He was pretty damn traumatized in the episode Family.
I think that trip home offered some respite and healing in the short term.
Having the Borg attack Earth in the past would easily trigger a relapse.
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He was pretty damn traumatized in the episode Family.
I think that trip home offered some respite and healing in the short term.
Having the Borg attack Earth in the past would easily trigger a relapse.
He's not forgotten, he just wasn't a good captain.
Indeed. There is a common misunderstanding of trauma as if one just recovers from it and moves on. Mental health, at least as understood right now, does not work that way. One model is the idea of vulnerability stress competence. Basically, a person's ability to mange stressors is based upon their vulnerabilities (genetic or developmental, exposure to stressors (life events) against protective factors of ability to cope, social supports, and stress management. I would agree that the specific attack on Earth would be far more stress inducing, exposing Picard's vulnerability that he had not recognized or experienced since his assimilation or time on Earth.
That was a really good character development episode (and looking back it has even more meaning considering the events of "Generations"), but Picard didn't go Rambo levels of crazy in that episode. I do agree that that episode showed reasonable levels of "trauma" from that event.
Because he was supported.
Picard, Kirk(kelvin), Kirk (TOS), Janeway
the reason why i say Janeway is only because i am only just over a season through DS9, but i have binged over 4 seasons of voyager, so i just know Janeway better.
the reason why i say Janeway is only because i am only just over a season through DS9, but i have binged over 4 seasons of voyager, so i just know Janeway better.
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