It's pretty interesting that we're almost halfway through the season and I don't even have a basic idea of the villain's motive so far. I mean, it's clear that Beverly is still withholding significant information about the miraculous conception involved here... but what would changelings want with Picard's son who has never met him and no one knows he's actually Picard's son?
Also, is Vadic not a changeling? She cut off a piece of her clothes to communicate with the changelings (I think, lighting was very poor, and I suppose it's uncertain she was communicating with changelings) so is she just wearing a changeling suit? Is it controlling her like a meat puppet? Why did she seem to have alterior motivations? Is her only purpose to involve plummer's daughter as a brooding captain as another one of these surreal homages they're trying to cram in every nook and cranny of this thing?
I don't understand the reason for this conflict at all, and I can't even work out anything that makes sense.
My current guess is that Lore is pulling the strings, the link-orphan changelings are taking the role that hugh and the orphan borg previously took rather than being self motivated, and that vadic is thus controlled by this changeling suit. Why she's necessary at all is beyond me. Moriarty would then be reactivated to fight lore after lore almost fully defeats the crew- I'm also throwing out a vague guess that if Riker isn't a changeling, then he most certainly is going to die heroically in the initial Lore struggle. Say end of ep 8.
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