In his memoir, Patrick Stewart wrote that he came to regard his baldness as a strength: βAs I reconciled myself to my fate β or is it pate? β I realized that I had been given a strategic advantage.β
βPeople are really, really hanging on by a thread here,β said Rebecca Cooke, a Democratic congressional candidate in Wisconsin who has made health care costs a central issue of her campaign.
Stewartβs iconic βStar Trekβ character inspired astronomers and astronauts in countless ways: βYou were the captain of my childhood,β one astrophysicist said.