First off, basically nobody gets famous playing Shakespeare. So that has zero value as a metric. Second, Stewart was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for 16

First off, basically nobody gets famous playing Shakespeare. So that has zero value as a metric. Second, Stewart was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for 16 years well before any Star Trek stuff, so I'm sorry, but at least for those paying attention to Shakespeare, he was doing quite well. Third, calling Picard an "authoritarian" is, well, silly. Are you trolling with all of this?