Jörg Hillebrand has peered at blurry screenshots and hunted down illustrated Shakespeare volumes to prove that Patrick Stewart is part of Star Trek canon.
See his thread for details!
Jörg Hillebrand has peered at blurry screenshots and hunted down illustrated Shakespeare volumes to prove that Patrick Stewart is part of Star Trek canon.
See his thread for details!
TLDR: Mastodon user painstakingly discovers that a copy of The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare appears in Picard’s ready room in several TNG episodes. He tracks down the pages on screen in those episodes, and finds that in “Silicon Avatar”, “True-Q” and “Descent I” it’s displayed on-screen open to pages 354/355 which contain a picture of Patrick Stewart performing as the character “Touchstone” (a court jester) in the 1968 Royal Shakespeare Company production of “As You Like It”.
Should be noted that it’s not any random mastodon user
Generally great account to follow for such random tidbits on basicaly a daily basis
He worked on Star Trek: Picard but never got to meet Patrick Stewart?
As far as I know he basically assisted in keeping lore facts straight during production, which I assume is mostly a email and video call job. Not someone who runs around on set, especially when living in Germany
That’s all because he started his Star Trek career taking himself far to seriously as an actor: he needed that on hand reminder to lighten the fuck up.
Star Trek was protopian, it needed to present at positive, despite all the conflict that occurs. That means having ‘up’ people on screen, less there’s a damn good reason to be down.
I Just restarted TNG yesterday, you can tell right off that the actors haven’t gotten a grasp on their characters yet. But even the second episode shows a lot of improvement.