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Sir Patrick Stewart is the only Star Trek actor to appear as his character and with himself on screen at the same time (tenforward.social)
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Jörg Hillebrand has peered at blurry screenshots and hunted down illustrated Shakespeare volumes to prove that Patrick Stewart is part of Star Trek canon.

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[–] 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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".

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  • [–] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 26 points 1 day ago

    Jörg Hillebrand (born 2 April 1980; age 46) is a research consultant (or "research assistant" as he was officially credited) who worked on the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard. It did earn him his own individual Internet Movie Database entry, on top of his (second) in-universe reference as a Starfleet officer.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    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.

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