Patrick Stewart Taught a Generation of Nerdy Boys What a Grown Man Looks Like
Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
Patrick Stewart has died at 86, after living with Alzheimer's and Lewy Body Dementia. Though he anchored the X-Men films and spent decades commanding the stage, it was Captain Jean-Luc Picard — across seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, four movies, and the recent Star Trek: Picard — that made him a model of mature, responsible adulthood for bookish, imaginative kids. For a certain generation, part of the future left with him.
Patrick Stewart died yesterday, and for people of a certain age, a little bit of the future left with him.
- agentultra
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- 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.
- 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.
- Balgair
Stewart was, to me, an archetypal man's man.in Picard. Embodying a real man to me in so many ways. The author is right in this eulogy of a great actor and a great role.
That out of the way, Brooks' Sisco is the much better captain, man, father, and role model and Brooks' acting in Ben, I feel, does a much better job.
I will sorely miss Stewart, as we all should. All the captains' actors and writers who made them should be too. What a great franchise and body of effort and work.
- 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.
- DivingForGold
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- vr46
Poor writers, they never get any credit
- 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.