STACK #195 Jan 2021

FEATURE TV

CLASSIC PICARD QUOTES

the planet Romulus when a mysterious young woman with a connection to his past shows up, leading him on a dangerous mission with a new crew – and a few old friends... As well as revisiting the signature tropes of Star Trek, the creative team of Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer and Alex Kurtzman were determined to approach the new series from a character-driven and psychological angle. “It is a show with a nearly 80-year-old actor playing a 94-year-old man who is if not in the final stages of his career, in the latter stages of his career, who has a period of great dismay and disillusionment in his immediate rear view, who has allowed himself to let ties that were formerly very important to him slip or fade away, and who has now re-engaged with the greatly changed world in which he finds himself. ... It was not ever going to be The Next Generation Part Two in any way,” Chabon told Variety .

“Engage!” “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” “There are four lights.” “I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.” “There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute.” "Let’s make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise .”

on these often very dark times. I look forward to working with our brilliant creative team as we endeavour to bring a fresh, unexpected and pertinent story to life once more.” Set two decades after the events of the last TNG film, Nemesis , Star Trek: Picard

“This is being made by people who love TNG – we’re not seeking to

finds the now retired Jean-Luc still haunted by the death of Data and the destruction of

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He's still fighting for all the things he

reinvent it or say ours is better, or that we’re doing a dark version of TNG. We’re not doing any of that,” added Kurtzman at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019. “But Picard

would have fought for in TNG... and has to dig even deeper into himself in order to get there

has to soul search, and to soul search you need a dark night of the soul in order to come out the other

side lighter and brighter. And in order to make the world brighter, he has to face that part of himself. “He’s still fighting for all the things he would have fought for in TNG, but because the circumstances of his life have changed he doesn’t have the same resources, so he has to dig even deeper into himself in order to get there. And that’s why he remains such an aspirational and amazing captain,

because we all want to believe that in the darkest of times the best part of ourselves would emerge, and that is Jean-Luc Picard and Patrick.”

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