#picard

The joke is that Picard hates kids but I don’t think that’s true. He hates Wesley for like 5 episodes before he finally cools off, but other kids just make him uncomfortable bc he hasn’t figured out how to talk to them. The guy’s kind of socially awkward when not talking to people in a professional capacity. I think it’s kind of telling that, in the episode where he gets trapped in an elevator with a group of kids, the way he works around his issues around them is by going “ok so let’s all pretend that you’re starfleet officers, and i as your captain can just sort of. direct you to follow proper safety procedures while acting as close to usual as i possibly can.” and the kids love it because they love being treated like adults’ peers. It’s a good way of working with the social skills he has.