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   From: kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu   
      
   "Anim8rFSK " wrote about Picard/Stewart.   
      
   I'm on board with Picard totally screwing up in "I, Borg", where he   
   has the opportunity to deploy an information bomb against the Borg   
   and does not.  And then, only a few years later, he's in "First Contact"   
   ranting about "They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back!"  Yeah,   
   because you left them alone to assimilate entire worlds when you had a   
   chance to take them out.   
      
   Millions, maybe billions, of people died or were assimilated as a   
   result of that decision; every victim of the Borg after that moment   
   gets Picard's name attached.   
      
      
   But I disagree here:   
   > As for Stewart, I think he's a lousy actor.   
      
   Here I don't agree.  I've seen "Hamlet" about a dozen times, but his   
   Claudius is the only one I've ever seen who was really believable.  I   
   was blown away.  Given some of what Picard was given to say and do,   
   Patrick Stewart did as well as could be done with it.   
      
   I dunno about behind-the-scenes personality stuff.  I usually try to   
   avoid such discussions anyway; they're uncomfortably close to gossip.   
      
      
   Darren Provine ! kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu ! http://www.rowan.edu/~kilroy   
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