WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 1, Episode 3 of Star Trek: Picard, “The End is the Beginning,” now streaming on CBS All Access.

The central storyline of Star Trek: Picard sees the venerable captain embark on a mission to rescue Soji Asha, a synthetic being created with revolutionary technology. The clues left Jean-Luc (and us) with the impression that this tech was derived from Data’s miraculous positronic brain. But in the third episode “The End is the Beginning,” information was revealed that raises doubts concerning Soji’s connection to Data.

Chief among them, was Soji’s interactions with Ramdha, a Romulan who de-assimilated from the Borg collective. Soji learned from Hugh that the only de-assimilated Borg to suffer from severe mental health issues were Romulans. Soji struggles to get through to Ramdha, who is laying out triangular pixmit cards, essentially Romulan tarot, in an intricate pattern.

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She finally manages to connect with the near-vegetative Romulan by repeating classified information regarding Ramdha’s assimilation -- information that up until that moment, Soji didn’t have access to. At this point, Ramdha has a severe emotional outburst. She looks at pixmit card displaying two women and claims to know Soji from “tomorrow.” As realization dawns on Ramdha, she panics and snatches a guard’s phaser.

She takes aim at Soji, calling her Seb-Cheneb, the Destroyer. This term is also used to describe Soji by a Zhat Vash agent Picard interrogates. When Ramdha sees she cannot escape the room containing Soji, she attempts to kill herself but is stopped. The other de-assimilated Romulans seem agitated by Soji’s presence as well.

If Soji were merely an advanced android spawned from Data, it’s unlikely that she would be pursued so doggedly by the Romulans. And the Zhat Vash agents in the show frequently say that Soji is not who we think she is. If she’s not Data’s daughter, there is a distinct possibility that Soji is a Borg of some kind.

This notion is not so far-fetched. Signs have pointed to a deeper connection between the Romulans and the Borg. The Zhat Vash are keepers of a secret shame that could break a Romulan’s mind, and they are actively hunting synths. The Romulans who were de-assimilated have all been driven mad by the information they received from the Borg cube.

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If Soji is able to uncover the truth about her construction it may also expose the Romulan/Borg connection. If made public, that revelation might very well be the secret shame capable of driving Romulans mad. An event of that scale would absolutely qualify Soji as their destroyer.

There are still major gaps to be filled. Bruce Maddox has yet to be found and he could be the key to unraveling Soji’s mysterious past. Jean-Luc believes that Maddox built Soji solely out of Data’s technology, but there is a chance he included Borg advancements in her construction, making Soji some kind of hybrid. But Maddox’s involvement doesn’t explain how she became so important to the Zhat Vash or how Soji subconsciously possesses classified Romulan intel.

If she isn’t Data’s daughter, this will surely be a blow to Jean-Luc. He first embarked on his mission out of respect for his dead friend. If he finds out that he’s been operating under false assumptions, it could very well break him. And if Soji turns out to be related to the Borg in some way, there’s no telling how Jean-Luc will respond. The Borg are his most hated enemy, and it would turn his world upside down to learn his rescue mission was to save a member of that race.

Star Trek: Picard stars Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera, and Harry Treadaway. New episodes of the series premiere every Thursday on CBS All Access.

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