Patrick Stewart Rose From Obscurity to Boldly (and Baldly) Go Where No Yorkshireman Had Gone Before
Sometimes a great casting choice reveals its greatness only after the fact. Terence Young, who directed the first James Bond film, Dr. No, was so distraught upon learning that his producers had hired Sean Connery that he protested, “Oh, disaster, disaster, disaster!” Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the original Star Trek, was downright furious at…