The premise of “Tapestry” is intense: Picard dies after struggling a phaser blast to the chest. He awakens within the afterlife, greeted by the playful house deity Q (John De Lancie). Q explains to Picard that his synthetic coronary heart malfunctioned, and that if Picard had an natural coronary heart, he would have survived the phaser blast. Picard explains that he misplaced in coronary heart in a knife struggle when he was 21, having instigated a bar brawl with some 7-foot-tall Nausicaans. Q provides to ship Picard again in time to rewrite historical past, cease the brawl, and save his coronary heart. Picard accepts.
The grownup Picard, nevertheless, had forgotten how impulsive and irresponsible he had been at age 21, and is shocked to search out how reckless his associates have been. He tries to use his grownup knowledge to his youthful self, and he manages to cease the bar brawl he instigated. In so doing, nevertheless, Picard alienates his associates, shows a definite lack of daring, and emerges on the opposite facet cautious, callow, and weak-willed. Knowledge, he finds, can’t be immediately utilized to youth. He wanted to be taught by making errors.
When Q whisks Picard again to his grownup life, now along with his natural coronary heart intact, all the things is altered. Picard is now a lowly lieutenant on the Enterprise, having made it to his 60s with no profession ambition.
The captain of the Enterprise on this altered timeline is alleged to be a beforehand unmentioned character named Thomas Holloway. However within the unique draft of the “Tapestry” script, author Ronald D. Moore wished the alternate Enterprise to be commanded by Edward Jellico. Moore determined towards it, although, maybe feeling that the reference was too insular.
