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Feb 20, 2020 · Stardust City Rag: Directed by Jonathan Frakes. With Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Evan Evagora, Michelle Hurd. The La Sirena crew reach Freecloud and find Bruce Maddox in a precarious situation, so Seven of Nine, the ex-Borg they recently picked up, lends her assistance.
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- Jonathan Frakes
- 2020-02-20
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The La Sirena crew begins an unpredictable and lively expedition on Freecloud to search for Bruce Maddox. When they learn that Maddox has found himself in a precarious situation, a familiar face offers her assistance.
Teaser
In 2386, on Vergessen in the Seven Domes, Lieutenant Icheb is restrained on a table, anxious, and bloodied. His left eye is being held open, as a woman drills into him, before forcibly pulling the eye from its socket, revealing Borg cybernetic technology attached to the eye. The woman toyingly severs the eye from Icheb, as he screams in agony, before she casually asks him where his cortical node is, unaware that he doesn't have one. She is about to further strip him for his parts starting with using a hot saw on his forehead when a crash is heard. She looks around and calls out for Bjayzl, before Seven of Nine stuns every person in the room working near Icheb. She rushes over to Icheb, who urges her to leave him. She refuses to leave without him, but the damage to Icheb is too severe, and he is suffering immensely. Realizing she won't be able to take Icheb with her, she offers to stay with him instead, but Icheb once more asks her to leave as he struggles to draw breath. Realizing there is no way to save her former ward, she embraces "her child" one last time. She apologizes in tears, as she reluctantly euthanizes Icheb with her phaser, and mourns over his body. In the room, there are Borg body parts hanging. Thirteen years later, Bjayzl is enjoying herself in Stardust City on Freecloud when she's approached by a Beta Annari named Vup, who informs her that Bruce Maddox is in the building. She simply muses how the mighty have fallen, before she orders Vup to have Maddox killed. Vup is about to oblige the order, when she changes her mind, and decides on another approach. Maddox is sitting by himself, visibly anxious, when Bjayzl approaches him and greets him in a friendly manner, saying he's looked better. He tells her that he's in hiding, and that his lab has been destroyed. Bjayzl offers him some tranya to help him relax. Bruce takes a drink, and tells her how a molecular solvent was used to completely destroy his facility, and apologizes to her because now he is in debt to her, and will be unable to repay her anytime soon. She asks who he thinks did this, and he whispers to her that he believes it was the Tal Shiar. She admits that this changes things, before Maddox begins to gag on his drink, and falls to the floor, unconscious. Having successfully drugged him, Bjayzl remarks how making a deal with the Tal Shiar is always a "pain in the ass".
Act One
Aboard La Sirena, Seven visits Jean-Luc Picard in his holodeck-created study, accepting a drink of straight up bourbon, before asking him why he is in the Qiris sector. Picard says he is looking for someone. Seven had assumed he was on some kind of "misguided diplomatic mission, saving the galaxy", to which Picard admits there would be some of that as well. Seven is aware he is going to Freecloud, expressing her disdain for the place, but explaining that the Fenris Rangers keep what little money they have there. Picard remarks on the difficult times on Fenris, to which Seven sarcastically asks if that makes him happy. Picard admits that while he admires the Rangers' goals, their tenacity and their bravery, he is less than enthused about their vigilantism and taking the law into their own hands. Seven curtly asks him what law he is referring to and Picard takes her point. She tells Picard that she doesn't need a lecture, and that she worked for the Rangers because they helped people who had no one else to help them. She harshly tells him that the worst thing to do would be to just give up, reminding him of what he did when Starfleet canceled the Romulan evacuation. Seven then informs Picard that she would arrange to be picked up on Freecloud. As she is about to leave, however, she asks who Picard is looking for. "Someone who has no one else to help her," Picard answers. "Someone who will likely die if I don't." Seven holds out her glass for a refill, and sits back down. On the bridge of La Sirena, Raffi Musiker is reviewing the file of a man named Gabriel Hwang when Captain Cristóbal Rios remarks on Seven meeting with Picard, and observes that they seem to know one another; Raffi points out that Seven is a former Borg, much like Picard. Rios suddenly realizes who Seven is, the notorious former Borg Fenris Ranger from the Delta Quadrant and remarks that he had forgotten that Picard had once been assimilated himself. He comments to Musiker on the "strange cargo" she had brought him. In her quarters, Dr. Agnes Jurati is sitting on her bed watching a holo-vid of herself with Maddox, remarking on how he had baked chocolate chip cookies using replicated ingredients, and asking why he hadn't just replicated the cookies themselves. Maddox explains he dislikes the replicated kind, and that there was a special "alchemy" to it, offering her a bite of it, before kissing her. It is clear Jurati's interest in the mission is more than simply rescuing her mentor and colleague. As La Sirena enters orbit, the crew is bombarded by holographic advertisements from the surface. For Rios, it is the Red Bolian, offering to increase the ship's power efficiency; for Picard, an invitation for "afternoon high tea" at the Freecloud Grand Hotel; for Jurati, a boxing robot from the Freecloud Institute of Entertainment Robotics, whose head she punches off to deactivate it; and for Musiker, an offer to "pick her poison" at Feely's Venom Garden, which she immediately gets rid of. Elnor expresses puzzlement that he did not get an advertisement, before Musiker reports she has located Maddox on a jobs board for "interfacers", agents hired as intermediaries for business deals. Using an old trick from Starfleet Intelligence, Musiker has made herself a member of Freecloud's interfacers guild, and learns that Bjayzl is seeking a 'facer to arrange to deliver Maddox to the Tal Shiar. At the mention of Bjayzl, Seven angrily explains that she butchers former Borg for parts, and is high on the Rangers' wanted list. They consider their options: They are unable to outbid the Tal Shiar, and Bjayzl has a small army of private contractors as bodyguards, including a Beta Annari, which Rios considers a "nasty piece of work". While Musiker tells Picard that she believes they are "shit out of luck", Seven proposes a trade, giving Bjayzl something she wants in exchange for Maddox, something she would find "irresistible"… namely, herself.
Act Two
Musiker explains that she has manipulated the system to make Rios into a 'facer, "famous but not too famous". Picard wonders at the flamboyant costumes they are forced to wear, to which Musiker explains that 'facers dress that way in order to stand out. She warns Rios to drop his "brooding existentialist spaceman routine", and that his personality needed to match his outfit, to show a little panache. Seven helpfully suggests a feather in his hat. Musiker also suggests avoiding the Beta Annari if he can; their sense of smell allows them to determine whether someone is lying – as well what they had for dinner, and the last person they had sex with ("If they're not the same thing," Rios adds, which unsettles Jurati). Rios enters the bar in Stardust City, requesting a Temtibi Lagoon (with two umbrellas) and a game tablet from the barkeep, telling him to inform Mr. Vup that he was there. Vup is suddenly behind him; wasting no time, he finds Rios' references to be sound, particularly from Quark of Ferenginar regarding some trouble he was having with the Breen. Vup asks Rios if he is aware of the other party involved, and if he has had any dealings with the Tal Shiar before. Rios replies he is aware, and that he has made it a point to stay out of their way, considering them to be "treacherous, violent, ruthless, and subtle", and that their concept of honor is rooted in their skill at deceit. If that was the case, Vup asks, why represent them now? Rios confidently replies he's not, and that his employer is offering "alternative remuneration" for Maddox. "Surprising," Vup replies, as he pulls a weapon, pointing it directly at Rios' head. "I'm not a fan of surprises." He asks why they should consider reneging on a deal with the Romulan secret police, reminding Rios that Beta Annari have 1,253 olfactory receptor genes, which means among other things he can smell a lie. Fortunately, Musiker arranged for Rios to be injected with some of her "home cooking": a delayed-release combination of chemicals that can fool a Beta Annari's olfactory system. Rios shows Vup a projection of Seven's bioscans; Vup considers that many Borg implants in a living specimen "impossible", but Rios asks him how he smells. "Truthful," Vup answers, adding that a single person with that many implants would be considered extremely valuable. Rios asks his indulgence for the "very smallest" of transporter windows. During the preparations, Musiker expresses her concern not with Rios, but with Picard and Elnor. Picard, wearing an eye-patch, remarks in an exaggerated French accent that he thought he looked "appropriately sinister", to which Musiker simply remarks she has no comment. She hands Seven a pattern enhancer, which will allow them a stable tunnel to transport through Freecloud's shields, and will not be differentiated from Seven's implants in a scan. She also arranges to have Seven bound with her rigged handcuffs, which will allow her to escape if need be. Musiker asks Seven why she was helping the people out there, to which Seven admits that after the Romulan Neutral Zone collapsed, she felt someone had to maintain a semblance of order, and it had become habit for her. Musiker then tests a dark bag over Seven's head, to see if she can breathe through the material. Once they found Maddox, Seven would activate the pattern enhancer, and Jurati would beam them back to the ship. At that moment, Elnor suddenly speaks up and remarks how everyone was pretending to be someone else, everyone except for him. He laments that he doesn't know how to "not be Elnor", to which Picard tells him to simply be Elnor. "An Elnor that never talks," Seven sarcastically adds. Back in the bar, Picard delivers Seven to Vup, all the while insulting her in his exaggerated accent as being "defiled", "damned, cursed". Vup again remarks that Seven was "quite a prize", given how many still operating implants she currently has. Picard explains that she was a "jeune fille", a young girl, when she was assimilated and that she would have to be diced up to get to all of her implants. Picard misinterprets Vup's reaction as squeamishness, offering to take his trade elsewhere; Vup grins and says he is not squeamish at all. Picard dismisses Rios, and makes one last demand of Vup: In return for delivering Seven, he wants proof that his bounty is still alive, and demands to see Maddox. Just before leaving the ship, Picard finds Musiker searching for Gabriel Hwang again, finding him in the Stardust City Medical District. She expresses her confidence in him, remarking that being with him during this journey was almost like the old days again, and hopes that he finds what he was looking for. Picard hopes the same for her as well, before she beams away.
"I'm so sorry… my child."
- Seven of Nine, before she euthanizes Icheb
"Something to drink? Tea? Glass of wine?"
"Bourbon. Straight up."
- Picard and Seven
"You know Freecloud?"
Title
•27 January 2020: Title publicly revealed via StarTrek.com (Argentina).
Music and sound
•At the end of the conversation between Seven and Picard at the end of the episode, immediately after Seven says "every damn day of my life," a short piece of the Star Trek: Voyager opening credits theme music plays. •The uncredited classic "rag" featured in Stardust City Rag is Scott Joplin's haunting
Cast and characters
•Isa Briones and Harry Treadaway are not credited as main cast members and do not appear in this episode, although Bruce Maddox does mention both Dahj and Soji by name. •John Ales takes over the role of Bruce Maddox from Brian Brophy, who portrayed him in TNG: "The Measure Of A Man". •Casey King is the third actor to portray Icheb, after Manu Intiraymi and Mark Bennington. •Intiraymi stated he was not asked to reprise the role. In an interview shortly after the episode aired he said, "I'm just sad I didn't get a chance to play him again. Devastated really. I gave that role a piece of everything I had, and will always be proud of the work. I would have been thrilled to play him again." •Raffi's full name is revealed to be Raffaela.
Starring
•Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard •Alison Pill as Agnes Jurati •Evan Evagora as Elnor •Michelle Hurd as Raffaela Musiker With •Santiago Cabrera as Cristóbal Rios / Emil
Special guest star
•Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine
Guest starring
•Dominic Burgess as Vup •Necar Zadegan as Bjayzl •John Ales as Bruce Maddox •Mason Gooding as Gabriel Hwang
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