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Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

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  • agentultra
  • Lerc
    I find it fairly amazing that they could say this without mentioning the episode "The measure of a man" in which Picard literally makes the case.Perhaps it is uncomfortable for people to think about now.
  • vr46
    Poor writers, they never get any credit
  • bottlepalm
    So many posts and comments are saying the same thing. I guess it's one of the things we remember most about Patrick Stewart and his portrayal of a starship captain. The quintessential captain. Honorable, wise, but humble, diplomatic, reasonable, with high morals, and fortitude under pressure.
  • DivingForGold
  • layer8
  • kstenerud
    I think the most memorable of the Picard-focused TNG stories for me was "Tapestry". It really hammered home how much of one's potential is lost when one never takes risks.
  • ionwake
    It’s almost hard to imagine perhaps or maybe I’m biased but my grand father was very similar in manner to him. Otherwise I may have assumed such men did not exist.
  • shevy-java
    > Stewart, of course, was far more than Picard. He anchored the X-Men film franchise and was for decades a dynamo on stage.Actually, Patrick's biggest impact, IMO, was via theatre. It's where his skills originated from. You can notice it in his performance - in Star Trek TNG, he had a stronger presence on the screen, without necessarily overacting. Jonathan Frakes was also an excellent actor, but Patrick was IMO better. His roles had a much stronger screen-presence.In the wolverine franchise, he could not do as much as he did in Star Trek, and in Logan I noticed his health was getting worse, e. g. he looked increasingly frail. That was about ten years ago. I think his health was worse than he conveyed, with his somewhat surprising recent death really. You typically don't die as quickly from Alzheimer, so I guess there may have been some additional neurological issue.Overall I think his role in Star Trek was the most impactful though. He and the others kind of resurrected Roddenberry's idea to some extent. (Roddenberry was more impacted from the cold war, so his views became a bit more outdated compared to the 1990s and beyond. But watch what Nichelle Nichols had to say here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSq_UIuxba8)
  • add-sub-mul-div
    A few years ago I saw a post somewhere captioned, "I think we know who the better captain is now". And I don't remember the details but it showed a picture of Patrick Stewart and a statement he'd made that was incredibly compassionate. Next to it was a picture of William Shatner and an old man "get off my lawn" type quote of his from some antiwoke rant.
  • francisofascii
    I enjoyed the episode reference in the title.
  • Der_Einzige
    For anyone somehow in this comment thread who didn’t watch Star Trek ds9, if you liked next gen you will probably like ds9 for all the same reasons (and many new ones)!
  • ChrisArchitect
    Related:Patrick Stewart has diedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294702
  • marginalia_nu
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