#robert picard

[aestophobia]

by god can star trek write some complex sibling relationships

[androidkisser]

I will forever be sickened by the fact that the episode Brother immediately follows the episode Family and how Robert and Picard's relationship vaguely resembles Lore and Data's, only that the former get a happy ending.

[davidhudson]

Happy 71st, Valérie Mairesse.

With Robert Dadiès and Agnès Varda on the set of One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1976). Photo by Robert Picard.

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Susan Sarandon by Robert Picard at Festival de Cannes, 1978.

[filmjunky-99]

r e m e m b e r i n g

Jeremy Kemp

3 February 1935 – 19 July 2019

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[pic: kemp as robert picard, family, tng]

[nocturnes-hideout]

Do you guys think Robert Picard was told that his brother was considered a casualty of war/dead? Do you think Riker ever took a minute to send him a message telling him Jean-Luc had been taken by the Borg and he was never coming back?

There was enough downtime in "Best of Both Worlds: Part 2" for Riker to send such a message. In "Family", Robert aks Jean-Luc what "they" (they being the Borg, showing Robert knows that they were fighting the Borg) did to him. Robert says he doesn't precisely know what happened and knows that Jean-Luc was hurt and "humiliated". Jean-Luc tells Robert that he (Robert) knows what happened, which would seem to suggest that Robert was given some amount of information sometime before Jean-Luc arrived. Robert also doesn't seem that surprised upon hearing Jean-Luc talk about what happened. The surprised part, to me at least, seems to be about how much pain his brother is in and how human (emotional, breakable) his brother, who is notoriously closed-off and who he's been estranged with for years, is. Not what the Borg did to him. It should also be noted that Jean-Luc doesn't give that much detail about what happened. He didn't say that the Borg put their metal parts in him or that they invaded his mind and made him part of the Collective. He just says that they "took everything from [him]". He does not explain the process or the methods, and Robert doesn't ask or seem at all confused as to what the Borg are or what they do to the people they assimilate.

This seems to suggest that he knew some things, like Jean-Luc being taken by the Borg and made to fight Starfleet ("humiliation"). And that he knows, at least vaguely, what assimilation is.

Robert being told that his brother has been taken and is not coming back, is for all intents and purposes dead, also sort of recontextualizes "Family". I can totally see Robert allowing his estranged brother to come over for a visit after hearing that he's been injured, I do think he cares deeply for Jean-Luc even if they're not close. But he would have even more of a reason to allow him to stay, and to want to help him process his trauma, if Robert thought Jean-Luc died without them ever making up.

[spockvarietyhour]

[frecklenog]

uhhhhhhh. idk what this is exactly. but here's hugh visiting the picards