"All good things" last episode question
Posted by agirtzce@reddit | TNG | View on Reddit | 15 comments
Was the point to not do anything?
If Picard just did nothing, waited it out, the anomaly would never happened?
Feels silly that he went to all that trouble and the solution all along was inaction?
JugOfVoodoo@reddit
But the solution was not inaction. It was to have all three Enterprise-Ds (Past, Present, and Future) work together to seal the space-time rift.
There were two points to the test. The first was to see if Picard could let go of his perceptions of how time works. To humans time goes in one direction, from past to present to future, with causes in the past and effects in the future. Picard had to figure out that the rift went backwards through time; its cause was in the future and its effects were in the past.
The second point was to get Picard to appreciate and open up to his crew. By seeing a future where the crew has drifted apart and a past where the crew did not yet trust him, Picard realizes that the crew has become his family. That's why he joins them at the poker game at the end.
Ok-Preference-4433@reddit
"I should have done this a long time ago."
"You were always welcome."
"So, five card stud, nothing wild... and the sky is the limit."
That gets me every time.
beeemmvee@reddit
It is perfect.
SummerOnTheBeach@reddit
Oh yea. Tears always come during the final scene. All Good Things is one of my most favorite TNG episodes.
Nabana@reddit
It always bugged me that it wasn't the three Enterprises firing the tachyon pulses though (even though Data says it's as of all three are originating from the Enterprise). The pulse from the future was from the Pasteur, not the Enterprise.
GMBen9775@reddit
To quote another scifi show that I think sums up humanity in many scifi settings, including Star Trek
Humanity tends to overstep, they have a need to have a say in everything, to try to solve everything, even when it's not in anyone's best interests.
DragonHeart_97@reddit
I recognize the quote, what is that from?
GMBen9775@reddit
River Tam - Serenity
DragonHeart_97@reddit
Thanks, I was thinking maybe the IDW Transformers series. I will take this as a sign that it has, in fact, been too long since I've watched Firefly.
GMBen9775@reddit
It's always a good time to go back through the series. For me, there are no bad episodes and the movie was mostly good
DragonHeart_97@reddit
Honestly, I love the movie, think it stands on its own as a legitimately good film as opposed to just a long episode of the show.
sqplanetarium@reddit
Absolutely. The Prime Directive is so important that no one would ever dream of breaking it! Right? 😅
DarwinGoneWild@reddit
Q explicitly says the idea was to open his mind to possibilities he never considered before. When Picard realizes the paradox that he caused the problem by looking for the problem, he passes Q’s test. The idea was to nudge humanity towards a paradigm shift in their understanding of the universe.
Liquid_machine81@reddit
The point was to get Picard to think outside the box kind of like an unstoppable moving force against an immovable object situation.
Wrong-Music1763@reddit
I think that was the point. Picard’s actions vs inactions. I think Q was making that point to Picard, the solution was inaction. Q was poking fun at the human race a bit but also showing Picard that in reality doing nothing at all is an option as well. I think Q was trying to expand their horizons while at the same time setting them up with a problem that had a simple solution but dire consequences. Q being Q.