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To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before (Well, No 90-Year-Old Man)
The real Captain Kirk, the beloved William Shatner, has made it to the final frontier for real. At the age of 90, the intrepid Shatner visited space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard mission NS-18 today, Oct. 13, 2021.
Though Shatner is intrepid, he didn’t command the Intrepid. He commanded the Enterprise (and the Enterprise, and the Enterprise). The Intrepid, NCC-1631, had a Vulcan crew.
This historic flight occurred 51 years, one month, and seven days after the first airing of “Star Trek.” In Canada, which got to watch the show two days before we Americans. I don’t know whether or not this was because Shatner is a Canadian.
Shatner became the oldest person to fly in space.
You can watch it here. It’s about 12 minutes long.
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He should have worn a red shirt….
Vulcan-crewed ships seem to have a really bad survival rate in the Trek universe, including Enterprise. It sometimes seems as if all of them wore red shirts, except Spock, Sarek, and T’Pol.
Speaking of T’Pol, I think that she was the only major crew member, in any series or movie, who was hotter than the original Uhura. That includes the reboot Uhura, though Zoe Saldana gave Nichelle a run for her money.
I guess you can make that argument for MAJOR crew members, anyway. Cuz who else was there, really?
Although frankly I would take Sato over Uhura.
I would take Zoe over Nichelle, too.
Well, you know how emotional those hungry, unicellular organisms can get. It’s just too much for Vulcans to understand.
Rosie O’Donnell, for example.
I’m happy Captain Kirk made the trip safely. I was a bit worried about the g-force effect on a 90 year old. However, this was an epic fail from the pop culture and PR perspective! They missed the obvious sound track to play once he was clearly OK after boost.
George Takei seems emblematic of the small-minded and grasping jealousy of the left.
Yes, lamentably.
So now space travel consumers have a choice: after touchdown, do you want to be hugged by Bezos or Musk?
As in health care, we need a public option: Getting hugged by Biden and Harris after touchdown.
But only if they’re wearing ape costumes.
And every picture of him shows him holding up a Vulcan salute., but that was never part of his Star Trek character. He’s spent his life saying, “Look! I’m Spock!”
I’m wondering what a dark, dystopian Galaxy Quest would have been like.
Maybe it’s called Star Trek: Discovery?
I mean the lives dark side of the lives of the surviving Star Trek cast. I can’t say I knew them, but I met them, and spoke at length with Takei. He seemed nice enough. But I always wondered why he spoke of the majesty of the beauty of Empire State Building rising majestically upwards penetrating the clouds and sky. I was younger then and thought he was talking about architecture.
Yeah, something like that.
I would pick Musk over Bezos.
Bezos’ hairless cat has a tendency to scratch.