A Happy 95th Birthday to William Shatner!

Canadian actor William Shatner is, quite simply, the coolest man in this galaxy. Happy Birthday to a fellow Montrealer. Leonard Nimoy was right when he said that "Jeff" Hunter was a fine actor, which he did show somewhat as Captain Christopher Pike in the pilot "The Cage", but when Shatner came on board as captain of the Starship Enterprise, Star Trek really came to life. Did it ever!

Star Trek's second pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before".

Images of Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in "The Man Trap", the first Star Trek episode aired: September 8, 1966, NBC; but broadcast two days earlier on Canada's CTV network....

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Editorial: I'm not the first person to say this, but there's something "interesting" about a Canadian, and a proud one at that, illustrating, and in the best William Shatner way, what the Constitution of the United States really means; at least, what it should mean, to 'Americans'. Today such words should carry extra meaning.

From "The Omega Glory"....

"This was not written for chiefs. Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before or since. Tall words proudly saying 'We the People'."

"That which you call Ee'd Plebnista was not written for the chiefs or the kings or the warriors or the rich and powerful, but for all the people!"

"Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, 'We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution'."

"These words and the words that follow were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well!...."

"... They must apply to everyone or they mean nothing! Do you understand?"