{"id":17880,"date":"2019-11-14T17:40:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T09:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/whos-the-best-star-trek-captain-alexa-agrees-with-jeff-bezos-when-picard-drops-in-on-amazon-hq\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T17:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T09:40:53","slug":"whos-the-best-star-trek-captain-alexa-agrees-with-jeff-bezos-when-picard-drops-in-on-amazon-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/whos-the-best-star-trek-captain-alexa-agrees-with-jeff-bezos-when-picard-drops-in-on-amazon-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s the best Star Trek captain? Alexa agrees with Jeff Bezos when Picard drops in on Amazon HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_533163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-533163\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-533163\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191114-picard3-630x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"349\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-533163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Patrick Stewart, who plays Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek streaming series, share a laugh during Stewart\u2019s visit to Amazon\u2019s Seattle headquarters. (Jeff Bezos via Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the actor who plays the boss\u2019 favorite Star Trek captain drops in at the office, it\u2019s best to agree with the boss. Even though Amazon\u2019s Alexa is just a computerized voice assistant, she clearly understands that much.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s basically how things went down today when Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dropped in at the Seattle office where comedy writers come up with bon mots for Alexa \u2026 with Patrick Stewart, who plays Captain Jean-Luc Picard, at his side.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart stars in the latest incarnation of the Star Trek saga, \u201cPicard,\u201d which premieres in January on the CBS All Access streaming-video service. Not coincidentally, CBS All Access is accessible to subscribers through Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos made his choice on the classic \u201cPicard or Kirk?\u201d question clear in an Oscar-themed tweet last year. But Stewart got to hear the answer straight from Alexa\u2019s synthesized lips when he asked the question in the presence of Bezos and \u201cPicard\u201d producer Alex Kurtzman. Check out Bezos\u2019 Instagram video clip:<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B43iBtRHtQq\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=987&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com&amp;rp=%2F2019%2Fwhos-best-star-trek-captain-alexa-agrees-jeff-bezos-picard-drops-amazon-hq%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A2617.2899999655783%7D\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"684\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 12px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not all: Bezos showed off Alexa\u2019s acumen for Thanksgiving jokes as well as Shakespeare jokes. Quips referencing England\u2019s national poet are likely to hold a special appeal for Stewart, who\u2019s almost as well-known for his Shakespearean roles as he is for his star turns on Star Trek. But the joke that Alexa told was aimed squarely at the groundlings:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did Macbeth cross the road? To get to the regicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart was also a surprise guest star, along with Kurtzman, at a meeting for employees at Amazon \u2014 as documented in tweets and Instagram posts. For more scenes from Picard\u2019s visit to Planet Amazon, check out StarTrek.com\u2019s slideshow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Patrick Stewart, who plays Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek streaming series, share a laugh during Stewart\u2019s visit to Amazon\u2019s Seattle headquarters. (Jeff Bezos via Instagram) When the actor who plays the boss\u2019 favorite Star Trek captain drops in at the office, it\u2019s best to agree with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[275,4923,1046,4924,4482,21,4631],"class_list":["post-17880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-cbs-all-access","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-patrick-stewart","tag-science-fiction","tag-space","tag-star-trek"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}