I'm watching NEMESIS on AMC... The photo of young Jean Luc

[gastrof]

This is weird. I saw the thing in the movies, I have the DVD, and of all things it takes me watching it off cable to pick up on this-

Did they goof with the picture Picard showed Crusher of Picard at the Academy (or early in his career)? Did I see correctly? NO HAIR?

We saw young Picard during the series, and he sure had hair then. Why would young Jean Luc (after his heart transplant?) have begun shaving his head? (And how convenient that he ended up mostly bald anyway in his later years.)

Has this point already been discussed to death? (If so, would someone bring me up to speed anyway?)

 

[RandyS]

That picture was a mistake, that's all. They should have gotten a picture of that guy from Tapestry, or at the very least, Patrick Stewart at 17.

A mistake, that's all.

 

[gastrof]

That picture was a mistake, that's all. They should have gotten a picture of that guy from Tapestry, or at the very least, Patrick Stewart at 17.

A mistake, that's all.

Or, more appropriately, the actor playing Shinzon, only with hair.

 

[Chindogu]

Didn't Patrick Stewart start going bald in his late teens? I thought I remembered reading that somewhere. But yeah, a dumb picture probably done because Tom Hardy shaved his head for the audition and looked bad in a wig.

 

[gastrof]

The thing is, they could have photoshopped anyone's REAL hair on him.

A flaw, unless someone comes up with a "Trekker's fixit" for this. ("Maybe Picard lost a bet and had to shave his head; now he keeps the picture around, feeling he looked okay with no hair then, so must still." )

 

[sonak]

not only is it a continuity error as others have pointed out, but...



that picture has always looked downright goofy to me. It detracts from what the significance of the moment is supposed to be.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Did they goof with the picture Picard showed Crusher of Picard at the Academy (or early in his career)? Did I see correctly? NO HAIR? )

Go to any university today and you'll see first-time-outta-home guys who shave their head, or buzz-cut it, or colour it blue, or grow it into dreadlocks.

Maybe young Picard was on the Academy swimming team?

We know Kirk used to shave his chest, since it was smooth in TOS and you could see tufts of chest hair poking over the top of his T-shirt uniform in TMP. And how many hairstyles did Scotty and Beverly Crusher have in their ST episodes?

 

[cardinal biggles]

The photo was a total botch job all around. Apart from the baldness, they also put Picard in the TWOK-era uniform of an enlisted man.

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/nemesis/ch11/nemesis274.jpg

 

[number6]

The photo was a total botch job all around. Apart from the baldness, they also put Picard in the TWOK-era uniform of an enlisted man.

http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/nemesis/ch11/nemesis274.jpg

And that uniform makes him look fat.

 

[Bacl]

Just shows how stupid the director of this movie is. The star of the show is bald and we need a picture of him at age 18? Get me a bald child!!

 

[number6]

Get me a Knitting Needle!!!

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Get me a Knitting Needle!!!

Is that an AbFab reference?

 

[SiorX]

The scene is further lacking of the sense because there's no way Crusher could have known him then, on account of how she's 19 years his junior.

It's a truly awful photograph. I always assumed they put it in to cover for the fact that Shinzon looks absolutely nothing like Picard - see! I too was bald and played by Tom Hardy when I was young!

 

[cultcross]

The baldness, no problem, I know people who went bald at 18. Patrick Stewart did, he mentions it in interviews on occasion. And if you're establishing that Tom Hardy is playing a clone of him, it makes movie sense to have younger Picard look like him.
The chief problem with the photo is the uniform - that of an enlisted man, and not a shred of 'trainee red' anywhere.

 

[Borjis]

Just shows how stupid the director of this movie is. The star of the show is bald and we need a picture of him at age 18? Get me a bald child!!

stupid as a director yes, BRILLIANT as an editor though (see the list of movies Stuart Baird had edited....superman for one)

 

[TeutonicNights]

but we see Picard in Violations just a few years before TNG and he had hair.
We can explain it away as always, but that photo is just embarrasingly badly done like the whole movie imo.

 

[number6]

Get me a Knitting Needle!!!

Is that an AbFab reference?

 

[Harvey]

As bad as the screenplay to the movie was, at least John Logan got it right. He describes a younger Picard of having hair.

I assume the director, who was so confused he thought Geordi was an alien, thought it would be easier for the audience if they just used a picture of a bald Tom Hardy for the photograph.

 

[tharpdevenport]

What's more important is how dreck like this is considered an American Movie Classic. AMC REALLY has let their standards down these passed few years.

 

[cardinal biggles]

The network stopped calling themselves "American Movie Classics" back in 2002, so it's not like this is a new phenomenon.