Star Trek: 10 Plot Twists Everyone Saw Coming

5. Re(a)d All-Over

A penchant for all things of the colour comes with the territory for Terry Matalas, but just what was behind the big red door? Theories flourished during the run of Star Trek: Picard's third season as to the meaning of the visual metaphor plaguing Jack Crusher. Was it the Pah-Wraith? Was it Rick Astley, as one Reddit user suggested? Like father like son, the Borg hypothesis was never far away.

In another twist on the twist subgenre, it was an accidental subtitle that saw the red door opened in advance. As Jack stares into the mirror at the end of No Win Scenario (only the fourth episode or "part"), certain closed captions initially gave "[Borg Queen]" for the voices he was hearing in his head. This was rapidly changed to "[Whispered Voice]," but you can't Kobayashi Maru the internet. Anyone with so much as a Raspberry Pi and the willpower could find out the big reveal if they wanted to.

Moreover, inasmuch as the Borg had been done to near galactic extinction, could the answer have been anything else? Would another twist have been quite so pertinent? The 'red door' was that one to engineering, behind which the Borg Queen first lay in First Contact, for which Alice Krige was once more the "whispered voice," here.