Patrick Stewart, Star Trek, and the Pleasures of Fandom

For readers steeped deeply in National Review Online lore it must feel odd not to see notice on the Corner of the passing of , most famous for portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard on and in subsequent films and series. More properly, it must feel odd not to have notice of Stewart’s passing followed almost immediately by an admonishment by a certain someone not to write about Star Trek in the Corner.

I’ll ask forgiveness rather than permission for breaking the no–Star Trek rule just to say that I’ve been awash in appreciation and not a little nostalgia for my youth in watching clips of Stewart in Trek, or in Marvel films, or in David Lynch’s Dune, or as compellingly menacing villains with bad American accents in movies like Conspiracy Theory and Green Room; or as MacBeth or Othello(!) or in any number of other productions of the Royal Company.

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For readers steeped deeply in National Review Online lore it must feel odd not to see notice on the Corner of the passing of , most famous for portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard on and in subsequent films and series. More properly, it must feel odd not to have notice of Stewart’s passing followed almost immediately by an admonishment by a certain someone not to write about Star Trek in the Corner.

I’ll ask forgiveness rather than permission for breaking the no–Star Trek rule just to say that I’ve been awash in appreciation and not a little nostalgia for my youth in watching clips of Stewart in Trek, or in Marvel films, or in David Lynch’s Dune, or as compellingly menacing villains with bad American accents in movies like Conspiracy Theory and Green Room; or as MacBeth or Othello(!) or in any number of other productions of the Royal Company.