Patrick Stewart Rose From Obscurity to Boldly (and Baldly) Go Where No Yorkshireman Had Gone Before

Sir Pat Stew's collaborator on his 2023 memoir, 'Make It So,' retraces the late actor's unlikely second act, plucked from the Shakespearean stage and placed at the helm 'USS Enterprise' — and a nonpareil Hollywood career. How the late Sir Patrick Stewart was plucked from the Shakespearean stage and placed at the helm of the Star Trek's USS Enterprise. Sir Pat Stew's collaborator on his 2023 memoir, 'Making It So,' retraces the late actor's unlikely second act, plucked from the Shakespearean stage and placed at the helm 'USS Enterprise' — and a nonpareil Hollywood career. Sometimes a great casting choice reveals its greatness only after the fact. Terence Young, who directed the first James Bond film, Dr.

No, was so distraught upon learning that his producers had hired Sean Connery that he protested, “Oh, disaster, disaster, disaster!” Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the original Star Trek, was downright furious at his deputies for foisting upon him a bald journeyman English actor as the potential star of Star Trek: The Next Generation, telling them, “Patrick Stewart’s name should never, ever be mentioned in my presence again!” Yet Stewart, who died at the age of 86 on Oct. 28, pulled off the impossible: as Jean-Luc Picard, the new captain of the USS Enterprise, he created a character as iconic as William Shatner’s