In An interview of 2020 with a Hollywood reporterActor Patrick Stewart reminded the frustrations he faced While working with ein bornboysThe creator of "Star Trek: Next Generation". Bornboys notorious did not want Stewart to play Captain Enen-Luk Picard, hating the fact that he was bald and not so interested in the fact that he was English. When a bornboys visited the "Star Trek" set, Stewart recalls being treated with cold and got a little real direction from man. Stewart tried to talk about Captain Picard with his birthboys for lunch, but that was not a very useful meeting; Born Boyer only advised Stewart to read Horatio Hornbower's novels at CS Forster. As the creator of the series said, "it's all there." Not very useful.

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However, Stewart's bornbirths did not share the general public. Captain Picard became a favorite character of a fan pretty fast, with Trekis reacting to the commander -in -chief of Stuart and the innate intelligence and Picard's inclination for diplomacy. It didn't take much time before Trekis argued that Picard was perhaps a better captain than Captain Kirk (William Shatner) than the original "Star Trek".

But if Born Babers and other casting executives had their own way, someone else would have been thrown like Jeanan-Luk Picard. Indeed, on April 13, 1987, Paramount Producer Johnon Ferraro is the author of the Memorandum for Paramount TV President Johnon Pique, which lists their finalist lists for all the lead roles "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Memorandum (manually published by Slice of Sci-Fi back in 2006) There were some fun surprises. For example, it seems that Wesley Snaps was considered for Orordi La Forz.

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While Patrick Stewart was a top selection of Ferraro for Picard, Mitch Ryan, Roy Tinnes, Patrick Bauhau and the most exciting, Jafet Koto were also discussed.

In 1987 The general audience probably knew him about his fruitful twist in 45 episodes of "General Hospital". He was also praised for his role in "Long Warm Summer" and appeared in films such as "1975" and "Hindenburg". He had a small role in Ron Howard's "nice mind" and even appeared Three episodes of "X-Data" (seen above). Tennes was a pretty reliable TV presence and was authoritative and professional, so you can understand it from Paramount.

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Also considered for Picard was Mitchell Ryan, the recognizable actor for characters, played by Greg Edward's father at the hit "Dharma and Greg". He was also in 107 episodes of "dark shadows", playing Burke Devlin in the 1960s. Ryan was one of the prevailing on TV and the movie "Hey, That's That Man!" The actors, looking at dozens and dozens of movie and TV credits in his career, including a "liar liar" with Jimim Kerry. Ryan, when compared to Stewart, was louder and more male, bringing blurring ... Good, Kirk -like energy in his roles. Ryan was too fruitful to go up, however, he would eventually retire to "Star Trek", playing Will Reeker's father in the episode "Next Generation" "The Icarus Factor" (April 24, 1989).

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Ryan and Bennes are American actors, while Jeanan-Luc Picard is French. No French actor was considered the role, although the memorandum is mentioned by Belgian actor Patrick Bauhau. Bauhau was an actor of the French new wave, and even participated in German new wave films, and during the 1960s and 1970. He worked with Jerik Rohmer and Wim Wenders. In America, he can be best known for his role in the film Jameses Bond's "Murder". It would bring an element of European sophistication in the role.

Also on the list of Picard was Jafet Koto, Starvar of "Alien", "On 110th Street", "The Run Man", the movie "Jamesesheims Bond" live and let him die "(seen above), and many more. At the beginning of his career, Koto appeared at 10 episodes of Bonase, 15 episodes of "Days of Valley Death" and 16 episodes of Gunsmoke. His career was huge and wide. The world has lost huge talent When he died in 2021.

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Quoto, as can be seen from his film loans, was not alien to science fiction. In Alien, he lived on a spaceship and fought with a space creature, while the "running man" allowed him to work in futuristic dystopia.

In 2015, Koto spoke with Bigg's editionAnd he asked him for his close brush with "Star Trek". Quoto remembers his refusal and expressed a small amount of regret for this issue. He explained:

"I think I made some wrong decisions in my life, man. I had to do it, but I went. When making movies, I would tend to say no on TV. That's like when you're in college and someone asks you in high school dance. You say no."

For many decades, TV has been considered a "smaller" medium than TV, and film actors tend to stay away from making TV shows. This was considered even in 1987, and Koto did not want to leave any potential film roles to devote himself to the season of 26 episodes of Star Trek. It is also very, very American, so it is unclear whether he would influence the French accent to play Jeanan-Luk Picard. At the very least, he would have had appropriate authority.

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But in the end, I think we can all agree that Captain Picard's audience was given, ended as the best.