Star Trek First Contact Picards Anger
Why Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange recommends it
Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange users link it as the canonical source for the First Contact scene when discussing Picard's temper and Worf's 'kill you where you stand' line.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2016 to 2020.
What it is
A six-minute clip from Star Trek: First Contact in which Captain Picard orders his crew to stand and fight the Borg on the Enterprise, is urged by a civilian to self-destruct the ship, and clashes with Worf. It is uploaded by the fan channel Omega Trek.
What people said
Cites DBPriGuy · 2016-12 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Why was Benjamin Sisko given command of DS9 given that he has a foul temper with poor emotional control?”
I concur in disagreement on the premise of the question. First, it assumes Sisko has a foul temper with poor emotional control. Next, it assumes that leaders who have a temper cannot be good leaders, which is demonstrably untrue. Finally, it assumes that Picard *does not* have a foul temper, or poor emotional control: [this video]
Cites ThePopMachine · 2018-07 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “What's with "killing you where you stand"?”
I have noticed the recurring expression " I will kill you where you stand ". The first is Worf in Star Trek: First Contact : We also have Te'alc in Stargate SG-1 : And in Black Panther : And finally in Archer [LINK] . Is this a generally used expression (I've never heard it) or is it a common reference to some earlier work? Or all they all based on the First Contact precedent?
Cites O. R. Mapper · 2020-02 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “How did the non-French pronunciation of Captain Picard's name come about?”
Star Trek: The Next Generation [LINK] introduced among its main cast Captain Jean-Luc Picard [LINK] , explicitly defined as a Frenchman, who was given an accordingly French name. I grew up watching TNG with the German dubbing, and Picard's name (both first and last) was consistently pronounced with the French pronunciation by himself and anyone else on the show. When I first watched TNG with the original English audio, I was somewhat surprised the original voices invariably changed the name by simply reading out what the letters "Jean-Luc Picard" could sound like in English, barely approximating the sound in French. How did it come to this? I simply can't see a reason for it: If it was not p