William Shatner Is Bringing Two Visions Together When He Goes To Space

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'Risk is our business,' Captain James T. Kirk once said during an episode of Star Trek that aired on February 9, 1968. 'That´s what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her.' More than a half-century later, William Shatner, situs slot (initi8marketing.co.uk) who breathed life into the fabled Enterprise captain is, at age 90, making that kind of risk his own business as he heads toward the stars under dramatically different circumstances than his fictional counterpart.  In doing so, Shatner is causing worlds to collide, or at least permitting parallel universes to coexist - the utopian spacefaring vision of 'Star Trek' and initi8marketing.co.uk the evolving, increasingly commercial spot that space holds in the American psyche.

When Shatner boards Blue Origin's NS-18 in Texas around dawn Wednesday, his one small step into the craft creates one of the ultimate crossover stories of our era. It's about space and exploration, sure, and certainly about capitalism and billionaires and questions of economic equity.  It's also about popular culture and marketing and entertainment and nostalgia and hope and Manifest Destiny and, and, game slot and ... well, you get the idea. Scroll down for videos  'Risk is our business,' Captain James T.

Kirk once said during an episode of Star Trek that aired on February 9, 1968 (pictured). 'That´s what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her' 'What will I see when I´m out there?' Shatner wondered last week, talking to Anderson Cooper on CNN. An equally valid question is this: What will WE see when he´s out there? It will be a complex blend of human dreams superimposed upon technology and hope, braggadocio and cash, slot online rtp tinggi and the notion that space travel elevates us - all orchestrated by a company under serious criticism for what some call the decidedly un-utopian, tech-bro ways that it operates.

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Since its 1966 premiere with one of the most diverse casts TV had ever seen, 'Trek' has grown into an intricate transmedia universe full of subtleties and traditions and rules Among them: Human beings avoid killing each other. Money is generally outdated, as are hunger and poverty. Greed is aberrant. Noninterference in other cultures is the most sacred principle of all. And within the United Federation of Planets, the spacefaring United Nations of 'Star Trek,' exploration, not domination, is the coin of the realm.