Star Trek: Picard: Assimilation (2022)
Season 2, Episode 3
5/10
Assimilation
19 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Star Trek goes Back to the Future in an episode directed by Lea Thompson.

Picard with the help of the Borg Queen arrive in 2024 Los Angeles.

Rios, Raffi and Seven of Nine try to locate the Watcher.

Meanwhile on board, Picard and Jurati need to deal with the Borg Queen who has run out of power.

Unfortunately I found the writing here somewhat clunky. It really was laying bear the mechanics of moving the plot in the most clumsy manner.

The three who land in LA get seperated with Rios getting injured. Then Rios drops his comms badge and no one wants to give it back to him.

You could say Rios trying to get the badge back will mirror Marty McFly trying to retrieve the sports almanack in BTTF II.

Rios also does a Chekov in Star Trek IV, ending up in hospital and being chased by the authorities.

Now if they only had a doctor with a Scottish accent who picked up a voice activated device and said Computer......
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