20 Things You Never Knew About Star Trek: Insurrection

20. Patrick Stewart Didn't Want 'Television' Picard To Return

Patrick Stewart had felt a bit let-down by the direction in which Star Trek: Generations had taken his character. For him, he felt that Picard was far too much like his television-self, rather than a movie role.

When Star Trek: First Contact was released, he felt that the character achieved the movie-start, action-hero status that he wanted. Specifically, the scenes between himself and the Borg Queen in engineering helped to sway him. So, when the script for Insurrection came along, he was able to request additional changes be made so that he wouldn't be going backward.

This included the love story between Picard and Anij, along with the scenes featuring the evacuation of the Ba'ku, the deployment of the Captain's Yacht, and all of the scenes on the Collector with Ru'afo. Michael Piller said that for Picard to truly be the hero, he had to be morally and ethically in the right - even though he was effectively leading a mutiny against both Admiral Dougherty and Starfleet itself.