Patrick Stewart or the show writers? I'm not a fan of equating TV character personalities to actors.

They messed up the title. The title tag on the page is "Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard taught us what good men do with power | Vox"

I imagine it was too long and because he just died they chose to use his name.

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rhaynes a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, and I think that unfortunately with the latest "Picard" series, it shows that writers were the unsung heroes of TNG. At the same time, the actors make us believe the story. They get most of the popular credit of course and the writers should be acknowledged more (and even brought back as mentors... can we get an inspiring vision of Trek this century?), but had I been born in a different time and place and fortunate enough to land a writing job on TNG, I would be proud of what the whole team accomplished in their hour upon the stage.

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matheusmoreira a day ago | parent [-]

It was always noticeable when the writers were on strike.

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R1D3R a day ago | parent [-]

Clip shows are a strong indicator. Some of the best episodes are writers strike episodes though. Measure of a Man was a speculative script selected for production during a writer’s strike and is one of the first great episodes of the show.

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matheusmoreira a day ago | parent [-]

I had no idea Measure of a Man was written during a strike... Every rule has its exceptions, I suppose.

	▲	R1D3R a day ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know if it was written during a strike. It was submitted speculatively and produced during a strike. > It was written as a speculative script by former attorney and Star Trek: The Original Series novelist Melinda M. Snodgrass. > The script was accepted due to the impact of the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, and resulted in Snodgrass being recruited as a staff writer and script editor. She would remain on the staff until the end of the third season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Tre...

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izacus a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sir Stewart has also repeatedly shown his personal politics to be pretty in line with what the show shows. So it's fine either way.

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cm2012 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe in political views, but does the show Picard seem like someone who would (twice) leave his wife to marry a woman half his age? Would Picards children not want to talk to him in his old age?

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Mountain_Skies a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It's easy to be in alignment with a system that has replicators that can magically produce whatever you what.

	▲	cwillu a day ago \| parent [-]
		Alignment is more than mere agreement.

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ltbarcly3 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

"The college professor or the people who wrote the textbook and set up the university and arranged for students to come to it or..."

I think we can let him take a little credit for the work he did without trying to exactly determine how much of that credit is his exactly.

	▲	ricksunny a day ago \| parent [-]
		I’d like to know whether writers eventually come to write for an actor’s persona as much as (or more than) the character they portray.