Risk may have been Captain Kirk’s business on Star Trek, but for William Shatner, the beloved star who took the helm of the USS Enterprise, art imitated life—much to his family’s unease, Shatner, 90, traveled to space on Oct. 13 aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin New Shepard capsule, making him the oldest person to ever cross the internationally recognized border of space. The actor says when he ran the possibility of taking the trip by his ex-wife and two of his three daughters, they told him not to go. “I said, ‘I gotta go. Everything’s fine; don’t worry about it. It’s very, very safe,’” he recalls. “And it is! [I said] ‘Don’t worry. Or if you worry, know that everything is going to be fine. I am going; save…
