NASA are reported to be incredulous about the crime, as the Enterprise was retired from service in 2012. A spokesperson said, “We just don’t understand how they got her going. She’s a relic on a one-way trip to the scrap heap.”
   “Quite simply, the engines cannae take it.”
   “The only way they could get that old tub going again would be to steal parts from a nuclear vessel, and who has the ability to do that?”

   Shatner and his crew – reported to comprise Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koenig – are understood to believe that Leonard Nimoy will have been reborn on a new, Edenic alien world as suggested in a 1984 documentary.
   When asked their course, shortly before passing out of radio range, Shatner is reported to have replied “Second star on the left, and straight on ’til morning.”