Patrick Stewart returns as Picard in new ‘Star Trek’ series

Pasadena, Calif. • Sir Patrick Stewart is boldly going where he’s gone before — back to “Star Trek” and his role as Jean-Luc Picard. This, despite the fact that he had vowed he’d never put on a Starfleet uniform again.Executive producer Alex Kurtzman approached him about a Picard-centric series two years ago.“At first, I was a little reluctant,” Stewart said, “feeling that everything that I wanted to say about Jean-Luc had been said over 178 e