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TRUTH got stranger than fiction last week when the 鈥渃rew鈥� of the starship Enterprise entered into a dialogue with some very real astronauts.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield started it all by posting images of the Earth from the ISS on Twitter. That prompted a response from actor William Shatner (pictured), who played Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek TV series: 鈥淎re you tweeting from space?鈥�. The astronaut鈥檚 reply used words uttered when Enterprise pulled up above a new world. 鈥淵es, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we鈥檙e detecting signs of life on the surface.鈥�
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Enterprise helmsman Lieutenant 鈥淢ister鈥� Sulu, aka George Takei, and science officer Spock, aka Leonard Nimoy, then chipped in. Not to be outdone by fictional counterparts, real-life moonwalker Buzz Aldrin piped up too: 鈥淣eil and I would have tweeted from the Moon if we could have but I would prefer to tweet from Mars. Maybe by 2040.鈥�