Synopsis: Where we learn violence and revenge brings you great rewards!

Memory Alpha Summary:  You don’t mess with the Nausicans.

Review:  I think my one criticism of this episode is that, like Q Who, Q just shows up too damn often.  Granted, it’s his personality to come in and out of scenes when nobody wants him there.  But the more he shows up, the less I can believe that Picard is actually in the past than just reenacting a scene in a play (for Q’s amusement).  Otherwise, every scene is good, and Q is funny as usual (John Luck Pickard!) though I find it kind of off-putting how quickly Marta throws away their friendship without even so much as having a conversation about the one-night stand.  But then, this is the 24^th century where almost nobody in space seems to have relationships, so yeah.  I also didn’t like how Picard more or less calls the jobs of most of the crew that works under him dull and tedious.  Kind of makes you want to be an astrophysicist!

But despite the episode as a whole didn’t sit perfectly with me, I feel the ending moral Picards tells Riker really hits home.

There are many parts of my youth that I’m not proud of… there were loose threads… untidy parts of me that I would like to remove.  But when I pulled on one of those threads…it had unraveled the tapestry of my life.