A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century.

Captain Picard's edition of The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works featured an illustration by Henri Fuseli, called Titania, Bottom and the Fairies which featured Titania and Nick Bottom - turned into a donkey - both characters from the play. 

When an away team from the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) was trapped in 1893 San Francisco, the team members claimed to be actors having performed A Midsummer Night's Dream in Milan, London and Paris. Data played Puck, Doctor Crusher a fairy, Riker played Oberon and Mrs. Carmichael was to be Titania. 

Background
Several plot elements from A Midsummer Night's Dream were incorporated into the teleplay of. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)

Rene Auberjonois commented "You can take A Midsummer Night's Dream and say Sisko will be Oberon, Kira will be Titania, and Quark will be Bottom". ("Beneath the Mask", Star Trek Monthly, issue 12)

Mendelssohn's Wedding March, used in, was composed for his adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The play was mentioned twice in letters found in the Picard family album. One letter invited Picard to an adaptation which set the story in the in Copenhagen. The other quoted the play in relation to the celebration of 400 years since the first landing on the Moon.

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Le songe d'une nuit d'été

A Midsummer Nights Dream website