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Story
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Prologue On a seemingly routine diplomatic mission, Picard and the away team are attacked by a group of radicals. Picard is slightly injured, but the energy blast directed at him damages his artificial heart, putting his life in danger. As such, Picard finds himself in the afterlife, but to his dismay it appears to be the domain of his nemesis Q.
Plot To prove Picard is dead, Q introduces him to persons Picard is aware have died, including Picard's father, and the voices of all persons for whose deaths Picard is responsible. When Picard accuses Q of causing his death, Q reveals that Picard's artificial heart is the cause of his demise - a genuine heart would not have been damaged in the same way by the energy discharge.
It is "revealed" to Q that Picard lost his own heart in a bar brawl with a Nausicaan - a large hostile race, which resulted in Picard being impaled from the back through his heart. This information was already revealed to Wesley Crusher in a previous episode, but was not generally known to the crew. Picard realizes his regret for his "wild youth" and that it has finally caught up with him. It is revealed that the basis of his current disciplined personality and need for privacy in his personal life is rooted in his regret over his earlier life and a wish to keep it secret. In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Nausicaans are a strong and typically violent race renowned throughout the Alpha Quadrant for being skilled mercenaries. ...
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Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to keep their lives and personal affairs out of public view, or to control the flow of information about themselves. ...
Realizing Picard's regrets, Q offers to let him go back in time to prevent the injury that resulted in him obtaining an artificial heart. Picard is then whisked back to the day before the injury, meeting up with his friends and academy classmates Corey Zweller and Marta Batanides. To his friends and acquaintances, his "newly changed" personality comes as somewhat an unpleasant surprise, and he quickly alienates everyone around him - the person they knew as fun loving and quick to anger is now staid, slow to anger, and often unintentionally insulting.
Events proceed as they did with Zweller becoming enraged with a group of Nausicaans who cheat him at dom-jot. However, Picard quickly short circuits Zweller's original plan to rig the dom-jot table, enraging his best friend in the process. After a quick intimate encounter with Ensign Batanides that was not part of the original timeline, the Nausicaans appear and start insulting Picard and his friends. Instead of taking on the Nausicaans as he originally did, Picard instead throws Zweller out of the way of the fight. The Nausicaans call the ensigns cowards and leave. Q appears and tells Picard that he has successfully saved his heart, and sends him back to the present.
However, when he arrives, Picard finds that although Q's promise not to otherwise change the timeline has been kept, Picard finds himself on the Enterprise as a Lieutenant junior grade in the astrophysics department. After consulting Riker and Troi, he discovers that his entire career is now a list of routine postings and that he has accomplished little or nothing of consequence. He is described as extremely competent by his superiors, but he fails to show initiative. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) (or Enterprise-D, to distinguish it from prior starships with the same name) is a 24th century starship in the Star Trek fictional universe and the principal setting of the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series. ...
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Picard eventually confronts Q, who tells him that although the bout with the Nausicaan nearly cost him his life, it also gave him a sense of his own mortality. The new Picard never took any risks. Picard realizes that his attempts to suppress and ignore the consequences of his youthful indiscretions has resulted in him losing a part of himself - a part he does not necessarily like, but a vital part of him nonetheless.
Climax Q gives Picard the chance to go back again, even though Picard realizes that putting the time line back as it was will result in his death. However, Picard prefers death as the captain of the Enterprise rather than the routine life he has been shown. He goes back to the fight, takes on the Nausicaans, and events unfold as they should.
Epilogue Back on the Enterprise, Picard recovers from his injuries. He wonders if he really did go back into the past or whether it was merely a hallucination or one of Q's tricks. In any event, after Riker hears the story, he expresses some difficulty imagining the man he knows taking on two Nausicaans twice his size. At that point, Picard launches into another story about an encounter with Nausicaans in similar circumstances, and the viewer is left with the hope that Picard will open up about his past to his friends and colleagues. A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. ...
Character development 'Tapestry' provides an important part of Picard's backstory. At the beginning of the series, Picard is a Starfleet legend, new captain of the flagship, and famous in his own right. Throughout the series, the captain's past exploits are highlighted in a number of episodes, including the invention of the Picard Maneuver. In narratology, a back-story (also back story or backstory) is the history behind the situation extant at the start of the main story. ...
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However, when Picard is in more private situations, we learn that he is far less confident of his belief in his own discipline. To most of his crew and many of his acquaintances, he has no personal life to speak of. The only person who knows better is his old friend Beverly Crusher, and she usually refuses to discuss Picard's prior life, knowing that he would see it as an invasion of his privacy. When Picard's life outside Starfleet is discussed openly, it is often about his other accomplishments, such as his interest in archeology. Dr. Beverly Crusher, played by actress Gates McFadden, was a character on the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation and the films which followed. ...
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Ironically, Picard's crew (particularly Dr. Crusher from a personal point of view, and Troi from a professional point of view) wish he would have more of a personal life. Picard has few friends he has made recently, with most of his friends being of long association and in distant places. Although he has several romantic liaisons through the series, he is usually embarrassed about them. When his crew discovers such relationships, they are usually surprised, then delighted.
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An interesting twist on canon established in Samaritan Snare is given. In that episode, Picard tells Wesley of the incident, saying that as he looked down at the knife emerging from his chest he laughed; he doesn't say what caused him to laugh, but in the context of his explanation, it could be presumed that, giddy with the adrenaline rush during the aftermath of the fight, he recklessly found the knife and the prospect of dying by it quite humorous. At the end of this episode, Picard looks down, sees the knife, and he laughs, knowing that everything will happen as it is meant to. Samaritan Snare is an episode from the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...
Time travel The episode clearly follows Star Trek's standard time travel rules: it is possible to change the future by changing events in the past, but it is also possible to "undo" the change and put the "time line" back to its previous state. Although there are several Star Trek episodes and movies where one or more persons tries to change the past, in Tapestry, like other time travel episodes in Star Trek, the correct time line is always restored. However, it can be argued that despite the time line being put back into place, Picard's personality is permanently changed by the experience. Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ...
The episode also demonstrates Q's ability to travel freely in time as well as space, and to take others along with him. This ability is more aptly demonstrated in All Good Things.... All Good Things. ...
The exact nature of time travel used in this episode is intentionally left ambiguous in light of the full spectrum of Q's powers and the incident that brought about the chain of events in the first place. As observed by Picard himself, Q's powers and ability to create isolated realms of existence introduce the possibility that time travel is precluded entirely, or the whole experience could merely be a hallucination precluding Picard from actually having even met Q at all in the episode. The lattermost theory is somewhat supported by the title itself; "Tapestry" is the only episode of Next Generation since the pilot Encounter at Farpoint and aside from the finale All Good Things... to feature Q without having the letter "Q" in the title,[1] which could be seen as a suggestion that the appearance of Q is "not really there." Encounter at Farpoint was the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...
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DVD - This episode is featured on the Star Trek: The Next Generation - Jean-Luc Picard Collection DVD set for Region 1 only. It is the last of seven episodes featured, on disc 2 of the two-disc set.
- This episode is featured on the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Q DVD set. It is the ninth of 14 episodes featured, on disc 3 of the four-disc set.
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