Apr. 19, 1993: Stellar Guest TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993 Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
Time Magazine PEOPLE, Page 73 Stellar Guest

By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT GREGORY

Calling all Trekkies! Mark your calendars! Set those vcrs! This year's cliffhanger of Star Trek: The Next Generation is one to go warp over. Famed physicist, best-selling author and all-around science god STEPHEN HAWKING makes a cameo appearance as a holographic image of himself matching wits at a poker table with the android Data and Albert Einstein. Hawking, who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease and communicates by computer, is a big-time Trekkie and got invited to do the star turn, which airs the week of June 21, during a visit to the show's studios.