• Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
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    1 year ago

    Some people just have higher constitution stats. Picard is maxed out. Service and duty above all else, no matter the cost. Even if that cost is a part of himself.

    I do love the episodes where he just cracks. The one after Best of Both Worlds when he’s hanging out at Chateau Picard with his family? Fantastic. Seeing him break at the end. First Contact as well when he loses his fucking mind. We kind of need that sometimes because if this dude who can survive anything is fracturing then what the hell does that mean for everyone else.

    Lowkey that’s also why the alternate Riker that’s being chased by the borg spooks me so much. Seeing him desperate and terrified… fuck. How bad was that world…

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      1 year ago

      TNG in particular did a great job of stretching the characters by building them up to a definitive version and then showing us, in one way or another, a variant or situation that completely shatters that image. Data and Lore. Alternate Riker. Broken Picard. Troi and Lwaxana. Worf and also Worf but later.

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        Completely agree. Really strikes something inside to see them so vulnerable and changed.

        That being said… the sound that came out of my mouth when I read “Worf and also Worf” can only be described as a guffaw.

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          I was going to say Worf and Alexander but then I realized that it’s really Worf becoming a dad that shows us the transformed Worf.