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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7922431" data-attributes="member: 710">It is a possibility that he's just a hologram, too, but the other possibliity is that whatever happened on his old ship meant that he had lost a lot of people and thus fears surrounding himself with real people, particularly people he likes. (He seems to complain a lot about his holograms).Well, Tal'Shiar might have been a secret police, but she wasn't actually a secret organization. It was more or less common knowledge it existed. So I think the more accurate equivalent for the Tal'Shiar is actually Starfleet Intelligence, and Section 31 is the Federation's equivalent of the Zhat Vash (at least in regards to secrecy, not necessarily organizational structure or history.)I think however it's wrong to interpret Picard's chateau and Raffi's trailer as a purely economical thing. It might have a lot more to do with how they were able to deal with the ends of their career - it's psychology, not economy. Picard didn't go in a downward spiral, he took over the vinyard and started writing books. But Raffi didn't deal with it so "well". She isolated herself, became basically depressed due to her situation, and her living arrangements is not a sign of being financially poor off, but being emotionally poor off, and making a concious or unconcious choise to live as she does. She is envious that Picard seems to have such an easy time dealing with it - but in truth, he didn't actually respond well to it, either. As he said himself, he has not really been living, he had been waiting to die. Raffi picked up some weed and conspiracy theory chasing, Picard took on the Vinyard and his books, but both area really just trying to distract themselves from their frustrations.I figure a lot of the story of Picard is about these people's emotional journey and their need to find a purpose for their life (I guess this conceit makes it difficult for some people to like the show, too. Star Trek is usually about a hopeful future, and traditionally, hope is restored at the end of an episode or maybe a two-parter - but this journey might take the entire season - if not the entire full 3 seasons they apparently have outlined for Picard.)</blockquote>

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