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Honestly S2 should’ve been a series of separate episodes/events that occurred to Picard over the period of a year or so, leading to the revelation that it’s all been part of Q’s final test.

So Ep 1 is the Stargazer with Rios and Jurati, something happens in space and Picard makes a choice that ends up saving the day but he remarks that it all feels too “artificial” and “like a game”.

Ep 2 we’re at Starfleet Academy where Elnor is being assigned to a new ship after graduating while Seven is present as a Lieutenant-Commander having been given a post based on Picards recommendation at the end of S1. Suddenly everything goes strange and Picard, Seven and Elnor wake up in alternate Timeline….BUT it’s not simply a fascist confederacy timeline, it’s a full Mirror Universe timeline that has some small Easter eggs to the previous Mirror Universe stories. They survive long enough to launch a rebellion, and believe that they may have completed “Intendent” Spocks final mission to make his universe a better place. Then “boom” they’re back in their own reality and we get a brief cameo of young Q in the background.

Ep 3 & 4 I’d set at the Chateaux and involves Picard seeing “ghosts”. Hallucinations of past events in his childhood. We get Laris as his only other contemporary character and support during this. It’s more like a horror movie or 2 part haunting, eventually resulting in Picard and Laris seeing the truth of Picards mother and father, and allowing Picard himself to let go of that pain, as well as the grief of Robert and René that’s lingered as he’s gotten older.

Ep 5 & 6 I’m not sure, but for Ep 7 I’d maybe take it off world and have Picard attend a diplomatic gala at some space station where we get a few cameos of Admiral characters we recognise (Shelby being introduced one episode early, Captain Shon as Captain of the Ent-F would get a name drop and brief appearance before leaving on a mission) as well as Riker there as an active Captain once more (post S1 finale), mentioning that he’s currently captaining various short range missions for ships that need someone. It’s good work but he’s yearning for adventure again. The plot would be a situation where it appears that several of the guests have been murdered and the station locked down. Picard and Co have to work out who’s responsible. At the end Picard and Riker walk back into the main conference room to find everything fine and no one apart from themselves with any memory of what happened. Again we see young TNG era Q passing by dressed as an Admiral.

Ep 8 is pure indulgence on my part but I’d have it be a full on Dixon Hill adventure, with the episode starting in the holodeck. The whole episode is just Picard trying to stay in character and active while tracking down “the package” as his Dixon Hill character. We see him getting a bit tired, a bit melancholy and introspective at a few points, but also having fun. “The package” at the end which he tracks down causes the program to freeze and end as he gets it. It’s a wrapped photo of the TNG crew from Riker & Troi’s wedding. As Picard looks at it the holodeck doors open and Guinan walks in, revealing that the whole adventure has been taking place at her bar on earth. The adventure has been a birthday gift from her.

He and Guinan reminisce as they walk out and sit at a table for drinks and food as cadets and customers chat around them.

Ep 9 & 10 are fully Q-centric with him reappearing and making himself “catch-up” to Picard. Baiting him and revealing that most of the seasons events have been ploys by him to test Picard. This is where Picard realises that Q is dying, he tries to have an honest conversation about it but Q in denial transports them away.

They appear on the Stargazer with Rios and Q has summoned the rest of the non-TNG Picard cast there also. He sets them up a “final mystery” to test Picards moral convictions with the space anomaly and the idea of “new Borg”. Picard loses his composure for most of Ep 9 distrusting the situation and the passive Collective until wising up in Ep 10 and letting the ship be “assimilated” because he knows Q is trying to “teach him”. But that Q is subconsciously projecting his own fear of death onto Picard. Picard accepts the end. Q doesn’t.

Q finally realises what he’s doing and resets everything returning Picard back to the Chateau and Laris where they finally have that guy and an honest conversation about how he’s probably Q’s best friend. Q is about to disappear when Picard offers him a drink “one for the road so to speak”.

And so for the first time Q and Picard actually sit down and talk as friends. A final conversation before the great unknown.

Anyway that’s my thoughts.

I think picard the show could have worked better if it showed Picard in his early starfleet career. What do you think?

I have probably missed the episode where it's explained but whatever happened to the romance between Seven and Chakotay? The main reason Admiral Janeway travels back in time is to save Seven and save Chakotay from dying of a broken heart and of course Tuvok. In Picard Seven never mentions Chakotay?

I just want to watch Picard roam around and make wine