
referring to and her sister also refers to our Father made these necklaces for
us those aren't their biological parents obviously she has no biological parents
or if you want to think about it that way data would be her biological father
she tracks Picard down at Starfleet headquarters how did you find me here
you're not even supposed to be able to track me without a security clearance
which you definitely don't have so she comes to the realization of who she
really is then completely hooks out on the Romulan assassins it's a really good
action scene pretty good fight scene but even though I knew that this actress was
going to be a main character this season I wasn't totally sure how they were
going to explain her coming back by the end of the episode I totally was not
expecting her to be a twin so that's the way they're keeping the character around
on the show although you know talk about twins data's twin brother lore it's two
twin girls so instead of data and lore it's now these two twin sisters except
one of them just died it's not totally clear why the Romulan assassins want her
dead they think that she's going to do something terrible presumably but you do
notice that when she gets some of their green blood on her its corrosive it
starts burning through her like acid she screams in pain so one of the big
differences in the fact that she's a flesh and blood Android is that she can
feel pain whereas data could not but if it wasn't clear based on the ending of
the episode and what happens after this I'm pretty sure that she died in this
explosion so she's not around but her twin sister is still alive number three
he goes to the daystrom Institute and finds out the truth about data's
twin daughters where they came from and how they were created
Alison pihl's character is also a main character on the show so she'll be
traveling around with Picard later episodes her name is dr. jarate she
explains that her partner basically the twin girls based on a fractal
cloning idea like oh you can take one little neuron and clone the original
creation but it winds up turning into his daughters and they're always created
in pairs twins just like data and lore we haven't met the Maddox figure I'm
assuming he'll show up later in the series but her former partner that went
into hiding and then created the twins is basically the person that the girls
keep referring to as their father really fun callback to a really bad movie when
they referenced Star Trek nemesis by inking out B 4 from storage the big red
car to that though is that that didn't work they say all that stuff was lost
all of datas memories and he wound up being this inferior version of data so
this is them saying that they're not going to be pursuing B for as the future
of the data character it's going to be through his daughters number 2 this is
actually really cool reveal the Romulan reclamation site the place where they
took the Romulan people after they saved them they're about 900 million plus
Romulans that they save from destruction are all living on a giant Borg cube
I love the visual way they reveal this to like first you just think it's a
really big Space Station oh wow this seems kind of ominous but you know
pretty cool love big Space Station's but as it slowly pans out at the end of the
episode you find out what's really going on wait a minute where did this Borg
cube come from is that somehow the spoils of war how are they using it
without the Borg technology over running them what's going on with all the Borg
nanites there are some Borg that are working within Starfleet or at least
friendly to Starfleet like seven of nine does it look like she's Starfleet
anymore but she's one of the main characters on the series but Hugh from
Star Trek The Next Generation the other Borg character is back so maybe he and
other Borg like him that have turned good are trying to help the Federation
use this Borg technology the number one we get the big reveal of the twin
and we find out she's just called dr. Shoji she's working there as a medical
doctor the person that comes to talk to her narak just seems like he's a Vulcan
because narak seems like a Vulcan name it's kind of hard to tell Romulans from
Vulcans unless you know what their name is or know how they act it felt like a
pretty strong premier at least the premise I'm really interested to see
where they take this series so let me know what you guys thought of it if you
spotted any big Easter eggs that I didn't mention in the video what I'm
going to do is I'm just going to see how this video performs if enough people like the
series and watch this video I'll keep doing episode
videos but otherwise at least do a wrap-up video when it's all done
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