History Recap / StarTrekPicardS3E10TheLastGeneration

* {{Catchphrase}}: Jack and Raffi ask Seven what she's going to say to have the newly christened ''Enterprise''-G go to warp for their first mission, as every ship captain seems to have their own personalised way of saying "Engage". Just as she's about to say it, cut to the ''Enterprise'' going to warp, leaving Seven's catchphrase [[TheUnReveal a mystery]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Picard's final confrontation with the Queen confirms (curiously without actually naming her) that this final campaign against the Federation is Janeway's fault. The neurolytic pathogen that the Alternate Admiral Janeway "bequeathed" to the Borg back in "Endgame" ravaged the Collective, leaving the Queen reduced to a wreck, alone, and hellbent on revenge against Starfleet and the Federation.

** ''Voyager'' did more damage to the Borg on their way out of the Delta Quadrant than even they realized. The entire Collective was left crippled by the alternate Janeway's neurolytic pathogen and has imploded in the 20+ years since "Endgame". The Queen and her Cube are the last remnant of the once-mighty power.

* SequelEpisode: The last two episodes serves as a continuation of both "The Best of Both Worlds" and ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', culminating in a FinalBattle against the Borg. To a lesser extent, it's also a sequel to "Endgame", following up on the Collective's fate after ''Voyager'' essentially fire-bombed them on their way out of the Delta Quadrant.

** The Queen would've attacked Earth sooner had she immediately destroyed the ''Titan'' as they did the ''Excelsior'' when Seven and the others had re-taken the bridge. As with her need to gloat to Picard, she likely wanted those closest to him to suffer.

** Last episode, Geordi warns that one of the panels on the ''Enterprise''-D's right nacelle was loose, that he had a hard time trying to get it down. During the flyby of the ''Enterprise''-D and ''Titan''-A at the end, you can see that there's a missing panel on that mentioned nacelle.

** The virus unleashed upon the Borg by the alternate Janeway, while did a monumental number to them that left them on the brink of extinction, had [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the consequence]] of leaving the survivors who barely held together '''''extremely vengeful and pissed off''''' at the Federation due to losing their collective voice and chance at perfection; sending them from a force that, while a threat to the galaxy on the occasion their interest was piqued to assimilate a new civilization to further that goal of perfection, ended up leaving mostly everything else alone... to now being a wholly rabid entity that [[OmnicidalManiac wish to eradicate all life that isn't them]] to preserve what's left of their Collective by any means necessary. To be fair to the Janeways no one in Starfleet (or the UFP in general) appeared to be overtly eager to travel to the Delta Quadrant to check up on how effective the virus had actually been, that's if they even knew about the virus's existence at all.
*** More over the fact that virus also caused the Borg Collective to lose their technological and tactical advantages over their neighbors as well as the civilizations that somehow managed to survive within their own borders undetected so there's little reason to doubt that survivors of their "assimilations" (as well as civilizations on the Borg's "post-Human assimilation" list) took full advantage of this unexpected surprise "gift" to dish out some long overdue payback! As when the Borg Queen saids that she had been forced to withdraw to the sparsest places of the galaxy in a single cube unable to even assimilate anything of worth due to the virus, it means that the Collective was literally driven out beyond even the backwaters of civilized space itself! It goes to show just how loathed and HATED the Borg truly were that the entire GALAXY was more than eager to throw a whole library's worth of books at them when they were finally brought low! Not that the Borg didn't have it coming to them.

** Deanna once again takes the conn during the last adventure of an ''Enterprise''. In this case, she does ''far'' better than her infamous moment when the same vessel was knocked out of orbit to the surface of Veridian III (or when she later rammed the E into the ''Scimitar'' -- albeit on Picard's orders -- almost a decade later). A [[https://youtu.be/C2srSv4oLLc?si=4DmIqrHKgP8RgkMH deleted blooper]] has /Creator/MarinaSirtis and Creator/LeVarBurton lampshading and poking fun at this.

** Deanna once again takes the conn during the last adventure of an ''Enterprise''. In this case, she does ''far'' better than her infamous moment when the same vessel was knocked out of orbit to the surface of Veridian III (or when she later rammed the E into the ''Scimitar'' -- albeit on Picard's orders -- almost a decade later). A [[https://youtu.be/C2srSv4oLLc?si=4DmIqrHKgP8RgkMH deleted blooper]] has Creator/Marinia Sirtis and Creator/LeVarBurton lampshading and poking fun at this.

** Deanna once again takes the conn during the last adventure of an ''Enterprise''. In this case, she does ''far'' better than her infamous moment when the same vessel was knocked out of orbit to the surface of Veridian III (or when she later rammed the E into the ''Scimitar'' -- albeit on Picard's orders -- almost a decade later).

* PreciousFStrike: Riker when he tries to wield Worf's Kur'leth...and nearly drops it because he didn't realize much the Klingon weapon ''really'' weighed.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Retroactive instance for Team Janeway following the revelation that this is all payback for "Endgame". The ''Voyager'' crew was intent on using the Transwarp Hub to get home ''and'' dealing a crippling blow to the Borg in the process. Their mistake, however, was that they didn't stop to consider what would happen ''after'' they deployed the Neurolytic Pathogen. What if there were survivors...and how might they react to being poisoned and left to die by the Federation and Starfleet? Now, over 20 years later, Earth is paying the price for Janeway's failed foresight.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Retroactive instance for Janeway (both "our" Janeway and her alternate self), Seven, and the rest of Team ''Voyager'' back in "Endgame". They were intent on using the Transwarp Hub to get home ''and'' dealing a crippling blow to the Borg in the process. Their mistake, however, was that they didn't stop to consider what would happen ''after'' they deployed the Neurolytic pathogen. What if there were survivors? And how might they react to being poisoned and left to die by the Federation and Starfleet?

* SadisticChoice: Picard grimly observes that they have to sever the Borg cube's signal controlling their KeystoneArmy no matter the cost. The subtext (and Beverly's reaction) is clear: saving Jack may not be an option and they may end up forced to kill him to save Earth and the Federation.

* RankUp: Seven is promoted to captain, and given command of the ''Titan''-A, newly [[MeaningfulRename rechristened into]] the ''Enterprise''-G. It’s the same for the ''Titan''-A as by being renamed the ''Enterprise''-G she goes from being just another flagship in Starfleet to being THE flagship of the entire Federation!

** Shaw's [[FantasticRacism earlier animosity]] in the season to Seven of Nine is revealed posthumously in a officer report -- made before everything that happened -- to be due to shattered trust in her for helping Picard and Riker essentially appropriate the ship from him, despite recommending her for captaincy once they return to port and thus potentially putting his career in jeopardy for considering a loose cannon such as her to be promoted despite his prior beliefs otherwise.

-->"Captain's log, Stardate...shall we say 'one'. The first of a new day for friends both and young. Starfleet had implemented a fleet-wide transporter solution to purge our young officers of the Borg infection. A world-saving effort developed by our new head of Starfleet Medical Branch -- Admiral Crusher, who also managed to spearhead technology that privately scans for other irregularities.[[labelnote:*]]Security officers apprehend a rogue Changeling exposed by the transporter buffer.[[/labelnote]] In constant need for information, our changeling adversaries kept yet did not kill many of their targets. From the lowest of ranks to the very highest."

** The ''Enterprise''-D flies into the cube to destroy it, just like how the ''Millennium Falcon'' and Wedge in his X-wing destroyed the second Death Star in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. Data even says "Here goes nothing" right before entering, as Lando did.

* BigBadassBattleSequence: The Borg-assimilated fleet attacks Earth Spacedock, while the ''Titan'' (with her [[InvisibilityCloak cloaking device]]) uses HitAndRunTactics to interfere with them; [[ParallelConflictSequence meanwhile]], the ''Enterprise'' goes one-on-one against the Borg cube.