Ontario Star Trek fan sends U.S.S. Enterprise into space

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning."

An Ontario man may have been channeling Captain Kirk and Peter Pan when he staged the launch of a model spacecraft last month using a weather balloon.

Trekkie Steve Schnier posted a video to YouTube showing a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise he built and launched on an interplanetary mission in search of extra-terrestrial civilizations. Or at least, in the hopes of reaching the nearby town of Innisfil.

Operation Ultimate Cool launched from Stayner, Ont., on April 28, according to the video.

[ YouTube Video: Operation Ultimate Cool ]

The ship didn't quite make it to Planet Nibiru and it didn't reach the otherworldly civilization of Toronto, either, when it crash landed near an island in Georgian Bay, according to Canada A.M.

Still, the footage shows the small spacecraft ascending way up into the sky and cruising with a spectacular view of the Earth from above.

But the ship lost connection with mission control when the engines went down and it began plummeting toward the ground, according to CTV. A GPS and a parachute made it possible to recover the aircraft from the water with the help of staff at the marina near its Georgian Bay crash site, Schnier told the morning show.

May he and his ship live long and prosper.