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Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Dubbed By: Alain Choquet (TNG), Jean-Claude de Goros (Generations), Claude Giraud (Get-go Contact, Insurrection and Nemesis)

Dubbed By (Brazilian Portuguese): Leonardo José (TNG, Flavor One), Márcio Simões (TNG-Season 2 on, films), Carlos Campanile (Picard)

"Tea. Earl grey. Hot."

The baldheaded helm, and arguably the nearly iconic example of that trope (next to Kirk, of course).

Polymath, diplomat, and all-around gentleman, Picard was cast very much in the Horatio Hornblower mold. Introduced in Flavor One every bit a cognitive hardass (a trait mirrored, aptly, by his artificial heart), he'southward actually quite a softie underneath the grim outside. So much and then, that modern Trekkies tend to regard Picard every bit the 'soft' captain — at least until somebody fires at his send or disregards an order.

Amid his in-series achievements: Jean-Luc invented a starship maneuver, assisted in First Contact with the Q, got the ball rolling on amendments to Federation constabulary regarding android life (Sisko and Janeway followed his example in their respective Court Episodes), and he thwarted a Borg invasion or two, assisted in Zefram Cochran's famous warp experiment (via fourth dimension travel), chilled with Professor Moriarty and Mark Twain, brought Federation politics to the fore in his dealings with the Cardassians (setting the phase for DS9), and saved the universe from an eruption of Anti-Time or something. Anyway, only the Q Continuum understands what happened in that episode. Merely co-ordinate to Q, information technology was pretty awesome.

Of all the alien phenomena experienced by Picard, the principal ones that bear on him are Q and the Borg: the former making a bet that his 'enlightened' principles won't concord upwardly in the darkness of space, and the latter threatening to alter him into a violent, vengeful human being — the very matter he despises.

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The Next Generation and Related Media

• Ace Pilot:
  • Depicted in a much more subtle manner than Kirk, and usually takes a backseat to his other talents.
  • Picard has taken the captain himself in situations where extremely precise maneuvering is needed to become the ship out of danger, such as "Booby Trap" and "In Theory". He talked an inexperienced pilot through a difficult maneuver in order to avoid a crash in "Coming of Age", and most notably developed the Picard Maneuver (re-created in "The Battle") which exploits the fact that a ship traveling at FTL velocities can appear to exist in two places at once due to delays in light reaching the viewer.
• Adventurer Archaeologist: Archaeology has long been a hobby of Jean-Luc's since his Academy days. He winds up going on adventures of this type in "Captain'southward Vacation," "The Chase," and "Gambit."
• Ambadassador: Took Klingons to school on their own homeworld, brokered offset contact with over 27 species, and helped define the legal rights of androids. The greatest diplomat of the last century, Sarek, finds Picard'southward career to be 'satisfactory,' which is loftier praise from a Vulcan.
• Amateur Sleuth:
  • The choice to have a Phillip Marlowe fan (as unsaid past the fictitious "Dixon Hill" program) means he's going to seize the opportunity, however fleeting, to be a existent-life sleuth — well-nigh notably in the episode "Clues".
  • Interestingly, Data dons a deerstalker cap and tweed coat while pursing Moriarty through the holodeck. The costume was fabricated popular by Basil Rathbone in the anachronistic film versions (set during WWII, with Sherlock foiling Nazi spies), but is not at all how Holmes dressed in the original Strand stories. Once Moriarty gains self-sensation, he loses all interest in Data and instead demands to see Picard, who shows up wearing a silk top hat and tails — the preferred wear of Doyle'due south Sherlock Holmes.
  • In "The Survivors", Picard summons the Uxbridge couple to the send and deconstructs their fantasy life, revealing what really happened during the attack. (Kevin saw his wife get killed and went momentarily insane, which annihilated the entire species of the invaders). He does this with all the skill of Hercule Poirot himself.
• Badass Boast: "The Ensigns of Command"

  Troi: Helm, when the treaty was first negotiated, the Federation sent 372 legal experts. What do nosotros take?
  Picard: Thee and me.

  • Trades them with Commander Tomalak in The Defector:

    Tomalak: You volition yet non survive our assault.
    Picard: And you will non survive ours. Shall we die together, Tomalak?

• Badass Baritone: Come CHEER UP MY LADS 'TIS TO Glory WE STEER... ♪
• Badass Bookworm: Picard is probably the about learned of all Expedition captains. He believes there is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy.
• Badass Bureaucrat:
  • Often got labeled equally a bureaucrat by more than militant foes. He'd all the same steamroll over them if necessary, naturally.

    Duras: This is not your world, man. You do not command hither.
    Picard: I'm not here to command.
    Duras: So you must be gear up to fight, something Starfleet does non teach you.
    Picard: Yous may test that supposition at your convenience.

  • Q called Picard a dullard in their first encounter, and in some corners of Starfleet ("Mensurate of a Man", "The Wounded") he's considered an officious, pompous ass! Little do they suspect he volition relieve the universe many times over.
  • He doesn't capeesh having the rug pulled from underneath him in "Measure of a Man": his starting time officer is appointed to the prosecution and the hearing is being overseen by his ex. Whilst he will attach to Starfleet's directives, he speaks with great passion to fence for Data'due south self-awareness, shaming the Federation into breaking new basis.

    "Starfleet was formed to seek out new life. Well, THERE. It. SITS! [beat] Waiting."

• Baldheaded of Authority: Jean Luc Picard is one of the well-nigh iconic examples of the trope as the baldheaded, diplomatic, empathetic, captain of the Enterprise-D. Information technology is indicated that he went Prematurely Bald somewhere in his late-twenties to early-thirties as he is depicted with hair in his younger years as an Ensign, when he was much more brash and arrogant. His present baldness helps to underscore how he has grown considerably Older and Wiser over the years.
• Bar Ball: A pivotal moment in his youth. The incident left him with an artificial heart.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He is a consummate gentleman and diplomat, but he has too cursed out Klingons (in Klingon), killed Klingons bare-handed, survived Borg assimilation, survived torture, survived taking a large pocketknife to the heart, told Romulans where to stick it (and backed it upwardly), has single-handedly thwarted having his ship hijacked (several times), has told Starfleet officers several ranks above him to shove information technology (with not then much every bit a reprimand to prove for it), has caused omnipotent aliens to bow to his gangsta, and has outfoxed at least one fellow member of every known species in the Alpha Quadrant at least once.
• Benevolent Boss: He welcomes suggestions and different ideas from his staff (apart from Worf, of course) without ever losing his authority.
• Bold Explorer: A more subdued version than the original model of Kirk, but even so with boldness to spare.
• Interruption the Badass:
  • The Borg nearly-effortlessly kidnap him from the bridge, Heed Rape him and plough him into one of their own, using the cognition gained to turn through the Federation'southward defenses, with Picard utterly unable to fight it off. In the immediate backwash, Picard actually breaks down in tears over what'due south done to him. Fifty-fifty years later, he still has nightmares over being assimilated, and when the Borg do render, all those wounds get opened upward all over again.
  • His experience in "Chain of Command", held earnest by the Cardassians and brutally tortured for days, first for information he doesn't accept, and then simply because the Gul in charge wants to suspension him. Picard supposedly manages to walk out defiantly, but subsequently admits to Troi that by the end, he was so desperate for the torture to terminate he was starting to run across five lights instead of four.
• British Stuffiness: In spite of being nominally French, Picard is every inch a stuffy Englishman. He is extremely reserved, avoids small talk, has difficulty relating to children, and doesn't show his feelings to his crew. It's generally considered a special occasion when he smiles or cracks a joke. It's therefore e'er a surprise when he references his life as a teen rebel.
• Broken Pedestal: Picard met Sarek as an awestruck youth and is still honored just to share oxygen with the guy who helped create the Federation. He was hoping to get the chance to encounter him again, but it is all scuppered by Sarek'southward degenerative disease. Picard's conclusion to perform a meld with Sarek in gild to permit an important treaty to be ended is probably the near selfless (and dangerous) thing he e'er did on the bear witness.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Information technology's no wonder the Picard of the future has a degenerative neurological disease. They really put him through hell on this show.
  • Picard struggling with Lwaxana's baggage to the amusement of the coiffure. The things he does for Starfleet...
• Call to Agriculture: In one possible timeline, retired Picard returns to La Barre to tend the family winery. He had a falling out with his begetter and brother in part because he initially rejected the Call to Agriculture and joined Starfleet.
• Cannot Spit It Out: There is some history between Picard and Crusher which adds a piddling depth to both characters, but the series never felt the need to explore the relationship in any not bad depth (unless under the influence of a sex issues). Yous've got to love Picard's tact; he heads off to Sickbay to welcome her on board in the pilot and and so follows that up with "I'll request a transfer for you!"
• The Captain: The quintessential Starfleet captain. He'south diplomatic, forceful when needed, well-educated, and thoughtful. Furthermore, different most naval captains shown in drama, he is oft institute in his personal office (Captain's Prepare Room) working on the mundane administrative duties of his rank.
• Catchphrase:
  • "Make it and then."
  • "Tea, Earl Grey, hot."
  • "Come."
  • "Engage."
• Character Tics: "The Picard Maneuver" — his habit of tugging his tunic down whenever he stands upward. He'southward not alone in doing this, but he is the virtually breathy about it (and, for diverse reasons, the i most normally seen doing it).
• Label Marches On: He was a bit of an asshole in the beginning season. He wasn't but aloof or professional; he was a curt-tempered hardass who hated kids and had piffling patience for practically anything. Later, he adult into the diplomatic male parent to his crew that he's remembered as. Picard too briefly carried on Chekov's addiction of attributing everything to his dwelling house country. This running gag ended chop-chop, and seems very strange in calorie-free of the extensive knowledge of history and culture that he displays later on.
• Child Hater:
  • A notable subversion. Picard mentions in the airplane pilot that he does not deal well with children. We later observe that this is non dislike, merely a discomfort that he sees as a personal flaw—he is far too used to dealing with supremely professional adults, and children also remind him of his own estranged family unit and his sacrifices for his career. Wesley thinks its also bad that the captain doesn't like kids because he would have made a expert father.
  • In "The Bonding", Picard lets out a massive sigh as he realizes that he is going to have to tell Jeremy that his mother was killed on an away mission. Deep-space vessel or non, he has always questioned the policy of having children on a starship and it is a terrible burden to have to intermission bad news himself. Picard takes Jeremy'south hand and says that nobody is alone on the starship Enterprise.
  • In Generations he enters a Lotus-Eater Machine and is actually given children of his own who admire him - he is then overwhelmed with joy he really starts to cry. The automobile in question - a space anomaly called the Nexus - gave him children because that was his deepest and virtually hidden desire.
  • That being said, he's deeply fond of his nephew Rene, who reminds him of himself at that age. He'southward utterly devastated when both his blood brother Robert and Rene are revealed to have died in a fire in Generations .
  • Amusingly, despite his unease with children, it seems that most children accept a liking to him right abroad. We in one case even see a grade onboard the Enterprise having a "Captain Picard 24-hour interval", much to his embarrassment (although he seems somewhat amused when telling an admiral, "Hehehe, I'1000 a role model.").
• Closet Geek:
  • Picard lights up at the bailiwick of unsolved mysteries; his childhood hero was the pulp novel detective Dixon Hill. The holodeck allows Picard to fantasize himself every bit the ii-fisted gumshoe.
  • He besides has a geeky love for old starships, boats, and planes, having built and played with model versions equally a young boy (he wound upward embarrassed and frustrated when he showed that side of himself a bit too much afterward finding an ancient, legendary starship from a expressionless civilisation). Geordi's gift to the captain on the Victory, a giant model sailing ship, is gorgeous.
  • He was this close, more than in one case, to taking up archaeology as his full-time profession.
• Clueless Chick Magnet: Picard is clearly embarrassed when alien women detect him a smoldering hunk instead of a walking rulebook.
• Contrasting Sequel Master Graphic symbol: He'due south far more restrained than Kirk, both regarding women and abroad missions (his younger XO Riker is Kirk's successor in this regard).
• Cool Old Guy: He's in his 60s during The Adjacent Generation. ^annotation He was born in 2305, per his biography in "Conundrum." People only respect him naturally.
• Cool Uncle: His nephew Renee thinks the world of him.
• Cosmic Play Thing: Whenever Q wants to test humanity, he decides Picard should be the one to take it.
• Costumer:
  • It would accept been pitiful if the one Shakespearean in the cast hadn't been able to drib in on his android homeslice and partake in some renaissance theater. Patrick Stewart steps into the Elizabethan worlds with ease.
  • Of course, the Dixon Hill program allows some of the ladies in his life to bring together in. Dr. Crusher looks very fetching in her stockings and veil (fifty-fifty as she stumbles uncertainly in loftier heels), and Whoopi certainly turns heads in her Prohibition apparel. Dixon Hill made a cursory comeback in Get-go Contact when Ellie wore a cleavage-baring wearing apparel and opera gloves to a meeting with Nicky the Olfactory organ.
• Courtroom-Martialed: As stated in "The Measure of a Man" Jean-Luc Picard faced a general court-martial for the loss of his previous command, the USS Stargazer, only was cleared. ^note Most navies have a standard court-martial which convenes whenever a transport is lost; this does not presume that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, simply just that the circumstances surrounding the loss of the ship be made role of the official record. In fact, historically, some officers have been left in disgrace because they were denied the opportunity to endeavor and articulate their names in a court-martial.
• Cultured Badass:
  • He speaks French and Klingon, and is well-versed in archaeology, literature, fencing, and horseback riding.
  • Picard really runs rings around his coiffure in "Darmok", figuring out the Tamarian language in an impossibly tight situation. His crew have the luxury of the transport's database and can pool their resource and become absolutely nowhere.
• Deadpan Snarker:
  • Often and ordinarily at Q'due south expense. Very deadpan, no smirking. For a moment he decides to go forth with Q'south proposal to bring together the crew and discusses what tasks would be besides menial for such an entity.
  • "Welcome to the Bridge, Mister La Forge." With an entrance like that he deserved some acknowledgement.
  • 'Number Ane, the Span, such every bit it is, is yours.'

• Defiant to the End:
  • At that place! ARE! 4! LIGHTS! Ofttimes forgotten is that this is a subversion. Picard only shouts this after another Cardassian soldier walks in and orders the Gul to cease the torture. Afterwards, Picard admits to Troi that not but would he take surrendered had the torture non been stopped simply and so, he could actually see 5 lights there.
  • THE LINE MUST BE Fatigued HERE. THIS FAR, NO FURTHER! crew and friends beg him to sacrifice his send to the Borg to relieve the future. He gets over it, subsequently an extremely rare, and brief, merely intense emotional meltdown.
  • Very straightforward, though, in the alternating timeline of Yesterday's Enterprise:

    Klingon Officer: Federation ship, give up and prepare to exist boarded.
    Picard: That'll be the day. [fires phasers]

• Did You lot Merely Flip Off Cthulhu?: Q and the Borg are frequently on the receiving stop of this.
• Distressed Dude: In Chain of Command at the hands of the Cardassians and in Best of Both Worlds, where he'due south captured by the Borg.
• Potable-Based Label: "Tea, Earl Greyness, hot." A sophisticated drink for a sophisticated man.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Events always seem to conspire to cast doubt on Picard's service record, to his ongoing resentment. Despite saving his entire crew and inventing a new starship maneuver, he was dragged before a court martial and scapegoated for the destruction of the Stargazer. While automatic court martial for loss of send has been standard naval practice for centuries (and he came away with a medal), the prosecutor plain went above and beyond in attacking him. His image too took a astringent battering following Wolf 359 (although information technology improves as time went on, as the means through which the Borg assimilate individuals into their collective became common knowledge amid Starfleet officers) with at least 1 officer belongings him personally responsible for the slaughter and Admiral Satie using information technology confronting him in a Kangaroo Court.
• Dysfunctional Family: As shown in "Family," his relationship with his brother Robert is very tense, while "Tapestry" implies that his male parent likewise never forgave him for running abroad to join Starfleet. His relationship with his nephew and his sister-in-law is much warmer.
• Face Palm: To memetic levels, to the bespeak that Picard is practically the Trope Codifier (and the folio image for the trope).
• Fantastic Racism: Towards the genetically engineered, every bit seen in "The Masterpiece Club". In this example, he objects to the do more on philosophical grounds rather than irrational hatred toward those who are genetically engineered, to whom he'southward perfectly helpful.
  • Frequently towards Worf too, though in a less overt manner.
• A Father to His Men: He may not take a personal interest in his crew similar Sisko or Janeway (at least not until "All Good Things..."), but he takes the deaths of his crewmen just as hard. He has, on several occasions (The Drumhead, The Offspring, et al.), put his career on the line to protect a fellow member of his crew from obstructive bureaucrats at Starfleet Command.
• Foil: Q calls Picard an impossibly stubborn human but that is the only way the Helm knows of infuriating the impish alien. Q often drives Picard nuts likewise, though in that case it is all office of some grand pattern past the Continuum. (Nosotros call up.)
• Old Teen Rebel: Picard confesses he hasn't e'er been so disciplined and that his heart issues are a issue of a drunken brawl involving insulting a pirate'south female parent and a knife in the back. It took a heart transplant to convince Picard to straighten upwardly and fly right. Information technology'southward also revealed that he got into serious hot water while in the Academy, and his career was only saved by the timely intervention of his mentor.
• Strange Culture Fetish: This Frenchman certainly seems very fond of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Earl Grey tea, English mythology (eastward.g. Robin Hood), Royal Navy hymns... (The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard justifies this and his Misplaced Accent by saying that the nuclear state of war in the 21st century led to a stronger British influence on French civilisation.)
• Hereafter Me Scares Me: They say if you travel far enough you are leap to come across yourself at some point and having experienced that in "Time Squared," he hopes it never happens once again. Questions of the 2d captain'south presence becomes complicated when we observe that he is from 6 hours in the future. What could possibly have happened to force Picard to carelessness his own ship? The solution is the captain fled the ship to salvage the crew from the effect of an anomaly, but this only concluded up sparing his life whilst destroying the Enterprise.
• Generation Xerox: An unpleasant affiliate in Picard's family unit history comes to low-cal in "Journeying'southward Finish". His ancestor, Javier Maribona-Picard, helped "colonize" New United mexican states past slaughtering hundreds of Native Americans. Seven centuries later, Jean-Luc Picard would notice himself forcibly relocating that same tribe (in space, no less).
• Admirer Adventurer: Is a Starfleet officeholder considering he loves exploring space and going on fantastic adventures on the Enterprise, simply always maintains an air of dignity and class.
• Gentleman and a Scholar: He patently wasn't paying close attending in the Scouts when he was a nipper as he seems to have little luck making a burn down in "Darmok" whilst his alien companion/foe enjoys warmth a few yards abroad. Picard is more at home behind a negotiating table than roughing it in the wood.

• Gondor Calls for Aid: He always prefers to resolve conflicts past diplomacy and finesse if possible, rather than resorting to combat. He's not to a higher place judiciously practical brinksmanship when necessary, either. When he suspected that he was being lured into a Romulan deadfall as a prelude to war, he bundled for the Enterprise to be escorted by cloaked Klingon warships. In one case the Romulan ambushers revealed themselves, so did the Klingons. (Sisko tried this, with some success, with the Klingons and Romulans, only the alliances didn't always final. Janeway tried it once in the Delta Quadrant and got badly burned, rarely resorting to diplomacy after that.)
• Skillful Is Not Dainty: A minor version. Picard'due south reserved nature means that he's non particularly approachable or friendly. Nevertheless, he is extremely principled, caring and generous.
• Got Volunteered: He notes in "The Emissary" that whenever Starfleet admirals get enigmatic, he knows he is about to get slapped in the confront with a moisture trout. Information technology's his lot in life as the flagship captain.
• Hates Pocket-size Talk: He'll do what he needs to avoid it. A good example is in Starship Mine, when Data attempts to make small talk with him and he directs the android to keep an eye on someone who was notorious for being large on small talk. Has made excuses for near a decade to avert attending an annual conference stocked with flag officers and fellow captains that ever turns into an excuse for aimless chit-conversation. In the episode it comes up, the Enterprise's engines go offline due to a faulty upgrade, and Picard'southward relief is almost palpable.
  • In the same episode, Worf, a fellow small-scale-talk hater, picks up on Picard's small-talk abstention strategies and rapidly requests to excuse himself from the event they are supposed to attend. Picard, clearly impressed, grants him this request. Geordi tries the aforementioned thing and Picard denies him on the grounds that he can't excuse his entire senior staff, telling him, "Mr. Worf beat you to it."
• Horseback Heroism: Picard is an equestrian. Troi picks up on the fact that Picard is more sensitive with his holographic equus caballus than he is with most people.
• Impaled with Farthermost Prejudice: He was run through by a long Nausicaan dagger as a self ensign, necessitating an artificial heart.
• I Was Quite the Looker: Not that Picard isn't handsome at present, but he was quite dashing equally a young Starfleet ensign thirty years prior, as seen in "Tapestry".
• I Will Fight Some More than Forever:
  • Admitting surrender, particularly to the Borg, equally "Outset Contact" shows. It takes a lot for Picard to declare a situation beyond recovery.
  • The Borg in general tend to make Picard unnerved; understandable given his absorption, just it's otherwise completely out of character for Picard to have such hatred for an unabridged species.
• Ideal Hero: Picard was written as perfect as someone could get while still being relatively human being. He favors diplomacy over forcefulness whenever possible, respects all forms of life, his greatest want is to learn and explore, and he knows just when to defy the Insane Admiral or Prime Directive.
• In-Series Nickname:
  • Q oft refers to Picard as "Mon capitaine" (my captain).
  • In "Tapestry", his Starfleet Academy friends chosen him "Johnny".
• Kneel Earlier Zod: Q respects the helm but isn't to a higher place putting him in a life-or-death situation to remind him who's the boss.
• Large Ham: Picard and Patrick Stewart have equal levels of ham content, considering that both are Shakespearian actors, but only i is in command of a powerful starship.
• Concluding of His Kind: The expiry of his brother Robert and his nephew Rene, means that he's now the concluding Picard. Until the expanded universe, where Picard married Crusher afterward Nemesis and had a child with her.
• Limited Advancement Opportunities: Kirk, Sisko, Janeway and Archer were all promoted over the course of their corresponding series or films. Picard, on the other mitt, chose to stay a captain for the entirety of his career. It is mentioned in All Good Things that Picard somewhen became an administrator. In Generations, Kirk flat-out tells Picard that he regrets being promoted to admiral and advises him to never allow it happen to him. He becomes an Almighty Janitor equally a effect — he is more qualified to be a tiptop-ranked admiral and everyone knows it, to the point the actual admirals usually speak to him less as a subordinate and more as an equal, not blinking at him addressing them by their first names, and he fifty-fifty puts ane or 2 in their place. In First Contact, when the Admiral leading the assault on the Borg invasion of Earth is killed, Helm Picard immediately takes command of the entire fleet (or what's left of it) and nobody questions it. Especially when he leads them to victory in a few minutes.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Young Picard's reaction to getting knifed through the heart was to begin laughing! Even Q was somewhat disturbed past this.
• Mama'south Boy: If everybody is seeing what they most desire in "Where No One Has Gone Earlier", then it is telling that all Picard desires is to sit and take tea with his dead mother once again.
• Memetic Hand Gesture: Besides the Confront Palm, at that place's likewise the fashion he points whenever he says "Appoint" to go the Enterprise moving.
• Minored in Ass-Boot: Even though he prefers diplomacy and has said more than once that he does non command a warship, he has proven to be an able battle commander on many occasions. The Picard Maneuver was the source of his initial fame, after all.
  • There's a few hints that he's a decent wrestler every bit well. In "The First Duty", the Starfleet Academy groundskeeper recalls the time where Picard striking "caught a Ligonian with a opposite torso lift and pinned him down in the first 14 seconds of the match."
• Misplaced Accent: Patrick Stewart uses his natural English accent for the role of a Frenchman. It'south never addressed in the bear witness. On the fleeting instances where he's called to say something in French, still, he volition effort to put a native speaker's accent on it rather than anglicize it.
  • In Flavour 2 of Picard, it's revealed that his family fled French republic during Globe War 2 and settled in England. They did non return to Chateau Picard for over a century.
• Mouth of Sauron: Later on his abduction and assimilation by the Borg, he was supposed to be the Collective's mouthpiece to the Federation, enervating its surrender and leading the Cube to Earth. To further this, he was given the name Locutus, which is roughly Latin for "speaker".
• Must Brand Amends: Commencement Contact is ordinarily treated equally a joke in Trekdom, with the aliens completely misreading the coiffure's intentions ("A Slice of the Activeness", "Lawmaking of Honor") or revering the ship as a God ("Glimmer of an Eye", Into Darkness). In "Who Watches the Watchers", Picard is aghast to larn the statuary age Mintakans have rekindled their one-time superstitions after an away squad bungles the job and exposes their spying nest to Liko. Finally we become to run into why breaking the Prime Directive is a dangerous business.
• My Greatest Failure: Prior to the serial, either the loss of the Stargazer or the expiry of Jack Crusher. Both are superseded, though, by being used by the Borg to crush Starfleet at Wolf 359.
• My Rule-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: Never endeavour to quote protocol to Picard: you volition lose.
• Noodle Incident: He did something while he was a cadet that would've gotten him expelled were it not for the intervention of Groundskeeper Boothby. Nosotros don't know what information technology was as Boothby brushes off Picard's thanks.
• Not Afraid to Dice: He's fully prepared to sacrifice his life in performance of his duty. He defeats Nagilum past threatening to destroy the Enterprise and everyone onboard rather than let Nagilum impale half the coiffure for his amusement, also equally disarming Tomalak that he's really not bluffing when he says he'southward prepared to fight to the expiry, even though it would mean the destruction of both their vessels.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Picard is supposed to be French, but Patrick Stewart uses his natural accent instead, creating a Misplaced Accent.
• Not Himself: Riker goes on loftier alert when Picard kicks up his feet in his Ready Room or starts leading a sea shanty in Ten Forward. Our Jean-Luc is never this relaxed.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Does everything in his ability to get Lwaxana Troi out of his hair, including going to Warp nine merely so she'll exist off the ship faster.
  • His Dixon Colina program contrasts with the cultured image he likes to present of himself — a identify where he tin can brawl with hoods and be snogged by dames of dubious morals. Not dissimilar the things he liked in his younger years, if "Tapestry" is any guide.
  • He has a nose for alcohol and, when times are appropriate, appreciates a practiced potable. Makes sense, given he spent his childhood on the family vineyard and his brother nevertheless runs it.
• Not And then Stoic: It'south pretty clear in Generations that something is tremendously off with the Helm afterward he gets a comminique from home and suddenly becomes far more than bad-tempered and brusque, even snapping at Riker on the bridge. It's only when Troi has a conversation with him that the truth comes out; His brother and nephew have just died, and telling Troi this causes Picard to beginning crying.
• Officer and a Gentleman: He's an aficionado of archaeology, Shakespeare, fine wine, good tea, and pulp detective fiction.
• Oh, Crap!: Merde.
• Papa Wolf: Although he isn't comfortable around children, Picard volition always stride up to protect them from harm.
• Parental Substitute: To Wesley.
• Patrick Stewart Speech: His actor is the Trope Namer.
• Precision F-Strike: On a couple of occasions, Picard has uttered the word "merde" on screen; this is the French word for "shit".
• Pride Earlier a Fall: It'due south Picard's hubris that they are ready to come across anything that comes their way that encourages Q into providing him with a lesson to prove to him otherwise. Picard doesn't heed Guinan's warnings and heads off to explore this region of space (really Borg Space) anyway. xviii crewmembers died to teach him a lesson.
• Psycho Electro: A lost entity takes possession of Picard'south mind in "Lonely Among United states of america", shooting electricity through the captain controls and incapacitating the whole coiffure.
• The Reliable One: Even amid his enemies, Picard is known for his dependability and honor. No less a figure than the Chancellor of the Klingon Empire assigned this random human to be mediator over the process that would make up one's mind his successor, solely because he trusted Picard more than anyone else despite only having met him once.
• Sheathe Your Sword:
  • To prove he is a more thoughtful human being than Kirk, he immediately surrenders to the Q whereas Jimmy T would have blasted them to hell and damn the consequences (In afterwards episodes, Picard will be a lot quicker to hit the self-destruct and leap into an escape pod, possibly because surrendering the Enterprise-D would be an unacceptable security take a chance for the Federation).
  • In "Who Watches the Watchers," Picard allows himself to be shot past an arrow to prove his mortality. The Mintakans will resume their pursuit of scientific discipline and exit the old behavior backside, regardless of whether or not he survives Liko'due south arrow.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: With Captain Phillipa Louvois in "The Measure of a Human". In ane of the novels, it's farther elaborated that Louvois and Picard were romantically involved before she was chosen to prosecute him during his courtroom martial, where she betrayed him by using the fact he'd wake screaming the names of the expressionless Stargazer crew, as proof that he was guilty.
• The Stoic: While he is pushed to his limits several times and he develops a seething hatred for the Borg, Picard's reserve and emotional control are impressive enough that a Vulcan suffering from an age-related breakdown of cocky-control mind-links with him for stability. Spock himself finds Picard to be "remarkably belittling and dispassionate, for a human."
• Sufficiently Avant-garde Aliens: Picard is revered as a God figure past the Mintakans in "Who Watches the Watchers". Scenes of Picard being seen in a haze of light like some kind of benevolent God are a viewpoint into how pre-warp civilizations view the Federation (and the captain asking Dr. Crusher why she didn't allow Liko die rather than poison their race with alien ideas is very Old Testament of him). Like Sisko in the early seasons of DS9, Picard is extremely uncomfortable with the idea of being considered a religious icon. He has to try and think of a manner to get through to Nuria and explain that his life and hers isn't that different, talking of ships and phasers every bit ameliorate huts and improve bows, merely it doesn't actually translate.
• Super Hearing: In his backstory, he once suffered from a form of hyperacusis. Even though information technology was treated, he yet has highly astute hearing by homo standards.
• Technical Pacifist: Picard initially rejected the state of war games sim in "Peak Operation" because he firmly believes that Starfleet is not a war machine organization. (The dorsum-to-dorsum invasions by the Borg and the Dominion will soon clear upwards that misunderstanding.) Still, with the looming Borg threat, he feels that his crew needs to brush upwardly on their tactical skills.
• In that location Is No Cure: His alternate self in a Bad Hereafter in "All Good Things" has the delusion-causing degenerative neurological disease Irumodic Syndrome, which has no known cure even in that fourth dimension. See the Picard folder for more data.
• Took a Level in Badass: Picard could always handle himself in a fight, but it was played upward to cool lengths in the movies, where nigh of his scenes played out like "Die Hard In Space"
• Took a Level in Kindness: Due to some Early Installment Weirdness and Label Marches On, Picard is established in the airplane pilot to be a adequately bearish, cold and distant man. He snaps at people and doesn't even carp looking at Riker when his new executive officer arrives on the span. A few episodes afterwards, he admits that he was a bit harsh on his new number one. Over the course of the serial, while Picard remains adequately potent and formal, he becomes much warmer and soft-hearted.
• Trademark Favorite Food: "Tea. Earl Grayness. Hot." While less iconic, it'due south also established that Picard would have a croissant for breakfast every day if left to his own devices.
• Tranquil Fury: How he often shows his anger.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Picard has this with Beverly Crusher, with whom he shares a close friendship that hovers juuuust outside of being romantic for the unabridged course of the show'south run. It'southward never resolved, Picard remains a available throughout all sequel movies and serial.

Admiral (retired) Jean-Luc Picard

All the same bald. Still awesome.

The atomic number 82 character of the series and the onetime commander of the USS Stargazer, USS Enterprise (both NCC-1701-D and NCC-1701-East), and the USS Verity. He rose to the rank of admiral in the years subsequently Star Trek: Nemesis, simply has since left Starfleet in the wake of the synths' attack on Mars and Starfleet'southward refusal to aid the Romulans in the face of the supernova that would destroy their homeworld. At the outset of the series, he has been tending his family unit's vineyard, Chateau Picard, for nearly fourteen years.

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Picard

• Artificial Human being: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", his human trunk succumbs to the effects of his latent brain defect, but his mind is scanned before his brain functions fully cease, and then information technology's transferred to an android golem that functions exactly similar a regular human trunk. He lives on as a synth, but without the enhancements of a Soong-blazon android (so no Super Strength, Super Reflexes, Super Hearing or the processing power of a reckoner, and no extensions to his natural lifespan). Star Trek: Discovery reveals that he is a Super Prototype of this sort of thing.
• The Atoner: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", he'southward accused of wanting to rescue the synthetics to atone for his failure to save the Romulans, rather than considering his help will really achieve anything.
• Back from the Dead: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Office 2", he dies of complications from Irumodic Syndrome, but Agnes, Altan, and Soji transfer his listen to a biological android, bringing him dorsum to life.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • He came to resent and despise Starfleet for their refusal to aid the Romulan people.
  • On the flip side, several Starfleet officers lost their respect for him because of his criticisms of the organization.
  • Because he resigned in protest, Starfleet decided to boot out Raffi. Picard'due south choice cost Raffi her passion in life and he never bothered to keep in contact with her, fifty-fifty to see if she was alright.
  • The opening flashback in "Absolute Candor" shows that Picard used to be revered by the Romulans on Vashti. 14 years after, that reverence has faded to resentment.
  • He was similar a father figure to Elnor, but similar to Raffi, Picard didn't talk to him for fourteen years.
• Call to Agriculture: In his retirement years, he has been managing his family'south vineyard in French republic.
• Commonality Connection: In "Maps and Legends", he'due south delighted when he learns that Jurati shares his fondness for Earl Grey tea.

  Picard: Your preference? We have a option.
  Jurati: Earl Grey?
  Picard: (smiling) I knew at that place was something about y'all.

• Absurd Onetime Guy: Older and cooler than ever, if a bit more jaded.
• Pessimism Catalyst: Starfleet's refusal to aid the Romulans, in the wake of the devastating synth attack on Mars, acquired Picard to resign his commission in protest.
• Nighttime Is Not Evil: His vesture is often black and/or nighttime gray, and he'south the Hero Protagonist of the series.
• Death Seeker: It's not explicit or witting, but the aging, embittered, and mortally ill Picard jumps at the chance to organize a Ragtag Band of Misfits to tackle a huge conspiracy which freely employs special forces kill squads, is perfectly willing to walk into situations which could get him killed, and throws downwards his sword when forced into a duel with someone who is clearly serious virtually wanting him dead. (He also refuses to involve also many of his friends in his quest, suggesting that he knows at eye how dangerous it is.) He'd surely exist quite happy to get out in a blaze of glory.
• Distressed Dude: In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", he'due south under house arrest at Coppelius Station.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride with a dash of Honor Before Reason. In his past Picard was respected and famous across the galaxy for his decorated career in Starfleet, and while he didn't overtly become big-headed or proud he still possessed a strong sense of cocky-paradigm, and as well a strong sense of morals. ​This is why he left Starfleet, because he felt it was no longer keeping true to the ideals he believed it should stand up for, and he would non exist a part of the organization in such a country. Several characters tell him that nether the circumstances at the time (Mars scourged by synths, Romulus virtually to exist destroyed), leaving Starfleet did far more harm than adept, because it was exactly the sort of fourth dimension when men like Jean-Luc Picard were needed most. From their perspective, it was Starfleet's Darkest Hour, and rather than aid the organization assist itself, Picard walked away for the sake of upholding his personal honor, and it cost him a lot of respect and friendships. This repeatedly bites him over the course of the start season when people he assumes would readily aid him are bitter towards him.
• Feeling Their Age: Even if his health is excellent for his age, he's nonetheless in his nineties. Simply a brisk jog has him gasping for breath.
• Foil:
  • The idealistic Picard and the cynical Vii of Nine are former Borg drones who reacted very differently when the Federation reneged on its promise to aid the Romulan people. Picard resigned from Starfleet and was inactive in interstellar affairs for the past fourteen years, whereas Seven became a vigilante who works for the Fenris Rangers in lawless regions that the Federation had abased. They are human Parental Substitutes to non-man men, Elnor and Icheb, respectively. Picard was a Disappeared Dad to Elnor since he quit Starfleet, which contrasts 7, who maintained her shut ties with Icheb because he helped her with the Fenris Rangers' reconnaissance while he was on exit from the USS Coleman. Elnor arrives in time to save Picard'due south life on Vashti, but Vii is besides tardily to save Icheb's life on Vergessen. Picard tries to convince 7 not to seek revenge for Icheb's expiry by killing Bjayzl and her gang of criminals, just Vii carries out the executions anyhow.
  • He and Raffi are former Starfleet officers who have ignored a son figure (Elnor and Gabriel Hwang, respectively) for many years, and when they finally reunite with them, the outcome is very different. Picard doesn't apologize for his abandonment of Elnor and requests that his surrogate son be part of his crew, whereas Raffi does apologize for her neglect of Gabriel and hopes that she tin spend time with her son. Picard and Raffi then receive a Calling the Old Man Out speech from Elnor and Gabriel. Elnor at first rejects his father effigy's offer, but changes his mind when the latter's life is in danger; his love for Picard overcomes his resentment. Gabriel, however, remains incredibly bitter at his mother, so he shuts down any possibility of a reconciliation. Picard gets his surrogate son back, but Raffi is still cut off from her son.
  • He and Hugh are ex-Borg who have helped people who are hated by many (the Romulans and the xBs, respectively) and who are extremely displeased with the system that they work for (the Federation and the Romulan Costless State, respectively). Picard "allowed the perfect to become the enemy of the practiced" when the Federation cancelled its programme to relocate the Romulans from their doomed homeworld, so when he couldn't salve everyone, he chose to relieve no i. Hugh, on the other hand, does as much good as he possibly can under weather which are far from perfect to await after the former drones at the Romulan Reclamation Site, then he continues to help each new patient despite the constraints placed on him. Elnor is present when both men die; they both warmly grin at him and loving cup Elnor's face in a loving fashion. ^annotation Jonathan Del Arco depicted Hugh as being in honey with Elnor.
• Get out with a Smile: Every bit he'due south dying, he grins at Soji considering he'south glad that she made the right choice, and he affectionately smiles at Elnor, who's the closest matter he has to a son.
• Gracefully Demoted: When he goes to see Admiral Clancy, C-in-C of Starfleet, to asking to be reinstated and given a ship then he can rails downwardly a pb on Data's possible daughter, he offers, if an admiral is as well much for such a mission, to be downgraded to captain. Clancy, nonetheless, is non happy with him, both for an interview on the news in which he was highly disquisitional of Starfleet as well as lingering resentment for how he left the fleet in the first place, and turns him down. Fifty-fifty with the demotion.
• Gratuitous French: A meta version; he is shown speaking French to his dog to remind the audience that he is actually supposed to be French. He equates being interviewed with heading off to the guillotine ("Bien, à la guillotine, alors."). Played direct when he puts on a Maurice Chevalier Accent while portraying an organ trader and refers to Vii of Ix as a jeune fille. He throws in the occasional French discussion, such as Adieu in "Et in Arcadia Ego, Role 2."
• Heroic Sacrifice: With his Irumodic Syndrome worsening, Picard goes into boxing to defend Coppelius from the Romulan fleet. Information technology costs him his life, temporarily at least.
• It's All About Me:
  • He idea that Starfleet would value his reputation and threat of resignation over its conclusion non to help the Romulans.
  • He expects Admiral Clancy to greenlight his mission to find Bruce Maddox and Dahj's twin sister, despite having publicly slammed Starfleet and the Federation two days before and despite having no actual testify to support his claims about both Soji and the Zhat Vash. Clancy chews him out for his "sheer fucking hubris."
  • Sarcastically invoked by Laris when she's infuriated by Picard acting as if the galaxy revolves effectually him.

    Picard: I don't fully sympathise all of information technology, but I know that it's important, and not but to me.
    Laris: No, of course, if information technology's important to Jean-Luc Picard, it must be of import to the whole galaxy.

  • A few times, Picard and his crew driblet his proper name into a request in the conventionalities that it will help grease the skids. The results are mixed at best.
• In Spite of a Nail: In the Confederation of World alternate timeline, Picard withal has a synthetic trunk, although in that timeline he got it after being severely wounded in a fight with Gul Dukat.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He isn't at all happy with the cynical plough Starfleet has taken, merely as shown by his "The Reason You Suck" Spoken communication aimed at a sleazy journalist, information technology's only because his idealism is at present even more pronounced.
• The Leader: He's the Charismatic type who relies on being a Magnetic Hero to ring together a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits to assistance him on his mission.
• Living Legend: He's famous across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, although his reputation has been somewhat tarnished after he resigned from Starfleet considering he chose to do absolutely cypher (other than caring for his family's vineyard and writing history books) during his retirement.
• Magnetic Hero: He spends the first four episodes collecting a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits for his Badass Crew, even though some of them have their own grudges against him or idealistic causes in full general.
• Not So Above It All: He is shown stickfighting with the boy Elnor and, when required to work undercover, gleefully hamming up his villain office with an eyepatch and Maurice Chevalier Accent.
• Oh, Crap!: Season 2 starts with him cocky-destructing the new Stargazer to go on the Borg Queen from getting ahold of Starfleet's tech, only to wake up in his chateau, dressed in a blackness compatible and with a very different badge on his chest. Then an android servant comes in, with no tape of Laris anywhere. As he's having a panic at his situation, then he hears a familiar voice...and Q pops upwardly right behind up.
• Parental Substitute: Considering the orphan Elnor was raised by the all-female Qowat Milat sect, Picard was the sole meaning male figure in his life, so naturally the boy looked up to the older man as a surrogate father.
• Pass Fail: He'due south technically an xB, just because he doesn't possess any visible Borg implants, he doesn't suffer the milky way-broad persecution that the other sometime drones do, who are perceived to be "property to be exploited, or as a take a chance to exist warehoused." He never has to worry about beingness a victim of Borg tech harvesters (like Icheb) or beingness a victim of a government-sanctioned xB massacre (like Hugh and his patients). Rios conveniently forgot that Picard was once part of the Collective, and when Elnor ponders if the xBs are meliorate off dead, he's obviously non thinking about his surrogate father.
• Patrick Stewart Speech:
  • C'mon, it'south Picard, information technology'south practically a reflex for him. He even gets i in the premiere when he assures Dahj that what she is doesn't impact who she is.
  • He as well gives one to Rios to the consequence that even later on leaving Starfleet, Rios is withal at eye a Starfleet officer. This prompts Rios to hang a lampshade he had gear up for simply this moment:

    "Raffi warned me yous were a speechmaker."

• Rank Upwards: He eventually gained a promotion to admiral later on the events of Nemesis, although he later resigned from the position after Starfleet decided to not help the Romulans in the pb-up to the destruction of Romulus.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: Flavour 2 reveals that Starfleet has stopped treating him like a pariah for resigning and much more like the respected Helm he used to. It helps that he's now get the caput of Starfleet Academy, and has smoothened things over with anybody else.
• Retired Badass: Long since retired from the Starfleet admiralty by the fourth dimension the series begins.
• Scatterbrained Senior: Non specifically, simply certain characters do savor characterizing him as something of a weird, headstrong Infinite Grandpa. And to their credit, they're not entirely wrong, as Picard himself admits he's lost perspective on some matters due to his age and various lingering traumas. The potential render (or rather eventual manifestation) of his Irumodic Syndrome from "All Good Things" strongly implies he is on the road to becoming a Scatterbrained Senior for real, however.
• Screw the Rules, I'chiliad Doing What's Right!: When he tin can't get Starfleet to aid him through proper channels, he goes off the filigree to investigate the androids on his own.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Equally he says in the pilot, the bodily dreams he has are lovely, information technology's the waking up that he resents.
• There Is No Cure: Discussed. He discovers in "Maps and Legends" that the structural defect in his brain could cause one of a number of fatal syndromes, simply a number of which are fifty-fifty treatable; including the Irumodic Syndrome which his alternate hereafter self in The Adjacent Generation was diagnosed with (see the above folder).
• Took a Level in Carper: Or, at the very to the lowest degree, a lot more jaded. He lost neither his pity nor his idealism, but merely couldn't accept the politics of Starfleet any longer.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In spite of the level that he took in kindness mostly, it's nonetheless quite disturbing how horribly he treats Raffi, at least in the before episodes of Season i. He plies her with alcohol to try to persuade her to sign on with his quest, essentially feeding her addiction for his own purposes. Subsequently, after she's locked herself in her room on La Sirena because she's distraught that she failed to reconcile with her son, Picard reacts to her anguished "Get abroad!" with an unconcerned lilliputian grin, as if to say, "Oh that dizzy Raffi, always giving into despair and drinking herself to death." His seeming lack of empathy for his supposed friend is perchance best on display in "The Impossible Box," where Raffi (who is only on this mission because she loves and respects Picard that much) burns her terminal span with one of the few friends she has left at Starfleet to get Picard access to the Artifact. Emmy, pissed at beingness used, tells Raffi never to contact her once more, and Raffi is visibly heartbroken. What is Picard's reaction, even as she stumbles pathetically dorsum to her room to go on drowning her sorrows? He gives her a lighthearted round of applause, and even incites the others to join in. Seriously, if we didn't know Picard amend, information technology would almost seem like he was actively mocking his friend'southward utter misery.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Not in the sense that he'due south fifty-fifty more idealistic or compassionate than in his younger years, but he certainly seems much more than ready to express his affection for people. Information technology's non simply the effect of not being the other characters' commanding officer anymore, as he used to be on the Enterprise. In the flashback to the Romulan evacuation, he's going out of his way to be kind to the young Elnor, fifty-fifty taking the fourth dimension to read stories and play/fence with him — when he was previously known to have little patience with children. He shows absolutely no hesitation in hugging and kissing ^note on the cheek Deanna and Will, which he didn't even practice at their wedding, when they were already on their way to Volition's new send, and so it wasn't an consequence of appropriate behavior towards subordinates anymore. He'southward also happy to let Hugh and developed Elnor hug him in greeting. This new cuddliness specially stands out against his own rueful admission to Soji that he used to share Data's "limited" "capacity for expressing and processing emotion" to some degree. (Perhaps owning a domestic dog helped with learning to be more expressive.) He also admits to her that he did love Data (in his own fatherly-supportive way) and hopes that the amore was returned, inasmuch that was possible for Data. In the last few episodes of Season 1, he's being remarkably gentle and understanding with Dr. Jurati (during and later on her confession) and he seems to intentionally encourage Elnor'southward and Soji's attachment to him as a begetter figure with lines like "I'm very proud of you." It's only with Raffi that he nonetheless seems to feel that hugging and saying "I honey you" is weird — but he nonetheless returns the phrase later on some hesitation. Overall, it comes across like in his younger years, Picard'south kindness came mainly from ethical principles and high-minded, though somewhat distant idealism, but now it besides comes from deep personal affection for the people in his life, and the wish to show them that and treat them besides every bit he can, while he withal can. ^note Which only makes sense, given his lingering grief over Data'due south death, and too considering his own medical diagnosis.
• We Aid the Helpless:
  • He's amidst the very few people in the Blastoff and Beta Quadrants who wanted to save Romulan lives when the Romulan star was about to explode.
  • His personal mission is to rescue Soji from the Zhat Vash. In "Stardust City Rag", he describes her to Seven of Nine as:

    Picard: Someone who has no else to help her, someone who will likely die if I don't.

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