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NASA Honors William Shatner With Distinguished Public Service Medal
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Red Orbit reports that after nearly 50 years of warping across galaxies and saving the universe from a variety of alien threats and celestial disasters, Star Trek's William Shatner was honored with NASA's Distinguished Public Service medal, the highest award bestowed by the agency to non-government personnel. 'William Shatner has been so generous with his time and energy in encouraging students to study science and math, and for inspiring generations of explorers, including many of the astronauts and engineers who are a part of NASA today,' said David Weaver, NASA's associate administrator for the Office of Communications at NASA Headquarters in Washington. 'He's most deserving of this prestigious award.' Past recipients of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal include astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director and Voyager project scientist Edward Stone, theoretical physicist and astronomer Lyman Spitzer, and science fiction writer Robert Heinlein. The award is presented to those who 'have personally made a contribution representing substantial progress to the NASA mission. The contribution must be so extraordinary that other forms of recognition would be inadequate.'"
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"“William Shatner has been so generous with his time and energy in encouraging students to study science and math, and for inspiring generations of explorers, including many of the astronauts and engineers who are a part of NASA today, "
I listen to a lot of science podcast, shows, help with engineering programs and I have never heard his name in anything but an ST reference.
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I don't recall Kirk ever saving the universe. I could be mistaken, but I think saving the universe is a bit of a stretch for Kirk or any other character that Shatner has ever played.
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I don't recall Kirk ever saving the universe. I could be mistaken, but I think saving the universe is a bit of a stretch for Kirk or any other character that Shatner has ever played.
Well he sure as hell saved the universe from being pattern stored in V'ger (Star Trek The Motion Picture). No humans, no federation of planets, no star trek. Kirk saved the universe in that instance and he should deserve recognition for it. It's a pity though he didn't get to bone the fantastically sexy deltan in the process. But hey, he can't have it all, after all.
He also saved it from the deadly energy draining space amoebas in "The Immunity Syndrome".
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...I'm not a trekkie, but I can't forget when mr. Shatner told his fans to get a life http://www.myvideo.de/watch/12... ...yeah yeah...that's probably a humorous parody, but he really "killed" it for a lot of people back then. The no #1 rule of Hollywood is to always cherish your fans, never spit on them. He always told in interviews after that, that trekkies really don't have a life etc. You can find this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Citation from Wikipedia: The much-discussed sketch accurately portrayed his feelings about Trekkies, which the actor had previously discussed in interviews.[26] Shatner had been their unwilling subject of adoration for decades; End Citation.
After that, even though I'm not a trekkie...I lost whatever little respect I had for the fat has-been actor of "Shit my Dad says" etc...
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I don't recall Kirk ever saving the universe. I could be mistaken.....
Of course he did, One piece at a time.
OK, just the parts that mattered (and a few that didn't) then..
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Not to take anything away from Shatner but it was James Doohan (Scotty, for the whippersnappers out there) who inspired a lot of people to become engineers. Shatner was more the alpha-male-chasing-the-girls type.
Apparently they've never read any of his books. If they had, they'd know that irrelevant of any good he's done in his life, some things you just can't redeem.
But you know what? Kirk was the captain, so I guess he had to be first; hopefully they recognize Spock before he passes.
Because he's the one that inspired me. Kirk was kinda like dad; he was cool, and I respected him; but I'm never gonna be him.
Spock, I could be. (well if i tried really hard and put down the beer and weed and went back for those advanced math classes and wasn't so damned lazy...)
Seriously, as a kid, it was Spock all the way.
He said, "Never let them Klingon."
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Never has. There been a. Greater spokesperson for the. Exploration of fictional. Space than. Mr. William. Shatner.
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I haven't heard of Shatner doing anything besides acting alpha male in TV and some Movies. The creator/writer of Trek deserves far far more credit.
Nimoy, has at least done voice overs for many TV shows that were real science shows over the decades. He also helped keep the movies going (not that the movies were inspirational... but they kept things alive before TNG got started up which may not have happened otherwise.)
Scotty also deserves more than Shatner, for getting people to be engineers. He even has a term named after him which any wise engineer uses ("The Scotty Principle.") But perhaps that keeps NASA away from him (plus he is dead.)
Although Nimoy's blessing on the disgraceful reboot... that shouldn't be overlooked; perhaps that cost him the honor? maybe it should?
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why...does an ACTOR ........get ....a NASA award?
> Well he sure as hell saved the universe from being pattern stored in V'ger (Star Trek The Motion Picture).
Ah yes, V'ger... always brings a smile to my face when people talk about "cloud storage." :)
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Mod parent informative. If that's not saving the universe, what is?
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For me, the creator of the show is the one who was inspiring, though unseen. But Shatner did a lot more than just act in the show, and that is probably a lot more important for this award than just his years on Star Trek.
Does anyone know if Roddenberry also pushed kids to study science? Star trek still inspires me to what is possible, and it's more than just technology. The society he envisioned is also something to work towards.
Who, AFAIK and comparing their biographies, did far more for NASA recruitment?
There was a time NASA had better things to do than be concerned about the Social issues and Entertainment industry (and their actors).
Bread and circuses. Your tax dollars at work.
(And of course you all agree do to all humorous comments hitherto.)
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