What happened to him up there? What is he never going to recover from? Typically when I think recovery I think recovering from something bad. Under this pretense, I’d assume that something terrible happened on that rocket ship. Did Bezos take him up there and show him Calvin from the great Ryan Reynolds movie Life? It certainly would be hard to recover from learning a space goo monster is orbiting Earth and could come down to end human life as we know it. Or perhaps he caught an extraterrestrial virus like the Andromeda Strain or an alien laid an egg in his chest like in the move Alien. Although none of these would make sense because why wouldn’t he want to recover from those? Whatever it is that he wants to stick with him for the rest of his life much be much more positive.
This leads me to believe that we have a classic Fantastic Four scenario going on here. Bezos took Shatner up in his little rocket ship and gifted super powers onto him. Bezos’ fascination with space is easily chalked up to the fact that he has all the money on Earth so to find something interesting to him he has to look elsewhere in the solar system; but what if it actually stems from the fact that someone discovered cosmic rays that give people superpowers and brought it to Bezos because they needed his money to access it. Why would Bezos choose a 90 year old William Shatner to join his squad of super-humans? Well I don’t have an answer to that. Perhaps renewed youth/extended life is a part of the package. But if Shatner ends up with a Thing-esque power rather than Johnny Storm, he may well soon be going back on his hope to never recover.
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