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[Eagler]

Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart dies at 86

 

Eagler

[Dadtallica]

He was a really super cool fella. He did so many cool things.

[RELIC]

 DAMMIT

[AKKuya]

 

[CptTrips]

I have to admit it took a few seasons for me to warm to his character.  He was a victim of bad writing.

Later he had some excellent episodes and I built some begrudging appreciation.

The Inner Light
Tapestry
Family
The Best of Both Worlds
etc.


And Wesley was also a victim of bad writing.  He did have a couple of good episodes when given good material.

Cheers, Captain.

[Mar]

The Drumhead.

I've quoted from that episode many times.

[AKIron]

SNG was great. Tried to watch Star Trek: Picard. Couldn't get past the first season. Sad to see him go.

[rabbidrabbit]

SNG was great. Tried to watch Star Trek: Picard. Couldn't get past the first season. Sad to see him go.

The first two seasons of Picard were barely watchable.  The Third season was actually pretty good and would have made a great first season.

[CptTrips]

The first two seasons of Picard were barely watchable.  The Third season was actually pretty good and would have made a great first season.

AS far as STNG, I don't bother with any episode that Riker doesn't have a beard yet.

[AKIron]

I probably would have liked Patrick Stewart's Scrooge in A Christmas Carol if I had never seen George C. Scott in the role.

[AKKuya]

He was in the original Dune film, also in Lifeforce, Excalibur, and Men in Tights being all good films. 

The worst film he had a small role was The Wild Geese II.  He played a Russian Colonel for a good role in a bad story that made no sense.  In a convention, he stated he took the job because needed to make repairs on his house.  The original The Wild Geese film is a great one for the 70s.  Too bad he wasn't cast in that film for a possible death scene due to his beginning work credits.

In a possible reboot of TNG that they keep discussing, I want to see an actor play the role with a slight French accent with a flair to the ladies' man drinking Tennessee whiskey.  A complete departure from Stewart's iconic performance.  Hair on the head and maybe 10 years younger and different backstory.  Lessons learned from the 2009 reboot with Kirk.

[AKIron]

Star Trek - It's dead Jim.

[CptTrips]

Star Trek - It's dead Jim.

It shouldn't be, but it probably is.

The show-runner just don't have the vision, and apparently they can't find good writers.

There are two spin-offs (I had heard a rumor or two) I would have loved to see if done properly.

1.  A prequel about the early Federation's first war with the Romulans when they were getting their butt kicked and on the verge of losing.  It would have been awesome to do it in old trek tech and uniforms like the first pilot The Cage.

2.  A spin-off centered on the Klingon Empire and all the internal intruige and in-fighting and coups.

But it's just as well I guess.  The current players would just butcher it.

[Morpheus]

For those who know of it, know that Patrick Stewart is now in a better place. No more pain, no more bad; all God's love is all he is going to feel now.

For eternity.

<S> Morph.   

[nrshida]

I saw him at the RSC but this was undoubtedly his finest performance:-