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I’m more disappointed that ‘Movie Picard’ and then ‘Picard show Picard’ abandoned, or at least lost the emotional regulation that enabled him to hold onto, many of the principles that made him so admirable and exasperating.
It doesn’t seem like Picard in season three of Picard would have had any of the same qualms, or at least his emotional attachments would have overtaken them.
I wonder what Ben Sisko’s reaction to Picard’s choices in season three would have been. I definitely think he would have called him out, and made Shaw’s critiques look tame.
Picard show Picard, or at least Season 3 of Picard, I don't mind as much simply because there was a new and major influence. A son. We don't know as much about Sisko prior to his wife being killed so it could be that that moment is what set off his highly emotionally charged state. After being assimilated, tortured, nearly assimilated again and nearly dying a hundred times for Starfleet, I can see Picard being exhausted when they just give up on helping the Romulans. I can see why he got pissed there. Then Season 3 comes around and he's now got a child as well as the infinite amount of shit he's gone through? Frankly I'd have been disappointed if he retained that level of emotional control after going through everything. They've shown numerous times that Picard isn't pure strength. He has his limits and he's reached the breaking point on more than one occasion. Him being an old man and just done with holding back now? Makes more sense to me than seeing Starfleet and others fail him time and time again and having to always be the beacon of strength. Speaking from experience, it gets exhausting being the one that everyone comes to needing stability. That wears you down. Being the Captain of the flagship of the fleet? Representing not just your own species but every species in the Federation? In certain cases, representing the entire quadrant or galaxy?
I can understand the journey, what I don’t understand is the lack of self-awareness around it.
Early trauma and the violation of the Borg explain the change in emotional regulation, but the arrogant lack of ability to take a step back and evaluate his behaviour from the perspective of his own values and previous expectations about behaviour are what I find surprising.