I hadn't noticed that. But there are a couple of other examples. In one episode, possibly The Outcast, he answers the hail with a very Yorkshire "Picard 'ere." And I think that I can detect his Northern roots in the "boldly" of "to boldy go".
When he was on
Parkinson a few years ago, Stewart did the opening narration in what was apparently his native Yorkshire accent, though it sounded forced and put on.
As you've indicated here,
Kirks_Flying_Wing, Patrick Stewart is from Yorkshire. Which isn't to say he grew up with a strong Yorkshire accent, although I'd be pretty surprised if he couldn't do a good one. (If he couldn't do one, I think he's enough of a craftsman to realize it and he wouldn't even have tried. Could be wrong, though.) I have no idea if everybody who grows up there does/did, or if it kind of depends. I mean, not everybody from Texas sounds like Sam Rayburn (who, for those of you not familiar with Sam, sounded a LOT like Foghorn Leghorn, the the Loony Tunes rooster). And I'm from California, but I don't have and never have had a "Valley" accent.
