It’s official. William Shatner, the man a generation has grown up seeing playing the grim-faced Captain James T Kirk in the American sci-fi series Star Trek, will head to what the opening line of the Gene Rodenberry-created inter-galactic drama described as “the final frontier — where no man has ever gone before”.

According to a reports, on October 12, the actor, 90, will take off on a sub-orbital flight in the Jeff Bezos-helmed spacecraft Blue Origin, from the New Shepard launch site in Texas, USA. He will be accompanied by Audrey Powers, vice-president of missions and flight operations. They will fill the last two seats on the company’s second crewed flight.