Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 6, Episode 15 - "Tapestry"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Tapestry," Captain Picard is mortally wounded while on a mission, but when he walks toward the light, it's Q on the other side! If he had it all to do over again, would a simpler, less dangerous life be a better fit for Picard? Can Q convince him to change the mistakes of his youth?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:32.0 | A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:51.7 | And I'm Ken Ray. Each week on Mission Log we relive an episode from |
| 0:55.9 | Star Trek history contemplating the decisions that were made the lessons that were |
| 1:00.5 | learned and then we try to determine if those lessons made us and to the people we are today. |
| 1:07.0 | This week, Tapestry, the one where Lord Clarence McDonald goes to Bruinvald Castle to look at the famous tapestries. |
| 1:14.7 | No, I'm pretty sure that's not it. |
| 1:19.0 | This is the Star Trek episode tapestry, the one where Picard gets stabbed in the heart, repeatedly. |
| 1:26.6 | Then I am not Mickey Mouse. |
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