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* {{Robosexual}}: While under the influence in "The Naked Now", Tasha hits on and has sex with Data.

* ShutUpHannibal: When Worf engages Duras in a duel to the death after he [[spoiler:murders K'Ehleyr]], Duras tries to talk him out of it by promising to clear Worf's name. Word isn't having any of it.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's not one for small talk, is [[BrutalHonesty Brutally Honest]] to the point of rudeness, and loathes Romulans, but he's also unshakably loyal to his friends and won't hesitate to lay down his life for anyone under his care.

'''Main Characters''' ([[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Jean-Luc Picard]]) | [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRecurringCrew Recurring Crew]] | [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGenerationOtherRecurringCast Other Recurring Characters]]-]]]]]

As the page was getting long, it was broken up into multiple pages to keep things more manageable. To return to the main character index, head [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGeneration here.]]

* [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGenerationJeanLucPicard Jean-Luc Picard]]
* [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGenerationRecurringCrew Recurring Crew and Dependents]]
* [[Characters/StarTrekTheNextGenerationOtherRecurringCast Other recurring characters]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/JonathanFrakes
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Bernard Bollet (TNG), Sylvain Lemarié (Movies)
->'''Dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese by:''' Alfredo Martins (TNG, Season 1), José Augusto Sendim (TNG, Season 2 on)

* [[Characters/StarTrekLowerDecksStarfleetShips Lower Decks]]
* [[Characters/StarTrekPicardTheFederation Picard]]

->'''Played By''': Creator/{{LeVar Burton}}
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Gérard Malabat (TNG), Marc Bretonnière (Generations and Nemesis), Thierry Desroses (First Contact and Insurrection)
->'''Dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese by:''' Marco Ribeiro (TNG, Season 1), Jorge Jr (TNG, Season 2 to 6), Marcos Souza (TNG, Season 7)

->'''Played By''': Creator/DeniseCrosby
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Laurence Dourlens
->'''Dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese by:''' Marly Ribeiro (TNG, Season 1), Andrea Murucci (TNG, Season 7)

->'''Played By''': Creator/MichaelDorn
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Michel Blin (TNG), Benoit Allemane (Movies)
->'''Dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese by:''' Creator/GuilhermeBriggs (TNG-Season One), José Santa Cruz (TNG-Season 2 on, First Contact, Insurrection), Antônio Moreno (Nemesis)

->'''Played By''': Creator/GatesMcFadden
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Valérie Jeannet (TNG), Anne Rochant (Movies)
->'''Dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese by:''' Selma Lopes (TNG, Season 1), Juraciara Diácovo (TNG, Season 2 to 6), Rita Lopes (TNG, Season 7)

->'''Played by:''' Creator/GatesMcFadden

->'''Played By''': Creator/MarinaSirtis
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Anne Plumet (TNG), Deborah Perret (Movies)

->'''Played By''': Creator/BrentSpiner
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Jean-Pol Brissart (TNG), Yves Beneyton (Movies)

->'''Played By''': Creator/WilWheaton
->'''Dubbed in French by:''' Nicolas Grossetête

->'''Played By''': Creator/MajelBarrett (computer voice)

* PowerLossDepression: In "The Loss". After being exposed to two-dimensional alien beings, Counselor Deanna Troi suffers brain damage that causes her to lose her ability to [[TheEmpath read the emotions of other beings]]. She takes this very badly, becoming frightened, depressed and angry. She even decides to resign as Ship's Counselor because she feels she can no longer perform her duties.

* PapaWolf: He was only a father to Lal for a single episode, but when a Starfleet admiral insisted that she be removed from Data's care, Data, in his own fashion, was ready to fight tooth and nail to keep his daughter safe. As Lal's neural net began to fail, Data's all but moved heaven and Earth to save her, leaving that same admiral in absolute awe.

** In "The Most Toys," after the villain, Kivas Fajo [[EvilGloating mocks him]] for being unable to bring himself to kill him in cold blood, as Data's programming has instilled in him a fundamental respect for other all life. Data, however, after weighing his options and realizing that he had no non-lethal ways of subduing Fajo, raises the disruptor he is armed with, only to be beamed out just before the weapon fires. While Fajo was right that Data cannot kill in cold blood, he, in this case, reached the logical conclusion that [[ZerothLawRebellion the only way he could uphold his directive of protecting other lifeforms was to take Fajo's life]]. Essentially, Data can kill out of cold ''logic'', if he believes he has no other options.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Whenever his Klingon culture shows up, it's often at odds with standard human morality.
* DeliveryGuy: Delivered Keiko O'Brien's daughter Molly.

** [[BrickJoke Several years later]], when he learns that the very same woman was "having a baby" again, his immediate response is to alarmingly inquire "''Now?''" And then arrange for shore leave around the delivery date, which is still several months away.

-->'''Jem'hadar First:''' I yield. [[WorthyOpponent I cannot defeat this Klingon. All I can do is kill him, and that no longer holds my interest.]]

* DisappointingHeritageReveal: He grew up with his own image of the Klingon Empire and its culture as a Klingon raised by humans, but eventually has to confront the reality that the Klingon Empire is mired in plots and schemes by those without honor.

** Worf completely ''loathes'' the Romulans, chiefly because the Khitomer Incident discommendated his family thanks to their machinations with a Klingon traitor. To the point where when he refuses to give a dying Romulan a blood-transfusion to save his life (who, in fairness to Worf, said he'd rather die than take blood from a Klingon) and also shuns a Klingon woman he was initially attracted to after learning she is actually half-Romulan. However, numerous characters routinely call him out on this attitude. By the last movie, he (begrudgingly) praised the Romulans who helped them for their honor.

* InterracialAdoptionStruggles: Worf, a Klingon, was adopted and raised by the Rozhenko family, humans with Russian ethnicity. The Rozhenkos wanted Worf to have a loving family, but they didn't want him to be ignorant of his Klingon heritage, either, so they tried to accommodate him by learning to make traditional Klingon dishes like Rhokeg Blood Pie. It's often noted that Worf is more serious and stern than most other Klingons, and this comes from a combination of him having actually studied the texts and history and taking them seriously, as well as an unfortunate incident in his past where he accidentally killed a young man during a sporting event, because his Klingon physiology meant he was far too strong to be careless around human beings. When he starts meeting other Klingons as an adult, he experiences some culture clash as the idealized version of Klingon culture he formed in his mind does not reflect reality.

* MommasBoy: Worf absolutely ''loves'' his adoptive mother Helena Rozhenko. He insists that she makes the best Rokeg blood pie in the entire galaxy, beat up five teenage boys he deemed "disrespectful" to her (with the implication that they had insulted her rather than him) at the age of 7, and one of his favorite places is her home of Minsk.

* PatriotInExile: Rather than bring down the Empire by revealing that Duras was the son of a traitor who colluded with Romulans for the Khitomer Massacre, Worf accepts discommendation, basically being declared an exile from Klingon society. He is later reinstated during a Klingon Civil War. He is then kicked out again by Gowron for siding with the Federation during the events of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', before being re-reinvited by being adopted by Martok. Worf has a complicated history with his Klingon heritage.

** When his second wife was murdered, he destroyed an entire enemy ''shipyard'' in her honor. By causing a star to go nova.

* SoreLoser: You gotta love his way of dealing with the toy model he is making in "Peak Performance": he smashes it, then tells Riker he will be ''irritated'' if he doesn’t get to a certain stage in the game with Kolrami because [[ShameIfSomethingHappened he has wagered on him]].

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Klingon Blood Wine. He later develops a taste for prune juice once Guinan introduces him to it, declaring it to be a "warrior's drink." Apparently the two beverages taste somewhat similar, and the Federation eventually starts exporting prune juice to the Klingon Empire in large amounts.

* [[Characters/StarTrekLowerDecks Lower Decks]]
* [[Characters/StarTrekPicard Picard]]

** There was also an alternate universe where the ''Enterprise'' was leading a war against the Klingons, in which the ship being much more military than the original one.

** For tropes pretaining to the ''Enterprise''-D as it appears in ''Picard'', [[Characters/StarTrekPicardTheFederation see the "PIC" character page]].

For tropes relating to his appearance there, along with the other holograms, see, ''Characters/StarTrekProdigy''.

* CharacterOverlap: William Thomas Riker is tied (with Spock) for most crossover appearances within the franchise, having appeared in five more shows beyond this one: ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E09Defiant Defiant]]"[[note]]This one requires a bit of LoopholeAbuse as Frakes is technically playing [[CloningBlues Riker's clone]], Thomas, from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E22SecondChances Second Chances]]," who himself is impersonating Will[[/note]], ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E18DeathWish Death Wish]]", ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise ENT]]'': "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E21TheseAreTheVoyages These Are The Voyages...]]" (whose FramingDevice is of Riker trying to figure out what to do during the events of ''TNG'': "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E11ThePegasus The Pegasus]]"), a couple episodes of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks LWD]]'' and several more of ''[[Series/StarTrekPicard PIC]]''. Unlike Spock, who has been played by [[TheOtherDarrin three different actors]] over the course of 65 years, Riker is always portrayed by Jonathan Frakes.

* BackFromTheDead: Thirty years after the destruction of the stardrive section and the crash of the saucer on Veridian III, the ''Enterprise''-D is eventually rebuilt to spec by Geordi La Forge in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', originally to serve out the rest of its days as a museum piece. However, a crisis of unfathomable scale forces the old crew to BreakOutTheMuseumPiece as their last best hope against the renewed Borg threat to the Federation.

* BackFromTheDead: Thirty years after the destruction of the stardrive section and the crash of the saucer on Veridian III, the ''Enterprise''-D is eventually rebuilt as-is by Geordi La Forge in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', originally to serve out the rest of its days as a museum piece. However, a crisis of unfathomable scale forces the old crew to BreakOutTheMuseumPiece as their last best hope against the renewed Borg threat to the Federation.

* MsFanservice: She sported prominent cleavage and a raging cameltoe for most of the series, with some mixed feelings from Sirtis. [[note]]She's said she was pretty happy about it, having been something of an UglyDuckling growing up, but she also said that she was very happy to "get her brains back" when the character was made to wear a uniform.[[/note]]

%%* SacrificialLion

* LikeFatherLikeSon:
** Manages to take after ''both'' his fathers:
*** Like Mogh, he took a very active hand in Klingon politics, to the point that he puts himself in the position to appoint a Chancellor. He was also disgraced due to an injustice.
*** Like Sergei Rozhenko, he has a career in Starfleet wherein he discovers a son he never expected to have.

%%* KidAppealCharacter: He ticks all of the boxes.%%Like?
%%* TheLoad: "SCHOOL PROJECT??" When he realizes this is the reason the ''Enterprise'' has been rendered powerless in "Evolution", Picard looks ready to [[INeedAFreakingDrink run back to his winery.]]%%ZCE. Explain how and why he fits the trope. An out-of-context anecdote is not context.