Jörg Hillebrand
The stakes couldn't be any higher in #StarTrekTNG's "A Matter of Time" as the life of more than 20 million people on Penthara IV is in danger, so Picard is playing with his ready room crystal and looking out the window when asking Rasmussen for some future knowledge about what to do. 🧵 1/5
Mar 26 at 7:30pmWeb
Show threadJörg Hillebrand1d ago
Only a few episodes later in "Violations", Picard is again (low-key) playing with his crystal. This time, the lives of millions of people are not at stake but he's talking to Jev about the crimes of his father, not knowing that Jev is the perpetrator. This is the odd-one-out crystal appearance. 2/5
Show threadJörg Hillebrand1d ago
In "The Masterpiece Society", Picard plays with his crystal (nice close-up at the beginning) *after* he has made a difficult decision: granting some members of the Moab IV genome colony asylum on the Enterprise-D. If theior colony now fails due to lack of people, the Enterprise is responsible. 3/5
Show threadJörg Hillebrand1d ago
Picard is seen playing for the final time with his ready room crystal in "Conundrum". He is having a hard time blindly following orders to destroy the Lysian Central Command (with 15.000 Lysians on board) while Satarran spy MacDuff tries to justify the attack, which could end a war. 4/5
Show threadJörg Hillebrand1d ago
As can be seen, particularly in season 5 of #StarTrekTNG, Picard only plays with his crystal in very tense situations, either tense for him personally or in cases were the lives of many people are at stake. He enounters similar situations in seasons 6 + 7 but never plays with the crystal again. 5/5
Show threadHolgintheair22h ago
@gaghyogi49 has Patrick Stewart ever commented on the crystal?