Making it so…
The forgettable Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) was no way for a starship captain as iconic as Jean-Luc Picard to retire his commission after 15 glorious years exploring the final frontier, across seven TV seasons and four movies. Nearly two decades on, the long-serving commander of the USS Enterprise is now boldly going once more, in new spin-off Star Trek: Picard, streaming on Amazon Prime.
Running from 1987 to 1994, Star Trek: The Next Generation was the series that took Sir Patrick Stewart off the boards and bit-parts and made him a star. Yet the actor was hesitant about engaging the warp drive once more.
“I had been for a long time saying, ‘Thank you but no,’” Stewart says. “Then, as the subject matter of this new proposed series became clearer and clearer to me — and when I began to meet our incredibly distinguished writing team [which
