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A rugby league club hopes to boldly go to the top after paying homage its town’s most famous son Patrick Stewart .

The Star Trek actor was born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire.

And now the town’s ambitious Rugby club has dressed its players in a kit inspired by the uniform worn by his character Jean-Luc Picard.

Ryan Sparks, managing director of Mirfield Stags, said: “Sir Patrick Stewart is quite possibly the biggest name to have ever come out of Mirfield and we are proud to pay tribute to him in this manner.

“This is a simply fantastic playing strip and it looks great on the players.”

Stewart played Picard in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1994.

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He also appeared in the films Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).

More recently, he has won fans by playing Professor Charles Xavier in the X Men films and voicing Avery Bullock in American Dad!, and has returned to stage work.

Mirfield Stags play in the Pennine League and are coached by Super League referee Richard Silverwood.