Summary

Before there was Jean-Luc Picard, there was Gurney Halleck. Several years before Star Trek: The Next Generation sent his career into the cosmos, Sir Patrick Stewart played Halleck, the Warmaster of House Atreides in David Lynch’s Dune in 1984. Stewart, who died this week at age 86, was then a seasoned stage veteran in his native England, but Dune was merely his third film. It was also his introduction to science fiction, a precursor to his career-defining role as Picard.

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