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MitPitt • yesterday at 5:48 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Patrick Stewart or the show writers? I'm not a fan of equating TV character personalities to actors.


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whalabi • yesterday at 5:51 PM

They messed up the title. The title tag on the page is "Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard taught us what good men do with power | Vox"

I imagine it was too long and because he just died they chose to use his name.

rhaynes • yesterday at 6:20 PM

Yes, and I think that unfortunately with the latest "Picard" series, it shows that writers were the unsung heroes of TNG. At the same time, the actors make us believe the story. They get most of the popular credit of course and the writers should be acknowledged more (and even brought back as mentors... can we get an inspiring vision of Trek this century?), but had I been born in a different time and place and fortunate enough to land a writing job on TNG, I would be proud of what the whole team accomplished in their hour upon the stage.

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izacus • yesterday at 6:52 PM

Sir Stewart has also repeatedly shown his personal politics to be pretty in line with what the show shows. So it's fine either way.

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ltbarcly3 • yesterday at 6:37 PM

"The college professor or the people who wrote the textbook and set up the university and arranged for students to come to it or..."

I think we can let him take a little credit for the work he did without trying to exactly determine how much of that credit is his exactly.

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