History Recap / StarTrekPicardS2E05FlyMeToTheMoon

* GrandTheftMe: The Borg Queen threatening to do this to the French police officer unless Jurati is willing to offer herself in exchange; the Queen would prefer to join with Jurati, but the officer would do as a healthy and mobile host in a pinch. Jurati shoot the Queen to free him, but the Queen talks Jurati into getting close enough for the Queen to transfer herself into Jurati's head, albeit with Jurati still in control.

** Even short-staffed as they are, apparently no one thought it would be a bad idea to leave the active Borg Queen unattended on their starship.
** The security guards are shown to be highly competent and quickly detect Jurati as an impostor. Then take her into a security monitoring room which also happens to have the air-gapped identity servers in it. Instead of kicking her out, handing her to the police or locking her in an empty room.

* ShoutOut: Jurati's fake id states her name as "Holly Eva Visser". There are several things this might be referencing including the "Section 47" play by email RPG Star Trek site that began in early 2000 which was operated by Ruud Visser, "Marian Visser" in the Theurgy collaborative fanfiction series, "Yolandi Visser" in the post-''Nemesis''-set "Road Not Taken" fanwork, and outside ''Trek'', Eva and Visser One: a pair of characters with a host/parasite relationship that form an antagonist character in the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' books. This is probably the most direct example, since Jurati has at that point got the Borg Queen living inside her head as a host body, in much the

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Par for the course with the Soong family, another Dr Soong appears who also happens to look identical to Noonien Soong and Data. This Dr Soong has a daughter, played by Isa Briones, who also played Data's daughters Dahj, Sutra and Soji in Season 1.

** A famous ancestor of a Starfleet captain is once again instrumental to Earth's history. Previously, it was [[StarTrekVoyagerS5E22ElevenFiftyNine Janeway's ancestor]], now it is Picard's.

** A famous ancestor of a Starfleet captain is once again instrumental to Earth's history. Previously, it was Janeway's ancestor, now it is Picard's.

Picard speaks with the Supervisor -- who is not Laris but rather a separate individual named Tallinn (though she's still played by Orla Brady). She reveals that she's been sent here to supervise an astronaut who will crew the ''Shango'' through the Europa Mission: one Renée Picard (Penelope Mitchell), the young woman Q was observing at the end of the previous episode. Using purloined footage, they learn that the Europa Mission psychiatrist, with whom the brilliant but clinically depressed Renée takes regular sessions, is none other than Q (with a bad German accent), and is encouraging her to recuse herself from the mission... which, so far as Picard can tell, is the PointOfDivergence between the Confederation timeline and the Prime timeline: her name is in the history banks because the ''Shango'' found microorganisms on the Jovian moon Io which she brought back to Earth for investigation, proving the existence of extra-terrestrial life and setting humanity on the path to TheFederation and its {{Utopia}}.

* ShoutOut: Jurati's fake id states her name as "Holly Eva Visser". There are several things this might be referencing including the "Section 47" play by email RPG Star Trek site that began in early 2000 which was operated by Ruud Visser, "Marian Visser" in the Theurgy collaborative fanfiction series, "Yolandi Visser" in the post-''Nemesis''-set "Road Not Taken" fanwork, and outside ''Trek'', Eva and Visser One: a pair of characters with a host/parasite relationship that form an antagonist character in the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' books. This is probably the most direct example, since Jurati has at that point got the Borg Queen living inside her head as a host body, in much the same way that Visser One has Eva, and because of how overwhelmingly obscure the other potential references are.

Picard speaks with the Supervisor -- who is not Laris but rather a separate individual named Tallinn (though she's still played by Orla Brady). She reveals that she's been sent here to supervise the astronaut who will captain the ''Shango'' through the Europa Mission: one Renée Picard (Penelope Mitchell), the young woman Q was observing at the end of the previous episode. Using purloined footage, they learn that the Europa Mission psychiatrist, with whom the brilliant but clinically depressed Renée takes regular sessions, is none other than Q (with a bad German accent), and is encouraging her to recuse herself from the mission... which, so far as Picard can tell, is the PointOfDivergence between the Confederation timeline and the Prime timeline: her name is in the history banks because the ''Shango'' found microorganisms on the Jovian moon Io which she brought back to Earth for investigation, proving the existence of extra-terrestrial life and setting humanity on the path to TheFederation and its {{Utopia}}.

** Renée Picard being captain of the ''Shango'' appears to be the point of divergence between the Prime Timeline and the Confederation one. Picard himself does not know the details, {{handwaving}} by pointing out the lack of surviving historical documentation of the century before first contact.

Picard speaks with the Supervisor -- who is not Laris but rather a separate individual named Tallinn (though she's still played by Orla Brady). She reveals that she's been sent here to supervise the astronaut who will captain the ''Shango'' through the Europa Mission: one Renee Picard (Penelope Mitchell), the young woman Q was observing at the end of the previous episode. Using purloined footage, they learn that the Europa Mission psychiatrist, with whom the brilliant but clinically depressed Renee takes regular sessions, is none other than Q (with a bad German accent), and is encouraging her to recuse herself from the mission... which, so far as Picard can tell, is the PointOfDivergence between the Confederation MirrorUniverse and the PrimeTimeline: her name is in the history banks because the ''Shango'' found microorganisms on the Jovian moon Io which shebrought back to Earth for investigation, proving the existence of extra-terrestrial life and setting humanity on the path to TheFederation and its {{Utopia}}.

Renee Picard is next to be seen in public at a gala for the ''Shango'' astronauts, and Picard outlines TheHeist: Jurati will have to infiltrate solo and then hack into the gala's database and add everyone else's [=IDs=], thereby allowing the rest of the team to observe Renee and convince her not to back out of the mission. Jurati is almost immediately captured... but it's AllAccordingToPlan, as they stash her in a room with server access. Besides, she's got a friend in there to help her: the Borg Queen, who transferred her consciousness to / partially assimilated Agnes before dying.

* DealWithTheDevil: Dr. Soong is offered a cure for his daughter's illness by Q, but it is quickly shown to be temporary. The full cure is contingent upon Soong helping him with Renee Picard.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Shortly before Renee's identity is revealed, a French flag can be seen on her suit as she exits the simulator.

* ProsceniumReveal: Renee Picard is in space attempting to avoid some debris from a damaged satellite. Things go wrong, the debris makes impact, then the simulation ends. The Europa mission is still a couple days away, after all.

** Renee Picard being captain of the ''Shango'' appears to be the point of divergence between the Prime Timeline and the Confederation one. Picard himself does not know the details, {{handwaving}} by pointing out the lack of surviving historical documentation of the century before first contact.
** Q's interaction with Adam Soong hints that he might be the point of divergence, while Renee is just a RedHerring. In either event, Q is steering the two toward a meeting and manipulating both.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Picard's infiltrate-the-gala plan is only shown to the audience up to the point where Jurati gets into the event to infiltrate security, which is also the point the episode ends. We don't get told what his plan to actually protect or convince Renee is.

* WhamLine: The Europa mission astronaut that Q was following turns out to be Renee ''Picard''.

Picard speaks with the Supervisor -- who is not Laris but rather a separate individual named Tallinn (though she's still played by Orla Brady). She reveals that she's been sent here to supervise the astronaut who will captain the ''Shango'' through the Europa Mission: one Renee Picard (Penelope Mitchell), the young woman Q was observing at the end of the previous episode. Using purloined footage, they learn that the Europa Mission psychiatrist, with whom the brilliant but clinically depressed Renee takes regular sessions, is none other than Q (with a bad German accent), and is encouraging her to recuse herself from the mission... which, so far as Picard can tell, is how the Confederation timeline came to be: her name is in the history... wikis because the ''Shango'' found microorganisms on the Jovian moon Io which she believed sentient and brought back to Earth for investigation, proving the existence of extra-terrestrial life and setting humanity on the path to TheFederation and its {{Utopia}}.

* LampshadeHanging / AuthorsSavingThrow: Picard's comment on records of the century before First Contact being spotty and chaotic is validated in-canon by a lengthy nuclear war, but also serves as a meta-joke on ''Star Trek'''s...[[BroadStrokes casual relationship]] with a consistent history of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Picard speaks with the Supervisor -- who is not Laris but rather a separate individual named Tallinn (though she's still played by Orla Brady). She reveals that she's been sent here to supervise the astronaut who will captain the ''Shango'' through the Europa Mission: one Renee Picard (Penelope Mitchell), the young woman Q was observing at the end of the previous episode. Using purloined footage, they learn that the Europa Mission psychiatrist, with whom the brilliant but clinically depressed Renee takes regular sessions, is none other than Q (with a bad German accent), and is encouraging her to recuse herself from the mission... which, so far as Picard can tell, is how the Confederation timeline came to be: her name is in the history... wikis because the ''Shango'' found microorganisms on the Jovian moon Io which she believed sentient and brought back to Earth for investigation, proving the existence of extra-terrestrial intelligence and setting humanity on the path to TheFederation and its {{Utopia}}.