‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 1, Episode 9 Recap: Split Personalities

Star Trek: Picard Much of this series has been set up to end in a battle between the Romulans and Picard. Now, Picard also has to save the Romulans from themselves. In much of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” the character Data is essentially a fish out of water. He is the lone android in a crowd of humanoids in almost all the rooms he is in.

It falls on him to understand everyone else. In this week’s episode of “Star Trek: Picard,” we get a look at a world in which it is the humans who are the outsiders and the androids who are the dominant majority. All it takes is for the La Sirena to travel to the fourth planet of the Ghulion system to find what they’ve long been looking for: Soji’s home planet. Note how much of Picard is about the separate identities of similar-looking people.

Rios has several hologram versions of himself to run his ship. Soji and Dahj are twin androids, which is to say nothing of the similar looking ones on their home planet, like Sutra. In the early episodes of “Picard,” we see Data. In “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1,” we see a Data look-alike, a human named Dr.

Altan Inigo Soong. The crew heads to the Coppelius station, where they meet several androids. Arcana, one of the first androids the team encounters at Coppelius, refers to Picard as captain rather than admiral. That is, until Altan shows up and calls him admiral.

It’s a subtle touch, emphasizing the contrast between the Picard Data knew back then and who Picard is now. It is always a pleasure to see Brent Spiner onscreen in “Trek,” Data or not. Spiner has played several Soongs in the history of “Trek,” including the semi-nefarious Dr. Arik Soong, who had an arc in “Star Trek: Enterprise.

” Data’s father, Noonian Soong, was Data’s designer and, Altan presents himself as Noonian’s human son. Altan and Sutra seem to be in charge on Ghulion IV. Where the Zhat Vash see synthetic life as something to be stopped at all costs, Sutra sees an opportunity. After a mind-meld with Jurati in which she sees the Admonition, Sutra sees a premonition of sorts for android domination, as does Altan.