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Star Trek: Next Gen's Best Episode
Star Trek: The Next Generation's 'Tapestry' episode shows Picard's regret over youthful recklessness.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation's 'Tapestry' episode shows Picard's regret over youthful recklessness. Star Trek: The Next Generation's 'Tapestry' episode reveals how past mistakes shape present character through Picard's time travel dilemma. Originally reported by SlashFilm.
Tapestry episode
Star Trek: The Next Generation's 'Tapestry' episode is the best of the series.
“Tapestry is a powerful character piece about living with our choices and the importance of our regrets”
Picard's artificial heart
Captain Picard's artificial heart was damaged after a bar fight with Nausicaans.
“Picard was stabbed through the back with a very long knife, penetrating his heart”
Q's time travel offer
Q offers Picard a chance to change his past to avoid the bar fight.
“Q suspiciously offers Picard an opportunity: He can go back in time to the events leading up to the bar brawl”
Picard's youth
Picard's younger self is reckless and sexually cavalier with his friends.
“Picard finds that he doesn't like who he was at age 21. He was brash and reckless and sexually cavalier”
Picard's changed life
Picard becomes a risk-averse science officer in a dull, unremarkable life.
“Picard is now a lowly science officer with the rank of lieutenant, junior grade”
Picard's choice
Picard chooses to die with a faulty heart rather than live a life without risk.
“Picard would rather die with a faulty heart than live an unremarkable life with one”
Tapestry's lesson
The episode shows how past mistakes shape present character through regret and growth.
“Taking risks and making mistakes is perhaps the most vital tool in our maturity and growth as human beings”
The headline
Star Trek: The Next Generation's 'Tapestry' episode reveals how past mistakes shape present character through Picard's time travel dilemma.
