VINTAGE PICARD
“THE BIG GOODBYE”
The Next Generation takes a while to find its groove, but there’s fun to be had early on in the holodeck episodes. Here we discover that Picard is a big fan of fictional detective Dixon Hill, and enjoys dressing up in 1940s garb to play out his fantasies. As well he might. After all, if we had a holodeck, we might use it to play at being Captain Picard. Anyway, the best moment is when Jean-Luc – still dressed as Dix – has to deliver a speech, in a bizarre alien language, to a bunch of hard-to-please dignitaries: “Aaaaaaaard klaxon leeeessss blag blan ar’nik…”
“CAPTAIN’S HOLIDAY”
Picard is sometimes (unfairly) thought to be a bit of a stick in the mud, who finds it impossible to, as it were, let his hair down. After all, he has to be practically ordered to take shore leave by Riker. But once on the planet Risa, Jean-Luc meets the archaeologist Vash (Jennifer Hetrick), and the pair
