Tasha Yar's confrontation with a predestined death: learning (from Guinan) that she 'does not belong' in this timeline and deciding whether to accept fatal destiny or reclaim agency by making her death meaningful.
Tasha Yar's confrontation with a predestined death: learning (from Guinan) that she 'does not belong' in this timeline and deciding whether to accept fatal destiny or reclaim agency by making her death meaningful.
Events in This Arc
In Ten-Forward Guinan delivers a cold, existential revelation: when she reads the alternate timeline Tasha Yar should not exist—her original fate was death, and a death that carried no meaning. …
Under a crushing Klingon assault, Picard deliberately maneuvers the crippled Enterprise‑D to physically shield the battered Enterprise‑C so the latter can reach a temporal rift and restore the true timeline. …
In the restored timeline Ten-Forward has returned to its ordinary calm. Guinan performs a small ritual — she makes a drink, scans the room, and allows herself a sad, satisfied …