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Dec 9, 2010 · Wednesday on the Howard Stern radio show, the Stern 100 News segment discussed a now-deleted 2004 blog entry from James Doohan’s son Chris Doohan, which stated that William Shatner refused to ...
Dec 27, 2021 · A common theme in Shatner’s relationships with the other Star Trek: The Original Series cast members is a frustration aimed at Shatner’s ego and desire to hog the camera and the best lines. This was a key component of Shatner’s relationship with Doohan. While they worked together on the original series and many Star Trek movies, Doohan ...
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In a 2020 interview with the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS), Takei reminisced about one time Shatner shut down production for half a day while they were filming the original Star Trektogether. While Takei doesn’t give an exact date for when this anecdote took place, he clarified in the interview that it took pla...
Watch this 1983 news clip, which features an interview with William Shatner about the infamous Paramount studio fire. The clip above reveals that the fire started in the false front of a tattoo parlor set, but spread throughout six acres of the backlot, and ultimately damaged the soundstages where Star Trek III was in production. Officials ruled th...
In the 2014 interview above, Takei talks about why he almost skipped Star Trek V, which was in production during 1988. “I have a lot of friends in my Star Trekcast, except for one. We had a friendly tension going between us,” Takei states, referring to Shatner. “And I thought, the best thing to do with Star Trek V, which was being directed by him, ...
Shatner has gone on the record about one particularly intense day of filming on the original series, and the story doesn’t paint Takei in a particularly favortable light. In Chapter 5 of Shatner’s memoir, Star Trek Memories, Shatner contends that he was injured by Takei during the second take of the infamous Sulu-Shatner swordfight in “The Naked Ti...
The NY Post reports that Takei’s 1994 autobiography made several assertions about what filming with Shatner was really like during those early Star TrekTV years. There are two interesting takeaways from that report. Firstly, Takei alleged that Shatner would act as if he was unaware of who Takei was when the two both happened to be on set. The secon...
Takei was invited to be a “roaster” during the televised Roast of William Shatner. In addition to making a dig at Shatner for drinking too much, Takei also joked about Shatner’s rumored toupee, noting that “toupee” and “Takei” rhyme…if you pronounce them correctly. Years later, Takei looked back on that night while speaking with USA Today, and reca...
In our comprehensive guide to understanding the Shatner-Takei wedding drama, we explained that Takei and Shatner got into a very public disagreement about whether Shatner was invited to Takei’s 2008 wedding to Brad Altman. The two actors have conflicting takes about whether Shatner was invited or not, with Shatner taking the fight to YouTube, short...
In 2011, Shatner released a book called Shatner Rules. The Christian Science Monitor‘s coverage of the book release revealed a potentially shocking allegation about Takei’s wedding. According to Shatner in that book, Takei only invited Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig to the wedding as a publicity stunt.
Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It first premiered on Broadway in 2012, and later ran in Las Vegas. The Washington Post reviewof Shatner’s one-man show famously featured the observation that one thing audiences would definitely leave the show knowing was: “William Shatner thinks George Takei can’t stand him.”
In addition to the appearance with Conan above, where Takei takes some pot shots at his former co-star. When asked if he felt that older Trek stars had a place in newer Trekmovies, Takei laughed and pointed out that seeing William Shatner running around the way Chris Pine does would be “not a pretty sight.” Takei went on to state “[Shatner] should ...
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Nov 14, 2022 · Other co-stars aside from Takei have also mentioned issues with Shatner in the past, inlcuding James Doohan, who played Scotty in the original Star Trek series. It is distressing for fans of any franchise to hear about conflict between actors, and while the bickering between Shatner and Takei has yet to become truly ugly, their battle in the ...
Mar 24, 2023 · George Takei, Walter Koenig, and James Doohan (who played Sulu, Chekov, and Scotty respectively) complained about working with Shatner, with Takei being vocal about his animosity for the actor. In a recent interview, Takei described Shatner as “cantankerous old fossil,” and has previously marked the Kirk actor out as a “prima donna.”
Oct 18, 2021 · The feud made headlines just last week when Shatner went to space in Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin capsule. At age 90, Shatner became the oldest person to have ever gone to space, Newsweek reported. "He ...
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Dec 16, 2020 · Getty Images. The feud between former Star Trek actors William Shatner and George Takei hardly ended there. Since Takei's candid interview with ABC News, a smattering of spats between the two have ...
