Did you know that Captain Kirk is going to space on Bezos' Blue Origin next week? That's William Shatner, the actor who is 90. Doesn't that seem a bit strange to think that an actor who pretended he was in space, should go to space? This isn't like the female astronaut who was denied the opportunity. He was an actor - that's not in any way related to a scientist or astronaut. The BBC report says he had a fear of flying so rejected an earlier offer by Branson. Shatner says he rejected it because Branson wanted him to pay for the flight. I would have thought this is all publicity for the launch of commercialized space tourism.
Is it, though? It appears that last year The Times revealed that the ashes of James Doohan, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, were smuggled on board the International Space Station in 2008, three years after Doohan's death.
And this fact: while this will be Shatner’s first physical trip to space, his name was one of more than two million that were included on the InSight Mars rover by NASA in 2018.
This seems like something else is going on. I consider this to be a leak in the "social time continuum" where we think that television and movies are real, and those episodes happened.
And then another issue: that question of whether actors become the characters they are playing is taken to its limit. That means the Star Trek "crew" through all those decades, all want to go to space. Isn't that a lot of people?
These Cyclamen were at the Niagara Falls Botanical Garden on the weekend, hidden away under some trees. There are beds of Autumn-blooming Crocus - Colchicum. The glorious colour is amazing and the sheer number of the flowers catches my attention. Why? These are expensive bulbs.
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