Jörg Hillebrand has peered at blurry screenshots and hunted down illustrated Shakespeare volumes to prove that Patrick Stewart is part of Star Trek canon.

See his thread for details!

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    TLDR: Mastodon user painstakingly discovers that a copy of The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare appears in Picard’s ready room in several TNG episodes. He tracks down the pages on screen in those episodes, and finds that in “Silicon Avatar”, “True-Q” and “Descent I” it’s displayed on-screen open to pages 354/355 which contain a picture of Patrick Stewart performing as the character “Touchstone” (a court jester) in the 1968 Royal Shakespeare Company production of “As You Like It”.