Patrick Stewart, Our Captain Of Multimedia CD-ROM Edutainment

In 1997, Patrick Stewart took me on a voyage through the stars from the comfort of the family computer room. An interactive expansion of a 1993 video cassette, Nine Worlds allowed you to travel the solar system, pick up gift shop postcards, scientific and cultural history of each neighboring planet, all accompanied by bombastic (and slightly compressed) renditions of Gustav Holst’s famous celestial suites. And of course, with the guided audio tour from Stewart himself, whose impassioned chronology of Mars only netted me a C+ on my homework.