Watcher

Seeking better shelter than the power-drained La Sirena can offer, Picard and Jurati set up camp in the currently abandoned Picard family chateau. They also use the time to compare notes about the information Jurati took from the Borg Queen’s mind, and realize that they have only three days to set the future right. Other information gleaned by Jurati leads Picard to Los Angeles as well – specifically, #10 Forward Avenue, where he finds a young Guinan getting ready to retire from the business of tending bar and listening. She’s not just going out of business, but preparing to leave Earth rather than watching the human race tragically squandering its potential, but she’s also not the watcher that Picard is looking for – nor does she want to tangle with that watcher. Rios is fast-tracked for deportation, and Raffi and Seven stop worrying about how much attention they’re drawing in their quest to save him. Jurati finds herself having to continue upping the stakes in her deal with the devil (or at least the Borg Queen) to help the others. And when Picard finally does meet the watcher, he is surprised to find she has a familiar face.

teleplay by Juliana James & Jane Maggs and Christopher Monfette
story by Travis Fickett and Juliana James
directed by Lea Thompson
music by Jeff Russo
additional music by Sam Lucas

Cast: Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard), Alison Pill (Dr. Agnes Jurati), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Michelle Hurd (Commander Raffi Musiker), Orla Brady (Tailinn), Santiago Cabrera (Captain Cristobal Rios), John de Lancie (Q), Annie Wersching (Borg Queen), Madeline Wise (Yvette Picard), Ito Aghayere (Guinan), Leif Gantvoort (ICE Officer #1), Penelope Mitchell (Renee Picard), Sol Rodriguez (Dr. Teresa Ramirez), Chloe Wepper (Gabi), Karl T. Wright (Francis Puga), Oscar Camacho (Pedro), Sean Freeland (Tall Man), Kelli Dawn Hancock (Officer Stauss), Isabella Meneses (Small Girl), Brian Quinn (Dale), Kirk Randolph Thatcher (Mohawk Punk), Danielle Thorpe (LAPD Officer #1), Dylan Von Halle (Young Picard) and Luna

Notes: The boom-box-toting punk on Raffi and Seven’s bus ride is, indeed, the same character who ran afoul of Kirk and Spock in 1986 (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home), hence his more cooperative attitude on lowering his volume, and he’s played by the same actor. When we first meet Renee Picard (and see Q again), they are both at Jackson Roykirk Plaza, named after the scientist responsible for the Nomad robotic probe launched in 2000 and lost shortly afterward (The Changeling, 1967).