Saturday, April 22, 2023

 

Today’s Totally Random Line(s)

           

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat;

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.

 

-Jean Luc Picard

Star Trek: Picard                          Final Scene

 

Leave it to Patrick Stewart to end the show, the series, the whole deal, with Shakespeare. I watched the finale of Star Trek: Picard last night and I was not disappointed. In the final scene, before they all sit down to a game of cards, Jean Luc offered a bit of Shakespeare, which I’ve given as Today’s Totally Random Lines, as his toast to the crew.

Was he talking about what they had gone through as the crew of the Enterprise? Or was he talking about what he, Patrick Stewart, and the other actors there had gone through portraying those roles over the past 35 or so years. Probably a bit of both. Either way, it’s a great, and wonderfully appropriate, quote. 



No pic today. Perhaps, just read the quote one more time. (It's Marcus Brutus from Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene iii, in case you were wondering.)


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