What if Picard beat up the nausicans and didn't lose his heart?

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Used-Gas-6525@reddit

He wouldn't end up a punctual science officer I can tell you that.

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Festivefire@reddit

Then we wouldn't have had to sit through this mediocre filler episode when his artificial heart failed, since he'd have a normal healthy heart.

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Festivefire@reddit

You're allowed to enjoy a filler episode, but I don't see how an episode thar consists of nothing but flashbacks and irrelevant what-ifs can be anything but a filler.

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yeahalrightgoon@reddit

I mean the majority of TNG episodes didn't really push the story along. This one was fleshing out Picards back story. I wouldn't call it irrelevant what-ifs. It's character development.

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Tall_Perspective_941@reddit

I think they’re calling that one episode with Wesley & Picard on the shuttle filler

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It was an important insight into how the TNG writers viewed leadership and responsibility, like the non punishments given to Nova Squadron after breaking regs, getting a classmate killed, and covering it it.

A completely different perspective than TOS writers with Kirk being a stickler and stack of books, and Merrick getting kicked out to the merchant marine.

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kidney-displacer@reddit

Not even the part where he says "Is there a JoHn Luck here?"

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Andybalki@reddit

We'd never see picard modestly cover his nipples while lying in bed with Q the morning after!

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ThePrisonSoap@reddit

He'd probably learn to take too much risk if he didn't have to face the consequences of his actions.

Basically the opposite of the tapestry timeline

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Mercury_Madulller@reddit

He would have later lost it or died some other way. By his own admission, he was reckless in his youth and learned a hard lesson at the bar that day. He also acknowledged that he was lucky to have lived and that it helped shape him into the person he would become. I dear say, all of humanity may have been wiped out if he didn't try to fight that Nausican or did fight them but successfully defeated all three of them (with his heart remaining intact).

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Old_Celebration_5950@reddit

You're describing the swole timeline featured in TNG comics Mirror Universe
OMG Swole Barkley

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sfhf@reddit

Love it how troi is looking at picard here...they have a thing for each other in the Mirror Universe

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emptiedglass@reddit

I wonder if Jacked Crusher is still alive in that timeline?

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laputailaramoneta@reddit

The Swole Timeline is the old TNG Comics too:

https://imgur.com/a/9EB1wEs

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Old_Celebration_5950@reddit

I actually was looking for this series but swole Barkley captured my heart

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Mister_Mojo78@reddit

I have yet to check it out! I've heard of it before

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Mister_Mojo78@reddit

No, it's 'but you have no.. grandma!' 🤣

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Darkling183@reddit

"I had yours last night." Burn!

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dimgray@reddit

He would have banged Bev decades earlier

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Choice_Chocolate5866@reddit

Then he'd wind up as a rogue archaeologist stealing and selling rarities with Vash across the apha, beta, and gamma quadrants...

Probably after overthrowing a despotic captain...

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ChunkBluntly@reddit

If it weren't for Picard's dodgy heart, Pulaski would have been an entirely useless character for the entire season she was on.

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nedwasatool@reddit

That is the timeline in Picard where they had extinction day.

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rootxploit@reddit

Then he’d be Sisko

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Terrorbaston@reddit

He did beat up 2 of them . Then got stabbed in the back by a 3rd

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geno111@reddit

Doesn't episode "Tapestry" answer this?

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Mass-Effect-6932@reddit

This Starfleet officer has the gramba

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Famous_Suspect6330@reddit

The Nausicans in a nutshell

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Empress-Arcana@reddit

I think this is a really great question, though I don't have an answer.

It depends on how exactly the injury affected him mentally/emotionally. While he still would have had the risk-taking attitude that let him climb the ranks of Starfleet, would he have had less grounding in the potential consequences of those risks if not for his brush with death? Would he have been too reckless and potentially gotten himself or others killed or making some other mistakes big enough to lose him that potential for captaincy?

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