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William Shatner Levels Government Censors Trying to Ban Iconic 'Star Trek' Line
Western Journal ^ | January 29, 2024 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 01/29/2024 3:28:56 PM PST by lowbridge

The European Union has just run crosswise with Captain James T. Kirk, and by any measure the Captain is right to blast Europe’s left-wing, nanny state, cancel culture, loons for their latest “diversity” move.

This week, news broke that the EU — which apparently stands for Entirely Useless — is looking to make the world safe from evil “gendered” words, like man, male, guys, and anything testosterone related, The Telegraph reported.

This impinges directly on one of Captain Kirk’s most famous lines, the one that serves as the opening monologue to the famed 1966 series, “Star Trek.”

TV viewers and sci fi fans everywhere will recall that the iconic TV series starts out with views of the Starship Enterprise zooming across the screen as Captain Kirk intones “Space, the final frontier,” and ends his soliloquy with “to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

But the EU is suddenly all shook up over that evil word “man” and is now sending out its royal edict that the word should henceforth be banned from use.

According to the Telegraph, “The classic ”Star Trek’ line, ‘To boldly go where no man has gone before,’ is also cited as an example where ‘women may be subject to invisibility or omission.'”

William Shatner, who briefly actually reached space during a Blue Origin flight in 2021, is the man who so ably portrayed Captain James T. Kirk, and he is not amused.

With news of the new authoritarian mandate, Shatner, who often blasts the childish, left-wing, social justice warrior trolls online, jumped to his X account to blast the legislators.

“Presentism at work yet again,” he said in his Monday post.

“Why start at Trek? Isn’t it better to start at the beginning and redo foundation material such as the Magna Carta, religious writings,

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To: Dr. Sivana

At one point after Star Trek was cancelled, Shatner lived in a camper shell attached to the bed of his Ford pickup.


41 posted on 01/29/2024 4:11:26 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

That’s stupid and cruel for you to imply he had anything to do with the death of his wife.

And what a jackass he must be. An actor who played a super famous space role. He gets to the edge of space and overcome with emotion he wants the earth protected a little.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself to look for ways to go after a decent man.

As for his wife. He and all around him knew she was an alcoholic and he tried several times to help her out of it.’
“Shatner’s third wife was Nerine Kidd, whom he married in 1997. Returning home at around 10 p.m. on August 9, 1999, he found her lying lifeless at the bottom of their backyard swimming pool. She was forty years old. Once an autopsy had revealed that her blood contained both alcohol and diazepam, the coroner decided that the cause of her death was accidental drowning and the Los Angeles Police Department, agreeing that there was no evidence of foul play, closed its file on the case. Speaking to the press shortly after his wife’s death while visibly still in a state of shock, Shatner said that she had “meant everything” to him and described her as his “beautiful soulmate”.[130] He urged the public to support Friendly House, a non-profit organization that helps women to rebuild their lives after trying to free themselves from alcoholism or other forms of drug addiction.[131] He later told Larry King in an interview that “my wife, whom I loved dearly, and who loved me, was suffering with a disease that we don’t like to talk about: alcoholism. And she met a tragic ending because of it”.[130]

In his 2008 book Up Till Now: The Autobiography, Shatner disclosed how Leonard Nimoy, himself no stranger to alcoholism, had done his best to try to avert the tragedy that Kidd’s affliction threatened:

Leonard Nimoy’s personal experience of alcoholism now came to play a central role in my life and it helped us bond together in a way I never could have imagined in the early days of Star Trek. After Nerine and I had been to dinner with Leonard and Susan Nimoy one evening, Leonard called and said: “Bill, you know she’s an alcoholic?” I said I did. I married Nerine in 1997, against the advice of many and my own good sense. But I thought she would give up alcohol for me. We had a celebration in Pasadena, and Leonard was my best man. I woke up about eight o’clock the next morning and Nerine was drunk. She was in rehab for 30 days three different times. Twice she almost drank herself to death. Leonard (sober many years) took Nerine to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but she did not want to quit.”


42 posted on 01/29/2024 4:13:15 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: lowbridge

I just came here for pictures of hot alien chicks.


43 posted on 01/29/2024 4:13:19 PM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: lowbridge
Star Trek: The Next Generation changed it to "To boldly go were no one has gone before."

Yet that line is problematic and speciesist. It renders aliens "invisible," because aliens had already gone to those places, yet that line implies that aliens don't count.

44 posted on 01/29/2024 4:14:14 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Dr. Sivana

> Aren’t guns great?—Denny Crane <

Here he is having a “discussion” with a sleazeball client.
Classic Denny Crane.

https://youtu.be/936GhoWLcl4?si=zS54aJaYBcJkeDK9


45 posted on 01/29/2024 4:16:48 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
It’s the English language. Some words are homonyms.

Or is "man" a homophone or a polysemy in this context?

46 posted on 01/29/2024 4:24:53 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: lowbridge
In the 2009 Star Trac movie, young Kirk is driving a Corvette and a robot cop is chasing him. Kirk drives the car off a cliff and the robot cop ask him, "Citizen, what is your name." But in the newer versions of the flick, the robot only says, "What is your name".

So, I suppose to Hollywood the word "citizen" has become offensive as well.. :(

47 posted on 01/29/2024 4:25:35 PM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: scrabblehack

I had a brief chat with her after a DragonCon panel as everyone was leaving.

Struck as nothing but classy and very personable.

She was impressed that we remembered “Captain Zoom”.


48 posted on 01/29/2024 4:28:20 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: lowbridge
I am somewhat of a fan of William Shatner, but make no mistake, the guy is an @$$hole. He's a very talented @$$hole, but he is an @$$hole non the less.

I've read about how he treats other people. He traumatized Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) so badly, that the guy has a video on youtube talking/whining about his horrible experience with William Shatner.

Shatner is the sort of Alpha male who has little tolerance for lesser people around him.

I have to applaud him though, he's 90 something and still lively!

49 posted on 01/29/2024 4:29:32 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: lowbridge

Thank goodness...thought they were gonna ban “He’s dead, Jim”.


50 posted on 01/29/2024 4:30:14 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: lowbridge

Star Trek TNG did away with Man in its first episode. Picard’s intro say “ no one has gone before”. Which was kind of stupid because it would mean Enterprise went places no Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, or Borg ever went. But wokeism existed three decades ago.


51 posted on 01/29/2024 4:32:04 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Dr. Sivana
Yeah, I like him too.

One of the few people who could star in three different series and make it work.

The other one that comes to mind is Lee Majors, but I think Shatner has him beat.

52 posted on 01/29/2024 4:34:25 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Leonard Nimoy and George Takei both complained about Shatner's ego.

I read a tabloid story a couple of decades ago, saying that Shatner was "sex-crazed" and would hit on every woman on a set.

53 posted on 01/29/2024 4:34:51 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: lowbridge

I always understood ‘man’ in the Trek opening and in the Neil Armstrong speech....and pretty much everywhere to mean all human beings....including women....when that’s the context it is used in Any sane rational person would agree with me.

With all that said, sometimes the word man simply means man and the word woman simply means woman.

Using gendered words does not diminish anyone or anything. It’s simply stating a fact. Do we have stop using the words dog and cat and instead go to the word ‘pet’ when describing our animals....so as not to offend....and create an artificial hierarchy?

This is absolute insanity. I can’t believe the idiocy we are dealing with nowadays.

Don’t let anyone control your language because then they control you.


54 posted on 01/29/2024 4:35:09 PM PST by Mustangman
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To: lowbridge

Star Trek TNG did away with Man in its first episode. Picard’s intro say “ no one has gone before”. Which was kind of stupid because it would mean Enterprise went places no Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, or Borg ever went. But wokeism existed three decades ago.


55 posted on 01/29/2024 4:35:59 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: DiogenesLamp

(He traumatized Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton))

Lol

Anything would traumatize Wheaton. I think he was born that way. He’s so sissified.


56 posted on 01/29/2024 4:37:16 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

To go boldly just doesn’t sound as good.


57 posted on 01/29/2024 4:54:28 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: HYPOCRACY
The English speaking world may be divided into
(1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is;
(2) those who do not know, but care very much;
(3) those who know and condemn;
(4) those who know and approve; and
(5) those who know and distinguish.

Those who neither know nor care are the vast majority and are a happy folk, to be envied by most of the minority classes. - H. W. Fowler, Modern English Usage (1926)

58 posted on 01/29/2024 4:59:24 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: lowbridge
Isn’t it better to start at the beginning and redo foundation material such as the Magna Carta, religious writings,

Nah, let's get all the way back to Adam and Steve.

59 posted on 01/29/2024 5:01:00 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Leaning Right

“Maybe they should issue an arrest warrant for Shatner himself. After all, the guy is, at the least, a gun nut”

And I believe Jewish...double no no.


60 posted on 01/29/2024 5:02:03 PM PST by DAC21
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