Jean-Luc Picard gives a damn.In the decades since Patrick Stewart’s Starfleet captain debuted in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” on September 28, 1987, he’s become one of the most beloved TV heroes ever.
Picard always had a rare combination of erudition and earnestness.
He was someone who cared.In an early episode, Picard stares down a frequent nemesis, the omnipotent alien trickster Q, and declares with the gravitas of a Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus: “What Hamlet might say with irony, I say with conviction: ‘What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason.
How infinite in faculty…” Of course, he completes the quote, because Capt.
Picard never leaves anything half-finished.You may be startled to look back at how many TV critics gave “The Next Generation” middling reviews throughout its seven-season run, because the show is now considered a classic — by many, the finest incarnation of “Star Trek” ever.
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