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Although it's now difficult to imagine anyone else in the role, actor Patrick Stewart was not the first choice to portray Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 1987-94 sequel television series that followed up the original 1966-69 Star Trek series. Famously, series creator/executive producer Gene Roddenberry rejected Stewart, who had been suggested by supervising producer Robert Justman, in part because he didn't want a bald man for the lead role. Roddenberry eventually warmed to the idea of casting Stewart as the next captain of the Enterprise, although he insisted the actor wear a wig for his final audition with Paramount Television: https://youtu.be/pIjk0xLm8jcIn the years since then, social media users have circulated a photograph of Stewart showing him in his Star Trek uniform with a hairpiece atop his pate, purportedly taken on that day when he was required to don a wig for his reading with the studio: Although this photograph is real, it had nothing to do with Stewart's audition for the show. It appears to be a still shot related to the filming of the fifth season episode Violations, which included a flashback sequence during which Dr. Beverly Crusher recalled Picard's taking her to the morgue on Starbase 32 to see the body of her dead husband, Jack, who had died on a mission under Picard's command: https://youtu.be/hp5i73fpPtkSince Jack Crusher's death had taken place 14 years prior to the setting of Violations, Stewart was fitted with a hairpiece for the scene to convey that the events depicted in the scene had occurred well in the past:
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