(spoilers)did Picard have a Kirk moment in Data's Day

[WildManWizard]

when he found out that vulcan ambassador was a romulan spy returning home and he was used all along to get her back to romulan space; he looked like he wanted to stay and fight before the other warbirds arrived and he was forced to leave?

that seems un-picard like, however i might be projecting my own thoughts onto picard and am dead wrong. what do you think?

 

[Tenacity]

Kirk would have seduced the Romulan spy.

 

[Herbert]

that seems un-picard like, however i might be projecting my own thoughts onto picard and am dead wrong. what do you think?

Bugs Bunny used to say something that's applicable here. He would say, referencing someone like Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam, "He don't know me very well, do he?" Just because Picard is at heart, a diplomat, that doesn't mean he isn't a fighter. We see on several occasions that he's perfectly capable of being that. Also, when you just found out that you've been duped by the Romulans and the person you thought was a Vulcan ambassador is really a Romulan spy, what else do you do, ask the Romulans nicely to hand her over? Request third party mediation of the dispute? Yeah, that'll work. No. Picard knew what was at stake. He was prepared to attack. The only thing that prevented him from doing so was overwhelming odds against him. If he thought he could do something before the additional warbirds arrived, you damn well better believe he would have. There's nothing "Kirk" about it. It's all Jean Luc and while he could be a tea sipping dandy, he could also be a bad ass when necessary.

 

[Herbert]

Kirk would have seduced the Romulan spy.

Well, she was a little old for hi............. nah, you're right.

 

[Finn]

^How do you know the Romulan Commander from The Enterprise Incident wasn't much older than Kirk?

 

[Qonundrum]

Kirk would have seduced the Romulan spy.

Tut tut. He would just bicker colloquialisms about policy and sic Spock onto her.

 

[Makarov]

Picard was more bad ass than people let on, I mean in the early season he enjoyed detective/gangster hologram programs and did Indiana Jones stuff for fun in his free time

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Why is there a spoiler tag on a 28 year old episode?

 

[WildManWizard]

Why is there a spoiler tag on a 28 year old episode?

cause i dont know what the heck im doing!

 

[WildManWizard]

Bugs Bunny used to say something that's applicable here. He would say, referencing someone like Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam, "He don't know me very well, do he?" Just because Picard is at heart, a diplomat, that doesn't mean he isn't a fighter. We see on several occasions that he's perfectly capable of being that. Also, when you just found out that you've been duped by the Romulans and the person you thought was a Vulcan ambassador is really a Romulan spy, what else do you do, ask the Romulans nicely to hand her over? Request third party mediation of the dispute? Yeah, that'll work. No. Picard knew what was at stake. He was prepared to attack. The only thing that prevented him from doing so was overwhelming odds against him. If he thought he could do something before the additional warbirds arrived, you damn well better believe he would have. There's nothing "Kirk" about it. It's all Jean Luc and while he could be a tea sipping dandy, he could also be a bad ass when necessary.

I'm not just talking about him wanting the ambassador back, I mean after he found out he was being used, he looked like a wild man for a second before riker made the comment about 'sometimes the bear gets you" like he wanted to open fire just to get even.