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William Shatner (source: Wikipedia)

March 22 is William Shatner’s birthday.

A pioneering spirit is one of those things that is supposed to define an Aries individual. Curiously, there were three Aries natives aboard the bridge of the USS Enterprise on the original “Star Trek” series. William Shatner (who played Captain James T. Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (who played Spock), and George Takei (who played Sulu) all share the same zodiac sign.

The mission of the starship — to boldly go where no man has gone before — could be an Aries mantra. What’s interesting to me is that the star of the newest installment of the franchise, Sonequa Martin-Green of “Star Trek: Discovery” is also an Aries (it was her birthday yesterday). Her character, Michael Burnham, seems to be a hybrid of Kirk and Spock.

Over the next four weeks or so, I’ll talk a lot about the textbook qualities that…