I love that this is a detail the set designer did expecting it to go unnoticed, that’s a level of passion for sure.
This is the best thing I’ve read in weeks
These are pretty fun!
Yea I’m seconding this being within normal operating parameters for a Trekkie.
You know how sometimes you’re watching an old episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and there’s a quick shot of a control panel on a spaceship and you’re like, “Wait a minute. Haven’t I seen that control panel before in the background of an episode of Frasier?”
Yeah, it’s called autism.
These are the kinds of things a person notices while going through each Star Trek episode taking meticulous screenshots of all the starship overhead displays
The prosecution rests.
Acknowledging the overlap in the Trek community and the autism spectrum is not unwelcoming. The neurotypical don’t get this kind of obsessive, and so don’t get these kind of opportunities.
In a prop that was never intended to be seen.
In 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.
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.
Nobody would be able to make it out when the show was filmed and released.
You sure about that?
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.
but it wasn’t intended for the audience.
The book is literally highlighted and on display?
Really, you can make out Patrick Stewart’s face in that photo in the book?
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.
That’s an awesome article and interview!
Purple body suit, it’s time for her and 7 of 9 to fight.
Insanely good catch
Wow … that is impressive
Not only did they have to watch a lot of Star Trek but each episode would probably be analyzed, catalogued, noted, researched and screenshot for hours or days
Today is a good day to
dieobserve trek fans are fucking lit👏Never have I been so delighted to read such obscure trivia
He explains how he did it in the article… what is this becoming, reddit?!
Amazing.
This is delightful!
