2024~1. Making It So

Patrick Stewart. 2023.

I am a pretty big Star Trek: The Next Generation fan, so I was pretty excited to start a book that I knew would be about TNG to some extent and that would be read by Captain Picard, I mean Patrick Stewart.  My favorite part of this book, by far, was the part when Stewart writes about his surprise appearance at the 2018 Trek Convention in Vegas.  I was there when they shut down everything and funneled everyone into the main theatre, where we were all wondering what was going on. When Stewart, who was not on the list of stars attending, took the stage, the crowd was at a fevered pitch, but when he announced he was coming back for a new series, everyone lost it.  I imagine it was like being at a large sporting event where everyone in the arena is rooting for the same team and they just won.  People were hugging and drying and screaming and it was an amazing feeling of excitement and joy.  Hearing his perspective of this event brought me back to that moment and there was something amazing to read that he, too, felt that energy and describe it as the best crowd response he has ever experienced in all his years on stage.  

There were other stories in the book that I found touching or interesting.  His rough childhood, including exposure to domestic violence and experience of poverty were moving.  

But all that said, there were for sure things I didn't really know about him before that I found less than charming or endearing.  His unapologetic stories of womanizing, for one, reminded me that Captain Picard he is not.  

Overall, it is a not recommended.  Kind of a disappointment, but there we are.   

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