Yeah, the most dangerous regrets to have are missed opportunities, since you often don't even realize they happened until it's far too late to learn anything
This episode had a great influence on me when I was around 19-20 years old. It kinda changed how I viewed things in life. Past, Present and Future. I'm still very grateful to the writers and actors.
Q did an astronomically huge favor to Picard. He brought him back to life (after he had in fact died), *and* made him not regret his past. I mean, what more can one want?
Save him from the fate of being a decrepit, incompetent old man whom nobody likes and who needs to constantly apologize to everyone for things he was not responsible for. Save him from being an apologist for White Colonialism. Which is as far removed from the Jean-Luc Picard of _TNG_ as bearded Spok is from Vulcan philosophy and learning.
When I watch The Next Generation, I forget they're actors playing characters. The characters were so well written and then played that the separation from reality was amazing. In this day and age of such turbulent times, I stick TNG on and know, "we [humans] are going to be ok."
"One day, Jean-Luc, my dear friend, you will die. Many long years from now, at least according to your limited understanding of time. And on that day, I will make certain you die with the knowledge... that you die as the best version of you, in any reality."
Tapestry is definitely one of my all-time favorite TNG episodes; right up there with The Inner Light, The Measure of a Man, The Best of Both Worlds, and The Offspring!
I would add Darmok, Tin Man and Yesterday's Enterprise to your list :). Also, i have a bit of guilty pleasure with Masks from season 7.Brent Spiner's acting in that episode was nothing short of EPIC!
0:59 I think everybody who has regrets in their past can relate. Some lessons can only be learned through pain and loss. It's how you view those lessons and what you take from them that moulds you into the person you are. I can see why they named this episode tapestry.
Quality isn’t what it once was but I like that Picard has picked up some of the loose ends (like the relationship between Guinan and Q, what happened to seven, etc) …maybe some of these should have been left alone to maintain the mystery around them.
Worf reaction was the best. That is when Picard had Worf loyalty and respect forever. Upon waking up from death,. He laughed as his wound. Not groan. LAUGHED!
This episode made me realize that my fantasy of having a time machine & traveling into my past to "make things better" is ultimately a foolish endeavor. Even if I ever could "undo" past mistakes, or benefit from foresight . . . I realize that I would likely also LOSE a lot of the GOOD things that happened to me and even IF the 'gains' outweighed the 'losses' . . .it wouldn't really matter since I would no longer be "me" anymore. I would be "someone else". (who simply looks like me)
Q doesn't need an adversary. Humanity is just interesting. The continuum sees in humanity something that they have never experienced before, the possibility of not being alone. The possibility of humans reaching the same level as the Q. This has frightened them to the point of putting Humanity on trial, and excited some to the point of outright helping humanity. Testing them. Pushing them to their limits. The Q we know has been quietly shifting events in his way, testing humanity through Picard.
It's not an adversary. In the final episode it becomes clear that Q and the continuum have expectations of humanity, likely that humanity, or at least some of them, will one day join the Q.
Well there is an easy way to determine if it was a dream. All Picard has to do is ask his old friend if they actually slept together. That was something Q let him change... That would make an interesting conversation to see.
Prime example of how captain Picard was a father figure to the enterprise senior officers and how riker was like the oldest looking up to him as a boy who wants to be like his father since riker had a horrible relationship with his real father. Troy was like his only daughter. Warf the son with issues who he forged into a wise samurai isk warrior poet. Jordi the smart son who went from helmsman to chief engineer in the blind of an eye. And last but not least data who was like the baby of them all so innocent and curious. He truly looked up to picard as a true father as he did or more so then dr. Soong. As for dr. Crusher she definitely was the mother figure who checked Picard when he needed it lol
There are many of our veterans who would love to share their stories with younger people. Unfortunately younger people don't have time to listen to these great stories or the great women and men who tell them!
"During my sophomore year, I was assigned to training on Morikin Seven. Well, there was a Nausicaan outpost on one of the outlying asteroids, and one day, I decided to sneak in there. One of the Nausicaans saw me and was like "OI! You can't be in here!" But then I was like, "oh no?" and all of his clothes fell off. He scrambles trying to cover himself up, but it was too late, I'd seen everything. I'd seen it all."
One of my favorite episodes but I think they missed the mark on the ending. It should have ended with Jean Luc talking to Cory and Marta in the present with him saying that he wanted to talk to them because he had been thinking of the three of them, about all they had been through together and how he would not have changed one moment for anything. It’s still one of the best episodes.
My favorite episodes by main character. CAPTAIN PICARD 📀 The Big Goodbye GEORDI 📀 Elementary Dear Data RIKER 📀 The Vengeance Factor BEVERLY 📀 High Ground TASHA 📀 Yesterday's Enterprise DATA 📀 Data's Day WESLEY 📀 The Game WORF 📀 Cost of Living DEANNA 📀 Face of the Enemy Q 📀 Tapestry
0:41 I did a LOT of bad things in my life that I'll take to the grave with me, but they made me a better, stronger person because I knew they were wrong. For example, when my daughter was born, I thought about all the bad things that I did, and made sure that I did the best job possible in raising her because I didn't want her to go down my path.
And see, there is the real power of a Q. "I need to get Picard and Riker to have a heart to heart. I know, I'll take advantage of his mechanical heart and send him back into his own past at a near death moment."
Jean Luc shagged the Nausican captain's wife and daughter in the same day while beating the Nausican crew in a few hands of poker. After having won or stole everything of value he was "reassigned" back to Earth.
It's kinda funny that Riker would be the one Picard would talk to about his experience playing it safe, coasting in his job, never really seizing opportunities.
I like to think that Will always knew he’d eventually inherit the Enterprise and that was why he never took another command; any other ship would’ve paled in comparison, and he was still fairly young so he could afford to hold out for the best.
@@MegaTechpc But I don't think thats how it works, unless the captain gets killed in action/captured, etc. And thats only an acting role until someone else gets assigned to the job, like when Jelico took over, rather than Will taking the post. It's just funny how Riker is so content, so happy to pass over opportunities, and is guilty of exactly what that alternate Picard did.
@@knightshousegames No, I know he wouldn’t automatically be given command of the Enterprise but surely serving as first officer for a decade-plus (and having been offered multiple commands, I think Riker stands a good shot to succeed Picard whenever he eventually retires or is promoted to admiral.
Why do normal red uniforms Riker and Picard wear have a higher red contrast yet in the unzipped version like where that Picard wears it looks work out and faded.
Unless I'm being screwed with by a human through TH-cam, it's the placement of videos like this that makes me wonder if AI is using it like a flash card to communicate its understanding of email/comment and algorithm content.
The episode: not that great/entertaining. The final scene of the episode: Well, guess it's one of the best ones now, and with good life lesson too about accepting ones past.
One of the more try-hard episodes. The easy fix it just run through and avoid the knife, now that you know it's coming. He did all kinds of extraneous fiddling that wasn't needed. In any real scenario, the young PIcard, as presented, would never turn into the old Picard, as presented.
You missed the point. Him being stabbed was an important part of his life. Avoiding it is what led to the safe life he didn’t want. Q specifically said it it made him faces His own mortality and made him sees every moment because he knew each moment mattered. So he did exactly what he did then to get back to his former life, even if it was over.
@@neilkurzman4907 I get their hamfisted attempt at expressing that, I'm just rejecting the premise, or maybe hypothesis is the correct word. Or, maybe it simply is that I found the story writing to be unconvincing. I'm not completely opposed to nurture, in the nature vs. nurture argument, only that it is overstated.
@@neilkurzman4907 Again, I think he overstated it. I just don't find the character believable. I've met many people like the character they are trying to have Picard represent, and the changes they go through aren't that radical unless they get scared into some kind of religion that takes advantage of their fear.
@@l337pwnage So you believe winning the fight with honor would’ve been enough for him. That that was the only issue was the cowardice. That coming close to death doesn’t affect a person at all. Remember, he’s not going to attain his memories of what really happened he was given the option of changing the past . So in your mind, if somebody almost dies, it has no effect on them whatsoever. They simply go on with the rest of their lives. I would have to disagree.
Many things go through ones mind near death. Family, friends, what lies beyond, what lies behind, regrets, exc. Q did it to teach Picard a lesson about himself, that the events of his life shaped him. That he should not dwell on past "mistakes". Accept them as part of who you were, and what it eventually helped you become. Everything Q did had a lesson, even if it was not so obvious.
We can only speculate. There's a reason why Q chose the Enterprise crew to test (assuming it was more than just a plot device) and I suspect this is down to the expansion of the Federation and the fact the Enterprise was the flagship of the human race's entry into said organisation. In the mind of the Q, they presumably (correctly) speculated that the crew of this vessel would be the cream of what humanity had to offer, seeing as their mission was to make first contact and maintain amicable relations with other species. In this particular one, I suspect Q was looking at Picard and questioning why he had these issues regarding his past. After all, even with the mistakes and regrets, he still made it to be the CCO on the flagship vessel. So I feel it was a lesson to Picard (and to all humans) that to change what went before is to change the very essence of who you are and, in most cases, it's not likely to end up with you being in a better place as a result.
in the last episode he says the Q continuum want to see if humanity can open its mind and potential beyond its limits. And, for a brief moment, Piccard actually does. Q states "Thats the exploration for you, out there." Piccard still doesnt know what Q means and when he asks for specifics, Q just leans away and says "ill see you....out there" and vanishes all dramatically.
@@leopold7562 Personally speaking, I think it's largely curiosity that drives Q, here. Because if you'll remember, Q had his own encounter with mortality by this point - three seasons ago, he was briefly made a mortal human and nearly died when a species he once tormented came to get revenge on him. In his own words, he'd "never given it a second thought - or a first one, for that matter" when it came to dying, and it was a new experience for him to feel first-hand what Picard and other mortals go through on a daily basis with no powers to change their fates with. And much like Picard does, Q elects he'd rather perish than to try living in misery as something he's not. So now, armed with this new perspective on mortality, Q discovers a brand new concept to test humanity (i.e., Picard) with; their feelings and regrets when confronted with death. Moreover, it also gives him a chance to have Picard, as the saying goes, put his money where his mouth is - to see if, when confronted with the end of his existence and a review of his life, Picard will keep his integrity. Plus, I also think Picard touches on another reason earlier in the episode; the fact he feels that, in his his youth, he was actually a bit *similar* to Q - pompous, pious and not afraid to flaunt it. If I were to guess, it probably fascinates Q to think Picard could have been that much like him - and that he could have changed so much from what he'd consider a "negative" example but yet still be unsatisfied with his past. Thus, he wished to see what Picard would do if he *did* in fact have that power to change the outcome; if could change that side of him that he so regretted. And I also think that, better yet, he wished to see if Picard, after all the lecturing he'd given Q about humanity and morality, would or wouldn't compromise himself and who he was just to live or to have some kind of personal comfort - if he could overcome the "limits" of a fear of death and of self-regret that mortals so often have, and if he would rather die as the "imperfect" but proud man he was than to live as the "perfect" but bland man he could have been.
I didn't care for this episode. Q was just being an asshole. If I remember correctly, I never heard Picard express regret for his past except for an accident on the Stargazer. Also i feel like if Picard was the same man he was in his youth, he wouldnt of just settled for being an irrelevant scientific officer. More and more, I feel that the earlier seasons are better than the episodes of the later ones
Imagine sitting at a conference table listening to a story being told by Jean Luc Picard.
I would pay for that.
Did Patrick Stewart ever narrate any audiobooks? If so, I need those in my life.
I alway wished we con finish this story about The Nausicaans
Could*
@@keithhines4515 Nah, "con" might actually be the operative word haha
This episodes demonstrates 1 thing I've always believed in.
"Don't have regrets, have learning experiences."
Yeah, the most dangerous regrets to have are missed opportunities, since you often don't even realize they happened until it's far too late to learn anything
This episode had a great influence on me when I was around 19-20 years old. It kinda changed how I viewed things in life. Past, Present and Future. I'm still very grateful to the writers and actors.
It’s amazing how much an introspective TV show or movie can change your outlook on something, isn’t it?
Quelqu’un peut me dire quel est cet épisode et la saison
Merci d’avance
@@tasha3762 TNG S6E15 "Tapestry"
Same it was my favorite star trek episode, next Redemption
Same here mate. Eternally grateful to all involved. I saw this when I was 13 and it has steered me true.
Q did an astronomically huge favor to Picard. He brought him back to life (after he had in fact died), *and* made him not regret his past. I mean, what more can one want?
Save him from the fate of being a decrepit, incompetent old man whom nobody likes and who needs to constantly apologize to everyone for things he was not responsible for. Save him from being an apologist for White Colonialism. Which is as far removed from the Jean-Luc Picard of _TNG_ as bearded Spok is from Vulcan philosophy and learning.
@@BNuts You've seen the critical drinker's video, didn't you?
When Picard dies, Q will be at his funeral giving a great eulogy to his friend. I've always believed that's exactly how Q sees him, as a friend.
@@Pilot.0101 Well, Picard can't die until Q lets him die, since Q can always bring Picard back to life and de-age him if Q wants to.
@@BNuts Oh shit, it seems that Kurtzman saw this episode and turned it off half-way through and said: "This is what Picard will be about!"
When I watch The Next Generation, I forget they're actors playing characters. The characters were so well written and then played that the separation from reality was amazing.
In this day and age of such turbulent times, I stick TNG on and know, "we [humans] are going to be ok."
This was foreshadowing.
“Even gods have favorites, Jean-Luc…and you’ve always been one of mine.”
I love Q! Such an amazing character…
"One day, Jean-Luc, my dear friend, you will die. Many long years from now, at least according to your limited understanding of time. And on that day, I will make certain you die with the knowledge... that you die as the best version of you, in any reality."
Turn your regrets into wisdom. Your burdens today can become a laugh you share with comrades tomorrow
I love that cheeky smile Picard gives when starting to tell the story, like "Here's some more of the fuckery I got up to"
I love the look of awe on Riker's face. His respect and admiration for his captain is wonderful.
Tapestry is definitely one of my all-time favorite TNG episodes; right up there with The Inner Light, The Measure of a Man, The Best of Both Worlds, and The Offspring!
I would add Darmok, Tin Man and Yesterday's Enterprise to your list :). Also, i have a bit of guilty pleasure with Masks from season 7.Brent Spiner's acting in that episode was nothing short of EPIC!
0:59 I think everybody who has regrets in their past can relate. Some lessons can only be learned through pain and loss. It's how you view those lessons and what you take from them that moulds you into the person you are. I can see why they named this episode tapestry.
Most of the valuable lessons can only be learned through pain and loss!
I saw this episode and Yesterday's Enterprise when I was 17 or 18. Now that I'm 40, I think both influenced me a great deal.
Picard leaning in to tell a story......priceless.
This one scene is 1000X better written than all 3 seasons of Picard.
I have to give you that, lol.
Quality isn’t what it once was but I like that Picard has picked up some of the loose ends (like the relationship between Guinan and Q, what happened to seven, etc)
…maybe some of these should have been left alone to maintain the mystery around them.
Worf reaction was the best. That is when Picard had Worf loyalty and respect forever. Upon waking up from death,. He laughed as his wound. Not groan. LAUGHED!
If he was any other man, Worf would kill him where he stands!
WORF: "Laughing while dying? Nice. I can dig that."
This could be the most important lesson I ever learn. If you want to succeed in life and meet your goals you have to take risks.
This episode made me realize that my fantasy of having a time machine & traveling into my past to "make things better" is ultimately a foolish endeavor.
Even if I ever could "undo" past mistakes, or benefit from foresight . . . I realize that I would likely also LOSE a lot of the GOOD things that happened to me and even IF the 'gains' outweighed the 'losses' . . .it wouldn't really matter since I would no longer be "me" anymore. I would be "someone else". (who simply looks like me)
THIS episode absolutely nails it!!!
One of the best episodes in the whole franchise.
YES.
True!
It's a close tie between Tapestry and The Inner Light.
And 90% is Patrick Stewart & John De Lancie talking. All of Disco and Picard have a lesser grip on character than this episode.
for me, its this one and "the inner light" that I loved the most.
I want to hear the rest of that story
So do I.
And all their clothes just fell off
@Chet Carson Back to your cave petty troll. We shall have none of your kind here.
It’s a Noodle Incident
Narrator was like, "BORINGGGGG!!!!"
Q is omnipotent maybe he just sees a worthy adversary in Picard that he hasn't come across in billions of species he knows.
He also gains a worthy adversary in Janeway in Voyager.
Q doesn't need an adversary. Humanity is just interesting. The continuum sees in humanity something that they have never experienced before, the possibility of not being alone. The possibility of humans reaching the same level as the Q. This has frightened them to the point of putting Humanity on trial, and excited some to the point of outright helping humanity. Testing them. Pushing them to their limits. The Q we know has been quietly shifting events in his way, testing humanity through Picard.
The Q don't believe in Humanity. Only our Q! Picard in particular. Read Q & A!
It's not an adversary. In the final episode it becomes clear that Q and the continuum have expectations of humanity, likely that humanity, or at least some of them, will one day join the Q.
He doesn't see Jean Luc as an adversary though. I honestly believe that he really wants to be friends with Jean Luc
Well there is an easy way to determine if it was a dream. All Picard has to do is ask his old friend if they actually slept together. That was something Q let him change... That would make an interesting conversation to see.
Prime example of how captain Picard was a father figure to the enterprise senior officers and how riker was like the oldest looking up to him as a boy who wants to be like his father since riker had a horrible relationship with his real father. Troy was like his only daughter. Warf the son with issues who he forged into a wise samurai isk warrior poet. Jordi the smart son who went from helmsman to chief engineer in the blind of an eye. And last but not least data who was like the baby of them all so innocent and curious. He truly looked up to picard as a true father as he did or more so then dr. Soong. As for dr. Crusher she definitely was the mother figure who checked Picard when he needed it lol
And Wesley the estranged son 'we don't speak of' perhaps?
The only one I would debate was Crusher. I always thought Wesley was their out of wedlock son.
There are many of our veterans who would love to share their stories with younger people. Unfortunately younger people don't have time to listen to these great stories or the great women and men who tell them!
Tell me about it all.
I would listen to VETERANS until the PYRAMIDS Came crashing down or the end of time, itself.
Whatever is longer.
This scene makes me smile every time.
Awesome episode with a great story!!!
"During my sophomore year, I was assigned to training on Morikin Seven. Well, there was a Nausicaan outpost on one of the outlying asteroids, and one day, I decided to sneak in there. One of the Nausicaans saw me and was like "OI! You can't be in here!" But then I was like, "oh no?" and all of his clothes fell off. He scrambles trying to cover himself up, but it was too late, I'd seen everything. I'd seen it all."
thanks for the 'extra' information
Star Trek TNG will always be my comfort show. So many great lessons and loveable characters who care for each other.
Sir Patrick Stewart....such an epitome of class, and style!!!
This is such a good episode. One of my favorites.
00:45 - 01:00 This got a whole new meaning with Picard Season 2...
The best coaching speech ever
I would've loved to hear the rest of that story about the Nausican outpost.
Q treated Picard like an oldest son on this......and maybe 2 other ......episodes.
One of my favorite episodes but I think they missed the mark on the ending. It should have ended with Jean Luc talking to Cory and Marta in the present with him saying that he wanted to talk to them because he had been thinking of the three of them, about all they had been through together and how he would not have changed one moment for anything. It’s still one of the best episodes.
Good idea. But this is the first time that his character ever opens up to Riker so there’s some progression there.
My favorite Captain-First Officer duo.
I like how its implied he only told Riker.
Such an inspiring episode it helps me be at peace with the rocky path my life has taken
It seemed, sometimes picard could open up to riker better than dianna, or anyone else.
Picard learned one of the greatest things ever about life sometimes you get help from the last person you expect in his case q.
Its the moments like this that make me look forward to Q returning in Picard season 2, I really hope that they develop their friendship there
Really? They'll fuck it up.
Don't get your hopes up, it's being written by Alex kirstzmen
@@sharp14x And they did
My favorite episodes by main character.
CAPTAIN PICARD 📀 The Big Goodbye
GEORDI 📀 Elementary Dear Data
RIKER 📀 The Vengeance Factor
BEVERLY 📀 High Ground
TASHA 📀 Yesterday's Enterprise
DATA 📀 Data's Day
WESLEY 📀 The Game
WORF 📀 Cost of Living
DEANNA 📀 Face of the Enemy
Q 📀 Tapestry
I want to hear the rest of picard's story
I'm disappointed that we didn't get to hear this whole story he was telling Riker.
This shows vision is my version of "I have a dream" I hope someday we will find the power to save ourselves from ourselves.
0:41 I did a LOT of bad things in my life that I'll take to the grave with me, but they made me a better, stronger person because I knew they were wrong. For example, when my daughter was born, I thought about all the bad things that I did, and made sure that I did the best job possible in raising her because I didn't want her to go down my path.
Makes me wonder how many industrial replicators are behind that ginormous deflector dish.
And see, there is the real power of a Q.
"I need to get Picard and Riker to have a heart to heart. I know, I'll take advantage of his mechanical heart and send him back into his own past at a near death moment."
I’ve always wanted Q to give me this visit…
Goddammit! I wanted to hear the rest of he´s tale there in the end!
Riker: So? what happened?
Piccard: He owed me 20 bars of Latinuum. So i took his teeth. Seemed like a fair trade.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a fan-fiction out there that continues Jean-Luc Picard's story.
Jean Luc shagged the Nausican captain's wife and daughter in the same day while beating the Nausican crew in a few hands of poker. After having won or stole everything of value he was "reassigned" back to Earth.
“One day…” (cuts to credits)
Me: What? WHAT?!
I...I kinda wanted to hear the rest of that story!
It's kinda funny that Riker would be the one Picard would talk to about his experience playing it safe, coasting in his job, never really seizing opportunities.
I like to think that Will always knew he’d eventually inherit the Enterprise and that was why he never took another command; any other ship would’ve paled in comparison, and he was still fairly young so he could afford to hold out for the best.
@@MegaTechpc But I don't think thats how it works, unless the captain gets killed in action/captured, etc. And thats only an acting role until someone else gets assigned to the job, like when Jelico took over, rather than Will taking the post.
It's just funny how Riker is so content, so happy to pass over opportunities, and is guilty of exactly what that alternate Picard did.
@@knightshousegames No, I know he wouldn’t automatically be given command of the Enterprise but surely serving as first officer for a decade-plus (and having been offered multiple commands, I think Riker stands a good shot to succeed Picard whenever he eventually retires or is promoted to admiral.
I want to see those adventures.
No! Don't stop there! :O
i was sit at home drinking vinum when messenger boy arrive
“Rome is kill”
“No”
awww come on i really wanted to hear that last story
i’m sure we can retconn this that wesley was pulling the strings all along, since he’s a guardian and he was talking about tapestry. i hate it
“And one day I got a jackass and a honeycomb…”
God’s love never quits.
Pull up a bollard shipmate, let me tell you about the time I was on..... swing those lanterns like some old Royal Naval matelot, Jean Luc
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.
Why do normal red uniforms Riker and Picard wear have a higher red contrast yet in the unzipped version like where that Picard wears it looks work out and faded.
Beastin'
IMO Picard really did die but Q pulled him to one side to teach him another lesson
"Oh yes..."
Has this Nausicaan anecdote been expanded upon anywhere?
Looking back it took the TNG writers far too long to pull bs k the curtains on JL.
Unless I'm being screwed with by a human through TH-cam, it's the placement of videos like this that makes me wonder if AI is using it like a flash card to communicate its understanding of email/comment and algorithm content.
Nothing makes a wise old man grin like telling a story from a very foolish youth.
I actually want to hear that story tho.
How close are Riker and Picard? Well, Riker was the only one Picard confided this all to.
I just watch this episode on BBC channel. for some reason they cut the ending before 1:15.
Thanks...I thought it was just me, who didn't remember the beginning of the story.
What happened to the old TNG? I wish TNG ran 40 seasons.
1:04 Jonathan Frakes is a Judas Priest fan? :P
Jean Luc agonizing over his past?
Don't play it safe .
Believe me I understand
The episode: not that great/entertaining.
The final scene of the episode: Well, guess it's one of the best ones now, and with good life lesson too about accepting ones past.
Long story short....you find out Picard is specist against Nosigans.
Naussican
13% of damjaat players start 50% of bar fights
Kek
One of the more try-hard episodes. The easy fix it just run through and avoid the knife, now that you know it's coming. He did all kinds of extraneous fiddling that wasn't needed.
In any real scenario, the young PIcard, as presented, would never turn into the old Picard, as presented.
You missed the point. Him being stabbed was an important part of his life. Avoiding it is what led to the safe life he didn’t want. Q specifically said it it made him faces
His own mortality and made him sees every moment because he knew each moment mattered.
So he did exactly what he did then to get back to his former life, even if it was over.
@@neilkurzman4907 I get their hamfisted attempt at expressing that, I'm just rejecting the premise, or maybe hypothesis is the correct word.
Or, maybe it simply is that I found the story writing to be unconvincing.
I'm not completely opposed to nurture, in the nature vs. nurture argument, only that it is overstated.
@@l337pwnage
It’s what Q specifically said to him.
@@neilkurzman4907 Again, I think he overstated it. I just don't find the character believable.
I've met many people like the character they are trying to have Picard represent, and the changes they go through aren't that radical unless they get scared into some kind of religion that takes advantage of their fear.
@@l337pwnage
So you believe winning the fight with honor would’ve been enough for him. That that was the only issue was the cowardice. That coming close to death doesn’t affect a person at all. Remember, he’s not going to attain his memories of what really happened he was given the option of changing the past .
So in your mind, if somebody almost dies, it has no effect on them whatsoever. They simply go on with the rest of their lives. I would have to disagree.
...and all their clothes fell off
A better title for this episode would've been 'No Regrets'
No it wouldn't
did we ever find out why Q did what he did?
Many things go through ones mind near death. Family, friends, what lies beyond, what lies behind, regrets, exc. Q did it to teach Picard a lesson about himself, that the events of his life shaped him. That he should not dwell on past "mistakes". Accept them as part of who you were, and what it eventually helped you become. Everything Q did had a lesson, even if it was not so obvious.
Because he likes Picard. And he had a lesson to teach about boldness and daring.
We can only speculate. There's a reason why Q chose the Enterprise crew to test (assuming it was more than just a plot device) and I suspect this is down to the expansion of the Federation and the fact the Enterprise was the flagship of the human race's entry into said organisation. In the mind of the Q, they presumably (correctly) speculated that the crew of this vessel would be the cream of what humanity had to offer, seeing as their mission was to make first contact and maintain amicable relations with other species.
In this particular one, I suspect Q was looking at Picard and questioning why he had these issues regarding his past. After all, even with the mistakes and regrets, he still made it to be the CCO on the flagship vessel. So I feel it was a lesson to Picard (and to all humans) that to change what went before is to change the very essence of who you are and, in most cases, it's not likely to end up with you being in a better place as a result.
in the last episode he says the Q continuum want to see if humanity can open its mind and potential beyond its limits. And, for a brief moment, Piccard actually does. Q states "Thats the exploration for you, out there." Piccard still doesnt know what Q means and when he asks for specifics, Q just leans away and says "ill see you....out there" and vanishes all dramatically.
@@leopold7562 Personally speaking, I think it's largely curiosity that drives Q, here. Because if you'll remember, Q had his own encounter with mortality by this point - three seasons ago, he was briefly made a mortal human and nearly died when a species he once tormented came to get revenge on him. In his own words, he'd "never given it a second thought - or a first one, for that matter" when it came to dying, and it was a new experience for him to feel first-hand what Picard and other mortals go through on a daily basis with no powers to change their fates with. And much like Picard does, Q elects he'd rather perish than to try living in misery as something he's not.
So now, armed with this new perspective on mortality, Q discovers a brand new concept to test humanity (i.e., Picard) with; their feelings and regrets when confronted with death. Moreover, it also gives him a chance to have Picard, as the saying goes, put his money where his mouth is - to see if, when confronted with the end of his existence and a review of his life, Picard will keep his integrity. Plus, I also think Picard touches on another reason earlier in the episode; the fact he feels that, in his his youth, he was actually a bit *similar* to Q - pompous, pious and not afraid to flaunt it. If I were to guess, it probably fascinates Q to think Picard could have been that much like him - and that he could have changed so much from what he'd consider a "negative" example but yet still be unsatisfied with his past.
Thus, he wished to see what Picard would do if he *did* in fact have that power to change the outcome; if could change that side of him that he so regretted. And I also think that, better yet, he wished to see if Picard, after all the lecturing he'd given Q about humanity and morality, would or wouldn't compromise himself and who he was just to live or to have some kind of personal comfort - if he could overcome the "limits" of a fear of death and of self-regret that mortals so often have, and if he would rather die as the "imperfect" but proud man he was than to live as the "perfect" but bland man he could have been.
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I didn't care for this episode. Q was just being an asshole. If I remember correctly, I never heard Picard express regret for his past except for an accident on the Stargazer. Also i feel like if Picard was the same man he was in his youth, he wouldnt of just settled for being an irrelevant scientific officer. More and more, I feel that the earlier seasons are better than the episodes of the later ones
There are some reeeaaallly bad episodes in the later seasons. Some good ones too, but the bad ones are almost incredibly bad.
This episode really helps me deal with the regrets of my youth. Fantastic episode!
And to think that two men just talking about their experiences is greater than anything Star Trek has put out in the past decade+ 🫤