On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Judith Proctor wrote:
PS. Does anyone know where the name Jean-Luc Picard came from? We've
been donated a book over fifty years old called 'Between Earth and Sky' by Auguste Piccard. He was a Swiss, writing in French and the preface is by Jean Lugeon. It's all about a scientific journey Piccard made into the stratosphere (he was the first man to get that far) and the last chapter is a look forward to the future and he discusses how he hopes man will travel into space. I wondered if he had been in any way the inspiration for the Star Trek captain. <<
It sounds good; I think I may have even heard this proposed before. For some reason I can no longer remember I thought perhaps the Jean-Luc came from Jean-Luc Goddard.
Sandra Kisner sjk3@cornell.edu