AAAAARGHHH!

[kangeiko]

I just had a thought that made me fall out of bed in a scary, scary way, AND YOU'RE ALL GOING TO BE TRAUMATISED WITH ME, DAMNIT!



Jean-Luc Picard, right, is Julius Caesar. No ifs or buts about it. He's Caesar, and Will Riker is Mark Antony and all the womanising and loyalty that implies, and Wesley Crusher is Octavius, and Octavia is Deanna Troy (and she even ends up with Mark Antony, how neat is that?), and Lwaxana Troy? is Atia of the Julii.

Which leaves the Senate as the Borg.

Data is probably Brutus, and the whole scene in First Contact where Data is tempted by the Queen is all about re-writing the killing of Caesar so that Brutus turns around and saves him. because, at the end of the day, Picard may be a tyrant (as the random 21st century woman says - Captain Ahab parallel or whathaveyou), but he's not quite that sort of tyrant.

All of which leaves TNG as Rome, with the gods - or, well, the Q - dropping in and messing up Caesar's Picard's playground...



I fully expect someone to write something appropriate, now. *cracks whip* Get to it, people!

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/__marcelo/]

*worships your brain*

Wasn't even there a random mention in TNG itself, an old professor of Picard saying that he was like a centurion patrolling the limits of the Roman Empire?

Ok, the centurion analogy doesn't work, but Caesar's? Damn well. The first seasons after Farpoint are Picard's Galic Wars... He is, in a way, a Caesar that preferred command of his army to political power (although his command was not without political power or repercussions, and he was hardly a faithful tool of the Federation/Senate).

Could have gone in a different way, though. Had the Founders infiltrated Earth during TNG instead of DS9... wow, the possibilities for Picard and his crew applying his particular style to Federation politics in the center, instead of mostly in the outer provinces of the Empire.

*makes sacrifices to your brain again, just in case*

[kangeiko]

Hee. After much tea and biscuits, athena25 and I worked out that it's because they fit certain archetypes, and multi-player shows draw on them quite heavily, rather than relying on a central hero-figure. I'm going to put this all together in a more coherent manner, I think, 'cause there's something there...