Star Trek

Dixon Hill, of course. lol

"The Big Goodbye" was the first live-action holodeck episode. It also won the Peabody Award for excellence.  I believe it was also awarded in other areas, but my research didn't go that far. However, "The Big Goodbye" offers conclusive evidence that The Next Generation's first season showed much promise and is undeservedly underrated. Essentially, Dixon Hill is another Sam Spade, a more famous gumshoe in real fiction and famously portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon." In fact, it's safe to say that "The Big Goodbye" is an homage to that celebrated motion picture and its genre.

Dixon Hill was supposed to be Picard's favorite holo pastime yet when it was first shown he had issues with the plot and violence.

I understand the desire to showcase the talented actor that Stewart was but I believed Picard more as an "equestrian" and less of a Beat up thugs on the Holodeck kind of guy .

I enjoyed Dixon Hill in the later episodes but it was because of malfunctions and Borg attacks

In "The Big Goodbye," Picard had already been a fan of the novels, but had never had a holodeck experience, at all. Dixon Hill was his first try at it. And his father, his family were more-or-less about living in the past. So it makes sense that the futurist Picard would want to feel connected to the distant past in some way, because of how he was brought up. An old-time novel series is very appropriate to that, as a superficial diversion.

And in that first season, TNG tried to shoehorn Picard more into his French roots, but soon abandoned it. Even to the point that his entire home villiage spoke like Londoners. So I completely understand and relate to the way you see Picard. He's definitely a tea drinking, Polo Horse riding Brit by the third year of the show.