Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
- When Patrick Stewart, who died on Wednesday, first stepped onto the bridge of the Enterprise in 1987 in his defining role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the Berlin Wall still stood.
- The Soviet Union would not fall until the fourth season of that show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, had already begun.
- Yet Picard’s generation of Star Trek franchise anticipated both events, portraying a post-Cold War world just as the Cold War was ending.
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- When Patrick Stewart, who died on Wednesday, first stepped onto the bridge of the Enterprise in 1987 in his defining role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the Berlin Wall still stood.
- The Soviet Union would not fall until the fourth season of that show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, had already begun.
- Yet Picard’s generation of Star Trek franchise anticipated both events, portraying a post-Cold War world just as the Cold War was ending.
Sources: Vox