Star Trek: 10 Biggest Takeaways From Patrick Stewart's Memoir (and One That Wasn't)

11. Wasn't He Direct?

Making It So covers virtually every aspect of Patrick Stewart's life from his birth in the poverty-stricken streets of Mirfield right up to his current standing, happily married in Los Angeles.

But there is one oddity that seems to have been overlooked and that's his behind-the-camera work which fans of Star Trek will know he undertook.

The book does cover, although not in-depth, the years of TNG and its subsequent movies yet Stewart skips over the part he played as a director on five episodes of the series - including In Theory, Phantasms, and the penultimate installment of season seven, Pre-Emptive Strike. It also avoids mention of his role as a producer on Star Trek: Insurrection, though he does mention that he was not satisfied with either that movie or the subsequent Nemesis. The latter killed off further adventures for the TNG cast until Picard resurrected the Enterprise captain nearly two decades later.

Perhaps Stewart forgot these moments or actively chose not to include them in his work, focusing more on his time in front of the camera. However, it would have been interesting to see his insight into the workings of production especially since he notes the brilliance of Jonathan Frakes' work on several occasions, even stamping a firm demand that his friend and colleague direct a potential Picard movie in the future.