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Patrick Stewart’s Thoughts On Developing Picard

Memo

After a luncheon together, Patrick Stewart wrote this letter to Gene Roddenberry expressing his concerns and desires for bringing out the human qualities of Jean-Luc Picard (dated October 27th, 1988.)

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  1. Pianotm says:
    May 18, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    Well, now. That was an interesting read!

  2. Will Wright says:
    June 1, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    Well ?

    • John Champion says:
      June 1, 2015 at 9:10 pm

      Kinda dorky. I think he was specifically making it look bad so he wouldn’t have to go through the upkeep everyday on set.

      • nathankc says:
        June 9, 2015 at 8:31 am

        I kind of wish they had gone with this if for no other reason being so that we could forget they made Shinzon bald…

        • lilyboosh says:
          July 19, 2015 at 12:49 pm

          I’d like to forget they made Shinzon at all..

        • mjh1984 says:
          December 8, 2016 at 4:13 pm

          Shinzon shaved his head because the Remans don’t have hair. Picard has male pattern baldness with hair on the sides…Shinzon had no hair whatsoever.

      • ShaunKL says:
        July 18, 2015 at 3:00 pm

        Except that the image is a publicity still from TNG: “Violations.”

  3. Arvis Jaggamar says:
    June 15, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    This was really cool. You can see that they took a lot of his idea to heart. Shows they respected him even that early on. Can we credit Patrick Stewart with “inventing” the Phaser practice range?

  4. Jeffrey W. Johnson SR. says:
    July 18, 2015 at 12:57 pm

    Pretty good read. I saw several things in here that later developed into different episodes. Like the firing range and most importantly, bring back Dr. Crusher.

  5. Les Dinerstein says:
    July 18, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    Thank you for sharing, it was quite an interesting read. It gives some insight to the brilliant mind of Patrick Stewart.

  6. SuriViruS says:
    July 19, 2015 at 5:22 am

    What can I say, he was right in every point. This exchange helped Star Trek (TNG) a lot. Btw I can remember Guinan and Worf beeing at the holdodeck “shooting range”, but Picard ?

    • DJCo says:
      July 19, 2015 at 1:40 pm

      Picard and Riker are using it in the teaser of “A Matter of Honor”, the first of its two (as far as I recall) appearances.