Shatner: [...] to see the blue color go whoop by, and now you’re staring into blackness � that’s the thing! The covering of blue was... the sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue that we have around us, we think, ‘Oh, that’s blue sky.’ And then suddenly you shoot through it all of a sudden, as though you whip off a sheet off you when you’re asleep, and you’re looking into blackness, into black ugliness, and you look down, there’s the blue down there, and the black up there and it’s... it’s just... there is Mother Earth and comfort, and there is � is there death? [...]
You see, yeah, you know, weightless, my stomach went up ... ‘This is so weird!’ But not as weird as the covering of blue. This is what I never expected! Oh it’s one thing to say ‘Oh the sky and the thing and the fragile’ � it’s all true! But what isn’t true, what is unknown until you do it is there’s this pillow, there’s this soft blue! Look at the beauty of that color! And it’s so thin! And you’re through it in an instant! [...] it’s like a beat and a beat and suddenly you’re through the blue! And you’re into black!
[...] It’s so... it’s so much larger than me and life. It hasn’t got anything to do with the little green planet, the blue orb and the � it has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the enormity, and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death and the � oh my god. I can’t even begin to express what... What I would love to do is to communicate as much as possible the jeopardy, the moment you see how... the vulnerability of everything � it’s so small! This air which is keeping us alive is thinner than your skin! It’s a sliver, it’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe. It’s negligible, this air.
