10 Most Chilling Star Trek Moments

Star Trek: Picard's third season seems deliberately designed to leave the audience thinking, long after the credits roll on each episode. The fourth episode of the season, No Win Scenario, sees Picard, Jack Crusher, and several of the Titan-A's crew taking refuge in the holodeck. Captain Liam Shaw, injured in the previous episode, arrives, sits at the bar, and delivers a devastating monologue.

We had known from the first episode that Shaw had no love for Picard or Riker. Here, the audience finds out why. Shaw, it turns out, served aboard the USS Constance - a Constellation-class vessel that was lost during the Battle of Wolf 359. To some, that would be enough to explain any animosity, deserved or not, that he felt toward Picard. But Shaw goes on.

It wasn't simply the fact that the ship was destroyed that disturbed him so. He was a junior officer, an engineer, who fled to the life deck with many others. With barely any room in the escape pod, he and the rest of his friends waited for someone to make the call. A lieutenant arrived, choosing a short list of people, Shaw included, to be saved. Though he didn't hesitate in the moment, he spent the remainder of his career wondering why he had survived, when so many hadn't.

The scene is deliberately set up to evoke memories of Quint's USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws. In fact, it even explains the choice of character name - Shaw - for the actor who played the traumatised fisherman, Robert Shaw.