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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Patrick Stewart, the British actor best known for his role as Captain John Luke Picard in

the Star Trek TV series, has a new memoir.

It's titled Making It So.

Stewart grew up working class in England, made his way to the stage with the Royal Shakespeare

Company and then found fame on television with the Starship USS Enterprise.

Stewart's first appearance as Picard was in 1987 on the next generation where he starred

for seven seasons. He's recently reprised the role in Star Trek Picard nearly 30 years later.

Stewart also starred in several Star Trek films, X-Men movies,

Multiple Shakespeare Productions, and a one-man version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

During the pandemic, Stewart took to Instagram and provided some comfort by reading

sonnets to his followers.

We're going to listen to Fresh Air producer Sam Briggers' 2020 interview with Stewart.

But first, let's hear a clip from the first season of Star Trek Picard.

Where years earlier, Picard had resigned his commission at Starfleet

and retreated to his family vineyard in France to live out the rest of his years,

embittered that the United Federation of Planets had lost its way.

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