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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During the medal ceremony, Shatner blurted out

[Spy Handler]

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!

Re:First Contact

[Cpt_Kirks]

Gorn chicks are hotter.

And scalier.

Re:INteresting

[Anonymous Coward]

In my day, we had to reverse the polarity of the signaling array while jettisoning the warp core!

While walking uphill in holographic snow for zero net distance but 16 kilometers worth of grueling exercise!

Then the Vulcan chef gave us a pot with some kind of flesh-eating sunflower that we had to fight and kill ourselves for dinner, using nothing but a double-axis Andorian spork!

Re:INteresting

[CronoCloud]

no no no you don't invert the deflector array, you modulate the plasma stream input to create a verteron pulse you insensitive clod!

Re:First Contact

[The Grim Reefer]

Gorn chicks are hotter.

That kinda depends on whether it's sunny or not.

He taught me about how to deal with women

[vandelais]

He said, "Never let them Klingon."

First I would. Like to thank. The NASA. Who...

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

Never has. There been a. Greater spokesperson for the. Exploration of fictional. Space than. Mr. William. Shatner.

Re:INteresting

[ClickOnThis]

Pffft. Amateurs.

You do the following:

1. Climb into a Jefferies tube;
2. Run a level-two diagnostic;
3. Bypass the power-flow converters;
4. Realign the sensor array;
5. Do all of the above before the next commercial break, and then notify the Captain you're ready for Warp 9.

Now, the next time you walk into a meeting with a bunch of MBAs sitting at the table, staring at you and your STEM degree, hit them with the above.