BOLDLY GO: REFLECTIONS ON A LIFE OF AWE AND WONDER by William Shatner - Publishers Weekly ' There Is No Final Frontier: PW Talks with William Shatner'

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY | JULY 22, 2022

You write that when you went to space, “there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold... all I saw was death. I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness.” How surprised were you by that?

William Shatner: I was struck dumb. I was absolutely gobsmacked because I’ve been amazed by the miracles of space for a long time. And I saw none of that in that blackness. All I saw was what I described in that quote. And it came as a shock because I had just been looking at Earth as we were leaving it, and I was thinking, my God, look how beautiful it is.

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