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Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta E. Pearson, in Cult Television (2004), p. 65
Jean-Luc Picard: [waking up after the operation] What the hell are *you* doing here?
Kate Pulaski: Saving your life.
Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, come on. This is a routine procedure - quite commonplace.
Kate Pulaski: True. But you are not a commonplace man.
• "Samaritan Snare" (15 May 1989) by Robert L. McCullough
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Patrick Stewart's identification with Jean-Luc Picard is a prime exemplar of the extreme entanglement between actor and character produced by cult television programs, yet in Stewart's case this entanglement has not precluded a very active and successful post-Star Trek career.

— Sara Gwenllian-Jones

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Patrick Stewart's identification with Jean-Luc Picard is a prime exemplar of the extreme entanglement between actor and character produced by cult television programs, yet in Stewart's case this entanglement has not precluded a very active and successful post-Star Trek career." in the context of "Sara Gwenllian-Jones and Roberta E. Pearson, in Cult Television (2004), p. 65
Jean-Luc Picard: [waking up after the operation] What the hell are *you* doing here?
Kate Pulaski: Saving your life.
Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, come on. This is a routine procedure - quite commonplace.
Kate Pulaski: True. But you are not a commonplace man.
• "Samaritan Snare" (15 May 1989) by Robert L. McCullough" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Jean-Luc Picard

About Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard (13 July 2305–) is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, the captain of the USS Enterprise-D and the Enterprise-E. He was played by British actor Patrick Stewart in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the subsequent films and the streaming television series Star Trek: Picard.