Jean-Luc Picard

Tag Area: Fictional Character
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e01-02)

Encounter at Farpoint

  • by D. C. Fontana
  • (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 28 September 1987) [syndicated]
As the new captain of the Enterprise and other new members of his crew become acquainted with their galaxy class starship and its capabilities, they travel to a curious city on Deneb IV and also encounter a powerful  being from the Q who, among other things, exhibits a possible power over time itself. —Michael Main
Troi: Captain, sir, this is not an illusion of a dream.
Picard: But these courts belong in the past.
Troi:I don’t understand either, but this is real.
Patrick Stewart (as Captain Jean-Luc Picard) boldly stands on the bridge of the N C C 1 7 0 1 D.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e06)

Where No One Has Gone Before

Yes, we see minor time phenomena when Picard and other members of the crew vividly experience moments and beings from their pasts, possibly created by their thoughts, but the real import of the episode is the introduction of The Traveler, who among other things is able to alter spacetime and is always on the lookout for promising individuals such as Wesley Crusher. —Michael Main
The Traveler to Picard about Wesley: In such musical geniuses I saw in one of your ship’s libraries—one called Mozart, who as a small child wrote astonishing symphonies, a genius who made music not only to be heard, but seen and felt beyond the understanding, the ability of others. Wesley is such a person, not with music, but with the equally lovely intricacies of time, energy, propulsion, and the instruments of this vessel, which allow all that to be played . . .
Eric Menyuk (as the Traveler) looks knowingly at young Wil Wheaton (as Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher).
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e24)

We’ll Always Have Paris

Temporal distortions, such as time loops and mixed times, are rippling outward from an isolated planetoid where Dr. Manheim and Jenice Manheim, an old flame of Picard’s, built their time/gravity research lab. —Michael Main
Sensors show nothing, sir, But it appears a moment in time repeated itself exactly, for everyone.
Still shot from behind of Patrick Stewart (as Captain Jean-Luc Picard) gazing at a future Eiffel Tower on the holo-deck.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation, s01e26

The Neutral Zone

The Enterprise stumbles upon a ship of cryogenic containers, three of which are still working and contain people from the late 20th century. —Michael Main
We have run into an unusual situation, sir: There are people on board. Frozen.
Michael Dorn (as Lieutenant Worf) examines a frozen body through the window of a cryogenic chamber.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation, s02e01

The Child

An alien ball of energy impregnates Counselor Troi. No time travel, but the pregnancy and the boy's childhood both speed by at warp 10. —Michael Main
Riker: A baby? This is a surprise.
Troi: More so for me.
Marina Sirtis (as Deanna Troi) gazes lovingly at a newborn boy in her arms.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation, s02e03

Elementary, Dear Data

Geordi and Pulaski’s annoyance at Data’s inability to create a worthy opponent in a Sherlock Holmes mystery on the holodeck results in a more realistic Moriarty than any of them anticipated. —Michael Main
Clancy: [to Geordi] Aye, sir. Where can I reach you?
Data: He can be reached at 221 Baker Street!
In a Sherlock Holmes get-up, Brent Spiner (as Data) examines something through a magnifying glass.
  • Science Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Time Phenomena
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation, s03e03

The Survivors

The Enterprise crew tries to figure out how elderly Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge survived the complete annihilation of their planet. No time travel was involved, but you can just guess what other familiar time phenomena is afoot. —Michael Main
We had almost given up hope. We were afraid maybe the whole Federation had been attacked.
Elderly John Anderson and Anne Haney (as Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge) show their serious faces.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena
TV Season

Star Trek: Picard, Season 2

  • by multiple writers and directors
  • (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022)
After a catastrophic start to Season 2, Q steps in to pluck Picard’s crew and the Borg Queen from certain death only to insert them into a dystopian timeline that Q himself had created via a small change in 2024. —Michael Main
Time? Of course, that’s how he did it. This is not another reality—this is our reality. He went back in time and changed the present.
Black-and-white photo of old Patrick Steward (as Jean-Luc Picard) standing in from of old John de Lancie (as Q).
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel