Your conclusion. And resignations are standard in the real world for egregious acts of the higher ups. See: General Mattis’s after the administration abandoned our Kurdish allies to slaughter after they’d aided us in our wars for years.
YOUR quote, not his.
that Clancy used the F bomb. But, her denying Picard made sense based upon current information. Not what we the audience know.Yes, my conclusion. I can speak for no one else. This is my impression of the events unfolding, and what Picard might have done to keep effecting change, rather than taking his ball and going home as is the impression.
The canon quote we got was that it was his last desperate shot. I applaud him for trying everything to save those people. Whatever policy he might otherwise have effected as a random admiral wouldn’t have made a dent in comparison to saving 900 Million People.
Forget the audience and consider what’s mentioned upthread. It was the espionage proficient Romulans, who he was forever linked to, that were the issue. She became immediately hostile for personal reasons before thoroughly investigating the situation.I don't give a
You just did for ‘Jean-Luc.’
That’s your opinion of resignations but that’s not how they play out in the real world. Again, it was Picard’s last card to play, and he was right to try. He threw his own ass in the fire for the former enemy, and his own people let him burn because they weren’t bloody good enough.
Yes, he is pompous. He was not willing to try and save less lives. It was all or nothing.
She still ordered the investigation.
Sarcasm-it's a difficult concept.
As I am told so frequently this is not the real world. His resignation ensured that the 900 million touted would die, rather than working with more limited resources.
I think giving up is in his character at that stage of his life. He had lost too much at that point.
Not less lives. That was HIS plan. NO lives. That was Starfleet’s.
Instead of hailing Caesar while Rome burned, correct. Even duritanium hearts break.
She asked one officer one question, while she bemused the formality. A Romulan spy that escaped her scrutiny like the those on the video who murdered Daj.
Isn’t it though. And yet it’s employed so freely.
Not at all what I got from the series.
he gets credit for being a good man, yes, and for his record, yes, but the soles thing, Jesus.
Neither acted exemplarily, no. Yet the Picard haters can’t seem to do more than dance on his would-be grave.
Right. Hyperbole also seems to be freely used...
But in the case of Picard's resignation, it WAS arrogant of him to think: "I'll threaten it, but they'll never accept/allow me to do it, and I'll get what I want.." which is how he expected that scenario to go (per the flashback conversation scene with Rafi at SF HQ.) Further is was very arrogant to after that just throw up his hands, give up and just retire to his vineyard in France too.
I think that is more my sticking point. If he resigns in protest fine-but he did nothing to continue the effort. He simply walked. I'm not sure how that can be justified.
Again, he didn’t go home to throw soirées and throw vitriol at the establishment from his armchair. He was heartbroken after Starfleet rejecting him and going “criminal” in his assessment. He wrote some history books and was basically waiting to die, so much did the loss of “utopia” diminish him. It’s extremely pitiably human.
If the Romulans are lost because Picard was lost, what does that say about Starfleet? Hell, reject him, but then if he falls, it’s up to them to deal with the ramifications of their actions and/or inactions.
Yes, they must deal with the fallout of their actions.
