Star Trek: Picard - S3 E2 - "Disengage"
February 23, 2023
‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: Who’s Your Daddy?
Jean-Luc Picard makes a shocking discovery.
If the premiere of Star Trek: Picard Season 3 left you with any questions about who Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers) is to Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) you’ll be pleased to know that Episode 2 doesn’t beat around the bush. With the upbeat tune of Baby’s “Starchild” blaring in the background, the episode opens on a flashback to two weeks ago when Jack got into a spot of trouble for violating an airspace quarantine zone. The rock n’ roll of it all very quickly, and brilliantly, showcases the contrast between Jack and Picard, who is very much a character constructed to the tune of classical music.
The flashback also provides a little much-needed exposition and reveals a few key elements about Jack’s personality and what he and his mother (Gates McFadden) have been doing since Beverly’s last appearance in Star Trek: Nemesis. When the Fenris Rangers board their ship, Jack explains that they’re trying to deliver medical supplies to a planet that is suffering from a deadly fever—one that he hints may be part of an engineered pandemic that warlords are using to clear out refugees. The Rangers are skeptical and force him to show them the cargo aboard the vessel, which is largely medical supplies. Even the Romulan ale they have stowed away is used for medicinal purposes. But they also have weapons aboard the ship, which Jack explains they use for bartering, and those weapons also work on bribing the Rangers to let them help the refugees on the surface. Unfortunately, what Jack doesn’t realize is that the Rangers are on a reconnaissance mission of their own, and the flashback ends with them reporting back to a mysterious someone that they have found Jack.
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Yup, it turns out Jack is Picard's son. Riker kept hinting at a strong resemblance, but I don't really see it.
I still haven't figured out how La Sirena can possibly be in this season when Borg Agnes ran off with it last season, but here it is. Raffi is flying it around on her intelligence mission. Lower right, maybe a little hard to make out, but that's it.
I'm not a fan of the new Ferengi lobes. Talk about shrinkage. Maybe Sneed was in the pool?
They just don't look right, do they?
Loved the shot of the Titan barreling in between the Eleos and the Shrike to disrupt the tractor beam.
Starfleet security protocols must have lagged or something? No search before tossing people in the brig? Jack had an anti-forcefield thing up his sleeve. Literally.
And just when Raffi was about to bite the big one, she was saved by her handler. With all the sword action I thought it was Elnor at first, but it turned out to be Worf!
Ha! I was thinking along the same lines. "He doesn't have the lobes..."
I thought the transporters were supposed to disarm any weapons during transport, or am I remembering wrong?
Ok, so not that I ever thought Worf lacked intellectual ability, but Worf in Starfleet Intelligence? Subtlety is not his forte. I can see him cutting Raffi some slack for not following orders, though, in such circumstances. He has a heart, although he tries to hide it most of the time.
For a minute I thought Sneed might have been a female, because they have small lobes, but before long he certainly seemed male to me.
I don't like it when they change things like that. The absolute worst ever had to be the Klingons in Discovery.
I think you're remembering correctly, but I'm not sure if it's a fixed setting that would be active all the time. You'd think they'd have it on in a red alert situation like that, though. I mean, Jack pulled a phaser on the guards when they first materialized. I guess the transporter just didn't recognize it as a weapon.
Haha. And what was that about him being a pacifist in one of the previews? Some pacifist! Chopping heads off with a sword! LOL
I knew he was coming, but I still wasn't ready for how good it was to see him after all this time. That gave me some serious nostalgia.
I hated what they did to the Klingons in Discovery. Another reason to hate that show.
Ok, I'm going to have to watch again. I thought he very subtly and peacefully beheaded Sneed with a bat'leth.
Oh, maybe it was a bat'leth. I'll go check.
They didn't give us a very good look at it, but I think it's a normal kind of sword with the handle on one end, not in the middle like a bat'leth. I took a screenshot and tried to enhance the brightness and contrast to make it stand out. This is the best I could get. The scene was poorly lit to begin with. The new norm, I guess.
It kind of looks like half of a bat'leth. The blade has a stagger like a bat'leth, and the handle has a finger guard like a bat'leth, but there's nothing on the other side of the handle from what I could tell when he was swinging it around.
He had it slung on his back as they walked out at the end of the scene. I couldn't get a decent screenshot with them being in the distance, but it looked like a sword, or one of those Klingon 'long knives' maybe.
Good capture.
Maybe we'll get a better look at it in another episode. Worf's handiness with blade weapons was always one of the cool things about him.
Hey, look what I found – Check Out Worf’s New Look For ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3
So it's a new sword called a Kur-leth, and it's from the same guy who created the Bat'leth. I'm thinking he also created the Mek-leth, but they didn't mention that so maybe not.
And here's something I hadn't realized before now – Amanda Plummer is the daughter of Christopher Plummer, who played Chang in Star Trek VI. That's a pretty cool connection.
Christopher Plummer's daughter? Those are big shoes to fill.
Thanks for digging up the info on the kur'leth.
I meant to respond to this, and forgot. I don't see it much, either.
But then, I didn't see much resemblance between Picard and Shinzon, either, and Shinzon was supposed to have been his clone.
Oh, I know. Bad storyline there. Nemesis probably shouldn't have been made.
I love it. When the Star Trek recruitment building was attacked, I mentioned it looked like someone was playing Portal.
Then here we have Raffi directly calling it a "portal weapon". Gotta love the cross-over.
I'm unfamiliar with the game, but I thought about your comment when she said that, lol.