Thus it came to be that in a historic Star Trek episode – Descent, Part 1 – Stephen Hawking played poker with Data, Einstein, and Newton on the Enterprise (watch the sequence here). For, as with anything that Stephen Hawking loved – science fiction or pop culture – they loved him back. He spoke to Rick Berman, executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and a guest appearance was written for Hawking. At the party Nimoy, finding out that Hawking was a Trekkie (a life-long fan of Star Trek) did the Mr.
At the party, Hawking was introduced by none other than Leonard Nimoy. ….and in March of 1993, a release party was held to launch the home video version of Stephen Hawking’s biographical documentary film, A Brief History of Time, the title of the movie being taken from the book that was a gateway drug for so many of us.
