'Star Trek' star Patrick Stewart dies age 86

For Star Trek fans, he was the legendary Captain Picard; the British actor and director Patrick Stewart, longtime member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, died on Thursday at the age of 86 following a "brief and poignant journey" with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia, according to an official statement on his social media accounts. In Los Angeles, California, far away from the small English village of Mirfield where he was born, Stewart achieved world fame. He was 47 years old when he landed the role of a lifetime in the legendary science fiction series Star Trek: Playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," he stepped into the shoes of the legendary Captain James T. Kirk, played by William Shatner.