Patrick Stewart Dies at 86

When I heard the news that Patrick Stewart died, I started thinking about one of my favourite episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, episode 25: “The Inner Light”. In that episode, Captain Picard is struck unconscious by an energy beam from an alien probe which embroils Picard’s mind into experiencing the complete life of a alien man and his doomed civilization in the span of 25 minutes. The YouTube channel Art of Storytelling provides a fantastic review of this remarkable episode and explains why it was so memorable (and also why Stewart is so good in it): For more on Stewart’s death, Aaron Couch has a piece with The Hollywood Reporter: Patrick Stewart, the sophisticated actor who brought a Shakespearean touch to Star Trek and X-Men as he made an otherworldly transformation from British stage veteran to sci-fi icon, has died. He was 86. Stewart died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles following “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body…