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    To boldly go back

    Mar 11, 2022 5 minutes
    INTERVIEW BY Mark Lawson
    PORTRAITS BY
    Philip Cheung

    PATRICKSTEWART IS SLIGHTLY SURPRISED to be talking about the impending second series of Star Trek: Picard, during a break from shooting the third in California. The reason is that he so firmly turned down the first season. After playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the 24th-century hero of Starfleet, in 176 TV episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and four spin-off movies, Stewart was convinced that he had “done everything I could with Picard and Star Trek”.

    But the producers – Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind), Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys), Kirsten Beyer (Star Trek: Discovery), Alex Kurtzman (The Mummy) – persisted. And Stewart took a look at the names. “There were Academy award and Pulitzer prize winners. So I thought the most courteous thing to do would be to have a meeting to tell them face to face why I was

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