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Jean-Luc Picard stargazing as a youth

Jean-Luc Picard stargazing

Rene Picard stargazing

René Picard stargazing

A stargazer was an amateur astronomer or casual observer of the stars, a hobby otherwise known as stargazing.

While under the possession of Doctor Ira Graves in 2364, Data observed Kareen Brianon looking out the window in Ten Forward aboard the USS Enterprise-D. When he approached her, she told him that "the stars are so beautiful from space. Yet they seem…" but she was interrupted mid-sentence when Data-Graves interjected that "you always did love the sky. A stargazer. That is what you are." Kareen asked in Data had learned that from Graves, before admitting that "I guess he's right. I used to spend hours just lying on a hill, looking up." (TNG: "The Schizoid Man")

Picard's nephew René Picard also enjoyed stargazing. (TNG: "Family")

Upon meeting his clone Shinzon in 2379, Jean-Luc Picard and he shared how each "spent [their] youth looking up at the stars, dreaming about what was up there, about new worlds." (Star Trek Nemesis)

The astronomer Ilthuran was also addressed with the term stargazer by Elder Kathon.

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