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Shakespeare Was a Major Inspiration for Star Trek

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This is my next story in a series of articles responding to Dr Mehmet Yildiz’s challenge to produce a short quality article with three take home points each day for thirty days.

I have chosen to use Wikipedia’s main page as inspiration, choosing one topic from the “Did You Know” section as topical encouragement.

It probably comes as no surprise to any fan of the Star Trek franchise, that many of the story ideas and underlying philosophical themes come from works by William Shakespeare.

Principal characters in the series including captains Kirk and Picard are played by actors with Shakespearean roles under their belts.

Several of the story arcs in the Star Trek canon mirror Shakespeare’s plays and/or characters.

There is an interesting bouncing ball chain of logic in an imagined futuristic society that uses historical prose to educate us on timeless topics in the present.

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