Comment on Proof that Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks agoIn a prop that appears in several episodes and was carefully placed each time.
It’s clearly intended to be an obscure Easter Egg and not a big plot point, but regularly displaying that exact book is not accidental.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nobody would be able to make it out when the show was filmed and released. It’s was a fun thing for the set, but it wasn’t intended for the audience.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You sure about that?
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I can make that out fro 1.5m away, on a screen a quarter of the CRT I’d have been watching from a similar distance.
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The book is literally highlighted and on display?
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Really, you can make out Patrick Stewart’s face in that photo in the book?
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, but neither could the person who figured it out in his day and age. He compared several of the pages layouts to figure out the book, then ordered a physical copy (there’s two different ones they use in the show, he got copies of both). The title is pretty prominently displayed as well there, in case you missed it.
“The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare”
I don’t want to link to Amazon, but it’s easy enough to find. It would make sense of Picard to have it, since he’s into Shakespeare, but the reason he is into Shakespeare is because Patrick Stewart is. And it’d make sense that when they want a prop book, they’ll use one with him in it, which he probably may have provided himself. I mean, I don’t think he did, but I would not be surprised. Not like he’s egotistic in any way, just whimsical.
So if someone actually watched the shower intensely back in the 90’s and went into their library to see if such a book would be available, they maybe have found it, and been pleasantly surprised to see Patrick Stewart in there. The book was like 20 odd years old at that point. (Or at least the photo of PS is, the book must obviously be at least a bit younger)
It’s not much different than modern Marvel movies talking about movies which feature same actors as in the movie. Hardly a big thing, sometimes done on purpose (Deadpool absolutely bashing on Green Lantern etc) and sometimes just because they want to mention a thing and it just happens to be a franchise with some of the same actors as Marvel is pretty big and has all the actors.