History Recap / StarTrekPicardS1E08BrokenPieces

'''Picard:''' [[PatrickStewardSpeech They may be right about what happened 200,000 years ago. The past is written, but the future is left for us to write, and we have powerful tools, Rios: openness, optimism, and the spirit of curiosity. All they have is secrecy, and fear, and fear is the great destroyer, Rios.]]

** Enoch mentions that he lost his knowledge of [[Recap/StarTrekTheOriginalSeriesS3E5IsThereInTruthNoBeauty Medusan astronavigation techniques]].

** The hospitality program whispers to Raffi by getting closer and closer to her face until she falls backwards on the bed.

Raffi goes to hunt down Rios and tell him they were right about Jurati killing Maddox, but can't find him: Every time she runs into him, it's actually one of the Emergency Whatever Holograms. We've met the Hospitality one (American accent), the Medical one (British accent) and the Tactical one (Spanish accent). We've also met the Emergency Navigational Hologram (Irish), "Enoch," whom Raffi meets for the first time (to her exasperation), and she later runs into "Ian," the Engineering one ([[MythologyGag Scottish]] accent). They all look like Rios because he selected the self-scan option, so they imprinted on his personality when he bought the ship, and all know some things about his personality and history. They refer to Soji as "Jana" and explain that Rios is perturbed by something that happened aboard the ''ibn Majid'' -- you know, the super-secret cover-up that resulted in him washing out of Starfleet? All of this culminates in Raffi gathering all five members of the Standard Emergency Hologram suite, the five [[TitleDrop broken pieces]] of Rios' BackStory, to try and put them together. The Tactical holo puts forward the final detail: that ''ibn Majid'' Capt. Vandermeer AteHisGun.

* TransitionTrack: We still hear the voice of Narissa's lackey informing her of "the freak's" location when the scene has already cut away from Narissa and has changed to Elnor.

* TransitionTrack: We still hear the voice of Narissa's lackey informing her of "the freak's" location when the scene has already cut away from her and has changed to Elnor.

Picard pages Adm. Clancy to tell her what he has discovered. He's triumphant that his hunches were right and calls on her to send a squadron of starships to rendezvous with him at [=DS12=]. He's so excited, in fact, that he won't let her get a word in edgewise -- including the ones where she ''agrees'' with him, and will send the starships, but can't tell him because he won't stop talking. "Admiral Picard, [[WithDueRespect with all due respect]], and at long last, ''shut the fuck up!''" She orders him to hide out at [=DS12=] until TheCavalry arrives. Picard just pumps his fist in triumph, glad that the galaxy is finally going his way.

** Averted when Raffi decides INeedAFreakingDrink. Turns out she's not only [[NailedToTheWagon cut off her access to the replicator's alcohol menu]], but her ability to override that cut-off.

* GratuitousSpanish: Rios sings the Spanish lullaby "Arroz con leche" to [[OverrideCommand regain control of his ship]] after Soji hacks it. He later makes it clear to her that "''Sirena'''s my goddamn ship, ''hija'' (daughter)."

* ObligatoryEarpieceTouch: Narissa presses a button to activate her earpiece just before she demands an update from her subordinate about the whereabouts of "[[AllOfTheOtherReindeer the freak]]" (i.e. Elnor).

* ObligatoryEarpieceTouch: Narissa presses a button to activate her earpiece when she demands an update from her subordinate about the whereabouts of "[[AllOfTheOtherReindeer the freak]]" (i.e. Elnor).

In the present, Narissa is talking to the comatose Ramdha aboard the Artifact. She reveals that Ramdha -- or rather, her knowledge of the Admonition -- was what caused the Borg to cut this cube off from the Collective in the first place. She then asks one of her {{Mook}}s if they have tracked down "the freak"; the Mook replies that Elnor has been found in Director Hugh's office.

** Rios's former captain, Alonzo Vandermeer, blew his own brains out after carrying out Starfleet's orders to assassinate two people.

* MesACrowd: Raffi's "group therapy session" on the holodeck with the 5 emergency holograms, who are all modelled after Rios.

** Rios and Picard discuss their Starfleet careers, and it turns out they were only two degrees of separation apart: Rios's old captain, Captain Vandermeer, served under Picard's old Academy classmate [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E14Tapestry Marta Batanides]], who introduced them once.

* MythologyGag: Rios's engineering hologram [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries has a Scottish accent]].