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Patrick Stewart Returns as Jean-Luc Picard for a New Star Trek Series
- philipov 8y agoMy god, Patrick Stewart looks like he hasn't aged in 30 years. On another matter, does anyone else wonder who at TechCrunch thought it was a good idea to make scrolling to the bottom of the page be an automatic redirect away from the article?
- IshKebab 8y agoHe sounds old though.
- couldnthairless 8y agoOne of the benefits of early male pattern baldness. :)
- dcwca 8y agoWhat are some others please
- dgacmu 8y agoEasier application of sunscreen.
- isostatic 8y agoLooking like Captain Picard
- elorant 8y agoYou're saving on haircuts and shampoo.
- dghughes 8y agoShampoo yes, haircuts no same cost as unbald people :(
- andrewingram 8y agoI don’t understand, I’ve (mostly) been using an electric beard/body hair trimmer to shave my head for the last 11 years.
- dghughes 8y agoCost at a barber shop. If you go to one the cost for a haircut is the same for a man whether he is bald or not. And I get a #2 clipper all over too done in two minutes $25 plus tip. Sure at home with an electric razor would be cheap but I tried and I can't get reach the back of my neck very well and it looks bad.
- __s 8y agoI've been using scissors for free for the past 14
- THE_PUN_STOPS 8y agoToilet plunger on head for easy narwhal/unicorn costume
- biggusdickus 8y agoLess unwanted female attention.
- jdietrich 8y agoAerodynamics.
- a1369209993 8y agoNo dandruff.
- jjoonathan 8y agoTake off a fuzzy hat crackling with static in the dead of winter -- not a single hair out of place! Roll out of bed, realize you didn't set your alarm and have to be out of the house in 2 minutes -- that's ok, just get up and go, the hair-mussing properties of sleep have no power over you! The nasty mix of rust and oil that you get from working on the underside of a car can't get stuck in hair you don't have! I would still choose hair over no hair, but that's only because its single redeeming quality is a big one: being attractive. On most other metrics, being bald is actually pretty great.
- mrfusion 8y agoImmune to lice. Easy to spot ticks.
- berbec 8y agoHaving a ready made Halloween costume with a see-through garbage bag: condom
- zestyping 8y agoThe TechCrunch redirect behaviour is so insane that I had to try it a few times to really believe that it was happening. I am flabbergasted that anyone actually thought that was a good idea.
- amluto 8y agoThe X overlaying the text is a nice touch, too.
- woolvalley 8y agoThere are details. Look at this: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=star%20treck%20tng%201980s%20picard&tbs=imgo:1#imgrc=nXfpabYqGAvbPM https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=star%20treck%20tng%...: compared to this: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=star%20treck%20tng%201980s%20picard&tbs=imgo:1#imgrc=Xox_jByAILccNM https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=star%20treck%20tng%...:
- brandonmenc 8y ago> My god, Patrick Stewart looks like he hasn't aged in 30 years. To be fair, he looked a bit older than his actual late 40s when TNG started.
- athom 8y agoYou should look him up from about ten years prior to TNG. He was in several episodes of I, Claudius back in 1976, thereabouts, and aside from the hair, he STILL didn't look much different.
- AdmiralAsshat 8y agoIt's widely assumed that Stewart made some kind of deal with Satan, sometime around the filming of Dune, whereby he traded his youth for immortality. He thus looked about ten or twenty years older than he was at the time, but promptly stopped aging altogether.
- slowmovintarget 8y agoThe life-extending properties of the Spice are what did it. Same for Sting and Kyle Maclachlan.
- knolan 8y agoHow does this fit into the new timeline that the Abrams reboot creates? Will the new Picard series be in the TNG timeline?
- klondike_ 8y agoThe JJ Abrams movies have never been in the same timeline as the TV shows so the new show will be in the same timeline as TNG
- knolan 8y agoWhat timeline is Discovery in then?
- ronnier 8y agoAre the Abrams movies even Star Trek? Feels nothing like ST.
- noonespecial 8y agoGlad others agree. Abrams Trek is like watching a football game; Roddenberry Trek was like watching a chess match. Both can be entertaining, but they are certainly very different things.
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- kyriakos 8y agoFinally, I hope this has a hopeful version of the future like TNG
- jrmg 8y agoYes, though I’m enjoying ST:Discovery, WestWorld, and The Expanse, I really miss optimistic sci-fi. Is there anything like that out there now that I’m missing?
- rkagerer 8y agoThe Orville. I feel like it's the spiritual successor to Gene's original vision.
- klausjensen 8y agoThe Star Trek-clone "The Orville" is just that - with some added Seth Macfarlane humor. I expected absolutely nothing from it but ended up really enjoying it. Only one season out so far.
- dtech 8y agoI also like that while The Orville is set in a post-scarcity society, the characters aren't the shining bastions of humanity as Star Trek characters tend to be. They're basically just doing their best, and have some very recognizable flaws.
- nabla9 8y agoOrville is clearly made by someone who loves star trek. It's a comedy but it has good stories that could have been TNG episodes.
- empyrical 8y agoHis love of trek has been life long - he even made a fanfilm as a teenager! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_Sgcxg5PQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_Sgcxg5PQ
- lobotryas 8y agoIt boggles my mind why creatives seem to always think that the audience wants "something different". You had a good thing going. Change up a few elements, improve a dew things, but give us more of the awesome formula that created a phenomenon in the first place. I would hate to see Stewart's latest effort go down the same drain as Enterprise and Discovery.
- petemill 8y agoDifferent times. He stated that he’s only now excited about returning to the role, and hadn’t previously been the last 20 years, because he sees how bleak many people’s outlook is about the world right now. He himself has uncharacteristically begun watching the TNG episodes for a dose of hope. So I think we will find the federation in a state of dis-unification (earth exiting the union? immigration problems?) and perhaps even Picard struggling to find and build hope.
- theclaw 8y agoThat and the fact that his last popular role was an animated poo, which probably made a return to Trek seem like a big step up.
- cm2012 8y agoHe is also hilarious as the CIA director in American Dad.
- atomi 8y ago> He himself has uncharacteristically begun watching the TNG Yeah. Even while I'm deluged in an ocean of pretty dman good modern tv, I find myself throwing on an old episode of TNG from time to time. It's still a joy to watch.
- dilap 8y agoNah. It may or may not hit the mark, but it's always better to see great artists strike out for new territory and new things than just serving over rehashes of earlier creative exploration. (I grew up watching TNG and love it, btw, fwiw, etc. etc.)
- danso 8y agoI’m surprised he’s 78 but not too worried that that’ll weaken his performance. According to IMDB, Stewart lost 21 pounds for the movie “Logan” [0] in order to portray a sickly Prof. Xavier. Dropping weight as a wrestler was incredibly painful even as a HS wrestler, so I think he must be very healthy for a man in his late seventies to even consider such a regimen. If anything, Stewart’s old age will be an asset. The final TNG movies had him acting as an action hero; now the new show will be inclined to have more cerebral conflicts. [0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3315342/trivia?ref_=m_tt_trv_trv https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3315342/trivia?ref_=m_tt_trv_trv
- maxerickson 8y agoI bet it's a smaller role where he (more or less) plays Boothby.
- warent 8y agoMeta: Someone tried posting this same article yesterday and it was flagged. Now it's not flagged this time. Hacker News herd mentality? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17688773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17688773
- theclaw 8y agoI'm betting this will take the form of a clipshow where old Picard and Riker get drunk in a vineyard and remember the good old days.
- phkahler 8y ago...available on CBS’ online subscription/original content service, CBS All Access. Yeah, another subscription service. Sorry Jean-Luc, you've been assimilated for real this time.
- 3rdAccount 8y agoIsn't that what cable was? Only this one you can buy for a month, binge, and cancel. It isn't all that bad.
- phkahler 8y agoTNG was over the air. We're in a strange phase right now where these individual companies are creating content and you have to subscribe to each one. It's somewhere between cable where you pay one company for access to a whole lot, and paying for individual productions. Everyone thinks they can be the go-to place if they just produce some good stuff that you can get only from them. For me it's just too much bother, and if it say "CBS" I'm kinda wondering why it's not OTA in the first place. I'll pick it up when if/when it's on blueray or <gasp> DVD.
- 3rdAccount 8y agoThey know OTA is dead and are trying to position themselves to not be beholden to Netflix, Hulu...etc, although that would be easier on us.
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- ChuckMcM 8y agoMaybe the arc will be him talking down an evil Wesley Crusher who is ravaging the federation in his mind controlled hyper warp ship :-). More seriously I wonder how members of TNG feel about this move. The original voyage cast got 7 movies the TNG cast got 4, and the Abrahms crew has at least 3 movies (probably 4 if IMDB is to be believed) So the cynic in me thinks this is just a grab at trying to save the Discovery series from an early demise (like the Enterprise series) by trying to slot in a character from a successful show. This worked at least once with ST:DS9 after all.
- vesh 8y agoHe is not joining Discovery it is going to be a new series.
- modernerd 8y agoI love Patrick Stewart in Trek but, for me, his finest piece of acting will always be the quadruple take masterclass: https://youtu.be/XFMrBldVk0s https://youtu.be/XFMrBldVk0s
- brandonmenc 8y agoNot a fan of dwelling on old characters, but at least this moves the Trek timeline forward. The latest episode of Trek - as the fictional timeline goes - Nemesis - is 16 years old. It's criminal that a franchise whose overarching theme is optimistic futurism has been looking backwards for so long.
- dghughes 8y agoThe best part about Star Trek The Next Generation was the fantastic writing, the focus on science and the guidance of young viewers throughout the series. I bet there were many people inspired to go into science as a result of the show both TNG and TOS. As much as I enjoyed the other Treks and current Trek they seem almost self-absorbed, caring more for looks and ratings (I guess they have to) than story telling caring about the viewers. DS9 was pretty good but the producers made stupid, spiteful changes near the end, same for Enterprise. You have to wonder what has changed that doesn't allow a series like Star Trek to be itself and instead cater to people seeking only explosions, swearing and banal story lines.
- dnautics 8y agoRewatching tng from end to end I found myself disappointed that the cast didn't know what they were doing in seasons 1&2 and seemed like they were phoning it in in season 7... There are some truly good episodes in TNG... One of my favorites is "the first duty" which apparently was at some point required viewing at the United States air Force academy. Overall though I like ds9 better because it's a more "honest" look at humanity... But darkness aside there's kind of an optimistic broad character arc/thesis where the good guys each in their own way is on a journey overcoming impostor syndrome (sisko, Kira, odo, Bashir, ezri, Jake, quark, rom, garak, and nog all fit this model to some degree, and even damar when he becomes a good guy basically fits this model), and the bad guys all are brought down by their classical toxic leadership attributes (dukat, Winn, weyoun, FC, but also minors like admiral leyton).
- parenthesis 8y agoOne of the things I like about TNG is that different people love different episodes. "The First Duty" is one of my least favourite episodes. I love the goofiness and variety of the first two seasons. I like Pulaski. I like it when Wesley saves the ship. I don't particularly like "The Best of Both Worlds". "Who Watches the Watchers" would be one of my absolute favourite episodes.
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- ashtube 8y agoI'm quite surprised at this to be honest. I saw Patrick outside the Old Vic in London last year when he attended the Theatre Awards, and he looked very frail. Maybe it was a temporary thing that has now got better, but didn't expect to see him in another big movie.