![]() And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction: What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!" (II.ii.304-308). ![]() Later Picard states that he does view mankind as "one day becoming that" which Hamlet asserts of it in irony: " Oh I know Hamlet. " Hide And Q" Q misquotes As You Like It, saying " All the galaxy is a stage." Picard corrects him. leak?" The original line, in which the Jewish character Shylock tries to convince a group of Christians that Jews too are people, reads, " If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" (III.i.60-63). " The Naked Now" Data recreates Shylock's court monologue from The Merchant of Venice, asking, " When you prick me do I not. The Animated Series " How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" The title is taken from a passage in King Lear, Act I scene IV: " How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!" The Next Generation " Encounter at Farpoint" Picard briefly references the line from Henry VI, Part II " The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" (IV.ii.74). " Bread and Circuses" The coat of arms of the Roman Proconsul, Claudius Marcus was actually Shakespeare's coat of arms. It refers to the inhabitants of Sarpeidon, who intended to escape from the future by living in the past.Ĭlaudius Marcus' coat of arms. " All Our Yesterdays" The title comes from Macbeth, Act V, Scene V. " Requiem for Methuselah" The plot of this episode borrows parts of The Tempest. This disruption may be a reflection on the chaotic situations of the episode. Marta drops a beat and uses a modern translation of a line, "and summer's lease hath all too soon" instead of the original, "too short a date." Though her interpretation is correct, the missing beat causes the iambic pentameter of the sonnet to break. " Whom Gods Destroy" Marta partially quotes Sonnet 18.1-4 to Garth of Izar and claims authorship. " Wink of an Eye" Although the phrase itself has passed into the modern vernacular and may not have been intentionally taken from Shakespeare, it originates in The Winter's Tale (V.ii.112-133): " every wink of an eye some new grace will be born: our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge." A Voyager episode would later be called " Blink of an Eye", a commonly used variant. " Plato's Stepchildren" Kirk recites part of Sonnet 57 while being manipulated by the Platonians. " Is There in Truth No Beauty?" Kollos, in Spock's body, references The Tempest when Kollos sees Miranda Jones for the first time through humanoid eyes: " O brave new world, That has such creatures in't." Miranda replies with the play's next line, "' Tis new to thee." Additionally, the character Miranda Jones would seem to be named after Prospero's daughter Miranda from the play. Also, Captain Kirk's difficulty escaping Elaan's charms to fight a threatening Klingon warship echoes Antony and Cleopatra. ![]() Kirk makes additional reference while talking with a woman as he holds out a rose-like flower and says, " As the Earth poet Shakespeare wrote, 'That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet'." " Elaan of Troyius" Here the plot is lifted straight from The Taming of the Shrew with Kirk playing the part of Petruchio. Or meet your end." At this point, the logical Commander Spock replies, " Very bad poetry, Captain." " By Any Other Name" The title is from Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II. Once on the ground, they investigate and are confronted by three witches reminiscent of those from Macbeth who chant: " Winds shall rise " Catspaw" The crew of the USS Enterprise beams down to the surface of the planet Pyris VII. The three witches on Pyris VII " The Conscience of the King" The title is a reference to Hamlet, Act II, Scene II: " the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." The entire episode is around Shakespeare's works and themes, including the Karidian company performing both Hamlet and Macbeth on screen. The Karidian Company of Players perform Hamlet " Dagger of the Mind" The title is a reference to Macbeth (II.i.38-39): " Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" ![]()
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