Why Star Trek Picard Season 2 Finale Didn't Suck (Or Did It?)
2. Borgatti
A point that was consistently made in each week's ups and downs reviews was that Alison Pill, and of course Annie Wersching, were the true MVPs of Picard's second season. This is as true of the finale as it is of the rest of the season, though in this case it refers to Pill alone.
Audiences began guessing around the second and third episodes that it would indeed be Juratti under the mask of that Queen on the bridge of the Stargazer. While the reveal created a couple of timeline headaches - for example, has there always been another sub-collective out there, for the last four hundred years of trek history? The payoff - and THAT shot of the Borg ship surrounded by Starfleet as they faced an anomaly together - was worth it, in short.
While it seems that this will be the end of Juratti in Star Trek Picard for the moment at least, the second season offered so many excellent examples of her character that she will be missed. Her kinder version of the Borg was certainly new but, with so many differing storylines already out there for the Collective, it really was both clever and necessary to do something new. The verdict?
Perfection.