And ‘The Inner Light’ where Picard lives an entire lifetime in twenty minutes and comes back with a flute. Thank you, Sir Patrick. Make it so.

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‘The Measure of a Man’: a courtroom drama about whether Data has the right to choose his own life. Picard’s argument for dignity and rights, whoever or whatever you are, is the moral heart of Trek. It’s still one of the finest speeches ever put on screen.

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‘Who Watches the Watchers’ remains one of my favourite hours of TV. Picard is horrified at being worshipped as a god and patiently argues a whole society back towards reason. A humanist captain if ever there was one.

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Here is our tribute to him.

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For me, Picard was always the best of Starfleet: a captain who’d rather read, listen, and argue things through than reach for the phaser. It’s hard to think of a fictional leader who made patience and curiosity look so compelling.

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