Star Trek: Picard Finale Review - 3 Ups And 5 Downs From Et In Arcadia Ego (Part 2)

3. So All The Bad Guys Were Useless, Then?

In the 9 episodes leading up to this point, the show has created a triangle of evil.

First Commodore Oh, the shadowy Romulan double-agent who is responsible for both the Synth attack on Mars and the subsequent ban on synthetic life that forms the dramatic core of the story. Then Narissa, her deadly right-hand woman who's shadowy, sinister, and lethal in combat. Finally Sutra, an earlier model of Andriod to Soji who, through killing one of her own sisters, has manipulated the entire colony into bringing about a mechanical armageddon that'll wipe out all organic life in the galaxy.

Just to clarify for you all how these three primary antagonists were ultimately defeated. The political mastermind was sent packing by quoting a treaty, the lethal weapon had a short fistfight followed by a long fall, and the Synth harbinger of doom came face to face with the off button on a remote control.

The show did some genuinely stellar work developing and positioning its main threats, and then in a rushed finale threw them all away. Literally in Narissa's case. Oh and as for Narek, who knows? The show neglected to tell us what happened to him.