How about Knight?
The news cracked today that Patrick Stewart, who needs no introduction among us geeks as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: TNG, Professor Xavier in the X-Men movies, and the inadvertent creator of the internet facepalm, has been knighted. Yes, that’s “Sir Patrick” to you now.
The latest addition to the Queen of England’s court was humble about the honor, saying that “To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.” But to geekdom, this was probably a foregone conclusion. In today’s rather fast-food-like culture, it’s a bit difficult to create and maintain a name for yourself, especially in multiple fronts, but Patrick Stewart has managed to do that and much more. Sure, perhaps part of the appeal of many geeks’ favorite bald actor is doing such things such as the epic double facepalm, or perhaps making playing a random instrument a pimptastic move, but still – the man has talent in spades.
In celebration of this geekery moment of triumph, I present to you the Picard song. Congrats Sir Patrick – you deserve it.