Every good starship captain ought to have a Twitter feed. If you still can’t get your body beamed to other planets at least you can send 140 characters from space.

William Shatner (aka Captain James T. Kirk, aka @williamshatner) tweeted to Chris Hadfield, of the Canadian Space Agency  “Are you tweeting from space?” Hadfield is the International Space Station’s Flight Engineer for Expedition 34, so he is indeed tweeting from space.

In fine Trekkie form, he responded: “Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we’re detecting signs of life on the surface.” 

And as @SarcasticRover points out, “If the @WilliamShatner / @Cmdr_Hadfield interaction goes down like most Captain Kirk adventures, they’ll be kissing soon.”