A Question I REALLY Want to Ask Patrick Stewart

[The Old Mixer]

I saw Jay Leno doing a bit about this in the '80s (don't remember the actual alien name he used): "My crew is familiar with all the great philosophers...Plato, Socrates, Beelzub of Rigel IV...."

 

[Avro Arrow]

There's a great TV Tropes article on this topic: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamousFamousFictional

Famous, Famous, Fictional; or, Newton, Einstein, Surak

Sometimes, to mix it up a bit, they do Famous, Fictional, Fictional.

Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga, or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule?