Slate, which called Pine " a jewel ", described his performance as " channel " Shatner without being an impersonation.

Nimoy's hiring of Meyer was not only beneficial because Meyer knew the material and could write fast ( having produced The Wrath of Khans screenplay in twelve days ), but if Meyer was to direct it would offset any acrimony from Shatner, whose ire would have been aroused if Nimoy returned to direct his third Star Trek feature after The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home.

The novels gave rise to a comic book series, video game and later TV movies and a series, both of the latter featuring Shatner.

A new Tekwar comic book adaptation, entitled Tek War Chronicles, by Shatner and comic book writer Scott Davis was released by Bluewater Productions on June 24, 2009.

With the 2005 Emmy Win, Spader became one of the few actors ( along with co-star William Shatner as Denny Crane ) to win an Emmy award while playing the same character in two different series.

* 2003's Captain's Blood, one of many collaborative works between Star Trek lead William Shatner and husband-and-wife team Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, focused on the involvement of Kirk in preventing a Romulan civil war in the aftermath of Star Trek: Nemesis.

Despite the show's recognition of Kelley as one of its stars he was frustrated by the greater attention that Shatner received as its lead actor, and Nimoy received because of " Spockamania " among fans.

Judgment at Nuremberg provided key early roles for two actors who would later become prominent in TV and film during the 1960s: Werner Klemperer as Emil Hahn, one of the judges on trial, and William Shatner as Captain Byers.

In his appearance on the " Where No Fan Has Gone Before " episode of the animated science-fiction TV series Futurama, aired on April 21, 2002, Shatner recited Eminem's hit " The Real Slim Shady " during a feast, both raising and answering the question of how one can perform a spoken word rendition of a rap song.

* Shatner Animation Contest Finals Voting Page, one entry has an homage to the tux clad lounge singer

In his memoir Star Trek: Memories, William Shatner called this one of the series ' worst episodes — in the full general autobiography Up Till Now, he called the episode's plot a " tribute " to NBC executives who slashed the show's budget and placed it in a bad time slot.

This is when Smigel began to write more memorable sketches, including one where host William Shatner urged worshipful attendees at a Star Trek convention to " get a life.

* The President is an unnamed President of the United States, voiced in one episode by William Shatner.

The actors and actresses include, but are not limited to: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Robert Culp, James Doohan, Carroll O ' Connor, Slim Pickens, Anne Francis, Richard Kiel, Roger Carmel, William Marshall and, in one episode (" The Project Strigas Affair "), William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, who never appeared together in any of their scenes.

Being identified so closely with one role left the show's cast with mixed emotions ; Shatner called it " awesome and irksome ", and Walter Koenig called it " bittersweet " but admitted that there was " a certain immortality in being associated with Star Trek ".

The Hollywood connection works both ways: actors today who own Saddlebreds include William Shatner, who, reprising his role as James T. Kirk in Star Trek Generations, rode one of his own Saddlebreds during scenes shot with Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) set in the alternative universe of the " Nexus.

Produced by Paramount for the NBC Network, Roddenberry ’ s original 1964 pilot for Star Trek, called " The Cage " and starring Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, was regarded as being too intellectual and slow-moving by the network: however, they had sufficient faith in the ideas behind the program to commission a second pilot, which replaced the character of Pike and all but one of the rest of his crew with the new crew commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, played by William Shatner.

At one point during negotiations, the idea was brought up of having Spock kiss Uhura instead, but William Shatner insisted that they stick with the original script.

*" The Corbomite Maneuver ," a season one episode of Star Trek: The Original Series – He briefly reprised the character he played, Balok, on Comedy Central's roast of William Shatner

* The Twilight Zone: " Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet " ( Sept 1963 ) William Shatner pulls out a pack of Morleys and almost lights one until his wife ( Christine White ) points out the ' NO SMOKING ' sign illuminated on the plane.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was filming in a nearby studio, and Garry Marshall arranged for the actors William Shatner ( James T. Kirk ) and Leonard Nimoy ( Spock ) to appear fully costumed, out of camera shot, behind a door in one scene in order to elicit genuine surprise from Al Pacino when he opened it.

Kreski went on to co-write three best-selling autobiographies with William Shatner, and one with baseball pitcher David Wells.

At one point during negotiations, the idea was brought up of having Spock kiss Uhura instead, but William Shatner insisted that they stick with the original script.

At the end of the episode, after Meg accidentally hits and kills Shatner with the Griffin family car, the group of people looking over includes the actor who played " Ensign Ricky " stating " Wow, I did not see that one coming.

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

He was a team captain on the sci-fi quiz series Space Cadets ( 1997 ) on Channel 4, which guest starred William Shatner.

Alexander was the host of the Comedy Central Roast of actor William Shatner on August 13, 2006 ( first airdate: August 20, 2006 ).

" In the bonus material on the DVD, screenwriter Nicholas Meyer and actor William Shatner both explain that this was an allusion to the German myth that Shakespeare was in fact German.

Armed and Fabulous follows Gracie on a mission to rescue kidnapped Cheryl ( Burns ) and Stan ( Shatner ), with the help of her bodyguard and FBI Agent Sam Fuller ( King ).

William Shatner, who portrayed James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek series, also cowrote a book " I'm Working on That " in which he investigated how Star Trek technology was becoming feasible.

In a parody sketch titled " The Restaurant Enterprise ", on an episode of Saturday Night Live, Kirk ( guest host William Shatner ) directs McCoy ( Phil Hartman ) to help a man who's choking.

Incubus was directed by Leslie Stevens, creator of The Outer Limits, and stars William Shatner, shortly before he would begin his work on Star Trek.

Not only did he take inspiration from Roddenberry's suggestion of Hornblower, but Shatner also based Kirk on Alexander the Great – " the athlete and the intellectual of his time ", whom Shatner played for an unsold television pilot two years earlier – and himself because " the fatigue factor weeks of daily filming is such that you try to be as honest about yourself as possible ".

When Star Trek was cancelled in 1969, Shatner assumed it would be the end of his association with the show ; however, Shatner went on to voice Kirk in the animated Star Trek, star in the first seven Star Trek movies, and provide voice acting for several games.

LaVey appeared in Kenneth Anger's film Invocation of my Demon Brother, acted as technical adviser on The Devil's Rain, which starred Ernest Borgnine, William Shatner, and introduced John Travolta.

Reportedly, Leonard Nimoy was asked to wear it and refused, so it was passed on to Shatner ; when he also refused, Nimoy reluctantly agreed to wear it.

Nimoy and William Shatner first worked together on an episode of The Man from U. N. C. L. E., " The Project Strigas Affair " ( 1964 ).

In 2003, he announced his retirement from acting to concentrate on photography, but subsequently appeared in several television commercials with William Shatner for Priceline. com.

On January 6, 2009, he was interviewed by William Shatner on Biography Channel's Shatner's Raw Nerve.

Doohan and Shatner also appeared on the 1950s Canadian science fiction series Space Command.

Some of Susana's guests on her television program included Justin Bieber, Shakira, Gloria Estefan, William Shatner, Valeria Mazza, Verónica Castro, Paulina Rubio, Chayanne, Cristina, Diego Maradona, Ricky Martin, Alanis Morissette, Luis Miguel, Diego Torres, Liza Minnelli, Fran Drescher, Woody Allen, Sophia Loren, Grecia Colmenares, Benicio del Toro, Thalía, Robbie Williams, Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Sanz, Reynaldo Gianecchini, Viggo Mortensen, Xuxa, The Bee Gees, Lily Allen, Katherine Jenkins, Emma Shapplin, Carlos Tevez among many other national and international superstars.

As William Shatner was unwilling to return, Nimoy and Bennett spent eight months considering a prequel concept by Ralph Winter about the characters at Starfleet Academy, before Shatner received a pay increase and signed on to star.