Shatner in Space

Someone wrote a profoundly racist rant against white people in his or her review. I do not view all rich white men as evil, but I consider Jeff Bezos the embodiment of pure evil. I skipped beyond every biographical detail about him and his opinions about the flight. I could not care less.

But I loved to see Shatner's reaction to the things that he viewed. It was moving and touching. He was honest and raw about his feelings throughout the entire documentary.

I am also glad that they added a lot of Glen de Vries footage. He died shortly after this experience. RIP.

It was basically 45 minutes which is the perfect time for this type of documentary. Not a lot of fluff. Let's get down to it.

Amazing thing is Shatner is 90, and he's got the old person's skin and boy but his mind is still that of a 40 year old. No slowing down or hard to process ideas. He speaks well and it's impressive. He's a young 90 and it was great to see him do this because he really appreciated it and that was nice.

No big ego or "I deserve this." Just an actor who wants the planet to be healthy and cares about it who got to do something great. Well done.

When they actually go into space, the younger crew/passengers float around for a few seconds inside the weightless capsule, while Shatner seems nervous, poor guy, holding himself down like he doesn't want to float around (after all, he's 90 and overweight) (he looks like he's sitting on a toilet)...

The "space trip" is all very quick, and very awkward... staged and awkward...

Then when they land, Shatner has to try explaining something that he says he cannot explain; but what he does say is just about all we have, since we, the audience, really saw nothing, experienced nothing...

We didn't even experience them experiencing...

As for the fifty-minute buildup, including a a "last minute problem," it was as contrived as all documentaries that need to have the same kind of suspense as movies, because they ARE movies...

Meanwhile for a Documentary there's hardly anything documented except the fact Bezos is a Star Trek fan and Shatner, well, he starred on Star Trek (they also show a cool Outer Limits)...

And for a Reality Show it's not very real nor all that fun or involving (except for an instant when one of Shatner's daughters bluntly tells him he's too old to go into space; but before this real moment can grow we cut to another segment)...

Plus there's the whole Global Warming lecture from Shatner "30 days later" and this is all a way for Bezos to contradict his critics who say he's just doing this because HE CAN... (And that is WHY he's doing it) (Shatner says that Bezos wants to put all the industries polluting Earth into space... so he wants to pollute space?)...

All in all, Shatner-in-Space didn't seem authentic, and is merely a prolonged news story about the party trick of sending a sci-fi actor into space (next step, send Bryan Cranston into a legitimate meth lab)...

As a person, Shatner seems an endearing kind of guy... a little loopy but that works for his legendary offbeatness... he's the kind of actor everyone likes even if they bag on him...

But this all kind of came and went, an afterthought, really, just like the going-to-space experience seemed to for Shatner...

Now had he done a spoken-word of Bowie's Space Oddity up there instead of hearing the female passenger repeat "Oh my God!" twenty times, that might've added something but, in all seriousness, the trip into space needs to be longer because frankly, it seems a big waste of everyone's time and money.

If you love space and love this planet then watch Shatner in Space....some people talk about dumb stuff like the shape of the vessel or billionaires going to space, Blue Origin is clearly about so much more than that.

At 90 years of age, William Shatner, the actor, finally gets to leave planet Earth after many years of portraying a starship captain. As he looks down at Earth through the capsule's window, he sits, overcome with emotion, while his crewmates are gleefully bouncing around enjoying their weightlessness. Perhaps it takes advanced age to be able to understand the deeper meaning of such a journey. This documentary enables us to experience it through the eyes of William Shatner, to understand why such a short trip into space means so much more than just getting high enough away from Earth's gravity to be able to float around.