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April 22 - 29, 2022 (Double Issue)

AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS PLAYING JEAN-LUC PICARD IN MANY iterations of Star Trek: The Next Generation and now with the Paramount Plus series Star Trek: Picard (season finale May 5), it’s wild to think Patrick Stewart almost might not have gotten the iconic part. “Gene Roddenberry [series creator] didn’t want me.”

- H. Alan Scott

Patrick Stewart

Even Stewart was on the fence, with friends telling him, “Come to L.A., get to know Hollywood, make a little bit of money for the first time in your life and go home with a suntan. That’s what I expected. I shot the pilot episode expecting every day to be canceled.” Stewart says he was intrigued by the idea of “performing the same character 30 years later” and showing how they “would change all the way through the seasons.” After finishing the second season of

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