24 Facts About Jean-Luc Picard

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Jean-Luc Picard is featured as the central character in the show Star Trek: Picard .

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Jean-Luc Picard had his toupee delivered from London to meet with Paramount executives, but Roddenberry ordered Stewart to remove the "awful looking" hairpiece.

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Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, saying the Jean-Luc Picard character was based on Hornblower, but Stewart was already familiar with the character, having read the books as a teenager.

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In one sense, Jean-Luc Picard was expanding like this and at the same time he was growing closer and closer to me as well and, in some respect, I suppose even had some influence on me.

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Jean-Luc Picard was introduced on television in 1987, in the debut episode "Encounter at Farpoint" of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Jean-Luc Picard is portrayed as being deeply moved by a desire to explore the universe and with a strong sense of duty, however he has misgivings about not having a family and difficulty interacting with children.

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Jean-Luc Picard has a number of British habits, including the regular consumption of Earl Grey tea, a fondness for Shakespeare, riding horses with English tack and a knowledge of such British songs with Royal Navy associations as "A British Tar" and "Heart of Oak".

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Shortly after graduation, Jean-Luc Picard was stabbed in the heart by a Nausicaan, leaving the organ irreparable and requiring replacement with a parthenogenetic implant; this would prove near-fatal later.

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Ensign Jean-Luc Picard's first posting was on the USS Reliant, later serving as first officer aboard the USS Stargazer, which he later commanded.

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10.

Jean-Luc Picard has a fondness for detective stories, Shakespearean drama, and archeology.

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11.

Jean-Luc Picard persuades Q to test humanity, and Q chooses as the test's first stage the crew's performance at Farpoint.

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12.

Fourth-season episode "Family" reveals that Jean-Luc Picard has a brother, Robert, who took charge of the family vineyards in La Barre after Jean-Luc Picard joined Starfleet.

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13.

TNG Season 5 episode, featured Jean-Luc Picard trapped in another life in the Hugo Award winning "The Inner Light".

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The episode has a scene where Jean-Luc Picard plays an alien flute, which was critically acclaimed as one of the best scenes in the series.

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15.

Jean-Luc Picard's retirement was brought upon by his failure to save the Romulans from the Hobus supernova depicted in Star Trek .

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Soon, Jean-Luc Picard is drawn into a conspiracy to suppress all synthetic life, which involves the remnants of the Tal Shiar.

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Jean-Luc Picard, accompanied by a rag-tag crew on La Sirena, works to subvert this conspiracy.

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18.

Jean-Luc Picard then continues exploring space in his new body, on La Sirena.

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19.

In novels by Pocket Books, Jean-Luc Picard has married Beverly Crusher, and they have a son named Rene Jacques Robert Francois Jean-Luc Picard.

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20.

Jean-Luc Picard remained captain of the Enterprise-E until 2387, when the events of Star Trek: Coda see the First Splinter – the timeline depicted in the novels – erased in order to protect the prime universe from the Temporal Apocalypse, a devastating wave of temporal energy that threatened to destroy the multiverse.

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21.

Jean-Luc Picard is present aboard the Enterprise as it confronts Nero, who has gone mad and begun killing non-Romulans after they fail to save Romulus.

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22.

Jean-Luc Picard is deemed the ultimate delegator of authority, knowing "how to gather and use data better than any other Star Trek captain".

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23.

Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard are considered to be attentive to the needs of their respective crews.

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24.

In 2012, IGN ranked Jean-Luc Picard, as depicted in The Next Generation series and films, as the 3rd top character of the Star Trek universe, behind Spock and Kirk in first and second place respectively.

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