Captain Picard is gone

Gone, but not forgotten.

"Seize the time... Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."

Good advice. Thanks, Jean-Luc.

<3   Make it so!

He was 47 when The Next Generation started, a Royal Shakespeare Company actor most of the people watching had never heard of, and I remember plenty of people thinking a bald middle-aged Englishman in Kirk's chair was a mistake.

What stayed with me is that his captain won most of his arguments by talking. The show trusted him to hold a scene with a speech and a cup of tea, and very few big franchises would risk that now.

I was younger than he was then and I am older than he was then, which is a strange thing to notice in a week like this.