shatner decides not to boldly go anywhere
Friday, September 15, 2006
Space is reporting that William Shatner has opted not to take up Sir Richard Branson on the offer of the first (free) ride on one of his forthcoming fleet of Virgin Galactic spaceliners. The ships will be basically high atmosphere shuttles, capable of a few minutes of weightlessness as the ship's course takes it through a suborbital trajectory.
Shatner's exact quote:
"I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me. I do want to go up, but I need guarantees I'll definitely be coming back."Far be it from me to disparage my
You think Kirk would've turned down an offer like that? To be one of the first private citizens to ride in the first commercial starship? I fucking doubt it.
He'd probably strap on a spacesuit and do an orbital skydive just to show that it could be done. (And yes, I do know that the orbital skydive scene was cut from Generations. That's why I brought it up)
Here's the link to the article.
Labels: star trek
posted by raistlinsghost at 9/15/2006 01:24:00 AM
3 Comments:
HA! At least he has a sense of humour about it. Did you read that Billy Piper is not returning for season three of Dr.Who.
October 10th!! I cannot wait. My husband thinks I'm insane.
I did hear about Billie not coming back for Season 3. I also just recently found out that she left to star in a spin-off that just got dumped by the network. Ooops, eh?
And you are going to LOVE Season 2. It makes Season 1 look like the Sylvester McCoy years by comparison.
And you've just reminded me that once I've made it through all of the season, I'll have to blog a proper farewell to Ms. Piper.
Wish someone would offer that to me, I'd sure jump on it.
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