In the early 90s, I begged my then-agent to arrange a pitch meeting with the writers of TNG in their third season. I was a young Canadian nobody, but desperately wanted to write for Patrick Stewart's Jean Luc Picard. I developed three stories and pitched my heart out, but I couldn't close the deal.
I have few regrets in this business, but not having the chance to write for such a wonderful actor and character, whose voice I can hear so clearly in my mind even now, is one of them. Rest in peace, sir.