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Originally Posted by Locke
My understanding of it was that Q changed 1 important thing in the past.
And that mystical, magical, mysterious 1 thing is the thing that led Picard down the path of tyranny instead of diplomacy to become Darth Picard.
Now...I get where you're at with the suspension of disbelief, but they are leveraging a lot of this story on the importance of that one thing. For all we know of Picard it seems unlikely that there would be a single event that could precipitate a hard 'jackbooted heel-turn.'
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I get that's what Picard seems to think happened and tells the "crew" such. But, Q's dialog to Picard when they're together doesn't seem to fit that. He implies that Picard very much is this monster! Not that he deviously changed something, rather that Picard's done this himself and he's actually trying to give him one more chance not to #### reality. It's like an inverse/re do of the plot of "all good things" where Q has put Picard in a position where his very actions jeopardize reality. Except this time Q implies that Picard did it.
Your secondary point belies this: How could one change turn Picard from the foremost diplomat of his era to space hitler? And society being cool with that in general? It's just... weird. E.g. If i had to guess, the "change" would be something to do with Picard's mom, but why would a change to his mom's relationship change the way humanity in general dealt with other species on a galactic scale?