"Tapestry"- Canon or hallucination?

[carcinoGeneticist]

In the eopisode 'Tapestry', Q gives Picard a chance at reliving his life to undo a fatal mistake. While this is happening, Picard is in the process of dying. People who are close to death often experience strange happenings, and I'm wondering what your guys' interpretations of the episode was? Do you think it really happened or was it all in Picard's head? Not sure if 'hallucuination' was the proper word to use in the title, but I can't think of a better word to use.

 

[Tosk]

Did it really happen? Yes.
Was Picard ever really in his own past? Dunno. Maybe. It'd be easy for Picard himself to find out, just by asking Corey or Marta about specifics.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I saw it on TV so canon.

Given Q's powers it really happened. Until it didn't

 

[Lynx]

I see it as "canon".

Picard experienced what had happened many years ago, however Q got him to have this visions of an alternate future in which he didn't get injured bu messed up his relationship with his friends and his career too, only to teach Picard a lesson about how stupid it could be to mess up the timeline by changing certain events.

I've been thinking about such things myself sometimes.

There are some events in which I sometimes thinks that I should have done something else to avoid a difficult situation.

But if I had the chance to go back int time and change a certain event, my life would have taken a different turn which may not have been for the better.

 

[Orac]

Similarly, since Star Trek VIII starts with Picard hearing voices in his head, is the whole movie a schizophrenic hallucination? Or whatever vaguely defined future mental illness his mother had in season 2 of Star Trek Picard?

Back on topic, yes I believe it was an hallucination. Also in the Inner Light, Picard's family mental illness and susceptibility to hallucinations is possibly why the probe in that episode specifically targeted him.

I love retroactive continuity!

 

[BillJ]

Canon. It is on screen, produced by Paramount.

 

[Ragitsu]

Canon. It is on screen, produced by Paramount.

Is that a bulge in your cheek or are you just happy to see us?

 

[fireproof78]

In the eopisode 'Tapestry', Q gives Picard a chance at reliving his life to undo a fatal mistake. While this is happening, Picard is in the process of dying. People who are close to death often experience strange happenings, and I'm wondering what your guys' interpretations of the episode was? Do you think it really happened or was it all in Picard's head? Not sure if 'hallucuination' was the proper word to use in the title, but I can't think of a better word to use.

It was a Q manufactured reality.

 

[Dukhat]

I don't think the OP meant to imply that it wasn't canon (despite using that word in the post title.) I think he was just asking if the events of the episode actually changed the timeline/corrected the timeline/etc., or was it all just a fake scenario created by Q. But something changed, because before the events of the episode, Picard remembered laughing after he got stabbed, but didn't know why. And now he does. Not to mention that Picard had sex with Batanides when he didn't before. The only way he would be able to tell, as was mentioned above, is if he contacted Batanides and asked her about it.

 

[Kor]

I have always wondered if Q was really even there at all, or if it was just an imaginary Q within Picard's mind as part of this near-death experience manufactured by his subconscious. At the end of the episode, Picard himself wonders if it was all just a dream.

Kor

 

[Tomalak]

I think it *really* happened, because it fits with Q's preferred M.O. He does basically the same thing in both AGT and ST:PIC - messes about with Picard's personal history to teach him a lesson.

 

[Dukhat]

I think it *really* happened, because it fits with Q's preferred M.O. He does basically the same thing in both AGT and ST:PIC - messes about with Picard's personal history to teach him a lesson.

Oh, it happened. At least, we saw it happen on screen. The question is, did the timeline change because Picard had sex with Batanides when he didn't before, or was that all hand-waved away by Q?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Oh, it happened. At least, we saw it happen on screen. The question is, did the timeline change because Picard had sex with Batanides when he didn't before, or was that all hand-waved away by Q?

Picard 4 will be about his other secret son.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Do you think it really happened or was it all in Picard's head?

Both.

The fact that the episode was undone in the end, doesn't change the fact that it still happened. We SAW it.

"Tapestry" is no less part of canon/continuity than "Yesterday's Enterprise". That episode was also undone, yet IT happened as well.

If we saw it, it happened. Simple as that.

 

[NCC-73515]

Before Tapestry he didn't know why he laughed after he was stabbed. In Tapestry, we can interpret it as him being relieved he got his original life back. So I do think it really happened and was a timey-wimey loop thing

 

[Dukhat]

Both.

The fact that the episode was undone in the end, doesn't change the fact that it still happened. We SAW it.

"Tapestry" is no less part of canon/continuity than "Yesterday's Enterprise". That episode was also undone, yet IT happened as well.

If we saw it, it happened. Simple as that.

Again, I don't think the OP is implying that it didn't happen. Rather, was what Picard experienced all in his head (like the events of "The Inner Light"), or did Q actually take him back in time and influence events?

 

[Tomalak]

Again, I don't think the OP is implying that it didn't happen. Rather, was what Picard experienced all in his head (like the events of "The Inner Light"), or did Q actually take him back in time and influence events?

I would say yes, it all *really* happened, just as AGT wasn't in his head.

Oh, it happened. At least, we saw it happen on screen. The question is, did the timeline change because Picard had sex with Batanides when he didn't before, or was that all hand-waved away by Q?

Yeah, that's the only real change that would carry across. But I'd argue that it's implied they drifted apart anyway when they got assigned to their ships, so it will have had a very minor impact. Just a slightly different regret for Picard to live with.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

Is that a bulge in your cheek or are you just happy to see us?

OUT OF LINE! Keep the suggestive insults to yourself.

 

[Ragitsu]

Suggestive, perhaps, but that comment was in no way intended to be an insult.

 

[somebuddyX]

I bet if you asked Ron Moore he would say it's meant to be ambiguous.