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Some people’s voices are so magnificent that they could read out twenty-seven varieties of pierogi from a Polish milk bar menu, in Polish, and it’d sound amazing. Having a voice like William Shatner’s basically means you have a golden larynx, and unsurprisingly he’s followed the lead of Brian Blessed and Matt Berry in turning his distinctive delivery into a money-spinning app.

With Shatoetry, the Star Trek star invites you to compose poetic verse using samples of him saying a selection of words. While it can be a bit fiddly to begin with, and could do with a larger range, the fact is that even making him just repeat the word ‘fear’ again and again proves oddly satisfying…