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Just for Laughs is preparing to embark on another schlep back into “space, the final frontier.” Of course, we are referring to “the voyages of the starship Enterprise and its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”

And a captain of the famed Enterprise will show his comedic side hosting a Just for Laughs gala July 22 at 9:45 p.m. at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier in Place des Arts — following an earlier Jane Lynch gala that evening.

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No, not that Enterprise captain Kirk alter ego, Montrealer William Shatner, previously a gala host. But rather the savvy and erudite Sir Patrick Stewart who may or may not morph into Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the savvy and erudite space explorer from Star Trek: The Next Generation, from 1987-94 — which ran longer than Star Trek (1966-69).

Also the more politically correct captain. As any Trekker/Trekkie will gleefully point out, it was Picard who substituted “no one” in lieu of Kirk’s “no man” in the Star Trek mantra.