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Star Trek – The Essential Picard: All Good Things…

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… While the adventures of The Next Generation crew didn’t end with its series finale, ‘All Good Things…’ brought a sense of closure to Captain Picard and the Enterprise-D that was exciting, heartfelt and well-earned, bringing the series full […]

Patrick Stewart has had “long, long conversations” with Kevin Feige about the MCU’s X-Men

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Patrick Stewart, the actor behind Fox’s Charles Xavier, has revealed that he spoke to Kevin Feige about the MCU’s X-Men movies. We are still waiting for news on the X-Men’s arrival into the MCU but we can safely assume that when they turn up, it will be with a fresh cast of actors. However, is […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: Tapestry

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… Some of the best Star Trek stories aren’t big battles or galactic intrigue, but rather introspective episodes for the characters that challenged their assumptions and choices. Already on the Essential Picard list there have been two such episodes […]

Exclusive Interview – Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan on Star Trek: Picard, how the new series addresses the present, and more

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Alex Moreland sits down with Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan to discuss Star Trek: Picard… Captain Jean-Luc Picard is here. Not only in a new Star Trek television series, but he’s also sitting just across the table from me. There’s something a little surreal about that. Technically, yes, it’s actually Patrick Stewart who’s sitting here […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: Chain of Command

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… Every now and again the Star Trek franchise dips into some fairly dark territory with heavy subject matter. Audiences got a bit of a taste with that in The Next Generation‘s ‘Best of Both Worlds‘ with Picard’s assimilation […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: The Inner Light

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… Taking a break from the gloom and doom of Picard’s life in the recent episodes that have been discussed, ‘The Inner Light’ doesn’t offer any deep changes to the Star Trek franchise or to Picard’s life, yet it […]

Patrick Stewart may join Wolverine 3, Ian McKellen returning for X-Men: Apocalypse

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With the news (which we reported at Flickering Myth) that director Bryan Singer is in pre-production on the latest X-Men blockbuster, X-Men: Apocalypse, some other interesting news on the plans possibly in place for the rest of the X-Universe. Professor X (well, the older version) himself Patrick Stewart has been speaking this week to Oregon […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: Family

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… A common element to most Star Trek series is the episodic structure of the show where audiences can jump into nearly any episode with little to no backstory and still understand what is going on. Even when there […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: The Best of Both Worlds

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… There are two phases in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pre-Borg and Post-Borg, where everything changed. If ‘The Measure of a Man‘ helped Star Trek fans take The Next Generation more seriously, the third season finale/fourth season premiere ‘The Best […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: The Measure of a Man

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… Though Star Trek: The Next Generation helped reintroduce the public to the franchise and cultivated new fans, common perception and many reviews at the time of the series’ beginnings felt it wasn’t as good as the original Star […]