Throughout seven seasons, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) chose to boldly go where no one had gone before in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." The series always thrived when it examined its characters and their dreams, and that character study became a condition for "Star Trek: Picard" co-creator Alex Kurtzman. Speaking about the follow-up series, which shows us what the titular character's life looks like 14 years after his retirement from Starfleet, Kurtzman told the Los Angeles Times : "The mandate was to make it a more psychological show, a character study about this man in his emeritus years. There are so few shows that allow a significantly older protagonist to be the driver."

What's interesting is that Stewart also had some strict conditions if he was going to reprise his

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