He directed eight episodes of the series as well as two of the Next Generation cast's big-screen adventures – Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection. While on the show, Frakes began pivoting to a career behind the camera. As played by the at first unbearded, but later very bearded Frakes, Riker is a crucial member of the Enterprise crew who can lead the away team or stay behind to captain the bridge in the event that Picard gets assimilated by the Borg or something. Riker, the ship's first officer, can be more of a hot-head. Whereas Picard is usually calm and collected, Commander William T. Most recently, he played Merlin in 2019’s kid-based Excalibur tale The Kid Who Would Be King and stepped into the role of Bosley in the Charlie's Angels reboot released that same year. (Season 2 debuts early next year.) In between playing Picard, Stewart headlined another franchise when he portrayed Charles Xavier - Marvel’s Professor X - across five X-Men films. Thanks to Stewart’s commanding presence, Picard became a pop-culture icon, with the character anchoring seven seasons of TNG, four feature-film spinoffs, and a recent revival/spinoff series - fittingly titled Star Trek: Picard - that is currently streaming on Paramount+. Stewart, a well-regarded British stage actor with a smattering of film and TV credits, made Picard the anti-Kirk – a stern tactician who is more interested in victory through diplomacy than throwing a punch. Kirk was never going to be an easy task, and Gene Roddenberry, the creator of both the original series and TNG, was wise to land on an actor with a completely different energy about him. Finding someone to follow in the footsteps of William Shatner’s James T. Every ship needs a captain, and the Enterprise-D’s is Jean-Luc Picard.
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