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In my 30 years as a #StarTrek researcher, this will forever be one of my coolest finds: This screenshot from #StarTrekTNG's "Qpid" shows both 24th/25th century Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard 猬咃笍 and 20th/21st century thespian Sir Patrick Stewart 鉃★笍 on screen at the same time. How that is possible? 馃У 1/6
In universe, this was absolutely Q's doing, of course! This exact double page not only appears in season 4's "Qpid" (pic 1+2) but also in his very next appearance on #StarTrekTNG, in season 6's "True Q" (pic 3+4, better shot in next post). Q had a little fun with the curious likeness between the actor and "son capitaine"...馃槄 4/6
Apart from #StarTrekTNG's "Qpid"鈫栵笍 and "True Q"鈫欙笍, this double page is seen in two more episodes, "Silicon Avatar"鈫楋笍 and "Descent I"鈫橈笍. In both cases, Picard has an argument of sorts with a strong female character, Dr. Kila Marr and Admiral Alyssa Nechayev in t ready room while the book is on display. I was interviewed about this find some while ago: 5/6
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/proof-that-patrick-stewart-exists-in-the-star-trek-universe/
I am 100% sure that this was done on purpose by the set decorator or somebody else behind the scenes, as the same double page from the book appears both in the ready room and Picard's quarters in "Qpid". At this point in #StarTrekTNG, volume II (not volume I) of "Annotated Shakespeare" is usually seen in Picard's quarters, so someone had fun with this, moving the prop from one set to another! 3/6
In universe, this was absolutely Q's doing, of course! This exact double page not only appears in season 4's "Qpid" (pic 1+2) but also in his very next appearance on #StarTrekTNG, in season 6's "True Q" (pic 3+4, better shot in next post). Q had a little fun with the curious likeness between the actor and "son capitaine"...馃槄 4/6
Picard's ready room "Annotated Shakespeare, vol. I" (seen on the set since mid season 1) is opened to double page 354-355 ("As You Like It, Act II, Scene IV) for the first time in this episode. It features a photo from the 1968 Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play with Patrick Stewart playing the fool Touchstone. 2/6
I am 100% sure that this was done on purpose by the set decorator or somebody else behind the scenes, as the same double page from the book appears both in the ready room and Picard's quarters in "Qpid". At this point in #StarTrekTNG, volume II (not volume I) of "Annotated Shakespeare" is usually seen in Picard's quarters, so someone had fun with this, moving the prop from one set to another! 3/6
In my 30 years as a #StarTrek researcher, this will forever be one of my coolest finds: This screenshot from #StarTrekTNG's "Qpid" shows both 24th/25th century Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard 猬咃笍 and 20th/21st century thespian Sir Patrick Stewart 鉃★笍 on screen at the same time. How that is possible? 馃У 1/6
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