I think that is what many of us nerds loved about him. He respected the genre fiction that so many in the entertainment business sneer at as juvenile or lesser art. He was unquestionably a brilliant performer across a host of registers, and gave his talent equally to them all.

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There's so much nuance, such vulnerability. A journey of discovery that is as much internal as fantastical. Some of that was good writing. But most of it was Stuart giving as much of his immeasurable talent to serial science fiction television as he did to the words of the Bard at the Old Vic

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I remember at that age watching him in TNG and thinking he was so wise, had all the answers. Rewatching it after my mom passed a couple of years ago, much closer to the age of Picard now, and older than anyone else in the cast, I saw his performance completely differently.

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I generally don't get very emotional for celebrity deaths - I didn't know them personally, after all. But I wept to lose Patrick Stuart. When I was a teen, I was deeply into Shakespeare, & my lovely mother managed to get us SRO tix to see him perform live. It was a magical night I'll never forget.

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A quick visit to the queen of UK libraries.

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