History Recap / StarTrekPicardS1E09EtInArcadiaEgoPart1

* VillainHasAPoint: The Zhat Vash aren't entirely illogical in their crusade to prevent the development of synths. Even if they had correctly understood the message centuries before, it would have still have given them justification to stop the development of synthetic life in order to prevent such a situation from arising in the first place.

* PatrickStewartSpeech: While Picard's gift with oratory is acknowledged by Altan Soong and the colony of synths, they consider that Starfleet would just ignore him the same way as they ignored him after the Mars attacks, and that letting him loose with his superb diction in the colony would cause the synths to start wavering - hence they lock him up to stop this.

* EyeScream: Saga is stabbed in the eye with her hummingbird necklace.

** Sutra's outfit reveals part of her midriff, hips, and back.

* DeclarationOfProtection: The Admonition is a message to developing synthetic life from higher synthetic life to protect them from the organics that might do them harm.

* EldritchStarship: The synths fly giant flowers called Orchids which attach to enemy vessels and drain them of power, then let them fall into orbit.

* {{Fanservice}}: A mild case, as Elnor goes sleeveless by the time Picard arrives on the cube.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The Admonition warns synthetic life that organic life will seek to wipe them out if the latter feels threatened by the former, and that whoever created the message will come to provide aid if summoned. The Zhat Vash hijacking this warning and misinterpreting it -- thinking synthetic life will ''automatically'' cause utter destruction -- led them to persecute all synthetic beings, meaning Sutra is far ''more'' inclined to summon the higher synthetic beings and destroy organic life in turn.

* SummonBiggerFish: Sutra plans to call the higher synthetic beings to stop the Zhat Vash fleet and protect synthetic life by exterminating organic beings.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The Romulans have assembled 218 warbirds for their assault on the synth homeworld.
** The Admonition's message to Synths is that if they call for help, the creators will come save them... by wiping out the Organics who threaten them.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Romulan mythology speaks of two sisters, one who dies and one who becomes "The Destroyer" who summons an army of demons to end all life. Ramdha and the Zhat Vash become convinced that these sisters are Dahj and Soji, but the events of this episode show that they were almost certainly Jana, who was killed aboard the U.S.S. ''ibn Majid'' (by Rios' former commanding officer under orders from Starfleet Security) and Sutra, who advocates the idea of using the Admonition's information to summon higher synthetic life-forms to exterminate all organic life from the galaxy.

* TheReveal: Sutra extracts the message of the Adminition from Jurati's mind.

* SummonBiggerFish: Sutra plans to do this to stop the Zhat Vash fleet and protect synthetic life by exterminating organic beings.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The android homeworld has a relatively modern aestheic, but everyone dresses in togas.

* GunshipRescue: Seven shows up in the now-functional Borg Cube to provide backup against Narek, though the Orchids catch and disable all of them.
* InternalReveal: Picard reveals his condition to the crew, though he warns them not to treat him any differently for it.

* NonSequiturThud: PlayedForDrama: As Picard doing this for no apparent reason ends up being how the crew finds out about his condition.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The Admonition warns synthetic life that organic life will seek to wipe them out if the latter feels threatened by the former, and that whoever created the message will come to provide aid if summoned. The Zhat Vaash hijacking this warning and misinterpreting it -- thinking synthetic life will ''automatically'' cause utter destruction -- led them to persecute all synthetic beings, meaning Sutra is far ''more'' inclined to summon the higher synthetic beings and destroy organic life in turn.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Romulan mythology speaks of two sisters, one who dies and one who becomes "The Destroyer" who summons an army of demons to end all life. Ramdha and the Zhat Vash become convinced that these sisters are Asha and Soji, but the events of this episode show that they were almost certainly Jana, who was killed aboard the U.S.S. ''ibn Majid'' (by Rios' former commanding officer under orders from Starfleet Security) and Sutra, who advocates the idea of using the Admonition's information to summon higher synthetic life-forms to exterminate all organic life from the galaxy.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The Admonition warns artificial life that organic life will seek to wipe them out, and that whoever created the message will come to provide aid if summoned. The Zhat Vaash hijacking this warning and misinterpreting it -- thinking artificial life will ''inevitably'' cause utter destruction -- led them to persecute all beings of artificial intelligence, meaning Sutra is far ''more'' inclined to summon the higher synthetic beings and destroy organic life in turn.

* BrainUploading: Alton Soong is working on a way to upload minds into android bodies.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Romulan mythology speaks of two sisters, one who dies and one who becomes "The Destroyer" who summons an army of demons to end all life. Ramdha and the Zhat Wash become convinced that these sisters are Asha and Soji, but the events of this episode show that they were almost certainly Jana (who was killed in the ''ibn Majid'' and Sutra (who advocates the idea of using the Admonition's information to summon higher synthetic life-forms to exterminate all organic life from the galaxy).

* NonSequitorThud: PlayedForDrama: As Picard doing this for no apparent reason ends up being how the crew finds out about his condition.

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Sutra speculates that the Admonition was meant for android minds, and the Romulans are simply being driven insane by a message that was never meant for them.

* DeclarationOfProtection: The Admonition is a message to developing synthetic life from other synthetic life to protect them from the organics that might do them harm.

-->Life begins. The dance of division and replication. Imperfect. Finite. Organic life evolves. Yearns for perfection. That yearning leads to synthetic life. But organics percieve this perfection as a threat. When they realize their creations do not age, or become sick, or die, they will seek to destroy them. And in so doing, destroy themselves. Beyond the boundaries of time and space, we stand. An alliance of synthetic life. Watching you. Waiting for your signal. Summon us and we will come. You will have our protection. Your evolution will be their extinction.

* {{Fanservice}}: A mild case, as Elnor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBfPauFUPCQ goes very sleeveless]] by the time Picard arrives on the cube.

* ManHug: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBfPauFUPCQ Elnor runs to Picard and hugs him,]] happy and relieved that his father figure is still alive.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Invoked by Picard when he discovers that Hugh, a NiceGuy who [[NonActionGuy isn't aggressive]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBfPauFUPCQ was willing to kill Romulans]] in order to prevent more of his fellow xBs on the Artifact from being exterminated.

* {{Fanservice}}: Elnor's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBfPauFUPCQ shoulders and arms are bare.]]