10 Times Streaming Era Star Trek Went Apocalyptic

2. AI Robots Seek To Wipe Out Organic Life - Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2

Star Trek Picard Et In Arcadia Ego Part 2
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For a franchise that gave us characters like Data and the EMH, Star Trek really does like to frighten people with the threat of evil AI creatures. Perhaps evil is the wrong word for those enormous AI tendrils that threatened to wipe out organic life in Star Trek: Picard, though we suspect that heavily depends on your point of view.

For the synthetic lifeforms on Coppelius, these creatures may have been heroic. Certainly, they had promised to protect synthetic life and help to erase the threat of organics. While it was never fully explained how they would go about this, their monstrous arrival did not suggest a peaceful transition. Far more likely would be the violent destruction of all life that it deemed unnecessary.

Through the combined efforts of Picard, Soong, Raffi, and more, Soji was convinced to break the link with these creatures, thus banishing them back to where they came from. However, considering the relative ease with which Soji opened the doorway to their domain, it seems likely that these creatures could return, ready to make good on the promise of the Admonition. Remember: these creatures successfully wiped out organic life on the planet Aia. 

What if that was merely the warm up act? 

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