| ▲ | beloch 2 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
TNG should be played 24/7 on every screen in the white house for the next two years. Picard viewed the power of leadership as, foremost, a responsibility. Every action was careful, deliberate, and well advised. Some later Trek shows (e.g. Voyager) turned captains into geniuses who knew more about everything than all of their underlings. Picard was not an expert in most things and needed his staff to advise him. Once he knew the options and consequences, he shouldered the responsibility of the outcomes, but as a leader of a crew, not a genius with compatible lackeys and minions around him. It was a realistic take on leadership that simply doesn't appear often in television or movies. Stewart, of course, was not Picard. It's too easy to conflate actors with their roles. However, actors do often help shape their characters, and Stewart's ability to give a thoughtful, diplomatic, and prudent character such incredible power and presence is likely what made Picard possible. The showrunners didn't need to strap a phaser to his thigh and drop him into every away mission to make him compelling because of what Stewart was able to accomplish as an actor sitting behind a desk. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | TFNA an hour ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
At the same time, TNG did depict Picard as a solitary and isolated figure, whose family relationships had frayed, and it's not hard to view his unusual dedication to his leadership as a way to deal with that emptiness in the rest of his life. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | Izkata an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> Some later Trek shows (e.g. Voyager) turned captains into geniuses who knew more about everything than all of their underlings. Not everything. Picard was command track his whole career, I think the same was true for Sisko. But Janeway started as a science officer before switching to command, and Archer was a test pilot. Their experience in those fields would sometimes be useful. It's similar to how Picard's interest in archeology was sometimes useful. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | halflife an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Thank you for this. You put my thoughts into words. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | whycombilater an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
You could play it around those people for 100 years and it would make no difference. I imagine they'd also conclude Picard is a loser. | |||||||||||||||||
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