His seemingly inapt and never-explained Asian names — Kwan, Chen — spoof oddities of casting, as when a very British actor portrays a very British character with an utterly French name like Jean-Luc Picard ).

At the end of January 1546, Pierre Ameaux, a maker of playing cards who had already been in trouble with the Consistory, attacked Calvin by calling him a " Picard ", an epithet denoting anti-French sentiment, and accused him of false doctrine.

As a result of this agreement the liquidator, Irving Picard, agreed to drop the charges that the Wilpons and Mr. Katz blindly went along with the scheme for their personal benefit.

Picard had originally sought to recover $ 1 Billion from the Wilpon family and Mr. Katz, but had to settle for $ 162 Million along with the admission that neither the Wilpons nor Mr. Katz had any knowledge of the Ponzi scheme.

Picard with the rite of succession.

Picard buries Kirk before being shuttled to the wreckage of the Enterprise saucer section, reuniting with his crew, and leaving the planet.

* Popular food dishes include taspar eggs ( always served boiled, as most races find it revolting when raw and even more so while still alive writhing inside its shell, as seen when Captain Picard forces himself to eat one after torture and starvation by a Cardassian agent ), tojal, zabo meat, and sem ' hal stew ( often eaten with yamok sauce ).

Picard and a team attempt to reach engineering to disable the Borg with corrosive coolant used in the warp core, but the android Data is captured and meets the queen of the Borg collective, who gains his trust by giving part of him human skin.

Picard, Worf, and the ship's navigator, Lieutenant Hawk, stop the Borg from calling reinforcements with the deflector dish, but Hawk is assimilated.

Stewart noted that Picard was more physically active in the film compared with his usual depiction.

Beginning with the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q became a recurring character, with pronounced comedic and dramatic chemistry between himself and Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Q also lost a wager he made with Picard, detailing that if he failed to turn Riker, then he has to stay out of humanity's path – forever.

When Picard argues that humans are capable of dealing with anything, Q whisks the U. S. S.

" Upon her return, the character became more varied and more richly developed, and was not afraid to go head-to-head with Picard.

During the progression of the series the attraction or affection between the two is made more apparent, though both Crusher and Picard try to conceal their feelings ; neither wants to admit to the other how they feel, though they have both been seen on separate occasions talking with other crew members about it, most notably, William Riker and Deanna Troi.

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film ), Geordi ( now a commander ) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

* Robert Greenberger's 1995 The Romulan Strategem involves Jean-Luc Picard and his crew competing with the Romulan officer Sela to convince a planet to join their respective states.

An away team composed of Captain Picard, Deanna Troi, Nightcrawler and Colossus encounter an approximation of the " Days of Future Past " timeline, in which the Sentinels have merged with the Borg.

They speak regional languages such as Walloon ( with Picard in the West and Lorrain in the South ).

Like his contemporary, Henri Poincaré, Picard was much concerned with the training of mathematics, physics, and engineering students.

In " Pen Pals ," Captain Picard rectifies contact with an inhabitant of a pre-warp planet by ordering her memory erased.

When contamination became too serious to be fixed by memory erasures, Captain Picard decided to make direct contact with a civilization's leaders in " Who Watches the Watchers " and " First Contact ," although the latter episode involved a planet on the verge of achieving warp flight, and therefore eligible for First Contact.

The Picard of 25 years into the future goes with La Forge to seek advice from Professor Data, a luminary physicist who holds the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge University.

Although neighbouring Belgium currently recognizes and fosters both Picard and Dutch, and a few city-level governments within Nord-Pas-de-Calais have introduced initiatives to encourage both languages, the national French government maintains a policy of linguistic unity and generally ignores both languages, as it does with other regional languages in France.

In the series finale " All Good Things ...", it is revealed that in an alternate future, Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard had been married and then divorced — still evidently having feelings for each other after so many years.

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

Captain Picard was annoyed by Crusher at first, as Picard is uncomfortable around all children, but he comes to realize that Crusher understands many things beyond his age and has inherited his mother's high level of intelligence.

Regional identification is most pronounced today in cultures linked to regional languages and non-French-speaking traditions-French language itself being only a dialect of Langue d ' oïl, the mother language of many of the languages to-be-mentioned, which became a national vehicular language, like ( in alphabetical order ): Alsatian, Arpitan, Basque, Brezhoneg ( Breton ), Burgundian, Corsu ( Corsican ), Català ( Catalan ), Francique, Gallo, Lorrain, Norman, Occitan, Picard, Poitevin, Saintongeais, etc., and some of these regions have promoted movements calling for some degree of regional autonomy, and, occasionally, national independence ( see, for example, Breton nationalism, Corsica and Occitania ).

Works of some of these latter authors ( notably Stephen Ratliff for his Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfiction, in which teenage character Marissa Picard became an ensign in Starfleet shortly after her 14th birthday ) became works that many " MSTers " seek to use as a basis for a " MSTing ".

After the French Revolution, the standard pronunciation in France changed to that of the bourgeois class in Paris, but Quebec retained many pronunciations and expressions shared with modern Oïl languages such as Norman, Gallo, Picard, Poitevin and Saintongeais.

It has also left many etyma in the different Northern Langues d ' oïls such as Picard, Champenois, Bas Lorrain and Walloon, more than in Common French, and not always the same ones.

Picard asks many questions which Ronin does not want to answer and finally Ronin attacks Picard who falls down on the floor.

Despite this reputation, many of the players are ex-NHL or ex-AHL players ; Patrick Cote, Michel Picard, Stephane Richer, Bobby Dollas, Guillaume Lefebvre, Garrett Burnett, Daniel Shank, Francois Leroux, Jeremy Stevenson, Eric Fichaud, Mario Roberge, David Gosselin, Jesse Belanger, Donald Brashear and Yves Racine.

He also made important contributions in the theory of differential equations, including work on Picard – Vessiot theory, Painlevé transcendents and his introduction of a kind of symmetry group for a linear differential equation, the Picard group.

In addition to his path-breaking theoretical work, Picard also made important contributions to applied mathematics, including the theories of telegraphy and elasticity.

Robert G. Picard similarly describes a democratic socialist tradition of thought including Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky, Evan Durbin and Michael Harrington.

The Picard ( the local inhabitant and traditionally Picard language speakers ) cultural heritage includes some of the most extraordinary Gothic churches ( Amiens and Beauvais cathedrals or Saint-Quentin basilica ), distinctive local cuisine ( including ficelle picarde, flamiche aux poireaux, tarte au maroilles ), beer ( including from Péronne's de Clercq brewery ) and traditional games and sports, such as the longue paume ( ancestor of tennis ), as well as danses picardes and its own bagpipes, called the pipasso.

Throughout the mystery, the player will often encounter characters from the Star Trek universe, including Captain Picard and Commander Data.

As the USS Enterprise delivers more Starfleet staff, including Chief Miles O ' Brien and his family, Sisko becomes more despondent of the position as he gets his final orders from Captain Picard, the man Sisko holds responsible for Jennifer's death.

Some of the languages of France are also cross-border languages ( for example, Basque, Catalan, Picard, Norman, Franco-Provençal, Dutch, Occitan, Franc-Comtois and others ), some of which enjoy a recognised or official status in the respective neighbouring state or territory ( including French itself in Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and in the Val-d ' Aoste ).

He does so, and the drone instantly recognises Picard as " Locutus of Borg " so the Captain plays along with this ordering Hugh to assimilate the crew of the Enterprise, including Geordi.

K ' mpec, Picard, and Worf agree that the only course of action for Worf is to accept a discommendation, tantamount to admitting his father's guilt ; in exchange, the knowledge of the proceedings, including Kurn's true bloodlines, will be covered up.

In the council, all of the assembled Klingons, including Kurn, turn their back to Worf in his disgrace, and he and Picard silently leave the hall.

He activates it to find the artificial sentient Professor James Moriarty ( Daniel Davis ) character projected into the Holodeck, who appears to have memory since his creation (" Elementary, Dear Data "), including during the period while he was inactive ( a feat Picard claims to be impossible ).

*-ez ( Spanish, North Picard ) including Spanish-speaking countries " son of "; in Picard, old spelling for-et

The colony attracted a large number of artists, anarchists and other famous people, including Hermann Hesse, Hans Habe, Carl Jung, Erich Maria Remarque, Hugo Ball, Else Lasker-Schüler, Stefan George, Isadora Duncan, Paul Klee, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Wigman, Gyula Háy, Max Picard, Ernst Toller, Henri van de Velde, Rudolf Laban, Frieda and Else von Richthofen, Otto Gross, Erich Mühsam, Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, and Gustav Stresemann.

Whitty is also an actor, having appeared in New York productions of plays by Amy Freed, including The Beard of Avon and Freedomland, as well as small roles in the films Garmento, Lisa Picard is Famous, and a cameo in Shortbus.

* May-A fleet of French buccaneers, including Pierre le Picard, crosses the Isthmus of Panama on their way to the South Sea and loot Guayaquil.

Against the advice of Picard, Jameson devises plans to rescue the hostages by transporting the away team, now including the captain, to the tunnels beneath Karnas ' mansion, where Jameson believes the hostages are being held.

Captain Picard offers any help the Enterprise can provide, including returning the aliens to their homeworlds and replicating other parts for the two other aging Ornaran freighters.

In fact, ALL captains of the Starship Enterprise qualify as fully competent men or women, including Jean Luc Picard and Kathryn Janeway.

:( Provides further examples of Picard – Fuchs equations satisfied by modular functions of genus 0, including non-triangular ones, and introduces Inhomogeneous Picard – Fuchs equations as special solutions to isomonodromic deformation equations of Painlevé type.