The greatest tragedy of Star TrekCaptain Jean-Luc Picard’s life (Patrick Stewart) mimics a Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) tragedy of Star Trek: The Original Series. Both Captain Kirk and Captain Picard prioritize their Starfleet careers And their hosts became their families. Although Captain Kirk’s older brother initially pursued a Starfleet career, he later took a position as a civilian research biologist, living on the planet Deneva with his family. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds revealed more about Kirk’s brother, Lut.
in Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 29, “Operation—Destroy!,” The USS Enterprise travels to Deneva to investigate strange reports of mass insanity. Captain Kirk visits his brother’s home to find Sam dead, His wife Aurelien (Joan Swift) hysterical, and their son Peter (Craig Hundley) in a coma. Aurelan later dies on the Enterprise, but Peter recovers after the Enterprise crew finds a way to stop the parasites causing the madness. Star Trek Has never revealed what became of Peter Kirk on screen, although he is in several Star Trek Tie-in fiction, and the fate of Sam Kirk’s other two children remains unknown.
Picard’s family died just like Kirk’s in Star Trek: The Original Series
Picard and Kirk both lost most of their families
in Star Trek GenerationsCaptain Picard receives the tragic news that his brother, Robert Picard (Jeremy Kemp), sister and nephew have died in a fire. Although Jean-Luc and Robert have had their fair share of disagreements, Captain Picard is devastated by his family’s death. Picard was struck by the realization that No one would be left to bear his family name after his own death. Before this moment, Jean-Luc never worried about children, knowing that his nephew Rene (David Birkin) would continue the Picard line. Jean-Luc was amazed that the Picard line would end with him.
Captain Kirk has a son named David (Merritt Butrick) with Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch). Klingons killed David on the Genesis planet in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Kirk mourned for his son and cursed the Klingons, but he did not seem bothered by the fact that his family line would end with him. in Star Trek Generations, Kirk finds himself in the Nexus, living a life with a woman named Antonia, however Jim soon returns to his first, best destiny: being a starship captain.
Star Trek made sure Jean-Luc wasn’t the last Picard
Should Jack Crusher change his last name?
in Star Trek: Picard In season 3, Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) came crashing back into Jean-Luc Picard’s life, revealing that she had given birth to his son around twenty years earlier. Beverly chose to keep Jack Crusher (Ed Speelers) a secret from Jean-Luc, fearing that the captain’s many enemies would target him as he was raised by Beverly, Jack took his mother’s surname, But it is possible that he may change or hyphenate it now that he has a relationship with his father.
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After helping to avoid the Borg/Changeling takeover, Jack joined Starfleet and quickly landed a position on the newly renamed USS Enterprise-G. whether in name or not, Jack will carry on the legacy of both of his famous parents, Allaying any fear of Jean-Luc that the family line would end with him. It remains to be seen exactly what Jack’s responsibilities are as special counselor to Captain Seven of Nine (Jerry Ryan), but hopefully, a future Star Trek Project will revisit the story of Picard’s son.