On Wednesday, 90-year-old William Shatner, the beloved Captain Kirk from the TV series Star Trek, made headlines when he flew aboard New Shepard, the spaceship owned by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company. What was not reported is that Shatner kept an audio log of his journey similar to the Captain’s log he kept on Star Trek. The following is an exclusive transcript of this recording, officially called “Shatner’s log.”
Shatner’s Log, StarDate 10.2021
At long last the day has arrived. My years of gleaning scientific knowledge and deep understanding of the cosmos in the original Star Trek series—and several Star Trek films—has made me more prepared for space travel than any other man or woman ever to don a space suit.
