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Vadic was one of the primary antagonists of the third season of Star Trek: Picard, and was first introduced in the episode Disengage. She was portrayed by Amanda Plummer, the daughter of Christopher Plummer - who had earlier played General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
History[]
Origins[]
During the Dominion War Vadic and a number of other Changelings were exposed and detained as prisoners of war. Taken to Daystrom Station, Section 31 experimented on Vadic and her fellow prisoners to create Changeling spies for the Federation who could better disguise themselves. With these Changelings able to duplicate internal organs and blood they were able to sneak past all the detection methods the Federation had come up with to date. The experiments were very painful and lead to the deaths of some of the Changelings. Vadic eventually killed the Section 31 researcher and freed the other Changelings being held prisoner.
Vadic was one of the renegade Changelings - who along with Titus Rikka and a Changeling who murdered and replaced Ensign Eli Foster - rejected the Treaty of Bajor and Odo's efforts to reform the Dominion. Leaving the Great Link she and the other renegades made their way to the Alpha Quadrant to take revenge on the Federation for their defeat in the Dominion War and for what Section 31 had done to her and her fellow POW Changelings during the war.
By 2401 she was the commanding officer of the Shrike, a vessel of unknown orgins that had every kind of weapon known to Starfleet science and a few that were not. Her ship also contained a portal device that could open up quantum portals to instantly transport objects to another location.
Hunt For Jack Crusher & The Battle of the Ryton System[]
Confronting Admiral Jean-Luc Picard on board the USS Titan-A, she demanded he turn over Beverly Crusher's son Jack to her. Learning Jack was also his son Picard refused. The Titan went to hide in the Ryton Nebula, with the Shrike in close pursuit firing upon them with the warship's deadly payload of various weaponry, that outgunned the poorly armed Titan, whose own weaponry barely managed to dent the Shrike. The Foster Changeling spy aboard the starfleet vessel itself sabotaged the Titan so the Shrike could follow. As the Titan was drawn in close to a gravity well after being damaged by it's own weaponry via Vadic's portal device. Vadic had the Shrike wait outside the nebula for the Titan to be destroyed, but her superior ordered her to go back into the nebula and make sure that the boy was captured and the Titan was destroyed, requiring the portal weapon to be ejected. She revealed her nature as a Changeling since the communication device to contact her boss required part of her natural, liquid form. Using a knife she cut off her hand, which reverted to a gelatinous state, and when the communication was done reabsorbed the liquid back in to her body.
Meanwhile the Titan had come up with the means to escape the Nebula. The Shrike eventually caught up to them and was about to attack them when then got closer. Thinking quickly by using by using the same tactic that Vadic used on them via a tractor beam, Riker literally threw a massive asteroid at the Shrike, critically damaging and disabling the massive warship and allowing the Titan to escape.
Attempting to Locate the USS Titan & Capturing William T Riker at Daystrom Station[]
However, Vadic and her crew repaired the Shrike attempted to pursue and locate the Titan but were unsuccessful due to the Titan crew dropping decoy devices, thus infuriating and enraging Vadic even further, even going as so far in executing a fellow member of her crew for failing to locate the Titan. This forced Vadic to consider finding the Titan crew by searching for the well known safe harbor locations and friends, family, and allies that Admiral Jean-Luc Picard himself and the Titan crew would turn to. She would later find out that the Titan had went to Daystrom Station to locate the true weapon that was stolen, successfully retrieving the resurrected android Data himself. The Shrike eventually arrive to late to stop the Titan, after it escaped from starfleet security forces. Unfortunately, one of the away team members Captain William T. Riker himself, was captured by starfleet security, only for the guards to be quickly overpowered and killed by a disguised Vadic herself, who then captured and transported him to the Shrike along with their other prisoner Deanna Troi. Vadic and the Shrike then continue their pursuit and search for the Titan.
Final Showdown with USS Titan-A, Vadic's Death, & Vadic's Secret Alliance with the Borg Queen Revealed[]
Vadic and her crew eventually caught up to the Titan, where they finally managed to board it. With a little help from Data's brother Lore, Vadic soon gloated as she had successfully managed to take both complete control and command of the bridge of the USS Titan-A. Vadic then immediately demanded Jack's surrender or she would kill the rest of the Titan crew, starting with the bridge crew. Jack eventually and directly confronted her under threat of blowing himself up with a bomb if the surviving Titan crew were not released unharmed. Vadic complied, but then she heard an all-ship bulletin from Data, having overpowered Lore and taken control of their joint body, declaring he was taking back the ship. Vadic sent most of her men to find them, only for them to be slaughtered by Raffi and and the legendary Klingon warrior Worf, while Jack reveals his bomb to be a force field to protect him and Seven of Nine as, with Picard's command, Seven of Nine in a moment of satisfaction she angrily ordered Vadic to get the hell off of her bridge just before Data opens the bridge's emergency airlock to kick Vadic and her remaining Changeling off the Titan for good.
| “ | Seven of Nine: Get off my Bridge! Vadic: Oh, fucking Solids... |
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| ~ Vadic's last words |
Vadic and her remaining henchman are sucked out into space and sent tumbling uncontrollably away from the Titan, where she soon freezes solid before smashing against the Shrike, shattering to pieces, ending her life for good, before the Shrike itself is destroyed by the Titan on Seven of Nine's order.
However, Vadic was merely the harbinger of the bigger threat. Thanks to her rouge Changelings, the Borg DNA that killed Jean-Luc Picard's original body was uploaded into the Starfleet Mainframe and transporter system, essentially infecting every Starfleet member with Borg DNA so that when a command signal was given, everyone infected, at least under the age of 25, would become Borg Drones to the still-alive Borg Queen, thus rebuilding The Borg and their Collective to once again threaten the Federation, not through assimilation, but through evolution. Worse, many of Vadic's infiltrators also convinced Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Shelby to implement the new Fleet Formation protocol, which would allow the Borg Queen to take control of Starfleet as well to take down Earth.
By the time the Titan returns to Earth and Sector 001 to warn Shelby, currently hosting Frontier Day from her flagship, USS Enterprise-F, though she is alarmed at the mention of the Borg being back, it is too late. Picard's son Jack, after discovering his Borg origins, found the Queen and was assimilated, becoming Vox of Borg, Locutus' successor, and triggering the Queen's endgame. Shelby, Titan Captain Liam Shaw, and many other senior Starfleet members are slaughtered by their younger crewmembers, and when the USS Excelsior tries to break free, Fleet Formation forces it out of the formation and be fired on by the Enterprise-F and other ships, destroying it. Picard and his old command crew barely escape and flee back to the Fleet Museum to recover the only ship that could stop the Borg Queen's endgame: The very ship that first encountered the Borg thanks to Q, USS Enterprise-D, which Geordi LaForge had been rebuilding since recovering the damaged saucer section from Veridian III after the battle with Lursa and B'Etor Duras resulted in the stardrive section being destroyed by a warp core breach and the saucer section crashing on the planet, but per the Prime Directive, recovered to avoid disrupting the pre-warp development of the Veridian System.
After the Enterprise-D destroys the Borg Queen's Super-Cube and kills her for good, freeing Starfleet and their assimilated from her control, but leaving them haunted and traumatized by the atrocities they committed while under her control, Admiral Beverly Crusher spearheads the operation to sniff out Vadic's remaining Changelings and apprehend them while purging the Borg DNA from the infected so they won't be assimilated again.
Personality Traits[]
Vadic herself is a highly intelligent, truly sadistic, cruel, ruthless, vengeful, arrogant, utterly merciless, heartless, completely unsympathetic, a murderous psychopath, and a completely irredeemable monster who greatly enjoys torturing, tormenting, taunting, hunting, and killing her enemies in sheer sadistic pleasure.
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Trivia[]
- In the wake of the revelation that Vadic was a Changeling some fans asked if she was a Changeling or if there had been another explanation for Vadic's hand behaving as it did. Picard showrunner Terry Matalas later confirmed in a tweet that Vadic was indeed a Changeling. It was later established that Section 31 had experimented on her and other Changelings during the war in their efforts to create Changeling spies for themselves.
- Due to Amanda Plummer's iconic and fantastic memorable performance as the sinister and villainous Vadic, she has since become one of the Star Trek franchise's most dangerous, cunning, and memorable villains to date.
