I haven’t been very good at acknowledging Captain Picard Day (which is basically Star Trek Day) in the past…like at all (unlike First Contact Day!), but I marked it my calendar an’ everything this year, and social media reminded me, and so here I am!
Ironically, we first learned about this in a Riker episode (“The Pegasus”), but in case you’re not familiar, here’s the gist:
The Enterprise of course is a ship with families aboard. The children are encouraged to create artwork to help celebrate Picard as captain of the ship.
(Which is all the more ironic, as Picard frequently professed his dislike of children.)
Anyway, this is as good an excuse to celebrate Picard in the real world as any. At its height Next Generation was able push Picard as a cultural icon. There was an actual business book called Make It So that encouraged taking leadership lessons from him.
Star Trek fans still find it hard to let Picard compete with Kirk as best captain, but Patrick Stewart has been beyond reproach as favorite actor in the franchise. He never really parlayed that into a significant movie career, but he had plenty of TV projects for years keeping him busy, a lot of them drawing from classic literature and/or Shakespeare.
And of course he has since gone on to star in the to date only Star Trek series to serve as a direct spinoff and namesake for a single character.
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