Star Trek: 10 Times Picard Proved The Future Was Worth Fighting For

If you had the chance to do it all differently, what would you do with your life?

A question that is timeless and it is one that Picard is asked on his deathbed. The omnipotent being Q reaches out to Picard as he lies dying and gives him the opportunity to changes the events of his life that led him to where he then lies. He chooses to change and observes a life without meaning, direction or joy.

The future here is one that exists in the present - it is the personal future of every human being. Picard's life is what his experience has led him to, the good and the bad. To change one with hindsight affects the future in ways he hadn't considered and it is a mirror held up to the audience watching at home who have ever wished what if I had just done this instead?

Star Trek again is using scifi to show this. The future is worth fighting for. However, here it is not an abstract or hypothetical future - it is the future of the life you lead. Picard has been an adventurer, a lover, an authoritarian, a teacher, a healer, a saint and a sinner. He is all of those things and in these forty minutes, Picard shows the audience that the aspects of personality are the paving stones of the life led.

If it were to end, he muses with Q, then he would have been proud to die as the man he was, rather than live the life he saw.