Watching Unification II. The scenes between Stewart and Nimoy are absolutely magnetic. 35 years on it feels both logical and inconceivable that the men who played Picard and Spock in an episode dedicated to the (then) recently departed Gene Roddenberry are no longer with us. Time, eh?

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So imagine how I felt when he then took the gig. The problems with the show came later, but that's another story. RIP Patrick. You were real class.

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It would have been early in 2005 when I met Patrick Stewart at Granada's London offices. He'd relocated back to the UK after Trek and was pondering his options, of which this was one. He was unstarry and had dressed (I think) to avoid being recognised on the street;

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with his hat pulled down over his ears you'd take him for some guy on his way to a manual job. I thought he'd be perfect casting and I talked way too much. He said the thing he looked for in a project was the quality of the writing, and quoted a particular turn of phrase from the script.

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