Stephen Hawking On Star Trek Next Generation
In fact he s the only person to ever play his.
Stephen hawking on star trek next generation. When brent spiner was confronted years later stephen hawking asked where was his winnings. The next generation while newton and einstein are of course played by actors hawking appears as himself. The next generation nimoy was presenting a screening of a.
In 2010 he co authored the grand design with former star trek. The next generation story editor and writer of the episode the dauphin leonard mlodinow. Hawking also played himself on futurama the simpsons and the big bang theory and appeared in documentaries about red dwarf and doctor who.
Stephen hawking on the set of star trek. Memorable scene from star trek tng season 6 episode 26 the descent part 1. The next generation on trek hawking appeared in the 26th episode of season 6 entitled.
The next generation. The passing of stephen hawking is a terrible loss to the world of science but it s also a blow to the world of epic television cameos. Only time in the next generation that a character is played by the real person.
Hawking also speculated on the existence of wormholes and quantum fluctuations linking multiple universes. In 2019 screenrant recommended descent as background on the character data for the series star trek. The next generation in 2017.
The opening scene from the episode. Descent part 1 where data plays poker with stephen hawking isaac newton and albert einstein. Lieutenant commander data is playing poker with the most famous physics scientists of our recent history stephen.
Throughout his life the theoretical physicist showed up on a number of nerdy television shows like the big bang theory futurama the simpsons and of course star trek. In an alternate future experienced by jean luc picard data held the same position at cambridge university that hawking and newton had in previous centuries and he had a copy of hawking s book a brief history of time in his library.
