This is probably my favorite story about the filming of TNG. He wanted to take it very seriously, his cast mates were all goofing around too much, and the end result landed somewhere in the middle, which I think served the show well in the end. Patrick Stewart elevated the show, and it might not have been so successful otherwise.
My main account is on Lemmy.world, but they’ve temporarily disabled image posting while dealing with those attacks, so I made an alt on startrek.website under the same name.
