A series such as this has many heartwarming moments. Standouts include:
- BRIAN BLESSED!!!!! discovering that his great-great-grandfather, after having been separated from his brother in the workhouse in early childhood, reconnected with him as an adult, and traveled from Brigg to London so that his brother could be present when he married the second time over fifty years later.
- Zachary Quinto learning that his great-grandfather was a union leader
who was quoted saying "may it live long and prosper" in a letter to a newspaper editor in 1899.Quinto: The fact that a hundred and fifteen years later, or something, I would get cast a character who is known for that very phrase... There was something about it that felt bigger than me... There was something about it that felt kind of cosmic.
