William Shatner’s Space Odyssey: How Captain Kirk United the Planet in Existential Shrugging
William Shatner, the 93-year-old Canadian export who once sold discount airline tickets on late-night television, has now transcended Earthly kitsch to become the first nonagenarian space tourist. While the world’s attention remains glued to whatever fresh geopolitical dumpster fire is trending, Shatner’s 2021 sub-orbital hop aboard Jeff Bezos’s phallic hobby rocket quietly achieved something diplomats,…