Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 9 – "VOX"Star Trek: Picard season 3's penultimate episode answers a Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) question from Star Trek: First Contact that has lingered for 27 years. In Picard season 3, episode 9, "VOX," Jack Crusher learns he is not just the son of Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), but he is also the product of genetic manipulation by the Borg Queen. Jack's destiny is to be VOX, the voice of the Borg, whereas Jean-Luc Picard only spoke for the Borg when he was assimilated into Locutus in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Star Trek: First Contact was a sequel to the TNG classic "The Best of Both Worlds," and the film began with Captain Picard having nightmares about the Borg. But Picard's visions of being Locutus turned out to be a warning that the Borg were on their way to invade Earth. Yet Jean-Luc could still hear the Borg's voices even though it had been years since he was reclaimed. This allowed Picard to anticipate the Borg's tactics and even identify the Cube's weakness, so it could be destroyed by Starfleet, although Jean-Luc chalked it up to residual memories of his time as Locutus. Yet Picard's continuing connection to the cybernetic villains and the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) was never explained… until Star Trek: Picard season 3.
