He said Shatner was simply going “where other people have gone before” and described him as a “guinea pig,” before suggesting he was out of shape. “Although he’s not the fittest specimen of 90 years old, so he’ll be a specimen that’s unfit...”
Just basic blatant envy and bile.
I hope when - if! - I'm ninety I can still make it out to the golf course like my father did. Going to outer space is a whole 'nother matter entirely.
Good grief — that’s unnecessarily nasty.
For his age, Shatner is both mentally and physically in excellent shape — and he traveled to space nonetheless.