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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Krenim: [QB] Okay, show, that was pretty awesome. But we both know the pattern by now: Strong opening, but falls apart after a few episodes. I'm not letting my guard down. Beverly's ship gets attacked by... [i]somebody[/i] (the attacking ships are recolored Elachi ships from STO, but reusing ships is hardly new for Trek). She manages to fight off the attackers, but is badly wounded. She sends out a coded distress call to Picard himself. Laris has got a new job on some planet, and she and Picard are both in the process of moving. It's really great to see Orla Brady again: She is one of the few things from [i]Picard[/i] that was awesome right out of the gate. Picard receives Beverly's distress call, which warns him not to involve Starfleet. After talking with Laris, he goes to meet Riker at Guinan's Ten Forward bar, where the poor [i]Enterprise[/i]-D gets described as "the fat one". Riker and Picard figure out where Beverly is, but have to find a way to get out there as its outside Federation space. Meanwhile, Raffi FINALLY has something to do as she's hunting down stolen weapons. While it's very clear she's undercover and working for Starfleet Intelligence, I'm left wondering how much of her cover story is actually true. Did she and Seven break up? Is Raffi still actually in Starfleet (officially)? Riker comes up with a plan to do a "surprise inspection" on the [i]Titan[/i]-A (Neo-Constitution class IS spoken in dialogue), where Seven is first officer. Right off the bat, something is amiss, as the captain makes Seven go by Annika Hansen, which is clearly NOT what she prefers. After Riker completely embarrasses Geordi's daughter, the three have dinner with Captain Shaw, who is a complete jackass. Shaw refuses to alter course to get Picard and Riker close to Beverly (which by itself is reasonable), but insults everybody left and right and even ends the conversation by showing he is very prejudiced against ex-Borg. Raffi finds out the stolen weapons have something to do with a "Red Lady". After a lot of dead ends, she finally determines that the Red Lady is a new statue of Rachel Garrett (nice reference!). Also, Raffi's mysterious contact only communicates by computer voice, so that's a dead giveaway it's somebody we know. Raffi tries to warn the targets, but is too late. A weaponized Portal gun causes a Starfleet recruitment center to fall down through a portal only to reappear high in the sky and fall crashing to the ground. Seven, clearly fed up with Shaw, orders the course change while Shaw is asleep. Shaw wakes up too late to stop Picard and Riker from taking a shuttlecraft out to Beverly's ship. The two are able to determine what happened and find Beverly in a cryopod... defended by someone identifying himself as Beverly's son. They're interrupted by the bad guy ship showing up, which clearly dwarfs Beverly's little cruiser. So yeah, great episode. Lots of obvious nostalgia bait, both visual and audio. We'll see how it goes from here. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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