SNL: Billionaire Star Trek
A new Star Trek spinoff follows the adventures of Captain Jeff Bezos (Owen Wilson) and his brother (Luke Wilson).
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Like I said, outside of Weekend Update, I really don't watch SNL much, so thanks for posting! 
I know that many people here don't stay up as late as I do, so I make it a point to share the political sketches on SNL - and I knew that this one would be appreciated...
of all the Trek parodies they have done over the years, this one was freakin' hilarious and spot on for a "21st century" SNL one. 
I certainly thought of you when I was deciding which were the best sketches to post... 
of one of those ships smacking a solar array off the side of the ISS while racing.
William Shatner and Jeff Bezos Have Crossed Paths Before
So we're just going to ignore that Bezos used to be a space villain??
(and CBS has the franchise now...
) scheduled to take a trip on one of the ships, it has taken on a whole new life...
And he's 90?! Yikes! 
The other surviving 3 were the "younger" cast (George Takei now 84, Walter Koenig now 85, and Nichelle Nichols now 88).
We've seen them so often in footage like this that they're frozen in our minds from that time. And I saw more than one of the movies.
although I have been following them all over the years (Nichelle had a stroke not long ago but has generally recovered) and of course George Takei is a hero here on DU (he's the "baby" of the bunch).
And if I have the TV on late at night, I've seen him on Murder, She Wrote!
(probably because of Angela Lansbury, who is still going at age 95 and will turn 96 in a couple weeks
)That was one of "my" shows when I worked with CBS, so after my grandmother moved to North Carolina, I'd call her after it was over and we'd discuss it. She and her "significant other" would have wine and cheese on Sunday nights and watch Murder, She Wrote!
although I wasn't really watching it. 
She loved her in "Gaslight" too (the theme of that movie being what became an analogy for the political tactics that we see happening today) and she would always watch that film whenever TCM would show it. She was a TCM junkie as well as a CSPAN junkie
And when I worked nights, there was something to watch when I got home. And I sometimes had to explain Murder, She Wrote to my grandmother. Since I got the information ahead of time, I had the inside track.
And my grandmother's "significant other" was a political junkie, too. He'd watch Washington Week in Review (and I'd fall asleep back then...
). His candidate was Bill Clinton. 
Great to have the "inside knowledge" on the upcoming episodes.
I used to watch Washington Week in Review (and so did mom) and she had even gotten me hooked watching Louis Rukeyser and his Wall Street Week on PBS (where his dad Merryle would show up every once in awhile).
The old days...
I'm not sure what she watched, maybe Crossfire? Whatever it was, there was yelling. I'd always voted, mostly for Democrats (Jimmy Carter), but I wasn't political. It took 9/11 to wake me up. I was actually in the dentist's chair that day, think I was supposed to get X-Rays, but there was a lot of turmoil and phones ringing and I just sat in the chair and watched CNN that my dentist had turned on, seeing that second plane hitting over and over. I walked out of there scared witless, thinking the world was about to end, and decided I needed to find out what was really going on in this country and the world. 
That was obviously in 2001 and I found DU in early 2003 before the invasion of Iraq. I was on DU the night of "shock and awe." Another DUer had previously posted a photo of a little Iraqi boy taking part in a peace vigil, setting a lighted candle to float down a stream. And I kept thinking of that child that night, wondering if he was scared or even alive. 
So that's my history on DU. These days, I mostly watch MSNBC.
