The second season finale of Picard was a actually weird hour of tv, stuffed with extremely rushed plot wrap-ups and large new developments that had been additionally wrapped up at high pace. But the episode shone in its quieter moments between Picard’s solid of characters, together with one you didn’t see—till now.

This unique deleted scene options the crew waxing philosophic about their battle to forestall the xenophobic Confederation of Earth from arising by ensuring disgraced scientist Dr. Adam Soong fails to forestall Jean-Luc’s ancestor, Renée Picard, from getting on the Europa mission and discovering the sentient organism that’s essential to fixing Earth’s local weather disaster. The drawback, after all, is having completed so by letting Dr. Jurati be part of up with the Borg queen to make a brand new, kinder collective, is that they’re caught within the twenty first century, with no technique to return to the twenty fourth century—and thus will don’t know whether or not they’ll have succeeded or not. Watch:

It’s a pleasant, quiet second in an episode that was largely fast-paced madness, which you’ll be capable to look ahead to your self exterior of the Paramount+ streaming service tomorrow, October 4, when Picard: Season Two hits Blu-ray.

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