Picard manages to talk at last to The Watcher.
She's a dead ringer for his friend Laris from the future but is not Laris. Her job has been to protect a single individual in this time period without ever being seen or detected by her in any way.
Her charge is to protect Renee Picard, an ancestor of Jean Luc's who is preparing for the historic Europa flight.
Picard urges Tallin to help him avert the upcoming time event, and tries to explain Q and his machinations to her. She's willing, but the last opportunity to protect Renee is at a gala with impossible to crack security.
Naturally Jurati, who's thrilled to try out the old code she once studied goes in first. Captured by secuity almost immediately, as planned, she's soon in cuffs in the security center, right where she needs to be.
Unfortunately, she has the Borg queen like a devil on her shoulder tagging along. Agnes was forced to shoot the Borg Queen, but somehow the Queen at the last reached out and infected her somehow, and now the Queen is part of her.
Renee has been stressed and deeply depressed, and as part of her preparations, talks to a therapist who is revealed to be Q, encouraging her to allow her fears to take over and pull out of the mission.
Q has been very busy, as he's also got Adam Soong on a string, promising to help his genetically ailing daughter with a cure, if only Adam will help Q with an obstacle.
Rios is rescued handily by Seven and Rafi, once cool headed Seven takes over.
It's an action packed episode, and yet when it was over I was once again thinking "Wait! You're stopping there?"
The deeper we go, the more complex things get. It's another excellent season of Picard.
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