In the days before Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i> premiered, Patrick Stewart<\/b> was annoyed by the suggestions of the press that he was not utilizing his talents to the fullest.<\/p>\n
As reported by the TimesOnline<\/a>, Stewart “became increasing irritated by the suggestion from the media…that given my background…that I was in a sense, ‘slumming,’ by doing this syndicated, science fiction television series.”One day, he had had enough, and answered back. Not only was he proud to work on Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i>, he told the reporter, but “all those years of working for the Royal Shakespeare Company…sitting on the throne of England, was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the Captain’s chair on the Enterprise.”<\/p>\n To see the video, head to the link located here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the days before Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered, Patrick Stewart was annoyed by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2440,2460],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-stewart","tag-the-next-generation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7097,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/7097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}