10 Biggest WTF Moments From Star Trek: The Next Generation

Captain Picard and audiences alike have always found it pretty absurd that children were allowed to live aboard the Enterprise-D. These children and their families were constantly put in harm's way, getting fired on by Klingons, de-evolved, trapped in time anomalies, and so on.

Although Picard never wanted families on his ship, many of the children who lived on the Enterprise looked up to the captain as a role-model. At the start of the episode The Pegasus, we got to see the crew preparing for 'Captain Picard Day', a yearly holiday dedicated to Jean-Luc, complete with a colourful banner and a contest to create sculptures and paintings of the captain (judged by Picard himself).

On Captain Picard Day, Jean-Luc was forced out of his comfort zone into a parental role for these kids. He complained about the holiday, but we saw in the Star Trek: Picard episode Remembrance that he actually held onto the banner from the event, showing that he actually looked back fondly on the celebration. Boimler also made a reference to Captain Picard Day in the Lower Decks episode Cupid's Errant Arrow, so it's possible that the holiday spread beyond the Enterprise-D, and became a common holiday throughout the Federation, likely to the disapproval of Picard himself.