Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 4 – "No Win Scenario"Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) drops an F-bomb in Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 4, reigniting the debate of whether the harshest four-letter curse words in Star Trek is going too far. The USS Titan-A found itself in dire straits; trapped in the Ryton Nebula's gravity well, all aboard believed death would come in a few hours. Before the Titan's heroes devised a means of escape, the crew fearfully congregated in a holodeck recreation of 10 Forward, where Picard tried to bond with his son, Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), and let loose the first F-bomb he's ever uttered in Star Trek.
Picard told Jack about a similarly harrowing shuttlecraft dilemma with his namesake, Lt. Commander Jack R. Crusher (Doug Wert), when they were both serving on the USS Stargazer. Picard and his best friend pilfered a shuttlecraft for an unscheduled shore leave with "delightful young women," but they lost their sensors and ability to navigate back to the Stargazer. Using manual controls, Jack and Jean-Luc made it back to their ship, but Picard rued it took "ten f***ing grueling hours." Later, Picard amusingly used Captain Liam Shaw's (Todd Stashwick) own words against him when he asked for the "dips*** from Chicago" to help the Titan escape the Ryton Nebula's gravity well.
