William Shatner, 95: 'The future Star Trek promised is around the corner'
PeterDiamandis · x · 2026-10-09
Peter Diamandis interviewed 95-year-old William Shatner at Moonshots Live. Key takeaways:
- Shatner said "the future that Star Trek promised in fiction is around the corner," repeating a message he's held for six decades: we are incredible beings and need to start acting like it.
- He wept on live TV after his Blue Origin flight — not from wonder, but grief for Earth's fragility.
- Asked for the opposite of dystopian, he rejected "hopeful" for "glorious."
- Rod Roddenberry on his father Gene: technologies are tools, no different from a rock; humanity must evolve its intellect to wield them.
- Shatner toured Colossal Biosciences, seeing woolly mice, the dire wolf program, and mammoth de-extinction work.
- His longevity secret at 95: "Keep breathing."
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