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Star Trek Picard Episode 5 review Stardust City Rag

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Star Trek Picard Episode 5 review   Stardust City Rag Star Trek Picard Episode 5 review Stardust City Rag Spoilers ahead, so beware.   In now true Star Trek Picard tradition, we open up with a flashback to the past, which in this shows case, is the past, but is still the future. And we catch up with Icheb. Now a Starfleet officer and in a lot of trouble as he is brutally experimented upon to steal his Borg implants, with his left eye being the first thing we see taken out, but presumably not the first thing removed.   He’s also fully awake and clearly not a willing participant. Seven thankfully shows up, killing all his torturers and tries to get him upright, but Icheb begs her to end his life. Regrettably, tearfully, she euthanizes him and holds him in her arms.  “I’m so sorry, my child.”   We return to the present and Maddox is indeed alive and in trouble on Freecloud. Turns out he had borrowed money for a new lab from a legitimate business woman, Bjayzl, only for it to be des