re: The Point
. . . but neither Stewart nor anyone else is required (by anything but the mistaken expectations of whining juveniles of all ages) to support manned space exploration - or anything else - simply because he played a space explorer on TV.
"Hypocritical", you say... how? Should he have refused the role of Picard - obviously lucrative, and enabling him to gain other roles on the strength of his performance - on principle, because he sees less importance in space exploration than preserving the planet we already live on?