10 Star Trek Twists You Never Saw Coming

The Star Trek: Voyager season three episode Worst Case Scenario begins with a faux-twist. The cold-open ends with the reveal that Chakotay is planning a mutiny. Dun dun duuuuun!

It does feel a little strange that Chakotay would have waited almost three years to express his 'grievances,' to such an extent that a more informed audience would have been dubious. There are other clues that things aren’t as they appear, like the fact that Janeway is wearing her hair up in a bun (although they changed that so often that it might have just been 'hairstyle of the week').

Nonetheless, you might not have realised this was all photons and forcefields until you were told as such. Indeed, the first 18 minutes or so of the episode take place entirely in the holodeck, 10 of which you would have been left only with questions about this supposed maquis rebellion.

This isn’t the main surprise of the episode, however. When the crew demand an ending to "Insurrection Alpha," Tuvok and Paris return to the holodeck to get writing. They find that the long-dead Seska has, rather literally, beaten them to the punch. Before her departure, she had found the program and rewritten it to cause all kinds of havoc should anyone reopen the narrative parameters file. Clearly no one saw that one coming! Tuvok and Paris are trapped on the holodeck and subjected to Seska’s torturous whims until they, along with Captain Janeway, manage to write a happier ending.