10 Best Foreshadowing Moments In Star Trek

2. Note For Later

The opener of Star Trek: Picard's third season was a masterclass in foreshadowing through references to the past. Aboard the SS Eleos, those flowers were from Cause and Effect. History was about to repeat itself… again. And for whom? With whom? 

Panning further, Captain Picard's log from The Best of Both Worlds, Part I announced that "the Borg [had] maintained their position". In hindsight, putting two and two together equalled "Honorary Citizens of Cor Caroli V". That was the outbreak planet from Allegiance — the one with the replica Picard and the imposter cadet. Duplicates were very much the other theme of the season.

Skip ahead to the end credits and you'll find a visual and auditory guide to the rest of the season. Stephen Barton and Frederik Wiedmann's rearrangement of Jerry Goldsmith's 'End Credits' for Star Trek: First Contact was immediately captivating. Then, on one treble clef stave, in D major, 6/8 time, the notes of a melody appeared. It was Pop Goes the Weasel.

Nodding back to Encounter at Farpoint (and to Star Trek: Nemesis), and nodding forward to Daystrom Station in The Bounty, those notes to Pop Goes the Weasel were now a passcode, of sorts, to be whistled back to a "dear friend" inside Android M-5-10.

And speaking of D major…