Star Trek: Picard Episode 3 "The End Is the Beginning" Breakdown & Easter Eggs

In the third episode of Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc Picard assembles a team for his mission to find Bruce Maddox. Join Chastity and Greg for a breakdown of the plot, Star Trek references, and The Next Generation Easter eggs from Episode 3 "The End Is the Beginning."

In Episode 3 of Picard, we learn about why Jean-Luc (Patrick Stewart) and Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd), his former first officer, had a falling out. We also learn more about the details surrounding Picard's resignation from Starfleet. On the Borg ship called The Artifact, Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco) is back! He was the injured Borg drone being nursed back to health by Geordi La Forge and the rest of the Enterprise in The Next Generation episode "I, Borg". Meanwhile, Raffi connects Picard with a ship pilot, Cris Rios (Santiago Cabrera), and Soji interviews a Romulan former Borg drone.

For more on Star Trek: Picard, read about why Picard quit Starfleet, and who is Hugh, the former Borg drone?

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