Patrick said he would use his influence and talk to people about the situation.
"I do not think anything else is likely," he added.
Patrick met the Press before his show, An Evening With Patrick Stewart, in aid of the Gilder Hall Project to redevelop a crumbling building in Mirfield, which housed the youth club where he first got a taste for acting.
Since then he has gone on to make nearly 70 films and has appeared in countless stage productions.
But it was his role as Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the Starship Enterprise in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation, that propelled him to stardom.
His new film, X² , the second of the X-Men films, is due out next month.
But despite the popularity that followed from his appearance in science fiction films, the genre has never actually appealed to him.
"I enjoyed the character of Prof Xavier in the X-Men," he said. "That was one of the reasons for doing it."
But he added: "I have no interest in science fiction at all.
"It was an accident that I got involved in Star Trek.
"It was not something I went looking for."
 Apr 5 2003 Mirfield-born Star Trek and Hollywood actor Patrick Stewart made an emotional return to his roots yesterday, recalling the days when he first trod the boards in the town. He was giving a special one-man charity show in the area last night at Dewsbury Town Hall. Examiner reporter JANE YELLAND caught up with him. more |
