Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Finale – "The Last Generation"Star Trek: Picard season 3 revisited an unofficial rule established for Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home that seemingly saved the Starfleet careers of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Captain Seven Of Nine (Jeri Ryan) in the process. In Star Trek: Picard season 3's finale, Seven led the USS Titan-A against a Borg-assimilated Starfleet, buying time for Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D to rescue his son, Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), and destroy the Borg. This ended the Borg and Changeling alliance's assimilation of Starfleet and saved the Earth.
At the start of Star Trek: Picard season 3, Picard and Captain William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) attempted to hijack the Titan to rescue Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden). When Picard's initial plan to convince Captain Liam Shaw (Todd Stashwick) to change course failed, he was covertly assisted by Seven Of Nine, who was Shaw's First Officer. The cantankerous Shaw spends the majority of the season reminding Picard and Seven that they've likely thrown away their careers through their actions. And yet in the wake of the Borg/Changeling attack on Frontier Day, things didn't quite work out that way, for which there's considerable Starfleet precedent.
