For me, this season of "Picard" has been very mixed and this penultimate episode is, unfortunately, another downturn.
Arriving at the robot homeworld, pursued by Narek (Harry Treadaway), the La Sirena is disabled and pulled to Earth by a flower looking defence mechanism, along with Narek's ship and the Borg Cube, that 7 of 9 (Jeri Ryan) has brought to assist. On the planet they arrive at Dr Soong's (Brent Spiner) complex and discover a society of androids, including Sutra (Isa Briones) an earlier model of Soji. Intending to take the society away, Jurati's (Alison Pill) message about an artificial life overlord has a different effect.
I still find myself whilst watching the episode, thinking over and over again, "That might mean something, if these characters hadn't met each other last week". The scene when Elnor chooses to stay with the downed Borg ship, includes an emotion embrace and goodbye speech. Which for me, doesn't ring true, as although I accept Picard knew him as a child, for us, the viewing audience, they've said about six lines to each other. There was no scene, or episode, or storyline that explained to us how they got beyond Elnor's initial hostility towards Picard. Again, Picard's "I'm dying" speech - we experience through Raffi's eyes - who's a character we've only met through this series. The crew are happy to move on from the fact that Jurati murdered someone, just because he was apparently a bit shady, (although not in a way I can't fully understand at the moment) as, even more bizarrely, are the androids and Soong.
So, whereas I know other people have baulked against the swearing and violence, I'm fine with that. I'd just like it if the show was better paced. It's like we're missing every other episode at the moment and it makes for a disjointed experience. I'm a lot less confident, given where we are, that this season is going to wrap up much of this story.