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[[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|USS ''Enterprise''-D]] [[captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]] defended the Human race by quoting from ''Hamlet'': "...what he said with irony I prefer to say with conviction. 'What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty. In form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god...'" ([[TNG]]: "[[Hide and Q]]") |
[[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|USS ''Enterprise''-D]] [[captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]] defended the Human race by quoting from ''Hamlet'': "...what he said with irony I prefer to say with conviction. 'What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty. In form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god...'" ([[TNG]]: "[[Hide and Q]]") |
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Revision as of 18:20, 7 September 2005
Hamlet, or Hamlet, Prince of Denmark was a tragedy written by the Human poet William Shakespeare in the early 17th century. It is widely considered his most famous and most often-quoted play, even into the 23rd and 24th centuries.
The Karidian Company of Players ran an interstellar theatrical tour of Shakespearean performances, including Hamlet. The performance of the play aboard the USS Enterprise provided an ironic parallel to real life, where the identity of Kodos, who was masquerading as Anton Karidian, was revealed. As Kodos' daughter Lenore Karidian quoted, "The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." (TOS: "The Conscience of the King")
- Prince Hamlet was played by actor Marc Adams.
When told that Spock had programmed computer variables for time travel from memory (shortly following the restoration of his katra on Vulcan), Leonard McCoy exclaimed, "Angels and ministers of grace defend us!" — which Spock correctly identified as a quote from Hamlet, Act I scene IV. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
Klingon general Chang was particularly fond of Hamlet, and in particular one line, "taH pagh taHbe'" (in English, "To be or not to be!"). (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
USS Enterprise-D captain Jean-Luc Picard defended the Human race by quoting from Hamlet: "...what he said with irony I prefer to say with conviction. 'What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty. In form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god...'" (TNG: "Hide and Q")