William Shatner: Criticism From Star Trek Cast Is From People “Bitter And Embittered”

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https://deadline.com/2022/11/william...ed-1235170873/

By Bruce Haring

November 12, 2022 4:17pm

As they near the final frontier, there’s apparently still some scores to settle between the castmates of the original Star Trek television and film franchises.

Speaking to The Times of London for an interview that ran Friday, William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk on TV and in seven films, gave a few jabs back at one of the people he worked with on those projects.

At 91, Shatner hasn’t forgotten the criticism of his behavior when the cameras were not rolling.

“Sixty years after some incident, they are still on that track. Don’t you think that’s a little weird? It’s like a sickness,” he said of the criticism. “I began to understand that they were doing it for publicity.”

George Takei was simply the latest. The actor, who played Sulu in the shows, claimed Shatner’s 2021 trip on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket was done to have a “guinea pig” to assess the impact of space on an “unfit” man.

“George [Takei] has never stopped blackening my name” Shatner said. “These people are bitter and embittered. I have run out of patience with them. Why give credence to people consumed by envy and hate?”

Takei, who is very active on Twitter, has yet to respond.

[Edward216]

Funny, how NONE of this is EVER Shatner's fault or responsibility! (complete sarcasm, obviously). I got sick of Shatner's arrogant and sanctimonious attitude a long time ago and haven't liked him for quite a while now. I believe he's guilty of everything his castmates ever accused him of. I mean come on, even Leonard Nimoy, who if I remember Shatner at one time called "his only real friend" hadn't spoken to Shatner in like 3 or 4 years at the time he died. So obviously William Shatner's his own worst enemy.

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[stevea]

Shatner is definitely full of himself, and probably a very unlikable person. And IMO Takei is every bit as annoying and arrogant.

[Edward216]

Originally Posted by stevea

Shatner is definitely full of himself, and probably a very unlikable person. And IMO Takei is every bit as annoying and arrogant.

I can't argue with that, LOL.

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[GentlemanJim]

Shat-ner is an arrogant jerk, but then 60 years of success might have a way of doing that to a person?

I always suspected that his bit on 3rd rock was the real him.

I can barely stomach him in his current gig, but I gptta hand it to him...people keep hiring him

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