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By Chris Snellgrove
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One of the greatest architects of the Golden Age of Star Trek was Ronald Moore, a young writer who came on board The next generation in his third season and help shape the franchise for a decade. These days, it is best known as the showwrunner for the excellent Battlestar Galactica Reboot series, but when his script for “the bonding” brought him to TNG, he was just a young and inexperienced writer. And when he visited the set while shooting, Patrick Stewart offered Ronald Moore some shocking advice: Captain Picard needed to go into more fighting and be more often placed in scripts in the future.
Patrick Stewart and Ronald Moore
Of course, part of what makes Patrick Stewart’s advice to Ronald Moore so funny is that fans tend to think of the older, formal man … basically a picard embodiment itself, to its formal way of speaking. However, Moore discovered how informal the sci-fi An icon could be when he heard Stewart’s funny X -rate advice for future scripts: “‘Just remember one thing … the captain doesn’t make enough screw or shoot in this series.”
To make things even funnier, it was the first time that really Patrick Stewart And Ronald Moore had ever met. The young author remembered that the actor was “very graceful and friendly when he learned that I had written (” the bonding “),” and Stewart wanted to know if Moore was writing another episode. When Moore began to describe his next script (“Defector”), Stewart appeared to be interested in the plot but he soon reminded the writer that Picard needed to be more often set and enter more fighting.
Then Patrick Stewart turned around and walked away from Ronald Moore after dropping this funny advice, and we like to think he was fully aware of how shocking those words were from the mouth of Captain Picard. However, despite the actor’s best efforts, the young writer he spoke to was far from shocked. Remembering the story, Moore concluded that many fans would agree with: “Now, that’s the captain of the initiative, if you ask me.”
Now, we know what you ask: Did Patrick Stewart have his wish, and did Ronald Moore make sure Picard had more action scenes, in and out of the bedroom? Amazingly enough, yes: Moore wrote “Tapestry,” the famous back episode to Picard’s Starfleet Academy Days. Although this is not the sexiest episode in the history of Trek, we get to see the future captain flirting with multiple women and (thanks to the powers of reality warfare Q) at the end of sealing the deal with Marta, a former classmate who always harbored secret feelings.
And Patrick Stewart received plenty of additional on -screen action scenes for Picard thanks to Ronald Moore: The writer wrote both “Gambit” (where Picard had to defeat and overcome a group of ruthless praise) and a “command chain” (where Picard survives a prolonged torture after being trapped on a traditional mission). Moore also wrote most of Klingon TNG’s episodes (which proved that the captain was not intimidated by threats by warriors with half his years and twice his strength) and co-wrote “All Good Things” (the end of the series where Picard has to jump the whole universe rescue time).
At first glance, Patrick Stewart’s advice to Ronald Moore appears a little young, and some fans believe he has laid the foundation for the “Star Star” version of Picard we see in the Tng Movies. However, looking at the list of Moore scripts that provided for the actor’s application, we cannot help but note that these are some of the best chapters in the whole series. And maybe Stewart knows something about his character at an early stage that none of us would have guessed: Picard is actually at his best when he has to channel his inner James T. Kirk.
