Star Trek legend William Shatner confesses he 'wasn't impressed' after visiting space

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Star Trek legend William Shatner admitted he wasn’t impressed after finally making it to space in real life.The 90-year-old - James T Kirk in the hit sci-fi series - realised a lifetime ambition when he went in a shuttle a few months ago.But when he finally made the trip he said it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.He moaned: “I looked back, and I could see a wake, like a submarine under the water might leave.“The air was tumultuous, filling in as the ship went through it.“Then my eyes went up, and there was impenetrable blackness – the kind I’d seen once in a cave.“It’s blackness that’s almost touchable.

There was no spinning stars and the majesty of space. It was ominous. It was death.”The actor blasted off last October for telly doc Shatner In Space, a special Amazon series with him travelling there thanks to retail mogul Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin operation.He said: “We go to their HQ and in the lobby are all these spaceships from Star Trek.

There’s Jeff Bezos hovering, and we took pictures.“Then we sit down with his advisors and talk about what we’d like to do. They say, ‘This is a great idea, we’ll call you back.’ And then Covid hits.”But he got called back late last year to finally make the space flight and said he hoped “the thrill of going up there might be interesting” - except it wasn’t.He added, in an interview with SFX magazine: “Most of the practice was about getting back into your prostrated seat in weightlessness.“You’ve got to get back in before you hit five, six, seven Gs – you could break your back.“You’re prone, and you’ve got to wrestle around and get out, using muscles you’ve never used – and they’re old.“So I was in pain a lot, thinking, ‘Why am I bloody doing this?’“I thought, ‘The last thing I.