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77 year-old former Star Trek star William Shatner has an autobiography out called Up Till Now
[William Shatner] insists he couldn’t enjoy flings with the series’ most devoted followers because he was so turned off by their bizarre bedroom behaviour.
In his new autobiography, Up Till Now, Shatner explains how women would pretend they were being “beamed up” by the Starship Enterprise commander, shrieking: “So, this is what it’s like to
be in bed with Captain Kirk!”He writes: “You can’t imagine how much of a downer that is in every sense of the word.”
[From Contact Music via Fark]
Captain Kirk on the Star Trek TV series was hot. He was always wearing that tight yellow uniform shirt and seducing the 60s minx female aliens. I could see asking him to pretend he was Kirk in bed. You want to get with the guy with the piercing eyes who saves the day, not the actor who does bad cover versions of hit songs.
Among Shatner’s other relevations in his autobiography is the fact that the actress who played Lt Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, told him she hated him. Their interracial kiss on Star Trek in 1968 was a big deal at the time. Nichols jokingly told Shatner during his Comedy Central roast “Let’s make TV history again… and you can kiss my black ass!”
In a January, 2008 interview with Details Magazine, Shatner said that after Star Trek ended in the early 70s he was going through an expensive divorce and had to live out of his pickup truck. He also talked about the painful loss of his third wife, Nerine Kidd, who drowned in 1999.
Shatner has played lawyer Denny Crane on ABC show Boston Legal since 2004. He told Details that it was a “stupid oversight” that JJ Abrams didn’t give him a cameo in the latest film version of Star Trek although Leonard Nimoy has a part. His future plans include ideas for a talk show and animated films. He has been married to his fourth wife, Elizabeth Anderson Martin, since 2001.
William Shatner and his wife Elizabeth are shown below at the “Star Trek: The Tour” Press Conference and Preview on 1/17/08, thanks to PRPhotos. You can learn more about “Star Trek: The Tour” on their website.
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12 Responses to “William Shatner says acting like Captain Kirk in bed made him impotent”
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I love Shatner. Even at 77 I still think he’s hot.
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Shatner is my favorite ever!! Seems awfully genuine and funny. Have to admit, love a good 24 hour Star Trek marathon. LIZARD MAN EPISODE — NICE !!!
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Had the opportunity to meet him a couple of years ago and really wasn’t all that interested but a good friend is a huge Trekkie so I got him in to the event and went with. Shatner was so gracious and so very funny. He has great tales of hollyood from back in the days of radio and live TV. What a nice nice guy!! And as far as sleeping with Kirk goes–it’s his job. Fantasy to others, work to him and work is not sexy for the person who has the job.
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He did interesting TV work prior to Star Trek. I remember seeing him on Rod Sterling’s Twilight Zone. He is a talented actor.
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I saw that Twilight Zone! It took me half the show to place it as him, though, lol. He was SOOOO young, and so, so very good looking! I kept watching thinking, “I KNOW that guy… who IS it????”
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Yes, Mr. T. Before he was Captain Kirk he was a resident actor at the Stratford Festival in Stratford ON, which is famous for it’s Shakespeare. The best of the best work there. Now, I don’t claim that he is the best of the best now, but he certainly had some potential years ago. (On a side note, in Sept. I’m going there to see Christopher Plummer play Caesar. I’m totally stoked.)
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I’m sure packing on an extra 100+ pounds didn’t help either. I can out-geek any Trekkie; I’ve seen The Incubus- his all Esperanto movie.
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Whatever captain limp cock.
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Denny Crane!
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Anyone ever notice the suspicious circumstances William Shatners 3rd wife Died.
Yes I believe Shatner, our beloved capt kirk killed his 3rd wife. She wanted a divorce - has has commented on how expensive divorce was. She mysteriously drowns. They suspect she was dead after our beloved Kirk called the police. His explanation is he tried to revive her…..Sorry Bill I dont buy it. Ironic hes playing a lawyer now:) -
Shatner is an egomaniacal douchebag.
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William Shatner was so sexy back then !!! A real ladies man.
Nowadays, he just looks like an overweight cheshire cat.
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