10 Best Foreshadowing Moments In Star Trek

9. Chorus To This History

Season three's The Defector was originally planned to open with a "Sherlock Holmes gag," according to Michael Piller in Captains' Logs: The Unauthorised Complete Trek Voyages. That idea had to be abandoned, because of the on-going lawsuit with the Conan Doyle Estate.

However, they had Royal Shakespeare in Patrick Stewart. Approached for suggestions, it was Stewart who chose Henry V, the Act (4) and the extract of the Scene (I). Piller was particularly pleased with the sprinklings of Shakespeare throughout the episode, noting in Captains' Logs,

If you are a musician, as I am, it is a trick that you throw into arrangements to echo other songs […] I was very proud of that.

The King, played by Data, could walk incognito amongst the troops, whereas later, Captain Picard could not. Admiral Jarok was passing himself off as Sublieutenant Setal, bringing the Enterprise-D and the Federation to the brink of war — with the Romulans, not the French.

The stand-off in the Neutral Zone was far from Agincourt, but like Henry V and the English, the Enterprise-D was outnumbered, or so it seemed. Also like Henry V, the play, Picard soon paraphrased, knowingly, to Tomalak, "If the cause is just an honourable, they [the crew] are prepared to give their lives".