To boldly go where we were not too long ago.
Legendary actor William Shatner wants President Trump to restore Pluto to greatness as scientists claim to have found a “new” ninth planet.
“So there’s a 10th planet that was found in our solar system?” “Star Trek’s” Captain Kirk, 94, wrote on X.
“I suggest that we get Trump to name it and while he is at it; restore Pluto as a planet and put an end to the union’s tyranny of the cosmos,” wrote the two-time Emmy Award winner.
The “Boston Legal” star then suggested his fans recruit X owner Elon Musk to “get the President to sign one of those Executive thingies to make Pluto a planet again.”
Some repliers expressed doubt that the President of the United States had jurisdiction in matters of the stars — but Shatner suggested the final frontier of Trump’s authority has yet to be explored.
“Says who? He renamed a Gulf and the Astronomer who discovered Pluto was American. Seems like America has jurisdiction on things outside its borders,” Shatner wrote, adding the expressionless emoji.
The “Rocket Man” singer was riled by a new study that claimed to have discovered a far-off and entirely theoretical celestial body that some believe qualifies as the “ninth” planet in our dear solar system.
He slammed the “corrupt nerds on a power trip” at the International Astronomical Union who were exercising a “tyranny of the cosmos” — portending to name any new planet discovered by scientists and voting to demote Pluto in 2006.
Shatner believes they have no basis for their authority and could be trumped by the president.
“BTW why do they need a union?” Shatner asked in one in his X threads. “It’s not like anyone would care if they went on strike. Maybe it’s to prevent bullying?”
The now-dwarf planet was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh, an Illinois native, at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Outside of his extensive travels through the cosmos as captain of the USS Enterprise, Shatner has more recent space experience — taking the inaugural trip on billionaire Jeff Bezos’ “Blue Origin” in 2021.
“The covering of blue, this blanket, this comforter of blue we have around us. We think, ‘Oh, that’s blue sky,’ and all of a sudden you shoot through it and you whip the sheet off you and you’re looking into blackness, into black nothingness,” Shatner told reporters outside the craft.
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