Star Trek Picard: Every Easter Egg & Hidden Reference From 'Broken Pieces'

20. Good Grief

"Broken Pieces" begins (surprise, surprise) 14 years ago on the planet we saw in last week's flashback/Vulcan mind meld/prophecy. This planet is Aia, or "Grief Planet", and it doesn't look at all like the hills of Southern California.

The Zhat Vash are conducting a ritual known as the "Admonition" where they view the secret message left thousands of years ago by the creators of this world. Commodore Oh, Narissa, and Ramdha are here and they witness a fuller version of the vision Oh transmitted directly into Agnes Jurati's mind last week. Among the images of mass destruction is the specter of a synthetic lifeform that briefly morphs into the familiar face of Commander Data as he appeared in "Remembrance".

Most of the Zhat Vash (apparently all women) are so traumatized by what they see, they kill themselves, recalling what Laris said about the Zhat Vash secret in "Maps and Legends": It's a secret "so profound and terrible, just learning it can break a person’s mind".

Only Oh, Narissa, and a deeply troubled Ramdha are left standing. Oh tells Narissa, their mission begins on Mars...