David Friedman
Proof has been found that the actor Patrick Stewart canonically exists in the Star Trek universe
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/proof-that-patrick-stewart-exists-in-the-star-trek-universe/
Proof that Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe

And other insane Star Trek facts you didn’t know

Ironic Sans
May 27 at 4:50pmopenvibe
Show threadBryan Redeagle May 27
@ironicsans Pretty sure that also lines up with the logic in Scalzi's book Red Shirts.
Show threadSimon HarperMay 27
@ironicsans @bigzaphod @gedeonm 🤯 So Patrick Stewart really exists 🤯
Show threadchrysnMay 27
@ironicsans The interviewee is also on the fediverse as @gaghyogi49
Show threadMichael GemarMay 27
@ironicsans @vaurora OMG
Show threadmccMay 28
@ironicsans Note, it's conceivable that particular performance in the Star Trek universe the actor was released by a time-traveling Captain Picard, e.g. Gabriel Bell
Show threadKanaMaunaMay 28

@ironicsans

So many possibilities:

Is Picard actually Stewart, or vice versa?
Is Picard descended from Stewart, or, via time travel, vice versa?
Perhaps Picard is a transporter copy of Stewart after Stewart was kidnapped in the past, brought to the pre-NGS, copied, and then returned?
Maybe we are all inside the snowglobe in the children's hospital on the Holodeck?

Show threaddmgMay 28
@ironicsans I mean there’s the episode where Data’s head ends up in 19th century San Francisco, it’s possible they forgot something else when they went to retrieve it and had to go back and some clone ended up assuming the identity of Sir Patrick Stewart who Picard might have crash landed on with his shuttle craft kinda like the DS9 episode where Sisko takes the identity of a human rights activist
Show threadThomas SturmMay 28
@ironicsans cc @gaghyogi49 Jörg - that is an amazing find!
Show threadMr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼May 28
@ironicsans Similarly in the #DoctorWho episode “Robot of Sherwood”, there is a brief shot of Patrick Troughton playing Robin Hood, so Troughton exists in the Whoniverse.
Show threadMr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼May 28
@ironicsans Found it!
Show threadaoanlaMay 28
@LMac1970 @ironicsans that's less surprising, though, since we canonically know about at least one other double of the 2nd Doctor (Ramón Salamander in whatever dystopian 2018 happens in The Enemy of The World). Maybe The Doctor actually just subconsciously regenerates into British Actors of a certain period?
Show threadMr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼May 28
@aoanla @ironicsans And of course the Sixth Doctor looks an awful lot like Commander Maxil of the Gallifreyan Chancellery guard. Not to mention the Twelfth Doctor resembling both Caecilius of Pompeii and John Frobisher from Torchwood. But having an actual actor as themselves in Doctor Who … that’s meta.
Show threadaoanlaMay 28
@LMac1970 @ironicsans I mean, we all know that Tom Baker actually *is* Four, just having fun playing himself on TV for a bit.
Show threadGrahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿May 28
@ironicsans That is insanely cool!
Show threadFjord In ProgressMay 28
@ironicsans @loren That is such a great hidden egg
Show threadLappenjammerMay 28
@ironicsans That was a good read. To have a star ship named after you, wow.
Thanks for sharing!
Show threadSimonMay 28
@ironicsans thank you. This is the kind of weird information I use mastodon for.
Show threadBrisWombatMay 28
@ironicsans we love the passion @gaghyogi49 has for Trek. So happy that he has been recognised in canon.
Show threadMaisie SummersMay 29

@ironicsans
The book in question is "The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Illustrated".

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0517407760