After watching this brain bending episode, I'm wondering if Vadik is just as trapped as Picard and the Titan.
Someone or something is pulling strings from behind the curtain somewhere. Who is this face/head guy?
Interesting that this episode begins at the location of the former Monak Shipyards, the very place that Worf blew into atom sized chunks in order to ensure Jadzia's entry into Stovokor.
And another of Voyager's crew shows up.
Maybe this episode gives away too much about Vadik. It even causes us to have some kind of sympathy for the character. Maybe it spills the beans about "Jack Crusher", Vadik comes about 1 inch away from saying something very important about this. But stops. I think most of us have guessed by this time, of course he is different. We are all now scratching our heads and removing what little hair we have left to figure out why... and how.
There is also something about Geordie's kids, after I went back and watched "all good things" I figured out what that was. Nope, not telling. But watch the scene with Geordie and Picard in the vineyard, it's right there.
Some speculation is given here about the actual purpose of Picard's bones and Jack's blood. But that is all that it is, speculation. It can't be that simple.
And then there is this new variation of "Datalore".
This episode is nothing but the calm before a huge #%*&Storm.
It is a teaser, we are being dangled under a pendulum pit, as the blade attached gets nearer and nearer.
Who, what is Jack Crusher?