William Shatner, of Star Trek fame, is just one of the 7000 earthbound who want to become spacebound, if only for a little while. Shatner will be forking over $210,000 to fly in Richard Branston's suborbital tourist flight in the V.S.S. Enterprise, a craft based on a scaled-up version of SpaceShipOne.
Meanwhile, Patrick Stewart, of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame, is one earthling who believes space travel would take up resources that we should be directing at Earth. Stewart says, "I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out on to other planets."
If our society had felt this way in the 1900's, we would have continued using established transportation like railroads & steamships, and not arrogantly wasted precious resources on the unknown & experimental flying contraptions, like airplanes. Goodness knows, we had pressing social problems even back then.
This proves once & for all, that Captain Kirk beats Picard hands down.
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