{"id":50843,"date":"2019-05-20T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T21:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=50843"},"modified":"2019-05-20T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T21:31:37","slug":"the-iconic-captain-picard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/05\/the-iconic-captain-picard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iconic Captain Picard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we wait for news on <em>Star Trek: Picard<\/em>, <strong>Alex Kurtzman, Mary Wiseman<\/strong>, and<strong> Wilson Cruz<\/strong> have appeared in a short video and explained what made Captain Jean-Luc Picard such an iconic character.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Captain Picard, in some ways he is the ultimate captain and he&#8217;s the ultimate captain because of his incredible decency,&#8221; said Kurtzman. [And] because of his incredible thoughtfulness, because he was always human, fundamentally, in the choices that he made, even when the pressure was really, really high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patrick Stewart is just one of our greatest living actors,&#8221; said Wiseman. &#8220;That&#8217;s so cool, the coming together of Patrick Stewart&#8217;s training and old school <em>Royal Shakespeare Company<\/em> gravitas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the combination of that, and this sort of mythological franchise that is <em>Star Trek<\/em>, the coming together of that is so special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He never demanded respect from his crew,&#8221; said Cruz. &#8220;They gave it to him freely because of who he was and how he treated them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Picard is a great model for [true leadership].<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our universe is getting a lot bigger. Stay tuned right here for updates about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarTrekPicard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StarTrekPicard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarTrekDiscovery?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StarTrekDiscovery<\/a>, and all future <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarTrek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StarTrek<\/a> series on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSAllAccess?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBSAllAccess<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yZDLRrHP6y\">pic.twitter.com\/yZDLRrHP6y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Star Trek on CBS All Access (@startrekcbs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/startrekcbs\/status\/1129431387159846913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we wait for news on Star Trek: Picard, Alex Kurtzman, Mary Wiseman, and Wilson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,9651],"tags":[9336,2465,2440,9177],"class_list":["post-50843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-picard-trek-series","tag-cruz","tag-kurtzman","tag-stewart","tag-wiseman"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IconicStewartCBS052019.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/picard-trek-series\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Picard<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Picard","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50845,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50843\/revisions\/50845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}