My personal theory is that Patrick doesn't realy care about Rodenberry's vision, to him it is dead since All good things.
At first he wanted to be an action star, RLM talks about this so much, basicaly Nemesis was mostly him.
Then I believe with his success as Professor X(specialy Logan) he fancied himself as a much "greater" actor then simply "Picard the diplomat". It makes sense that since Nemesis he would only come back if he was the main star but fans would only tolerate a TNG reboot with at least some of the old cast.
And here we see that he realy would never accept going back to the 80s TNG, it was either a "modern" version or nothing.
The irony I think is that he is so egotistical and/or old at this point that he didn't realize that Picard S1 had some outrageous stuff that would never make it Trek anyway, it realy feels like PS literally only read the script parts related to Picard and called it a day.
The TNG episode where Picard goes to Risa aka the sex tourism planet for a vacation, hooks up with the artifact thief and gets in trouble with Ferengi smugglers or whatever was made because Patrick Stewart wanted Picard to fuck and have punchups with bad guys
I don't think he necessarily ever entirely got the character
My personal theory is that Patrick doesn't realy care about Rodenberry's vision, to him it is dead since All good things.
At first he wanted to be an action star, RLM talks about this so much, basicaly Nemesis was mostly him. Then I believe with his success as Professor X(specialy Logan) he fancied himself as a much "greater" actor then simply "Picard the diplomat". It makes sense that since Nemesis he would only come back if he was the main star but fans would only tolerate a TNG reboot with at least some of the old cast.
And here we see that he realy would never accept going back to the 80s TNG, it was either a "modern" version or nothing.
The irony I think is that he is so egotistical and/or old at this point that he didn't realize that Picard S1 had some outrageous stuff that would never make it Trek anyway, it realy feels like PS literally only read the script parts related to Picard and called it a day.
The TNG episode where Picard goes to Risa aka the sex tourism planet for a vacation, hooks up with the artifact thief and gets in trouble with Ferengi smugglers or whatever was made because Patrick Stewart wanted Picard to fuck and have punchups with bad guys
I don't think he necessarily ever entirely got the character
I think I read something similar about that episode where he is 1v3 or 1v4 aboard the Enterprise. Starship mine?