Shatner to attend USS Enterprise retirement event

William Shatner to attend ceremony to retire nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise

11/29/2012
ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, foreground, steams through the Red Sea with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2006.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, foreground, steams through the Red Sea with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2006.

NORFOLK, Va. — Captain James T. Kirk will be on hand when the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is officially retired.

A publicist for William Shatner tells the Daily Press (http://bit.ly/TtShbw ) that the actor will attend the ship's inactivation ceremony Saturday at Naval Station Norfolk. Shatner is scheduled to perform Friday in Newport News.

Shatner played Kirk at the helm of the starship Enterprise in the “Star Trek” television series and several movies.

The world's first-nuclear powered aircraft carrier returned to Norfolk from its final deployment earlier this month. Saturday's inactivation will be its last public ceremony.