On a related note, Nana Visitor, after DS9 ended, had some difficulties with new roles. She was unwittingly channeling Kira and ended up being repeatedly told by the director to not. She also confessed to occasionally having Kira’s nightmares.
“The Man Inside Me” by Tobias Fuenke
Thanks for reminding me it’s time for my annual rewatch of the first 3 seasons.
It makes sense. Picard as a character changed a lot over the series.
Unfortunately, as Patrick Stewart imposed his interests and personality on the character, Picard became less and less the cerebral captain whose leadership style I admired and wished to emulate.
I’m not sure Patrick Stewart has ever understood the qualities in Picard that captivate so many in the peak midrun of TNG.
I think Patrick Stewart might be more like Director Bullock from American Dad than Captain Picard.
Funny that so many of us resonate with “nerdy emotionally-distant lawyer dad” lol
We can see that with him insisting that Vash (the actress as a then girlfriend) be included in the show (apparently, wanting Picard to “get laid”). There’s an entire post about that awful character in the sub-Reddit.
“the more he became inside me”. Oddly arousing, number one.
While I am not as harsh on Picard S1 and S2 as other people, I still have complaints about how silly it sometimes got (the vastly differing degrees of caring about messing up the timeline by changing details in S2 was confusing, sometimes a small change was bad, other times characters just made big changes…).
What I will say about Picard as a whole though, especially in S1 and S2, is that how Picard’s character grows and changes felt really well done.
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Picard’s mother committing suicide and him feeling responsible in a way, while also remembering his dad as this kind of villain as a way to wall off his emotional trauma and that then impacting him for the rest of his life felt very believable to me.
As a whole I definitely enjoyed Picard, it makes it more fun to watch TNG with the retrospective knowledge of who Picard becomes and what Picard isn’t talking about all those years on TNG.
Leonard Nimoy had a similar experience playing Spock. Writing his autobiographies “I am not Spock” 1975 and “I am Spock” 1995 as an example of the struggle.
Yeah I remember seeing an interview a few years before I Am Spock where he talked about coming to terms with how tied he was to Spock, and joked he’d name the book “Maybe I Am Spock After All”. I get that he wanted to move on and do other things, though, it’s totally reasonable.
