SciFi4Me.com posted a detailed report, photos and a Q&A transcript of Star Trek The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart appearance on stage Sunday afternoon for his talk at the Vulcan Events AWAY MISSION: ORLANDO Star Trek convention.

Here is an excerpt of the transcript of Stewart's Q&A



Q: What was it like doing the TNG episode “The Inner Light” where you lived a whole lifetime in one episode?



Stewart: “I’m glad you like “Inner Light”, as it’s also my favorite episode. I think that was the only “spec” script that ever got made. The writer sent the script in, she wasn’t on the writing team. It came in from outside and it was brilliant. The other writers hardly did anything to it, it was just perfect.

I loved doing it because the story was really interesting, it gave me an opportunity to be off the ship, out of my uniform, and leading another life. One of the great charms for me was that my son in that episode was played by my son. That was the first and only time Dan and I had ever filmed together, so we both remember it very warmly.

These days Daniel is doing conventions with me. We’re a kind of double act now. (smiles) In fact, he would have been here today too, except, and this is kind of nice, as we speak he is onstage in preview at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. He’s excited by that, but I think I’m even more excited that my son, who when he was four years old used to sit and play with chalks and pencils in a corner of the rehearsal room where I was rehearsing King John or whatever decades ago, is now himself standing on that stage as an independent actor in his own right. It gives me enormous satisfaction, I hope you get to see him work one day.”

That's very cool. It is also one of my favorite episodes in all of Trek.

Ditto.