- Picard and Soji, who's struggling to make sense of her recently unlocked memories, travel to a planet that happens to be the home of Picard's old friends Will Riker and Deanna Troi; Elnor and Hugh are left on the Borg cube to face Narissa.
- Picard and Soji transport to the planet Nepenthe, home to some old and trusted friends. As the rest of the La Sirena crew attempt to join them, Picard helps Soji make sense of her recently unlocked memories. Meanwhile, Hugh and Elnor are left on the Borg cube and must face an angered Narissa.
- When Jurati was approached by Oh, the latter used a Vulcan mind meld to reveal the horrifying potential consequences of allowing synthetic life like Soji to exist. Oh shows Jurati that Synthetics will eventually lead to a total destruction of the planet Earth, along with many other planets and extinction of several life forms. Jurati agrees to help destroy Soji and ingested a tracking device.
The La Sirena is locked in a Borg tractor beam from the Artifact and is unable to warp out. Jurati says that the Romulans don't want them, they are after Soji and Picard. Jurati tells Raffi to just ask the Romulans to let them go and tell them that they want to return to their home world.
Narek now uses Jurati's injected tracking device to track La Sirena. Narissa releases Rios's ship when Narek is ready to track them in his own. Rios knows that a ship is tracking them, but no matter what he does, he cannot shake the pursuing ship. Rios believes that Raffi is being tracked and shares his concerns with Jurati. A guilt-ridden Jurati takes an injection that places her in a coma and stops the tracking.
Narrisa wanted to know where Hugh had beamed Picard and Soji, but Hugh won't betray them. Narissa kills all of Hugh's reclaimed XBs. Elnor finds Hugh and together they go back to the Queencell on the Artifact. Hugh wants to take the Artifact back from the Romulans and use it to protect the XBs. Elnor's attempts to protect Hugh on the Artifact are unsuccessful when Narissa fatally wounds Hugh. Hugh tells Elnor that to activate the Queencell, he will need an XB. Before dying, Hugh gives Elnor a device to signal Seven of Nine's vigilante group, the Fenris Rangers.
On Nepenthe, Picard reunites with his old friends and colleagues William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), whose son Thad died after the medical procedure he required was banned as part of the synthetic ban. Thad had a silicon-based virus, and it was completely curable. The active cells had to be cultured in a Positronic matrix to develop an anti-virus. But by the time Thad was infected, there were no Positronic matrices left. No one was allowed to develop new ones.
Riker, Troi, and their daughter Kestra give shelter to Picard and Soji until La Sirena arrives. Picard tells Kestra that Soji is Data's daughter and Kestra casually remarks that then Soji is an android, which comes as a complete shock to Soji. Picard tells Soji that Dahj is dead and was murdered. Soji doubts how Data could be her father if she was created only 3 years ago.
Troi and Riker can see Soji's pain following Narek's betrayal, and help Picard begin to earn her trust. Riker tells Picard that he is dealing with a teenager, and he will have to work very differently to get her to trust him. Soji tells Troi that they way Troi is being all sensitive and caring towards her, makes her trust Troi even less. Soji definitely does not trust Picard. Picard tells Soji that she was created from a remnant of Data, who was a dear friend to them all. Plus, having Soji in his life means that his life again has a mission and a purpose. Soji can monitor all of Picard's vital life signs and believes that he is telling the truth.
The family also try to help Soji come to terms with being an android and are able to help identify the location from her dream. Soji tells the group about her vision of the 2 blood red moons and the lightening. Riker speculates that Maddox found this planet and resumed his work to create synthetic life forms. There might be many more there. The Romulans already have a head start. Kestra says that the planet is in the Gulion system in the Vayt sector. The planet doesn't have a name, only a number.
Rios reaches Nepenthe and picks up Picard and Soji.
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