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Jan 30, 2020 · Maps and Legends: Directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper. With Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Michelle Hurd. Without the support of Starfleet, Picard turns to Dr. Agnes Jurati and his estranged colleague Raffi Musiker for help in finding the truth about Dahj, unaware that hidden enemies are also interested in what he'll find.
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- Hanelle M. Culpepper
- 2020-01-30
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Picard begins investigating the mystery of Dahj as well as what her very existence means to the Federation. Without Starfleet's support, Picard is left leaning on others for help, including Dr. Agnes Jurati and an estranged former colleague, Raffi Musiker. Meanwhile, hidden enemies are also interested in where Picard's search for the truth about Da...
Teaser
In 2385, at the Utopia Planitia Shipyards, it is First Contact Day and a skeleton crew is working during the holiday. A full collection of the A500 artificial lifeform is summoned out of storage for the work day; they each have a designation with a letter and number branded on their foreheads. Created by the Daystrom Institute's Division of Advanced Synthetic Research, each has the same yellow-gold skin and golden eyes as Data did. The synth F8 interacts with the skeleton crew by bantering with them back and forth; they try telling jokes and, as with Data, the synth has no understanding of humor. It seems that these artificial lifeforms are far less advanced than Data was as they have no ability to interact with the people on any manageable level, leaving an awkwardness to the people working there. As they continue, one of the workers comments that F8 creeps her out and another admonishes her for it, reminding her that F8 can hear her. The retort from the other worker is that the synths are not people and it does not matter if she says things that would offend a Human. Later in the day as the crew is having their lunch, F8 appears to either malfunction or be taken over by an unknown source as his irises glitch; he begins tampering with the consoles and lowering the defensive shields for the base. When the crew begin to notice his actions, one crew member attempts to stop him; when he gets within arm's length, F8 breaks the man's neck without hesitating. What appears to be the planetary defense grid is activated and turns towards the planet. One of the station's crew calls for security, explaining that F8 has been compromised. As she is doing this, F8 walks to the side of the room and picks up a welder, using it to murder the entire staff and the security officers who arrive to respond. His job done, as the planetary defenses fire, F8 raises the welder to his head, terminating himself.
Act One
Back at Château Picard in 2399, Jean-Luc Picard and his housekeepers Laris and Zhaban review the security footage at Starfleet Headquarters showing the blast that injured Picard and killed Dahj Asha. The computer tells them that there was no trace of Dahj at the scene. To have erased Dahj's presence, Zhaban states that it matches the Tal Shiar's methods except for the fact that this happened out of their reach on Earth, but Laris believes the Zhat Vash, a secretive facade for the Tal Shiar, is more likely to have done so. Zhaban is largely skeptical, however. The housekeepers, themselves former Tal Shiar operatives, explain to Picard that the Zhat Vash is known as a myth for scaremongering, mostly for new recruits and children, but is actually an organization established thousands of years ago to keep secrets. Laris reveals that as a recruit, one of her first handlers had told her the Zhat Vash holds a deep loathing and fear of artificial lifeforms. (Zhaban interjects that his father had gotten the handler, his mother, drunk on Romulan ale at the time.) Laris justifies the existence of the Zhat Vash, pointing to the absence of androids, artificial intelligence, and studies on cybernetics in Romulan culture. Romulan computers are limited purely to numerical functions. Picard and Laris beam into Dahj's apartment in Greater Boston where her boyfriend Caler was murdered and find the place lived in but otherwise undisturbed. Laris takes out a device used to conduct molecular reconstruction, a Romulan forensics technique. Picard reminds her that the technique is illegal in the Federation and its results are dubious at best. Grinning, Laris explains that is exactly what the Romulans wish the Federation to believe. She holds the device in her hand and sweeps it across the room, emitting a thin blue ray. When the ray reaches the couch, a reconstruction shows Dahj and Caler conversing moments before Caler's death: even the music that was playing can be heard. But the reconstruction terminates moments later, immediately prior to the three Romulans beaming in; Laris finds the termination extraordinary and suspects that the Zhat Vash has wiped the particle residuals and saturated the room with antileptons, even though this would have been at no small risk to themselves. Seeing the Zhat Vash's ability to remove forensic traces, Picard begins to believe the Zhat Vash exists. To find the whereabouts of Soji Asha, Dahj's identical twin sister, Picard suggests they scour Dahj's digital assistant for records indicating that Dahj had contacted Soji. They find that even though the data still exists, the index sorting the data has been deleted. Laris then taps into the heuristics that the computer has built to quickly identify its owner, which may contain tags created when the digital assistant corrected itself after misidentifying Soji for Dahj. Incoming records cannot show where Soji is located, but it indicates that she is not on Earth. Narek and Soji talk about living in the wreckage of the Borg cube that she calls the Artifact. The Artifact is severed from the Borg Collective and thus is vulnerable. Narek complains that the ship itself is not very Romulan, with the exceptions of the owners and the extraction of Borg technology, which creates a sizable profit. They both joke that Soji was sent by their enemies and since she slept with Narek, he became an accessory to the fact; now she has to be silenced. They both share an intimate moment before the alarm goes off and it's time for both to get going to work. Soji asks if it's allowed for the two of them to be sleeping together, and Narek says definitely not and asks in Romulan if she can keep a secret, which she can. Kissing her on the forehead, he replies that so can he, at which she scoffs while smiling. Back on Earth, Picard is visited by Dr. Moritz Benayoun, an old friend from his time on the USS Stargazer; Picard says it's been a very long time. Picard offers some tea and mentions that his office will be forwarding the medical information to Starfleet once he's seen the results. Mortiz stays silent and suggests to the retired admiral that he should get something stronger for what he is about to tell him.
Act Two
Moritz says that his medical scan results were at or above Starfleet minimums in every category and he was amazed that even at his age Picard is in excellent health, with one exception: an abnormality in the parietal lobe in his brain, which Picard was made aware decades ago could eventually become a problem. (TNG: "All Good Things...") When asked what it could be, Mortiz says bluntly that while there are a number of prognoses and treatment options, they all end the same way. Picard asks Mortiz to certify him for interstellar travel with Starfleet. Mortiz questions why he wants to go back out in space knowing his condition but, says if Picard's lucky, the trouble he's going to get into will kill him first. Arriving at Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco, Picard enters the building and views a hologram of the USS Enterprise before it changes to a familiar ship: the USS Enterprise-D. He is greeted by a young ensign at the desk and mentions he has a meeting with the CNC (commander in chief). The ensign gives him a visitor badge and mentions to the admiral that it's nice to see him up and around again. Picard goes upstairs to an office where he meets Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy. Clancy questions why he's at Starfleet Headquarters, and Picard says he is looking for Bruce Maddox and mentions that Maddox is using neurons from the late Lieutenant Commander Data to create a new organic synthetic. Clancy confirms that is exactly what he's doing, and says it gets better when Picard mentions Romulan involvement. Picard says that if there's a chance that whatever is left of Data is somewhere out there, the Federation owes it to him to investigate. While Picard concedes that they have frequently not seen eye-to-eye, he requests that she temporarily reinstate him to Starfleet and be given command of a small reconnaissance vessel with a minimal crew for one mission only. He also suggests that if his rank of admiral is too conspicuous, then he will accept a demotion to captain. Right away, Clancy blasts Picard's suggestion, calling it "sheer fucking hubris", and mentions Picard's infamous FNN interview, which Picard concedes that was a mistake, noting that he should not have spoken in public. The admiral reminds Picard that the Romulans were their enemies and even before the Attack on Mars, there were fourteen species within the Federation that were threatening to cut ties with them, so they were faced with either saving the Romulans and allowing the Federation to implode or leaving the Romulans to their fate. Picard says that it's not up to the Federation to decide which species lives or dies, but Clancy says they do, as thousands of species within the Federation rely on one another for unity and cohesion. She also adds that they didn't have enough ships so they had to make hard choices, but she mentions that Picard didn't like his orders. Immediately Picard gets up from his chair and states he was standing up for what the Federation represents, what it should still represent. Clancy immediately takes offense at his lecturing and Picard warns that she can ignore him at her cost and that she's in peril, but all she sees are pitiable delusions from a once-great man desperate to matter, and she tells him in no uncertain terms to go home, and officially denies his request to be reinstated.
"Yo, F8. You get into any trouble last night?"
"Hell yeah."
"Hell yeah? Doing what?"
"... Nothing."
"Hell yeah."
"Hell yeah."
Story and script
•This episode features two prominent examples of real-world profanity. Admiral Clancy reacts to Picard's plea to reinstate him with "The sheer fucking hubris," while Laris refers to the Zhat Vash with the more mild Irish insult "cheeky feckers". This is only the second time "fuck" or a variation thereof is heard on an episode of Star Trek, following "Choose Your Pain". •"Sneaky feckers" was originally written as "sneaky bastards" but changed by Irish actress Orla Brady with the approval of writer Michael Chabon.
Cast and characters
•Michelle Hurd makes her first appearance as Raffi Musiker and is first featured in the opening credits. •Despite being credited in the episode, Douglas Tait doesn't appear in the episode itself, but appears in previous footage from "Remembrance". •Evan Evagora and Santiago Cabrera are not credited as main cast members and do not appear in this episode. •The credit "Burley Fuelie" misspells the word "burly", meaning large, stout or sturdy; "burley" means either a type of tobacco or a burlesque show, neither of which would seem to apply to this character.
Production
•30 January 2020: Premiere airdate on CBS All Access. •The scenes introducing Raffi Musiker were filmed at Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, a prominent filming location which was often used in various Star Trek productions to depict alien landscapes. As is revealed in the next episode, "The End is the Beginning", this episode marks the first depiction of the actual location on Star Trek. •The replicator used in the work room at Utopia Planitia is a modified and de-branded FlashForge Dreamer 3D printer. The nozzle and heater block are visible; with the bed replaced, this would be a fully functional "replicator".
Starring
•Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard •Alison Pill as Agnes Jurati •Isa Briones as Soji Asha / Dahj Asha •Michelle Hurd as Raffaela Musiker And •Harry Treadaway as Narek
Guest starring
•David Paymer as Moritz Benayoun •Jamie McShane as Zhaban •Tamlyn Tomita as Oh •Orla Brady as Laris •David Carzell as Caler •Wendy Davis as Kabath •Chelsea Harris as Naáshala Kunamadéstifee •Peyton List as Rizzo •Ann Magnuson as Kirsten Clancy •Marti Matulis as Romulan Checkpoint Supervisor
Co-starring
•Chaka Desilva as Burley Fuelie •Alex Diehl as F8 •Kate Fuglei as Kvetchy Fuelie •Harrison Grant as Ensign •Anthony R. Jones as Pincus •Paul Keeley as Philosophical Fuelie •Meghan Lewis as Picard Computer / Planitia Computer •Jason Liles as Noiro •Brit Manor as Tough Fuelie •Zachary James Rukavina as xB/Nameless •Douglas Tait as Tellarite (archive footage)
Recap: Star Trek: Picard — Maps and Legends. The plot thickens as Picard's adventure moves forward and new, mysterious characters are introduced. After a pretty incredible premiere episode with “Remembrance,” Star Trek: Picard is back with the sophomore episode of its first season, “Maps and Legends.”. The cast, writers, and those ...
Jan 31, 2020 · “Maps and Legends” opens with a flashback to 14 years before Picard ’s main action. It’s First Contact Day on Mars circa 2385, and at the Utopia Planitia Shipyards, a group of human workers...
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Jan 30, 2020 · A recap of “Maps and Legends,” episode two of season one of “Star Trek: Picard” on CBS All Access.
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Jan 30, 2020 · The second episode of Star Trek: Picard is “Maps and Legends,” an appropriate moniker as it serves mostly as a guide and bridge to connect the first and third episodes of the new series, thus helping to form a dynamic three-part introduction to this new era of Trek.
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