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Maps and Legends is the second episode of the first season of Star Trek: Picard, an American television series in the Star Trek franchise featuring the character Jean-Luc Picard.

Plot
Hoping to find Soji before the assassins get to her as well, Picard investigates Dahj's apartment with his Romulan employee Laris. The latter believes the assassins may be members of the Zhat Vash, a secretive organization with a deep-rooted hatred of synthetics, and helps Picard discover Soji's location from Dahj's computer. On the Borg Cube, called "the Artifact", Soji develops a relationship with Romulan agent Narek, while she works on a project to remove Borg technology from former Borg drones. Despite the onset of a terminal illness, Picard asks Starfleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy to give him a ship and crew to find Soji. She refuses him and refers the incident to Starfleet's security chief Commodore Oh, who discusses the incident with a lieutenant; this is Narek's sister Narissa in disguise. Narissa led the assassins to kill Dahj, while Narek is approaching his target, Soji, with seduction rather than violence. Picard begins to assemble his own crew to find Soji, starting with his former Starfleet first officer Raffi Musiker.

Production and release
The episode was released on January 29, 2020 on the streaming service CBS All Access.

Reception
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 86% approval rating with an average rating of 7.28/10 based on 21 critic reviews.