Star Trek: Picard - 8 Ups & 2 Downs From The Impossible Box

5. In Orbit, Again

I say this every week, but the supporting cast of new characters has been excellent in this show. Each week they're allotted one or two small scenes in which to gently nudge their own stories forward, never detracting from the main narrative, and every single time they're a low-key highlight of the episode. This week saw Rios lending emotional support to Raffi and Agnes in two very different ways (ey lads?), but the star of the show by a mile was Narek.

He's a spy, and he's been plugging Soji as part of a sinister Tal Shiar plot to uncover her origins - this much we've known since the start - but he's also clearly fallen in love with her. The duality of the performance, in particular the meticulous way he exploits her dreams in the closing stages but is then overwhelmed by the impact it has on him, is stunning.

What looked like being a shallow and predictable double-agent role is emerging as one of the show's most interesting parts.