Posted on 01/10/2020 10:08:47 AM PST by rktman
Patrick Stewart returns to Star Trek and the role of Jean-Luc Picard in a new CBS streaming show, but the reason it exists at all is, unsurprisingly, political. The liberal actor told Variety this week that Picard is “me responding to the world of Brexit and Trump.” He also said that the United States (under Trump) and Britain (under Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson) are “completely f****d.”
Talking to Variety’s Daniel Holloway, Stewart explained why his character is getting a revival:
Trump seemed to be responsible for a lot of old TV shows coming back. In 2018, the creator of the '80s/'90s sitcom Murphy Brown explained why that show returned: “We definitely wouldn't have had the show” if Trump hadn’t won. She added, “We didn't have a motivation do it. We didn't really have the meat or a story. And then when the election happened, I mean, if Hillary had won, we would just be dancing in the streets.”
Stewart connected the United States, Britain, Brexit, Trump and Johnson into one political lament:
“I’m not sure which one of us is in the most trouble,” he says of Britain and the United States. “I think it’s actually the U.K. I think we’re f—ed, completely f—ed.” He points to studies predicting decades-long economic damage inflicted by the country’s looming withdrawal from the European Union. Of the U.S., he says, “There is a time limit to your f—ed state, which is four years away.” He expresses hope that “the United States that has given us the Trump administration” can change...
But, the actor added, “He will likely get reelected..”
In November of 2019, Stewart told a French audience that he’s “embarrassed” by Brexit and thinks it’s a “disgrace.”
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[[[Just started “rewatching” NYPD Blue from the pilot show and moving forward. By today’s ‘standards’ pretty un-pc. Probably was at the time as well.]]]
You have to watch the old one from the late 60’s with Jack Warden.
As far as I’m concerned Stewart’s best role - Aelius Sejanus!
loved I Claud. But it was the series that told me Romans spoke with an english shakesperian flare. My fav? Claudius himself, Derek Jacobi.
He's a horse's ass, like every other entertainment industry nitwit.
Well, that should increase ratings.
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Cast Takes a Knee After Show’s Premiere
Breitbart | September 25, 2017 | Jerome Hudson
Posted on 09/25/2017 1:50:27 PM PDT by C19fan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3588971/posts
New Star Trek show has modeled its Klingons on TRUMP supporters and ‘racial purity is a big theme’
The London Daily Mail | September 8, 2017 | Michelle Ganney
Posted on 09/08/2017 1:46:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3584341/posts
I agree.
The only part he played where he was believable.
What does that tell us.
It doesn’t know it’s dead, Jim!
Absolutely no more Star Trek for me...
Pretty much agree with your “feminization” assessment of STNG, and thought Patrick Stewart an odd casting choice and a bit of a pretentious ass...Missed Shatner’s Captain Kirk and Company’s kick ass style of exploration...
Gotta thank him though for running his mouth and saving me 2 lost hours of my life and the ticket price not wasted on this woke tripe...
Actually, he's too handsome for Garfunkel, who I see now looks like Teller's -- of Penn and Teller -- Dad, if Teller were the son of a meth addict. Here he also looks like the guy who kept saying "inconceivable" from the Princess Bride, 30 years later
And here, he looks like Red from That Seventy Show as a chia pet:
She was Mrs. Columbo after all.
I see the Borg still control his mind.
More like Ian McKellan
Nancy.....pray for Patrick.
The red headed doctor Crusher was worth watching if you had it on mute when she started yammering non-sense. Warf had some good lines but over all STNG was leftist crap compared to the original Star Trek. Kirk is and will always be the best Captain of the Big E.
I am a big fan of Star Trek, but that was because it was good entertainment, as Gene Roddenberry intended. When the producers, directors and/or actors want to make it political, that almost always means decidedly Leftist in orientation (as is the case here), and I will not waste my time watching Leftist propaganda.
I’d also like to mention that Patrick Stewart, while a very good actor (you can’t take that away from the man), left school at age 15. WTF does he know about national economic policy or running a business? Fuck all, that’s what. He, like most other actors and actresses, are not people from whom one should take advice about ANYTHING except acting, show business and the like. When it comes to more academic or experience-oriented subjects, the average person in the street is far more knowledgeable.
True.
Now consider this: Kirk chases skirts. Skirts chase Spock.
For what it’s worth, there’s a lot of evidence during production that ST:P will be a trashfire. Multiple showrunner and writer changes, stops and restarts of production, rebellion among the merchandising companies because the show designs stink etc. Also, it’s confirmed that this is not connected to ST:NG timeline, but rather the Kelvin timeline. Oh, and those appearances by fellow NG cast members are just cameos apparently. C’est la vie.
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