Sir Patrick Stewart, the star of Star Trek: The Next Generation, died yesterday at his home in Los Angeles following a battle with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia. He was 86. A statement from his rep confirmed the news. “We announce with great sorrow the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart yesterday at his home […]
I don’t want to criticize him too harshly since he’s dead, but he had a ton of input into the writing of Star Trek: Picard, and it wasn’t for the better.
Nah, I posted above about it, but it’s where he wanted Picard to go since early TNG. He asked the writers to have Picard do more ‘fucking and fighting’ and they wrote the Risa episode under a mandate to get Picard laid. He played the character well but didnt seem to understand the character.
He did himself dirty. Even in early TNG he was bothering producers for Picard to do more ‘fighting and fucking’ and that’s where the Risa episode came from, a mandate to get his character laid. As he gained greater leverage the character drifted further away from what he was. He became Action Hero Guy in the movies, partially at his behest and partially cause the tng movies where kind of a mess. I genuinely cried when I heard that he died, and there are people that I know irl who died and I didnt cry over. But i’m not gonna refrain from criticizing his creative choices regarding star trek because of it either. It is what it is, I never held it against him personally and putting myself in his shoes, I can get where he was coming from. From being a huge trekkie and hearing enough quotes from or about Patrick Stewart, he was sorta half Picard half his character from American Dad. Blunt Talk is an underrated show of his.
Man, I feel they did him so dirty on Star Trek: Picard. It could’ve been much better. Sigh.
I don’t want to criticize him too harshly since he’s dead, but he had a ton of input into the writing of Star Trek: Picard, and it wasn’t for the better.
Might’ve been the Alzheimers? At least I hope he had fun with it
I think he just wasn’t a writer.
No, just his taste. He clearly enjoyed being on Seth MacFarlane’s shows.
Edit: checked MacFarlane’s twitter
MacFarlane’s take on Trek (The Orville) is actually good, unlike Star Trek: Picard.
Nah, I posted above about it, but it’s where he wanted Picard to go since early TNG. He asked the writers to have Picard do more ‘fucking and fighting’ and they wrote the Risa episode under a mandate to get Picard laid. He played the character well but didnt seem to understand the character.
He did himself dirty. Even in early TNG he was bothering producers for Picard to do more ‘fighting and fucking’ and that’s where the Risa episode came from, a mandate to get his character laid. As he gained greater leverage the character drifted further away from what he was. He became Action Hero Guy in the movies, partially at his behest and partially cause the tng movies where kind of a mess. I genuinely cried when I heard that he died, and there are people that I know irl who died and I didnt cry over. But i’m not gonna refrain from criticizing his creative choices regarding star trek because of it either. It is what it is, I never held it against him personally and putting myself in his shoes, I can get where he was coming from. From being a huge trekkie and hearing enough quotes from or about Patrick Stewart, he was sorta half Picard half his character from American Dad. Blunt Talk is an underrated show of his.
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