6 Perfect Star Trek Episodes to Watch to Say Goodbye to Patrick Stewart

Star Trek wouldn’t be the cultural phenomenon it is today without Patrick Stewart. Sure, William Shatner launched the franchise by playing the USS Enterprise Captain James T. Kirk in 79 episodes. But Stewart led the United Federation of Planets’ flagship as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 178 episodes over seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation , and then returned to the role for 30 more episodes in Star Trek: Picard . Even more significant than the quantity of Star Trek that Stewart made was the quality. Kirk is in many ways a classic pulp action hero.