You know, it’s funny. I was born in the ’80s ... In the Season 1 finale, we jump ahead in time and meet a Kirk who never becomes captain of the Enterprise and hasn’t ever met Spock.

“So they went around looking for a new captain,” Shatner ... with the joke being that Kirk would deliver cliche one-liner jokes and not understand why he wasn’t funny. Yet the bit bombed ...

James T. Kirk — after all, who better than William Shatner to give his blessing? And he did not disappoint, bringing a unique, enjoyable take on the iconic captain who was made a pop culture ...