Posted on 12/06/2015 4:59:37 PM PST by DogByte6RER
That Time Ronald Reagan Visited Star Trek: The Next Generation And Took The Captain's Chair
Ronald Reagan was a fan of Star Trek-and even a critic of it sometimes. In his diary he talks about watching Star Trek III in the White House theater and how he thought it sucked. In his post-presidential years apparently this interest in the franchise continued, and in 1991 he visited the then-highly popular Next Generation Set.
The Gipper's attendance at Paramount Studios Stage 8 came as the cast and crew were filming the season four Klingon-centric two-part finale, Redemption. There were Klingons running around everywhere, to which Reagan supposedly noted "I like them, they remind me of Congress."
In another encounter, then-ailing Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was walking Reagan through the elaborate Klingon ceremonial hall set when he dropped his cane. Supposedly Reagan reached down to picked it up for him, after which Gene noted "I felt as if I had been knighted."
Yet the best story from this obscure cross-section in pop culture and American history comes from Patrick Stewart himself. During a recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Stewart recalled a peculiar moment during Reagan's visit. He said that during VIP visits, people-even members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-politely asked him if they could sit in the captain's chair. But not Reagan:
Reagan just went over and sat in it, without asking. Perks of the job.
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YouTube link: “Patrick Stewart: Ronald Reagan Visited the Star Trek: The Next Generation Set”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uNcmLJt224
Star Trek 3 did suck, IMHO...
I understood Stewart to be a lib. Yet I found him vary gracious in his depiction of Reagan.
It’s sad that is so unusual for the left, but he deserves credit for having a bit of class.
It was a disappointment. For a movie that DESTROYS THE ORIGINAL ENTERPRISE and kills Kirk’s son and has an implied scene of a teenage Spock getting laid, it was very lacking.
It was Oscar fodder compared to V though. V is non-canon AFAIC.
I hope RR didn’t see “Insurrection” or “Nemesis”.
Patrick Stewart looks none too happy in that photo.
nemesis...ugh
It had to with the crew rebelling against Fleet authority over recovering a “cloaked” fleet prototype that Riker severed.
The crew including Picard were totally against recovering the ship because it violated a treaty about Star Fleet having cloaked ships.
He’s an English Trade Unionist (far, far left).
Ping!
I liked it. Kruge said “okie doak “. Klingon bastard.
I thought the episode where #1 Riker fell for a "female" on a planet whose society was asexual was a blatant support of homosexuality.
No wonder he insists on his millions of dollars be redirected to the “people”.
Oh wait..... Not for thee unionist.
“...an implied scene of a teenage Spock getting laid....”
Umm, err... gives new meaning to the “Vulcan Mind Probe...”
Mr. President, you still can make me laugh.
I would have sniffed the chair.
So, he’s a Muslim?
Interesting!
Let’s just say if he were having his pic taken with a head-chopper, he’d have a bigger smile than the one he has in the pic with Pres. Reagan.
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