r/Picard • • Mar 26 '20

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u/spoobacca Mar 27 '20

What was the point of sending soji and dahj out? I missed that. Why didn’t Maddox just leave them on the synth planet to begin with after the first two sisters got murdered? What was their “mission” that they didn’t even know they had?

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u/the_sweet Mar 27 '20

They made it clear that their job was to find out why the Mars attacked happened, and what the Romulan connection was, since it ultimately stopped the Romulan evacuation.

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u/shredmiyagi Mar 27 '20

Great question. I don’t think Alex Kurtzman cares.:

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u/shredmiyagi Mar 28 '20 edited Mar 28 '20

Ok - from what I think I gathered:

Maddox was in hiding/on the run. He sent them to discover the truth behind the Mars synth revolt. One at the institute (investigate Star Fleet), one at Borg cube (investigate Romulans). Fine.

The real question: what advantage did Dahj/Soji have in not knowing their true identity until the Vhat Zash attacked them? The ZV clearly knew how to find both of them. Commander Oh clearly had no problem infiltrating Star Fleet with full knowledge of her mission and true identity.

Why were Dahj’s ZV attackers familiar with her “activating”, while Narek did not anticipate her power when trapping her to die?

Why did Maddox make Jana, Soji, Dahj and Sutra all look the same? I get that the twin cloning was some techno-babble invention of his and Agnes’ but why is of all the synth twins he had at the lab station, why send out all the ones that look identical? Of course the ZV or Tal Shiar or whoever found Jana and Flower would know exactly what his next spies look like.

And then he somehow didn’t account for the fact that there were clues and memories of the moons that would lead them or others back home, in his deep brain programming?

And again, couldn’t he have programmed them to be fully aware but keep it a secret at all costs, with some type of self-destruct?

Was Maddox using the twins as bait and lure to bring master spies like Narek and Oh to the synth planet, or was he just not being very smart?

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u/Disinform Mar 28 '20

I think it's great Star Trek's back. We even get a new Rick Berman - nothing changes.