In the third and final season of “Star Trek: Picard,” a vicious Changeling named Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer) is eager to apprehend Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), the son of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).
Vadic is a vicious killer who has no compunction about blowing up ships and murdering thousands.
It seems she and several of her Changeling compatriots were medically tortured during the Dominion War (a conflict dramatized on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine“) and was in no mood to offer forgiveness.
Vadic commanded a starship she called the Shrike, a massive, pointy, claw-like vessel that was armed to the teeth.
Captain Riker (Jonathan Frakes) took one look at the Shrike and declared it to be more guillotine than starship. On the bridge of the Shrike, Vadic sat in an enormous chair, surrounded in the shadows by masked servants who fired weapons and cut down enemy combatants.
The chair, as it so happens,…
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