We Shall Not Look Upon His Like Again

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*Hamlet* performed by the Karidian Company of Players

Hamlet , or Village, Prince of Kingdom of denmark was a tragic historical play written past the Human poet William Shakespeare in the early 17th century. It is widely considered his most famous and most often-quoted play, fifty-fifty into the 23rd and 24th centuries.

In 2153, a day after being provided the play as an example of Earth literature, Vissian Helm Drennik quoted from Hamlet Act I, Scene 5: "There are more than things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." (ENT: "Cogenitor")

This quote, additionally referencing the grapheme of Horatio between the words "World" and "than", was also featured in the scripts of TOS: "The Squire of Gothos" and "Catspaw". Both instances were analyzed by Kellam de Forest (in research notes dated 26 October 1966 and 24 Apr 1967, respectively). Nevertheless, the quote ultimately wasn't used in either of those two outings.

In 2257, Christopher Thruway quoted this aforementioned line to Michael Burnham and Saru while discussing how the residents of New Eden came to be on a planet in the deep Beta Quadrant. (DIS: "New Eden")

Spock besides quoted a line from later on in Deed I, Scene V to Burnham, his foster sis, before she undertook a dangerous mission: "Time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that I was born to set it right." (DIS: "Perpetual Infinity")

The Karidian Visitor of Players ran an interstellar theatrical tour of Shakespearean performances, including Hamlet. In 2266, Anton Karidian had a volume of Hamlet in his quarters aboard the USS Enterprise. Soon thereafter, he and the balance of the theatrical company performed the play aboard the Enterprise, providing an ironic parallel to real life, when Karidian was revealed every bit actually beingness Governor Kodos. As Kodos' daughter Lenore Karidian quoted, "The play's the thing, wherein I'll take hold of the censor of the king." (TOS: "The Conscience of the King")

The book of Hamlet that Anton Karidian handles is not identifiable on-screen every bit being Hamlet. In the terminal revised draft of the script for "The Conscience of the King", however, the book was described as "a prompter's re-create... much worn... of Hamlet."

Afterward Lenore had killed her begetter, she quoted lines from Deed 2, Scene 5 of this play: "O proud death! What feast is toward in thine eternal prison cell, that thou, such a prince at a shot so bloodily hast struck?"

In 2286, when told that Spock had programmed computer variables for fourth dimension travel from memory (presently following the restoration of his katra on Vulcan, Leonard McCoy exclaimed, "Angels and ministers of grace defend us!" – which Spock correctly identified as a quote from Hamlet, Act I Scene IV. ( Star Trek IV: The Voyage Habitation )

In 2293, Klingon general Chang was particularly fond of Hamlet, and one line in detail: "taH pagh taHbe'" (in English language, "To be or non to exist!"). Chancellor Gorkon also quoted Village by making reference to "the undiscovered country". Though Shakespeare presumably intended the line to be a reference to expiry, Gorkon more than optimistically chose to use it as a reference to the future. Also, the chameloid Martia described her decision to "assume a pleasing shape", making reference to Village Act II, Scene II. ( Star Trek Half-dozen: The Undiscovered Country )

In a conversation with Helm Jean-Luc Picard in 2364, Q quoted, "The play's the thing" to describe his need for playing games with the USS Enterprise crew. Later in the chat, Picard defended the Human race by quoting from Village, proverb, "What he said with irony, I say with confidence. 'What a piece of work is human! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty. In class, in moving, how express and admirable. In activeness, how like an angel. In anticipation, how like a god!'" (TNG: "Hibernate and Q")

In 2366, when Data was abducted past Kivas Fajo and presumed dead, Geordi La Forge returned Data's volume of the complete Shakespeare to Captain Jean-Luc Picard. He read two lines from Hamlet Act I, Scene Two to himself:

"He was a man, take him for all in all,

I shall not look upon his similar again." (TNG: "The Almost Toys")

In 2399, Doctor Agnes Jurati referenced an often-quoted line from the play, saying "there's the rub" when explaining how no one had been able to redevelop the science used to create the android Information. (PIC: "Remembrance")

Characters

Village
Horatio
Ophelia
Ghost of Village's father

Additionally, Marcellus was referred to in the final revised typhoon script of "The Conscience of the Male monarch", though no sign of the character is present in the final version of the episode.

Memorable quotes

"Village is a vehement play, near violent times; when life was cheap, and ambition was god."

- Lenore Karidian

In ultimately omitted dialogue from the last revised draft of the script for "The Conscience of the King", Lenore thereafter connected, "It probes the timeless question of personal guilt – doubt – and indecision – and examines the thin line between Justice and Vengeance... Information technology begins on a castle'due south walls – many years agone."

"I am thy father's spirit, doom'd for a certain term to walk the dark, and for the mean solar day confined to fast in fires till the foul crimes washed in my days of nature are burnt and purged away. But that I am forestall to tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy immature blood, make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part and each particular hair to stand an end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Merely the details of this eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood."

- Hamlet's father'south ghost (Human activity I, Scene V)

Selected works of William Shakespeare

All'southward Well That Ends Well • As You Like It • Village • Henry IV, Part I • Henry Four, Part II • Henry Five • Henry Six, Office I • Henry VI, Part II • Henry VI, Part III • Henry Eight • Julius Caesar • King John • King Lear • Honey's Labour's Lost • Macbeth • Measure for Measure • The Merchant of Venice • A Midsummer Nighttime's Dream • Much Ado Nigh Nothing • Othello • Richard 2 • Richard III • Romeo and Juliet • The Tempest • Timon of Athens • Twelfth Dark, or What You Will • sonnets

Appendices

Background information

In the final revised draft script of TOS: "The Censor of the King", the production of Hamlet aboard the Enterprise was referred to every bit having "decor carried out in a strange Venusian version of castle and grounds."

Because of the annotate that Chancellor Gorkon made that "you lot take never experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon," the Klingon Language Institute has completely translated Hamlet to Klingon and sold it to the public every bit The Klingon Village. In 2010, selections from Hamlet and Much Ado Well-nigh Goose egg were performed in Klingon by the Washington Shakespeare Company, as role of a fundraiser which also featured George Takei. [1]

Many episode titles originate in quotations from Village, including TOS: "The Conscience of the King", TNG: "Thine Own Cocky", VOY: "Mortal Coil", the subtitle of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , and possibly TNG: "Remember Me" and TNG: "The Listen'southward Eye".