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At a certain point, Star Trek: The Next Generation got pretty stupid. Case and point: the episode "Rascals," in which the writers took the premise of the Tom Hanks movie Big, reversed it, then presumably left work at 11:15. The episode finds a few members of the crew being de-aged into children, then mainly complaining about how shitty being a kid is. Absolutely no one is excited by the fact that they've accidentally discovered the secret of immortality, and no one's crankier than Li'l Captain Picard.

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Patrick Stewart ever having hair is the most unrealistic idea in this franchise so far.

While this episode is clearly dumb as all hell, it has one key point of interest. If the actor playing young Picard looks familiar, that's because he also played Picard's nephew Rene in the earlier episode "Family." So Captain Picard's brother's kid looks exactly like he did -- not vaguely, like an uncle and a nephew, but exactly.

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Except for wearing different wigs.

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That's ... suspicious. Picard seems to be meeting his sister-in-law for the first time, but only in front of Rene -- for all we know, they could have met and had an affair years ago. This would also inform the movie Star Trek: Generations, in which Picard is fucking destroyed by the news that his nephew is killed, because he never had a son of his own. Or not one he legally recognized, anyway. We may never know for sure, but it certainly looks as though the stupid Muppet Babies-esque episode was trying to tell us something about Captain Picard's wandering libido, doesn't it?