August 6 2018
Star Trek Jean Luc Piccard The Retirement Years...
Join the classic character on his vineyard
developing his own wine growing the grapes,
developing the terroir of his vineyard,
relaxing in the sunshine
and reminiscing
on once being a bit of Borg during his dotage...
Anyway that's what I hope it will be...
Its Star Trek but Star Trek plus a bit of cookery
a bit of art appreciation
maybe plus a bit of extreme violence
when the Borg come a knocking again...
Picard was never intended to be a Kirk-type figure.
Gene Roddenberry in particular
wanted to get away from the beat-em-up, wisecracking style of TOS.
Picard was meant to be cerebral
and diplomatic
in a slightly patrician manner.
In fact one of the things
which marks out Start Trek
is that aside from Kirk (in both iterations)
the main protagonist
has deliberately not been a punch-em-out hero type.