Star Trek PICARD 2x01: Every Easter Egg and Reference + Breakdown & ENDING EXPLAINED

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Star Trek Picard is back with a new season, returning old and new favorites. We get the return of Seven of Nine, Agnes, Rios, Dajh, and Loris–but also cameos from Guinan and Picard’s number one baddie, Q. So what are Q and the Borg up to? Where are they in the end? We breakdown all of the Easter eggs and references in the latest chapter of the Star Trek Cinematic Universe.

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Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey (http://twitter.com/ryanarey)
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright

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0:00 New Opening Credits Breakdown
3:14 Mirror Verse Explained
3:41 Easter Eggs, Part 1
6:51 Jean Luc’s Mysterious, Haunted Past
9:07 Easter Eggs Part 2
14:20 The Borg’s Real Plan
16:10 Ending Explained

So the episode begins with the ending of the episode. In the trailers we saw that the season is going to play around with time and time travel. So it seems like that the entire season is going to be built as a kind of time loop, where all the events of the season are going to lead back to the bgening, to see if Jean Luc can make events turn out differently.

One of the crew members in the beginning is a Vulcan, and there's a close up of a panel that reads alert condition red. Which seems pretty simple, but starfleet actually had a hard time coming up with the name.

When the lash forward ends, we get our new opening title sequence. Now it's hard to break down the new titles without seeing the whole series, because a lot of what we see is foreshadowing what is going to come. But I have a few observations.

The theme in the first season was a softer melody. It seemed to imply the journey of an older man, making a gentle return to the stars. But this season has added some instrumentation, and picked up the pace, to show that Picard’s story is starting to amp up. Just like last season, the intro begins with glass falling from the sky, to imply that Jean luc has fallen to earth, and because a piece of him was missing, he wasn’t whole.. But now the music is more lifting, to show him ascending to the stars. And now the glass is from the atrium in the picard estate, the rose painted glass, and his mother. Which we’ll talk about in a little but/.

This glass falls through the vineyard, then we drop into space, and the new borg ship. It’s interesting that it looks like a flower blooming, or even like the act of giving birth. Because the season seems to be about borg queens and trauma related to his mother, I don’t think this symbolism is an accident.

Then we see molecules like crystals forming strands that look like DNA, followed by what might be the nano cybernetics of the Borg.

And then this piece of glass, which in some part represents jan luc, flies through a tunnel, glides across this grid, disrupting the surface. Then we see this grid actually forms a wormhole, and it's surrounded by water. Now the water represents a voyage–after all, Starfleet is basically a space navy.

But the wormhole could be referencing the board ship that appears, cutting through space time. Or maybe, the episode ends with Jean luc transported to a different reality. The wormhole transforms into an hourglass, calling back to Jean Luc's commencement speech [the final frontier is time]. And time is probably the theme of the season. Everyone is trying to outrun time, Jean luc’s cybernetic body has a limited amount of time to survive. Then we see the borg queen inside–who, I mean, might be his mom, right? Let’s talk about that later.

The glass shards are then split and perfectly mirrored. So we could also be looking at a season that is about the mirror verse.

The mirror verse first appeared in an episode of the original series [clip]. But since then shows like deep space nine and discovery have really explored its lore and history. Basically, it’s another dimension where humans have formed the terran empire and enslaved other planets. Occasionally people from each universe pop over to the other and cause mischief. There’s more to it than that, but we gotta move on.

The opening song is time is on my side by irma thomas, once agains speaking to the show’s theme of time, and time travel. The song is basically about someone who knows that their lost love will return to them, and all they have to do is wait. And in this episode, we have several essentially immortal characters. Q, Guinan, and Soji. Q and Guinan are very careful to point out that they're only aged because they wanted to.

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