On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Fred Shapiro wrote: > > Does this relate to the practice on Star Trek: Next Generation of Picard > or Riker tugging the bottom of their shirts to show seriousness of > purpose? No, in an interview (on the Arsenio Hall Show IIRC) Patrick Stewart said he did it because the shirt was uncomfortable. Imran -- http://bits.bris.ac.uk/imran