Tapestry
- Episode aired Feb 13, 1993
- TV-PG
- 45m
When Captain Picard's artificial heart fails, he is offered the rare opportunity to go back in time and set right the mistake that led to his demise.When Captain Picard's artificial heart fails, he is offered the rare opportunity to go back in time and set right the mistake that led to his demise.When Captain Picard's artificial heart fails, he is offered the rare opportunity to go back in time and set right the mistake that led to his demise.
- Penny Muroc
- (as Rae Norman)
- Ensign Armstrong
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Martinez
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Kellogg
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaPortraying the afterlife caused some technical problems. With John de Lancie in a white robe on a white background, the production crew were concerned that Q would appear as a floating head. Both actors were aware of the difficulties in the shot, and even de Lancie felt it made his performance in some scenes more subdued than usual. The staff thought this was perfect for a more serious Q episode.
- GoofsAs Picard chats with Q in the "afterlife", they pause their conversation and watch a visual recreation of the "young" Picard fighting with a bunch of Nausicaans. After the young Picard hits the first Nausicaan, he (the Nausicaan) falls backward and, as he hits the ground, his long black wig comes off. The Nausicaan then quickly rolls out of the camera shot, leaving the wig behind. (This all happens very quickly and is easier to see in slow motion.)
- Quotes
Lt. J.G. Jean-Luc Picard: You having a good laugh now, Q? Does it amuse you to think of me spending the rest of my life as a dreary man, with a tedious job?
Q: I gave you something most mortals never experience: a second chance at life. And now all you can do is complain?
Lt. J.G. Jean-Luc Picard: I can't live out my days as that person. That man is bereft of passion, and... and imagination! That is not who I am!
Q: *Au contraire*. He's the person you wanted to be, one who was less arrogant and undisciplined in his youth, one who was less like me. The Jean-Luc Picard you wanted to be, the one who did *not* fight the Nausicaans, had quite a different career from the one you remember. That Picard never had a brush with death, never came face to face with his own mortality, never realized how fragile life is... or how important each moment can, and should, be. So his life never came into focus. He drifted through much of his career, with no plan or agenda, going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never led the away team on Milika III to save the ambassador, or took charge of the Stargazer's bridge when its captain was killed. And no one ever offered him a command. He learned to play it safe... And he never, *ever,* got noticed by *anyone.*
Lt. J.G. Jean-Luc Picard: You're right, Q. You gave me the chance to change, and I took the opportunity. But I admit now: it was a mistake.
Q: Are you asking me for something, Jean-Luc?
Lt. J.G. Jean-Luc Picard: Only for a chance to make things the way they were, the way I now realize they must be.
Q: Before, you died in sickbay. Is that what you want?
Lt. J.G. Jean-Luc Picard: I would rather die as the man I know is truly within me - with a full life, a *real* life, behind me - than have my name on the biography I just listened to.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: Nemesis Review (2009)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
- makiefer-87128
- Mar 1, 2024
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1