Laris and Zhaban? I absolutely agree. How could anyone not love these two characters?

I do so hope they continue to play a major role in the series, and should some foul fate befall either of them, I will be sooooo upset!

Synthetic workers are 24th century slaves? Sure, ok.

Seems like she’s looking for Boris.

No, I think Shadow said it very clearly. This was meant for binge watching and I personally tend to agree. Netflix does it well. When the entire season is mainly centered around one main story arc, it’s much better to release all the episodes together. Picard is hard to watch for me in 40+ minute blocks. Cable and OTA…

He definitely was broken, so it’s somewhat understandable.

Isn’t that the point, and a deliberate reflection of his state of mind?

Laris and Zhaban are definitely MVP so far.

The same way most aliens in Star Trek’s 24th century are instantly fluent in perfectly idiomatic 20th/21st century American English.

Well, with replicators all you’d have to do is send out the data file with the info and everyone can just download their own. They might not even do laundry, just throw the old ones in the replicators and get a new one whenever needed.

Yeah, it does seem really out of character for Picard to just ditch her.