By Chris Snellgrove
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One of the greatest architects of Star Trek’s golden age was Ronald Moore, a young writer who came on board The next generation In his third season and helped shape the franchise for a decade. These days, he is best known as the showrunner for the excellent Battlestar Galactica Restart series, but when his script for “The Bonding” brought him to Tng, he was only a young writer and inexperienced. And when he visited the set during the shot, Patrick Stewart offered shocking advice to Ronald Moore: that Captain Picard needed to fight more and get fucked more often in future scripts.
Patrick Stewart and Ronald Moore
Of course, part of what makes Patrick Stewart’s advice to Ronald Moore so funny, it is that fans tend to consider the older man as worthy, formal … basically, the incarnation of Picard himself, until his official way of speaking. However, Moore has discovered how much the science fiction The icon could be when he heard the hilarious advice from Stewart, for future scripts: “” Do not forget one thing … The captain does not do enough vision or shooting in this series. “”
To make things even funnier, it was actually the first time that Patrick Stewart And Ronald Moore had never met. The young writer recalled that the actor was “very graceful and friendly when he had learned that I had written [“The Bonding”]And Stewart wanted to know if Moore wrote another episode. When Moore began to describe his next scenario (“transfer”), Stewart seemed interested in the plot, but quickly reminded the writer that Picard needed to be fucked more often and fight.
Patrick Stewart then turned around and moved away from Ronald Moore after dropping this fun advice, and we like to think that he was fully aware of the shocking of these words from the mouth of Captain Picard. However, despite the actor’s best efforts, the young writer he spoke was far from being shocked. Recalling history, Moore has reached a conclusion with which many fans would agree: “Now, it is the company’s captain, if you ask me.”
Now we know what you are asking for: Patrick Stewart got his wish, and Ronald Moore made sure that Picard has obtained more action scenes, both in and out of the room? Surprisingly, yes: Moore wrote “Tapestry”, the famous episode of Flashback in Picard Starfleet Academy days. Although this is not the sexiest episode in the history of trek, we can see the future captain flirt with several women and (thanks to the reality powers of Q) finally sealed the agreement with Marta, a former classmate for whom he has always hosted secret feelings.
And Patrick Stewart has received numerous additional action scenes on the screen for Picard thanks to Ronald Moore: the writer wrote both “Gambit” (in which Picard had to surpass and overcome a group of unforgiving mercenaries) and a “chain of command” (in which Picard survives prolonged torture after being captured during a Spy Top-Certée mission). Moore has also written most of the episodes of Klingon de Tng (which proved that the captain was not intimidated by the threats of Warriors with half his years and twice his strength) and co-written “all good things” (the final of the series in which a Picard to jump in time must save the whole universe).
At first glance, the advice of Patrick Stewart to Ronald Moore seems a little juvenile, and some fans think that he has laid the foundations for Picard’s “Action Star” version that we see in the Tng Movies. However, while watching the list of Moore scripts that responded to the actor’s request, we cannot help noting that these are some of the best episodes in the whole series. And maybe Stewart knew something about his character very early that none of us would have guessed: Picard is really at his best when he manages to channel his interior James T. Kirk.
