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National parks have hiking trails for everyone, from “I climb mountains for breakfast” to “I just tripped on a curb.”

Brad Wright speaks out for the first time since the cancellation of Martin Gero's Stargate series in this revealing 80-minute interview now available on A Full Circle's Patreon, and everywhere else on October 31. Watch the preview now: youtu.be/Ox_s0JqWoQ8 #SaveStargate

Me liking every Patrick Stewart post

In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course. He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later. By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart. He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother. Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother. An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform. He never stopped and left school at 15. By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that. In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard. Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth. You’ve probably heard that part. Here’s the part you haven’t: He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence. But he never stopped trying to understand his father. He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock. He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours. He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him. So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans. In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence. He asked, “My dear, are you okay?” Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.” At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him. 2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait. He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.” After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows. He played every character himself and donated every cent. In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers. In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring. She was his first dog in more than 50 years. He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family. Then he kept fostering more. When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives. So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time. Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖

Try as I might, my words don’t suffice. I am so blessed to have worked with one of the greatest as he purred my name, “Tasha” with such grace. My colleague, my Captain, “no good-byes, just good memories…”#StarTrek @SirPatStew #PatrickStewart

We lost a legend…rest in peace, Patrick 😭😭😭 hollywoodreporter.com/movies… #RIPPatrickStewart

‘Pink Panther’ star Elke Sommer dies a week before 86th birthday: report trib.al/xHrZrHq

C. It is Garak’s time to shine and show his quality! Plus I KNOW that Joseph wants to write this dialogue. Oh please, please, please. 🙏 😂

Pick your favorite🎩🪄 #HappyHalloween🎃

Brad Wright speaks out for the first time since the cancellation of Martin Gero's Stargate series in this revealing 80-minute interview now available on A Full Circle's Patreon, and everywhere else on October 31. Watch the preview now: youtu.be/Ox_s0JqWoQ8 #SaveStargate

Walter Koenig made Star Trek history w/his voice cameo in the 2023 series finale of "Picard." He didn't appear as Pavel Chekov; but rather President Anton Chekov, leader of the United Federation of Planets; the son of his original character. The name was a tribute to Anton Yelchin, who'd died in 2016 and had played Chekov in the JJ Abrams films. This made Walter the last of the original cast to appear in a Star Trek series.

Second star to the right and straight on till morning Mr Chekov 😔

Second Mission: The Delivery (Part 2.1 - Escape Velocity) #Amalgaverse The Enterprise shudders against the gravitational pull as Thor’s counter-field takes hold.  Her main deflector brightens, projecting a cone of light ahead of the ship.  Inside it, the warped starlight straightens, and a corridor of calm space slowly opens, narrow and trembling at the edges. Kirk orders full impulse.  The Enterprise presses forward, the deck shaking as her saucer pushes into the corridor.   From engineering, Scotty warns that the deflector is overheating and the field won’t last much longer. “Ninety seconds,”Data reports. The hull groans.  A console sparks. The saucer is in calm space now, but nacelles are still outside, and without them there is no warp. “Thirty seconds.” The nacelles slide across the threshold. “Warp speed.  Now!”orders Kirk. The Enterprise leaps to warp.  Behind her, the corridor collapses and the black hole is left with nothing. Scotty reports: “Deflector’s scorched, Captain, but she held.  Took everything she had, mind.  I’ll need a day with her before she does anything that fancy again.” With Harven Zax and his party safely aboard, the Enterprise sets course for the rendezvous on the other side of the expanse.  Starfleet’s deadline leaves just under fifty-five hours to get there. There are three ways to go, none of them safe. A) The Klingon corridor.  It’s the fastest route, a straight warp run with hours to spare.  It passes through the border territory of a Klingon Great House that purportedly wants Zax dead. B) The frontier.  A long warp detour around Klingon space that eats deep into your margin.  The space it crosses belongs to the Orion Syndicate and is full of bounty hunters who know exactly what Zax is worth. C) The expanse.  The shortest line on the map, but gravity shear makes warp impossible inside, so the ship has to cross at sublight and will arrive with almost no time to spare.  Nobody patrols it, which avoids the Klingons and the Syndicate, but there’s no backup to rely on if anything goes wrong. Choose! TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission! See below for our Previously On recap - or check out the glorious Amalagaverse website: amalgaverse.link/index.html by @ugorur

Tonight, Cardiff Castle will light up green to mark Dwarfism Awareness Day. 💚 The illumination celebrates diversity and helps raise awareness and understanding of dwarfism. orlo.uk/S4Qel

@grok why is this being labeled Adult content?