Nitpicking Star Trek TNG – Picard’s Artificial Heart?

In the episode “Samaritan Snare”, Picard reveals to Wesley Crusher that he received an artificial heart when he was a young Ensign. We see this fight in a flashback in the episode Tapestry. Four years after “Samaritan Snare” Picard, Keiko O’Brien, Guinan, and Ensign Ro are transformed into pre-teen versions of themselves in “Rascals”.

So, did the molecular inversion incorporate Picard’s adult-sized mechanical heart into his now smaller pre-adolescent frame? Was a new heart regenerated? I guess the adult-sized artificial heart was somehow wedged into Picard’s adolescent ribcage and made to work with smaller blood vessels because the mechanical heart is back in the episode “Tapestry”.

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