Summary
- Captain Picard's brilliant mind is often tampered with by alien forces throughout Star Trek: The Next Generation, but his fellow senior officers always come to his aid.
- From energy beings to addictive games, Picard encounters various situations where his mind is taken over by aliens, but he always manages to regain control.
- The most significant and impactful instance is when Picard is assimilated by the Borg, an experience that continues to haunt him even 30 years later.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Patrick Stewart) brilliant mind gets tampered with many times throughout the seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. As Captain of the USS Enterprise-D, Captain Picard encounters more than his fair share of strange aliens and previously undiscovered phenomena, some of which have the ability to manipulate people's minds. Many Starfleet captains set out to explore the unknown, but Picard's mind seems to get altered by alien influence more than most.
Thankfully, every time Captain Picard's mind is influenced by an alien force, the other senior officers on the Enterprise are there to help him. Still, it seems hard enough to captain a starship on a good day, without the extra worry that you could become the mouthpiece or puppet for some powerful alien species. But Picard takes most of these encounters in stride, always back to himself by the beginning of the next episode (with one notable exception involving the Borg). Whether due to powerful energy aliens, ancient alien probes, or dangerously addicting games, here are 10 times Captain Picard's mind was taken over by aliens.
