Father & Son

One of the things I find fascinating about watching favorite shows on DVD is discovering things I missed during the first viewing. This weekend I watched one of my favorite Star Trek:The Next Generation episodes, The Inner Light. Picard lives an entire lifetime as Kamin as a result of a telepathic link with a mysterious probe. In this alternate life, he has a wife and family. His real life son, Daniel played the son of this alternate persona Kamin.

This was not the only time Patrick and Daniel acted together. Daniel also had a small role in the movie Death Train as a Soviet officer. They also appeared on stage together in Johnson Over Jordan. Recently Daniel played Phileas Fogg in a stage production of Around the World in 80 Days (New York Times review) and his father dropped in for a visit.