The Register®  Original URL:  Canadian astronaut warns William
Shatner of life on Earth  It's life Chris, but not as we know it
By Iain Thomson  Posted in Bootnotes, 5th January 2013 01:25 GMT
William Shatner – aka Captain James Tiberius Kirk (also the
porky lawyer from Boston Legal, depending on your age) – has
been communicating with a Canadian astronaut stationed on the
International Space Station.  Chris Hadfield, currently on board
the ISS as a flight engineer and due to take over as mission
commander after the current crew leaves in March, got a tweet
from Shatner asking "@Cmdr_Hadfield Are you tweeting from space?
MBB." (MBB stands for "My best, Bill", in case you're
wondering.)  Hadfield's reply shows a more than casual interest
in the tales of a younger Kirk and his fictional exploits across
the universe:  The exchange led to an invitation for Shatner to
revisit the land of his birth and chat directly with Hadfield at
the Canadian Space Agency, which had the portly performer
checking his schedule t