Tom Morello has paid tribute to late Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart
The Rage Against The Machine guitarist and self-professed Star Trek “nerd” made an uncredited cameo in the 1998 movie Star Trek: Insurrection, appearing alongside Stewart in one brief scene.
“God bless you and thank you for your brilliance and your humanity, Captain,” wrote Morello on Instagram.
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Stewart, who died of Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia at the age of 86, rose to international fame playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, which ran between 1987 and 1994, reprising the role in four feature films.
Morello’s non-speaking, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance in Star Trek: Insurrection saw the guitarist play a Son’a officer, one of the movie’s bad guys, while sporting prosthetic alien make-up.
“If you didn’t know I was in it, then you’d miss me. I was so heavily made up,” Morello told Metal Hammer in 2006, adding that he‘d fallen in love with the original 1960s show while trying to make it as a musician in the 1980s.