I can barely believe that today marks a year since I met Sir Patrick Stewart. I still think of that five to ten minutes or so as the single most special moments of my life. As a star Trek fan, I was meeting one off my all-time favourite characters; not only that, that moment marked the end of my masters – the climax of seven years work, an end point more special to me than the graduation ceremony, in a way. It felt like a reward – a great one. Right now, sat here writing this, the past year seems to have flown by, and I still vividly remember walking away from the Excel Centre, as happy as I ever could be. For I had just met Sr Patrick Stewart – Captain Picard himself – shaken his hand, told him about writing about the Ahab Scene; and he had congratulated me on the academic achievement I’m proudest of. I will always treasure that memory.