Shatner's Myouterspace.com Blasts Off

You've really got to hand it to William Shatner. Even though his days on the bridge of The Enterprise are long behind him, he has cobbled together an astonishing career of practically begging us to join him as he mercilessly pokes fun at himself. Whether through his forays into music or his multiple stints as affable goof pitchman for myriad products, Shatner has retained a consistent and consistently amusing presence in the media landscape.

Now he is asking us to log in where no man has logged in before.

His freshest nugget of spokesmanship comes to us as myouterspace.com, a fusion of social media with job hunting for creative professionals. Billed as a portal for those with a passion for the arts, and with a particular focus on the entertainment genres of science fiction, horror and fantasy, the new online outpost offers a meeting place for fans to interact and for those looking to ply their skills to find other like-minded souls and, just maybe, a paying gig.

Users of myouterspace have the opportunity to register for the particular 'planet' that is best matched to their interests and skills (the planet Creatia for writers, Sirius for game developers, Orpheus for musicians, and so forth). On the site's home page, Shatner promises that he himself "will be monitoring all Starship projects, and reviewing each Captain's Log, where progress will be recorded each step of the way."

Do you need additional explanation? Or are you already simply unable to look away? Teleport yourself on over to the website and check out this description-defying video. Before you go, set your faces to 'stunned.'

Never one for resting in place, Shatner has reportedly been tapped to play the dad figure in an anticipated transformation of a Twitter smash hit into a TV show. Sh*t My Dad Says arose from 29-year-old Justin Halpern having moved back in with his folks and beginning to document the insightful and insanely funny utterances of his 74-year-old father. It subsequently and rapidly blew up into a full scale Twitter hit, garnering well over one million followers.

Photo by Jerry Avenaim via Wikimedia Commons.