Jean-Luc Picard

I don't mean to go too personal if so, but the kind of life that the Nexus offered Picard in Generations, coupled with how we all imagine our lives ideally being like, led me to ask you this.

Just to make friendly fan-to-fan, enthusiast-to-enthusiast, fan-to-enthusiast, or enthusiast-to-fan conversation, of course.

As opposed to my appreciation for Picard as my top personal-favorite, my maternal grandfather prefers Kirk, and he and I often have these conversations over the pros and cons of both. So last year, as a tension-settler, in addition to being a token of my love for him, I bought him the "10 Reasons Why Kirk Is Better Than Picard" t-shirt off the Star Trek Shop.

Oh, man, he just cracked up a storm when he saw what it detailed! My only question is: why isn't there a "10 Reasons Why Picard Is Better Than Kirk" counterpart!? That would've been perfect! I'd wear it in a heartbeat whenever I see my gramps!

The filming for Enterprise Season 1 overlapped the filming of Nemesis.

Happy belated 84th birthday to Patrick Stewart, who is well-known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

You know how it's said that it takes two to tango? Well, in a Star Trek context, it takes two to do the Picard-four-seven-Alpha-Tango!

Since sarek mind melded with kirk, and then later with picard, does that mean that picard got some of kirk's memories too, as well as sarek's memories?

With the reformed Borg Collective and Starfleet's vessels harmonizing their respective deflector shields together to fend off the neutrino beam from the mysterious transwarp conduit, and Jurati's Borg Queen requesting provisional membership to monitor it, it kinda makes one wonder who's on its other side. While it was great to see The Next Generation crew reunite and work alongside both Seven of Nine and Raffi Musiker, a small part of me was kind of somewhat disappointed that season 3 didn't at all delve into the nature of the conduit and who built it. Because Borg Agnes believed the conduit to constitute a potential threat, it made me scratch my head wondering who or what it could be, and what its ramifications could be. If anything, I'd like to see the potential Star Trek: Legacy series delve into it since season 3 of Picard did not.

Why did data and picard leave lore floating in space in TNG datalore?

Suppose maybe he joined Laris to Chaltok IV, where the latter was arranging diplomatic security? Or maybe he returned to Château Picard in La Barre?

As someone whose top personal-favorite Star Trek preferences are both The Next Generation and Picard, on par with each other, it makes one wonder, know what I'm saying?

“Jean-Luc Picard taught me how to speak. I'm pretty sure that I already knew how to say words by the time that I was watching Star Trek: The Next Generation with my parents, but Patrick Stewart's captain is how I remember learning that words and communication are noble and important. That you can be strong without imposing yourself physically on others. That making an effort to unite yourself with other people is powerful as well as merely desirable.” – George Ankers, “50 years on, we need Star Trek's optimism more than ever”, “Medium” (July 27th, 2016).

“Captain Picard is the exact opposite of a Hollywood action-hero.” – Dirk Baecker, Inclusion/Exclusiom, page 76 (2002).

“Captain Picard is the hero we need right now. He exemplifies in some ways even more than James Kirk – and I'm not gonna get into the Kirk vs. Picard argument because I love Captain Kirk, he was my first captain – but Picard is even more of an exemplar of everything that is best about Star Trek's vision for the future.” – Michael Chabon, “Captain Picard is the hero we need, says Star Trek writer Michael Chabon”, by Richard Trenholm, CNET, (November 7th, 2018); as quoted in “Michael Chabon on Honoring Star Trek Canon and How Picard Is 'The Hero We Need Right Now'”, by Beth Elderkin, IO9 (November 9th, 2018).

“Picard stands as the bearer of Starfleet's conscience and an exemplar of moral autonomy.” – Kevin Decker and Jason Eberl, Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant, page 141 (2008).

“Captain Picard is perceived to be a gentler soul than Captain Kirk.” – Marc Dipaol, War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film, page 30 (2011).

“When I was in middle school and watching Star Trek I imagined we were moving closer toward the show's version of the future: egalitarian, democratic, creative. Now when I watch the show, I vacillate between hope and escapism. I want to believe that Star Trek is predictive of how things will turn out for Humanity. I want us to wander the universe in brightly colored uniforms, listening to operas sung by sentient robots. I hope we will find our way to peace. But if that's not what the future holds, if it's more war and injustice and greed that we're headed for, then all I want is to watch Captain Picard hold court on the bridge one more time.” – Miriam Francisco, “The Optimism of 'Star Trek'”, Michigan Dailey (September 16th, 2019).

“The new captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, is the wise man. He rules the Enterprise with a sagely wisdom.” – Pallab Ghosh, “Klingons on the Starship Bow”, New Scientist, Vol. 117, issue 1,605, page 63 (1988).

“As shown in his speech and actions, Picard is a man of intelligence, courage, identity, compassion, courtesy.” – Mark Jancovich and James Lyons, Quality Popular Television: Cult T.V., The Industry and Fans, p. 111 (2003).

“Patrick Stewart's identification with Jean-Luc Picard is a prime exemplar of the extreme entanglement between actor and character produced by cult television programs, yet in Stewart's case this entanglement has not precluded a very active and successful post-Star Trek career.” – Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta E. Pearson, Cult Television, page 65 (2004).

“Those ... who are familiar with the character Captain Picard, already know him to be the leader that we all wish we worked for, whose leadership gives us conscience and comfort in meeting the challenges we face each and every day, and the type of leader that we should strive to become.” – Wess Roberts and Bill Ross, Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek, The Next Generation, page x.i. (1995).

“Picard and his crew were all Human carbon copies of Spock – even-keeled, rational, and almost impossibly ethical. (Spock himself says so of Picard in “Unification”, the one Next Generation episode in which he appears). That left little room for identification. You could aspire to be more like Picard, the very model of compassion and culture, but you could never truly understand his moral universe. He was nothing like us twenty-first-century Humans. He was too alien.” – Manu Saadia, “The Enduring Lessons of “Star Trek””, The New Yorker, (September 8th, 2016).

“The bridge of the Enterprise, under the moderate and controlled command of Captain Picard, is a locus of “enlightened understanding”.” – Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, page 334 (1996).

“The new Captain, Jean-Luc Picard, was French and enjoyed reading, classical music, William Shakespeare, archaeology, and theatre.” – Gary Westfahl, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, Vol. 3, page 1,264 (2005).

“Captain Picard is the not the swashbuckler that Captain Kirk was.” – Grace Lee Whitney, Jim Denney, and Leonard Nimoy, The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy, page 81 (1998).

“Only question I/Ever thought was hard/Was do I like Kirk/Or do I like Picard?” – Alfred Matthew Yankovic, a.k.a. “Weird Al” Yankovic, “White & Nerdy”, Straight Outta Lynwood (2006).

“Captain Kirk was the man of action right down to the very end. They had him punching out the bad guy... and in the meantime they had Captain Picard as the intellectual trying to dismantle the missile by doing it through the computer screen... That was Kirk versus Picard, right there in a nutshell.” – Dan Cray, Los Angeles Times on Star Trek: Generations, “L.A. Times journalist and Star Trek pundit”, B.B.C. Two (May 7th, 2011).