“I am ready to assume command of the series!”
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, took to social media on Thursday, Jan. 15, with his plan to save the Star Trek universe, which boiled down to giving Captain James T. Kirk himself, William Shatner, “total creative control” over the franchise. Well, yesterday (Monday, Jan. 19), Shatner responded by writing the following on X, formerly Twitter:
“😳 😱 I am so on the same page with you @StephenM! The fact that they have not cure[d] Hyperopia by the 32rd Century is an abysmal oversight on the writers!😤 Also @paramountplus needs to up the budget because I’m sure that a well oiled organization like Starfleet in the distant future could afford more than one pair of glasses for at least this hyperopic bridge crew.🤷🏼 Do they pass the glasses 👓 around while piloting the ship‽ 🙄Shame on the line producers!🤔That is what you meant, right‽ 😉👍🏻I am ready to assume command of the series! Call me! 🤙🏻🙂!”
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— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) January 19, 2026
I am so on the same page with you @StephenM!
The fact that they have not cure Hyperopia by the 32rd Century is an abysmal oversight on the writers!😤
Also @paramountplus needs to up the budget because I’m sure that a well oiled organization like Starfleet in the distant… https://t.co/96MtYUGGWf
Hyperopia is farsightedness, so Shatner was responding mostly to the video the Homeland Security Advisor posted from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on his official X account. In the clip, Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter) used her eyeglasses will conversing with the USS Athena's First Officer Lura Thok. At the end of the footage, Nahla passed the glasses to Thok.
However, Shatner did also say he was ready to "assume command of the series." Unfortunately, despite Mr. Miller's school of thought on the state of Star Trek, the franchise doesn't need saving. (Continued...)