The captain of the USS Enterprise thinks people should stay on Earth instead of going into space.
Patrick Stewart, who plays Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV series Star Trek, says he thinks interplanetary travel for humans is a bad idea.
“I’m a bit of a wet blanket when it comes to the whole business of space travel,” Stewart told the BBC.
“I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilisations out onto other planets – even though they may be utterly uninhabited,” he said.
Stewart said he approved of unmanned missions such as Nasa’s use of twin rovers to explore the surface of Mars. But he objected to manned trips, saying they were too expensive.
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Set phasers on stun, Mr. Scott and Mr. Sulu.
“If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it’s not for the timid.” – Q to Picard in “Q Who?”
If Mr. Stewart wants to wait until humanity is no longer significantly flawed to put man into space, I guess there’s no going to the moon until the four horsemen arrive.
A bit of a wet blanket?!?
At least he did not trot out the tired excuse of people starving or not enough computers in schools to poo-poo the idea of space travel. I think he has played too many captains and kings and wants to be the benevolent leader who decides when the time is right.
Another misguided actor to beam over to France …
ENGAGE.
Oooh, humans aren’t perfect! Well, let’s scamper back to Africa so we don’t spread our imperfection to the other continents!