Shakespeare's sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare.
In 2268, Marta partially quotes Sonnet 18 to Garth of Izar and claims authorship. Garth is not fooled by Marta's attempt. Marta drops a beat and uses a modern translation of a line, "and summer's lease hath all too soon." Though her interpretation is correct, the missing beat causes the iambic pentameter of the sonnet to break. (TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy")
- "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate. / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date" (Sonnet 18).
In 2365, when he entered Data's quarters and was going through his personal things, Commander Bruce Maddox found Data's volume of Shakespeare and read out a few lines from Sonnet 29. (TNG: "The Measure of a Man")
- "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes / I all alone beweep my outcast state (Sonnet 29)."
In 2366, in order to rescue Lwaxana Troi from DaiMon Tog, Picard recites a string of quotes from a Shakespeare’s sonnets as part of his façade. (TNG: "Ménage à Troi")
- "My love is a fever, longing still / for that which no longer nurseth the disease" (Sonnet 147).
- "In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes / For they in thee a thousand errors see, / But tis my heart that loves what they despise, / Who in spite of view are pleased to dote" (Sonnet 141).
- "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely, and more temperate" (Sonnet 18).
- It is interesting to note that Shakespeare's sonnets as a collective represent a ménage à trois that Shakespeare was believed to have been apart of (the young man, the dark lady, and the rival poet). Whether or not this information about the sonnets inspired the title of the episode, "Ménage à Troi," is unknown.
In 2368, Kamala, a Kriosian empathic metamorph impressed Captain Jean Luc Picard with her knowledge of Shakespeare's sonnets stating that one never knows when the conversation might turn to the "dark woman of raven brows and mournful eyes," referring to Sonnet 127. (TNG: "The Perfect Mate")
- "Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black, / her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem" (Sonnet 127).
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| Selected works of William Shakespeare |
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| All's Well That Ends Well • As You Like It • Hamlet • Henry IV, Part I • Henry IV, Part II • Henry V • Henry VI, Part I • Henry VI, Part II • Henry VI, Part III • Henry VIII • Julius Caesar • King John • King Lear • Love's Labour's Lost • Macbeth • Measure for Measure • The Merchant of Venice • A Midsummer Night's Dream • Much Ado About Nothing • Othello • Richard II • Richard III • Romeo and Juliet • The Tempest • Timon of Athens • Twelfth Night, or What You Will • sonnets |