How Star Trek: TNG’s Returning Cast Revitalized an “Exhausted” Patrick Stewart for Picard Season 3

The new podcast, Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny, launched with a conversation between actors Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner and their Star Trek: The Next Generation co-star, LeVar Burton. They reminisced about their time working together and what they’ve been up to since, including their appearance together in the third season of Star Trek: Picard.



![The study of a metastable cubic potential-[latex]V(x) = -x^3/3 + m^2x[/latex] with [latex]m=1[/latex]-subject to Cauchy noise reveals a characteristic relationship between mean residence time and noise intensity, exhibiting a maximum indicative of noise-enhanced stability alongside a power-law decay at high noise levels, and further demonstrates a “duck-bill” structure-consistent with boundary-controlled trapping under Lévy flights-across a range of system parameters when normalized against the deterministic transit time.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22635v1/x1.png)




