But stop there. GO NO FURTHER.
Did he? I thought I was remembering that utterance from another episode, where
Geordi and Data screwed up by letting the holodeck construct a Dr. Moriarty who was smart enough to outwit Data
No, he said it very softly during this episode. I mean he may have said it in the other one, too, I haven’t gotten there yet.
Worf too! Literally! (Maybe NSFW? Can clips from ST:TNG really be NSFW though?)
Yes, the first appearance of the Ferengi was a complete misstep. The original idea was for them to be the new big scary enemy of the Federation, but since, as you say, they resembled a bunch of monkeys, no one could take them seriously, so they were quickly cleaned up and relegated to comic relief.
I’m sure Picard says merde at least twice over the course of the series. There’s also that jaunty French marching song he warbles a couple of times. (“Auprès de Ma Blonde”)
Found this:
In Generations, Picard’s fantasy life included an “English Christmas.”
And he likes tea and Shakespeare. Obviously French people can like those things, but for a character that was supposed to be French, they seemed to go out of their way to give him a bunch of British interests on top of his accent.
I never got why they didn’t just give the character a British name. I guess Captain Nigel just sounded less cool.
Hey, one of my fantasies is a nice old English Christmas! I mean, I agree they gave him a lot of British interests, but that’s what I’m saying; characters can have a lot of interests out of their race - I have a ton of British interests myself.
Of course, that doesn’t explain why he doesn’t have many French interests…but at this age I have very few Indian interests and yet firmly hold on to my heritage.
I’m doing the exact same thing! My fiancee and I started about a month ago (well, did original series before Xmas and then the movies). She’s not seen much of it before. I think she’s enjoying it - she’s normally very difficult to impress.
And I should add, I do still swear in Hindi if you catch me just right. 
Hi, Malden!
Hi, Anaamika
They do have Picard speak French on occasion (although I smirked on a very early episode when someone reference French as being a forgotten language or something like that). And I remember an episode where he sings French folk songs.
I’m kind of amused by how people always harp on Jean-Luc Picard having a British accent, but no one ever complains about the equally-Gallic named Geordi LaForge having an American accent.
Well, there is a name for the standing up and pulling down on your shirt thing.
It’s called the “Picard Maneuver.” Because the tops of the uniform had a way of creeping up when you sat down.
It’s not the same, I submit. It’s not like Geordi talks about his past or swears in Celtic or Gallic or whatever.
Plus, the French accent is kind of ridiculous except on a really hot girl*. And I say this knowing the Indian accent is far more ridiculous and really good for nothing but humor and defusing tense situations.
*Ok, Patrick Stewart is one of the few men that could pull it off and make it sexy too.
I just know you’re whooshing.
Last night I watched about the first 20 minutes of “Encounter at Farpoint” in HD.
It looked really good.
I liked seeing O’Brien before he had a name.
But my God, it was horrible
That is indeed Armin Shimmerman playing the monkey-like Ferengi Letek. Quark was an entirely different Ferengi character played by the same guy.
As I recall, Colm Meaney (O’Brien) read the script one day and was furious at whoever this “OBrien” was that was replacing him. “It’s okay, they gave you a name,” they replied.
Was Encounter at Farpoint the one where they had some of the men walking around in miniskirts?
Yes, in early episodes some male crewmembers wore skirts. And the male officers’ dress uniform was a tunic-type thing that looks like a minidress.