Star Trek: Picard

Okay, watching the top review, I want to comment - I get that some of their remarks are just meant for the snarky entertainment value; I can appreciate that, there are times where I can be intentionally obtuse for the sake of a joke.  But like, if the one guy honestly couldn't understand the person saying "daughter" then yeah, he should probably get his hearing checked.  Dahj is an odd sounding name, but it's not that difficult to remember.  I'll admit, I thought it was "Dosh," but that's a minor distinction.
More so, they gloss over the fact that they explain in the episode why she looks like the girl in the painting; which is that Bruce intentionally modeled her after the painting.
I also thought it was pretty clear that the people who beamed into Dahj's apartment were initially using their device to see if she had been "activated" from the sense of knowing that she was an android; and confirmed that she had not been.  Not sure what they thought they were accomplishing with the bag.  Obviously that wouldn't be used to knock her out, despite the dialog; that's more a convention for disorientation, so a person can't tell where they're going.  But if they were presumably going to beam her out, it's not like she'd be able to tell where she was without the bag.  The guys in the review video keep saying they should have stunned her or knocked her out, but since they knew she was a synthetic, could she even be stunned or tranquilized using any conventional methods?  Working under the assumption that if she hadn't yet been "activated" she'd respond as any other ordinary human would, keeping her disoriented would arguably be the next best thing.  It's perhaps a little more convenient that she could fight as well as she did, without being able to see and without being fully activated.

The Romulans have often arguably been an allegory to the US' relationship with Russia; though they might be said of the Klingons and Cardassians, but there's always been a Cold War element in their relationship.  That changed to some degree during the Dominion War, thanks to Sisko's shady dealings, but who's to say what the post war relationship would be?  No doubt some might hold out hope for relations to continue in a more positive direction following the war, but factions in either camp, the Federation or the Romulan Empire, might be inclined to tap the brakes or even go back to how things were.  
I mean, look no further than the US and Russia fighting on the same side during World War II; it was an alliance of convenience, but that didn't last once their mutual enemy was subdued and if anything relations worsened, leading to the Cold War.  Maybe the Romulans got a little comfortable with some of the worlds they annexed during the war and didn't want to give them back to whomever had control of them before the war.

I did think it was dumb that they claimed Romulus had less than a billion people on the planet.  I mean, sure, that makes the evacuation even more difficult, but seriously, a planet with an advanced population with only a few hundred million on the whole planet?
I have my own personal theory to explain what happened to the Romulan sun, which goes a bit into the weeds as fan theories goes.  From my understand there might have also been an explanation/elaborate backstory that may have been part of Star Trek online, but I also got the impression from what I read online that this episode of Picard may have contradicted some of that.