At least her ship, the Shrike, was aptly named... Vadic is a kind of Shrikish figure. A Shrikish, orange, goo person figure.
And, we still can't figure out who/what Jack Crusher is. Captain Honeybunny seemed to know everything about him/it. Indicating some kind of elongated, mysterious existence that possibly even extends beyond his own birth. And in the previous episode, it was suggested that Jack Crusher never was intended to be "for Picard or Beverly". And then he started doing these freaky red eye things. Where have we seen those red eyes before? Where'd you get those eyes?
I have considered Armus, Nigilum, The Crystal Entity, even Ardra- if she were not a sham. Maybe she was completely faking not really big a god thing and just having a little bit of fun? Can you explain it, Picard?
Or, some other than Q member of the Q continuum? Maybe Suzie Plakson, Q's (and Worf's) ex wife, who wants revenge for season two? Or maybe it is even Q2, but he would not be going after Picard. He would be going after Janeway. Janeway and Icheb, although itchy is no longer with us, unfortunately.
Hm, what could it be? Well, since changelings were introduced in Deep Space Nine, maybe it is something that we saw there? What did we see there?
Well, we saw some unusual things happen in at least three DS9 episodes... The Assignment, The Reckoning, and Tears of the Prophets. There were a couple more in the seventh season, too.
And, I keep on hearing rumors that The Sisko is going to be involved, somehow. So far they are simply rumors, I have seen no story elements that would suggest the Emissary's appearance. Yet.
But whoever this Face is, the changelings are afraid of it. And so should we be as well. Consider: Vadic lops off her hand, which somehow becomes fire-face? What else can the Face do?
So... I just wanted to discuss this appearance of Captain Honey Bunny, Amanda Plumber, the daughter of General Chang, who has been even more sinister than Chang was. But, in an almost likable and humorous way. We know that this gooperson is pure rotten evil, but we just can't hate her, only what she was does, at the behest of some mysterious face surrounded in flames. I have enjoyed every minute of her screen time in this.
And a face surrounded in flames. "A whole Galaxy, surrounded in flame".
I am starting to get a kind of idea of who or what this thing is. But I am not going to say it. I don't even want to think about it.
There is another confrontation in this episode, but it happens inside of the new Data, whatever he is. What is he? An android? A real person? What is Picard? And why is his Irumatic syndrome an issue?
Surrender, but don't give yourself away...
It even has been suggested that Irumatic Syndrome was indeed a misdiagnosis.
After all of the things Picard has gone through... being absorbed by the Borg, being beamed away and duplicated by unnamed aliens that all looked the same but could perfectly duplicate his appearance and even memories? Who did not like to be trapped in a force field... Being whisked away by Q Time and again? Being accosted by Nausicans, accidentally materialized as a teenager, tortured by Gul Madred, connected to Dr. Crusher by the Pritt, worshipped as a god by a pointy eared Ray Wise, combined with a space-cloud entity, having his brain scrambled by DaiMon Bok, having to phaser himself so he would not make the same mistake once, pretending to be a smuggler, and finally having to play Cortano to Data's Masaka. Just to name a few...
Somewhere in that mess, might be the answer to this conundrum. But what is it?
I highly anticipate the next two chapters.
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