New York Daily News: William Shatner, aka Capt. Kirk, surprises Discovery space shuttle crew with wake-up call
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery got a wake-up call from a familiar voice Monday urging them to boldly go where no man has gone before.
"Space, the final frontier," actor William Shatner began in his 3:23 a.m. call to the snoozing astronauts.
Reprising his role as James Kirk, caption of the fictional Starship Enterprise from the original "Star Trek" TV series, Shatner milked the melodrama of the moment.
"These have been the voyages of the space shuttle Discovery," the 79-year-old actor intoned. "Her 30-year mission: To seek out new science. To build new outposts. To bring nations together on the final frontier. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before,"
As Shatner spoke, the "Theme from Star Trek" played in the background.
Alas, the Discovery won't be boldly going anywhere after this, it's final scheduled mission.
It has made 39 flights and 13 journeys to the International Space Station. But it's going to be mothballed after it lands at Florida's Kennedy Space Center at noon Wednesday.
And the nearly three-decade shuttle program is scheduled to end later this year.
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