History Recap / StarTrekPicardS3E04NoWinScenario

* ContinuitySnarl: The Changeling shouldn't need a salad bowl to regenerate for 8 hours in resigoo state. Back on DS9, Odo did... but this was eventually revealed to not be a trait of the species as a whole, as was formerly thought, but a side effect of Odo being a HeartwarmingOrphan who had to ''teach himself'' how to use his powers, and didn't fully master them. Since it moves the plot along, this particular bit of continuity is ignored.

** Also justified because the Titan was racing as fast as it could to keep up with the wave and heading right at the Shrike at high speed. Riker snagged an asteroid in passing and then let it go at the right moment, transferring all of that momentum into the asteroid, which then smashed into the Shrike at that same very high speed.

* BrickJoke: One that took 34 years to pay off. In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E11Contagion Contagion]]," faced with a situation in which he had no weapons, Riker asked if tactical could arrange for him to throw some rocks at the Romulans. Here, he uses the tractor beam to throw an asteroid at the ''Shrike''.

** Shaw wonders aloud why a changeling would infiltrate the transporter room and replace its duty officer. [[spoiler:Oh, there's a reason...]]
** Though Shaw is aware of what Picard accomplished in the previous season in creating a kinder, gentler Borg, [[spoiler:he disregards it: "The ''real'' Borg are still out there." JerkassHasAPoint.]]
** Jack's hallucination while washing his face is nearly identical to [[spoiler:the nightmare his father experienced back in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'']].

* InnocentlyInsensitive: A flashback shows that Jack did indeed visit Picard at Ten Forward, but just asked if Picard ever had a real family without introducing himself. Surrounded by a bunch of cadets and that being an understandably sore subject, Picard simply says that Starfleet is the only family he's ever needed, not exactly the thing Jack came to hear.

** Picard's "Starfleet is the only family I have ''ever'' needed" rings hollow when you recall that this conversation took place in 2396, when ''he had already resigned from it'' in the wake of the Romulan Supernova and the destruction of Mars (''PIC'': "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E01Remembrance Remembrance]]"). The cadets are apparently starry-eyed enough to ignore the FridgeLogic of his statement.

* PsychologicalProjection: Shaw's furious words to Picard on the Holodeck show that like Sisko 30 years earlier during "Emissary", he likwise blames Picard for Wolf 359 and losing everything. ''Unlike'' Sisko, however, Shaw's words reveal much of his anger at Picard is really towards ''himself'' and his self-loathing and hatred from his SurvivorsGuilt.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Shaw tells Picard that they first met on Stardate 44002.3, Picard quietly realizes that he's about to get an earful from a Wolf 359 survivor.

-->'''Shaw:''' ''(to Jack)'' You know where your old man was on that day? He was on that Borg cube, setting the world on fire! ''(to Picard)'' Forget about all that weird shit on the ''Stargazer''. The real Borg are still out there, and they have a name for you: Locutus of Borg. The only Borg so deadly they gave him a goddamn name!

* FlashbackEcho: Shaw has a monologue describing the evacuation of the USS Constance after Wolf 359. Faint sound effects can be heard of weapons fire, alarms and a murmuring crowd as he describes what happened, none of it diegetic but [[ShellShockedVeteran underlining that he is reliving those events]].

* SurvivorsGuilt: Shaw was an engineer during Wolf 359, and was one of ten officers out of fifty who was selected to evacuate in the remaining escape pod. He doesn't get why he, "a dipshit from Chicago," deserved to live more than those other forty souls.

** Though Shaw is aware of what Picard accomplished in the previous season in creating a kinder, gentler Borg, he disregards it: "The ''real'' Borg are still out there." JerkassHasAPoint.
** Jack's hallucination while washing his face is nearly identical to the nightmare his father experienced back in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''.

* NoodleIncident: The Starfleet cadets ask Admiral Picard about an encounter with the Hirogen some time after ''Voyager'''s return (since one cadet asks whether Picard had any help from Admiral Janeway). In the same breath, they ask how a Hirogen ended up clear across the galaxy from the Delta Quadrant to begin with.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: As Shaw and Seven work to open the nacelle housings, Shaw notes that if the Changeling is going to sabotage something, it'll be what they're doing right now. To that end, Seven contacts Riker, and the viewer only hears Riker ending the conversation. When Ensign La Forge shows up to help, Seven reveals that she ordered Riker to not send anyone under any circumstances.

* DigitalDeaging: The flashbacks have Creator/PatrickStewart and Creator/JonathanFrakes digitally deaged to look the way they looked shortly after ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' was released.