'Picard never left me': Patrick Stewart on returning to his most iconic role

Patrick Stewart at the premiere of Star Trek: Picard in Hollywood, California. Photo: AFP

In Star Trek: Picard, Patrick Stewart reprises his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, a character he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation and in four feature films.

It almost didn’t happen. Stewart, who hadn’t played Picard since the 2002 movie Star Trek: Nemesis, long resisted a return, believing he had completed his job as one of the franchise’s most popular captains.