Life is so unfair. So close, and yet, so far, far away.

Patrick Stewart's Orlando Shakespeare Theater program sells out at warp speed

I'd say "the Force is with Patrick Stewart" — but that's the wrong sci-fi franchise, and the hordes coming to MegaCon would banish me to the Death Star.

How about: "Patrick Stewart tickets? Make it so."

Only, if you were hoping to attend Stewart's Orlando Shakespeare Theater discussion program next week, you can't "make it so" — to borrow the most famous catchphrase of Stewart's "Star Trek" character, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard.

That's because tickets, which went on sale at noon Tuesday, sold faster than a starship cruising at warp speed. (That's faster than the speed of light, in "Star Trek" talk.)

Stewart, also known for the "X-Men movies" and as an award-winning Shakespearean stage actor, will speak at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center on his career and his love of Shakespeare.

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