![]() Just what exactly happened between Captain Picard and Dr. Stoppard started his Shakespearean fanfic with Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead - what fan writers (and I admit I can count myself among them) call a “missing-scene” story. But he’s doing exactly the same thing as those hordes of fan writers who have continued and expanded upon the adventures of the crew of the Enterprise, the owner of the TARDIS, those two FBI agents down in the basement, and the fictional denizens of a zillion other cultish TV shows. Tom Stoppard, I’ll grant you, is infinitely more clever and more talented than your run-of-the-mill fan-fiction writer. ![]() ![]() Tom Stoppard (here with cowriter Marc Norman) does basically the same thing and he’s a genius. Devotees of a certain infamous television series write stories about Kirk and Spock getting it on and sell photocopies to their friends, and they’re branded as weird.
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