Star Trek: Picard
Summary
Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) had his fair percentage of love interests inStar Trek : The Next GenerationandStar Trek : Picard , but they were beset by his own problems with commitment . From as former asStar Trek : TNGseason 1 , a potential romance was lay up between Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) , but it never fall to anything substantial . The twoStar Trek : TNGcharacterswere bonded by the tragical loss of Beverly ’s husband and Jean - Luc ’s best supporter , Jack Crusher . However , despite that James Bond , the tragedy of Jack Crusher ’s death hampered any attempt for them to get together .
AsStar Trek : TNGstopped Picard and Dr. Crusher ’s romancebefore it start up , the writers paired both characters with various other love interest . However , Jean - Luc ’s Romance language were defined by a common factor - that he in the main made promise that he never keep . Many of Picard ’s Latinian language end with a character leaving the spaceship Enterprise and Jean - Luc promising to keep on the relationship , but to no avail . Star Trek : Picardseason 2 pick up on this , and provided psychological insight into why Jean - Luc could never take into account himself to be loved , define up his eventual reunification with Dr. Crusher in season 3 .
Dr. Beverly Crusher ’s romanticistic life in Star Trek : The Next Generation was explored through relationships very different men ( and one candle ghost ) .
Vash (Jennifer Hetrick)
Star Trek: TNG season 3, episode 19, “Captain’s Holiday” and season 4, episode 20, “Qpid”
It was pretty hypocritical of Q ( John de Lancie ) to chastise Jean - Luc for his unfitness to be loved inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 when he seduced one of Picard ’s potential partners , Vash ( Jennifer Hetrick ) inStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 4 , episode 20 , " Qpid " . Jean - Luc meet Vash in time of year 3 , episode 19 , " Captain ’s Holiday " and bring together over their shared love of archeology . Picard ’s sensation of moral responsibility , and Vash ’s more smooth approach shot to ethics and morality proved that opposition pull , but in the end the duad decided that their incompatible lifestyles meant that a relationship would be out of the question .
In his autobiographyMaking it So , Patrick Stewart revealed that an affair with Jennifer Hetrick lead to the breakdown of his first wedlock .
Picard remembered Vash fondly , but never mentioned her to the crew of the endeavour , which led to serious tension between the couple when she rejoin in " Qpid " . Q arrange an elaborated Robin Hood adventure so that Jean - Luc could prove his love for Vash . However , Picard and Vash decided once again that their lives were incompatible , which allowed Q to swoop in . Q and Vash team up for an adventure to the Gamma Quadrant , during which their relationship acetify , causing complications for the crew ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine .
Jenice Manheim (Michelle Phillips)
Star Trek: TNG, season 1, episode 24, “We’ll Always Have Paris”
While Dr. Crusher and Vash are two of the Enterprise captain ’s greatest lost loves , there is another woman from his past tense who is often forgotten . In 2342 , Jenice Manheim ( Michelle Phillips ) and Jean - Luc Picard were in short in a quixotic relationship before he ship out , possibly on the USS Reliant . Jean - Luc and Jenice met again inTNGseason 1 , installment 24 , " We ’ll Always Have Paris " , when her married man Paul unknowingly induce destruction and end on the satellite Vandor IV . Reunited , Picard rationalise for abandon her at the Café de Artistes without telling her why . His rationality was that he was too afraid to adjoin her , something which chime with the care revealed inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 .
Kamala (Famke Janssen)
Star Trek: TNG, season 5, episode 21, “The Perfect Mate”
InTNGseason 5 , episode 21 , " The Perfect Mate " , Picard finds his ideal peer , but predictably , there are complications . Kamala ( Patrick Stewart ’s futureX - Menco - star Famke Janssen ) is an empath who senses what men desire and becomes incisively that . Kamala therefore adopted everything that Jean - Luc wanted in a partner - a love of literature and archeology , and the pair became bonded . However , Kamala was promised as a St. Bridget in a diplomatical exchange between two warring state , soPicard decided to do his tariff as a Starfleet officer and permit the archaic tradition take home , bringing a sad end to another of the Enterprise chieftain ’s ill - fated romances .
Dax actress Terry Farrell explain how the shake changed on Star Trek : DS9 thanks to X - Men ’s Jean Grey actress Famke Janssen ’s node spot on TNG .
Eline (Margot Rose)
Star Trek: TNG, season 5, episode 25, “The Inner Light”
InStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 5 , episode 25 , " The Inner Light " , Picard is expose to a probe from the planet Kataan and live on a lifetime of memories under the individuality of an atomic number 26 weaver called Kamin . While experiencing 42 years of Kamin ’s life in half an hour , he lived a long and glad marriage ceremony with Eline ( Margot Rose ) , with whom he had two tiddler . As Jean - Luc retain his ability to play the Ressikan flute , and Kamin was also interested in medicine and astronomy , it ’s indecipherable if the latter was a real person or a sentient and adaptative representation of Kataan ’s culture .
The probe was launched prior to a supernova tragedy that destroyed all life on Kataan . It was design to contain the retentivity record book of this lost civilisation and pass it on to the someone who encounter it . That person was Jean - Luc andwhile it ’s Kamin , rather than Picard who go through married life with Eline , the latter retains enough memory of his Kataan similitude that she sure enough bet as Picard ’s long relationship , even if they ’re technically only together for 30 minutes of genuine fourth dimension .
Lt. Commander Nella Daren (Wendy Hughes)
Star Trek: TNG, season 6, episode 19, “Lessons”
Picard , as captain of the USS Enterprise - D , understood the need to separate quixotic and professional relationship . However , he ’s only human , as prove by his romance with Nella Daren , the Enterprise ’s headland of starring science . The two embarked on a romantic relationship inStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 6 , sequence 19 " moral " , actuate by their share love of music . While Will Riker charge Picard of favoritism behind his back , bothJean - Luc and Nella determine on her transferring to a new ship after the captain was compromise by his fearfulness for Daren ’s life during a unsafe away mission . Typically , for Jean - Luc , he promised to keep seeing Nella , but the character was never seen again .
Anij (Donna Murphy)
Star Trek: Insurrection
Anij ( Donna Murphy ) obligate the distinction of being the only one of Picard ’s erotic love sake that convinces him to plow his back on Starfleet . InStar Trek : Insurrection , Jean - Luc uncovered a Federation plot of land to relocate the peaceful Ba’ku people , including Anij . Picard and the Enterprise gang facilitate the native Ba’ku stage an rising against the Federation , save the satellite and shoot down the forces of the So’na . After protecting the Ba’ku home universe , Picard chooses to take back to Starfleet but foretell to use his 318 day of shore leave to visit Anij . However , it ’s ill-defined if he ever returned , continuing a long - standing approach pattern of behaviour for Picard .
Star Trek : Insurrection was meant to have more Latinian language between Captain Picard and Anij , but a span of kisses was cut from the film .
Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett)
Various Star Trek: TNG episodes
Any treatment of Jean - Luc Picard ’s love interests is incomplete withoutStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s Lwaxana Troi(Majel Barrett ) . Although the attractive feature between Lwaxana and Jean - Luc was very one - sided , Deanna ’s mother was very neat on the Enterprise captain . In an attempt to rescue Lwaxana , Deanna and Will Riker from the Ferengi , Jean - Luc Picard render a stirring amorous speech in monastic order to convince their capturer that he would block off at nothing to be reunited with his beloved . It was a bittersweet minute for the besotted Lwaxana , who know it was all a ruse , and eventually give up hope for a kinship with Picard .
Talinn (Orla Brady)
Star Trek: Picard season 2
Talinn ( Orla Brady ) is the Romulan Traveler assigned to Jean - Luc ’s ancestor Renée Picard ( Penelope Mitchell ) , who help him follow to terms with his puerility psychic trauma inStar Trek : Picardseason 2.Knowing Q , he pluck this specific Picard ascendent to mess up with because he know of her link to Laris ' own antecedent . Jean - Luc work an instant bond paper with Talinn that feels far deep than it would have been if Renée had a dissimilar Traveler assigned to her . Returning to his own prison term , Jean - Luc was finally capable to undertake a kinship with Laris , with Talinn ’s dying acting as a reminder for Jean - Luc not to let love kick the bucket him by once again .
Laris (Orla Brady)
Star Trek: Picard Seasons 1 to 3
A former extremity of the Romulan Tal Shiar , Laris ( Orla Brady ) and her husband Zhaban ( Jamie McShane ) put to work at Château Picard and helped him disclose the Zhat Vash , a close Tal Shiar cabal who were prompt by their hate of synthetic lifeforms . A year after the events ofStar Trek : Picardseason 1 , Zhaban go past away and go out Laris widowed . She keep to work nearly with Jean - Luc , and the two take shape a closer alliance , which develop into wild-eyed feelings for one another . However , due to Picard ’s puerility trauma , presumably exacerbated by living in the folk home , he keep off making a commitment .
This avoidance led Laris to set to leave Jean - Luc , the vinery , andChâteau Picard ’s winebehind for good , but his experience in the past with her ancestor Talinn convinced him to taste again . At the start ofStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , Laris and Jean - Luc were preparing to move to Chaltok IV before he received a hurt signal from Dr. Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) . It ’s unclear what come about to Picard and Laris ' romantic kinship next , but Beverly and Jean - Luc do n’t seem like they romantically reconciled at the end ofPicardseason 3 . This entail that Laris is now part of the Picard and Crusher blended family .
Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden)
Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard season 3
There was a hatful of romantic tenseness between Beverly and Jean - Luc duringStar Trek : The Next Generation , which came to a head in the season 7 episode " impound " . When Picard and Dr. Crusher ’s minds became link up , they learned more about their feelings for each other . In the closing aspect of the episode , it ’s left equivocal over whether they ’ll act on these feelings , with Beverly telling Jean - Luc that " maybe we should be afraid" . Star Trek : Picardseason 3 revealed that Crusher and Picard did have a amatory relationship at some full stop , presumably afterStar Trek : Nemesis .
Star Trek : Picardseason 3 expose that Beverly and Jean - Luc even had a son together , Jack Crusher ( Ed Speleers ) . To protect Jack from Jean - Luc ’s foe , Beverly concealed the existence of her son from her former friends and Picard himself . Beverly and Jean - Luc were reconcile at the end ofPicardseason 3 , and it seemed probable that the two would stay on friends , rather than lovers . Interestingly , Picard and Dr. Crusher ’s romance and eventual estrangement was foreshadowed all the way back inStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s finale .
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