William Shatner SJW Twitter Salt - OG, or old fuck?

[ForTheHoard]

>current year
>expecting people to give clicks to salon instead of posting caps
>not even archive.is option

First thread and posted from a busted phone. The info is out there to be discussed and I guess I'll just have to live without my OP of the year award.

 

[Munchingonfish]

 

[Internet War Criminal]

>shoddy worksman
>blames his tools
>thinks urgency is an excuse for mediocrity

What is this, CNN?

 

[kobebyarlant]

How coincidental of Gizmodo, Inverse, and The Mary Sue to run a nearly identical hit piece on the same 85-year-old actor on the same day.

"William Shatner doesn't need to be your audience. William Shatner is dead."

 

[GethN7]

Didn't he keep stealing his bike over and over again on set? Or I'm thinking of someone else?

If I remember Nimoy's book right, Shatner pranked him with the Dobermans bit, and while Nimoy was a bit annoyed by it, he didn't hate Shatner for it.

I remember from one of his memoirs, he got tired of Nimoy's smug superiority over riding a bike to the commissary and getting there before the rest of the cast (who had to walk), so he chained one of his Dobermans to the bike one day, just to make a point.

That aside, I'm starting to wonder just how accurate the narrative is about why the other Trek stars don't like him. Hollywood lefties have that bad habit of despising everything about someone and making wild accusations if that someone disagrees with them.

Shatner, even by his own admission, was an egomaniac, and while Nimoy and he were generally friends and Nimoy could look past it, most of the other cast members really didn't like him.

Nichelle Nichols rarely agreed with the guy (except for screwing up the kiss scene in that one episode so they'd have to film a black woman kissing a white guy, they agreed to make the TV execs film that for syndication even if they had to bungle every take that tried to cut away to force them to), and they eventually mended fences.

James Doohan really didn't like Shatner while liking the character he played due to the ego thing, but they eventually mended fences too, shortly before Doohan had Alzheimer's, fortunately.

Most of the other cast had similar relations with Shatner, all eventually letting bygones be bygones save George Takei, who Shatner tried to make amends with at one point, but Takei apparently wouldn't reciprocate.

 

[Cryin RN]

So this CollegeHumor article claims that Shatner may not have controlled his Twitter for a while. As fun as this would be if it was legit, it is kinda weird that an 85-year-old dude is super into Supernatural and knows what an SJW is.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

it is kinda weird that an 85-year-old dude is super into Supernatural

nah its a good show so

 

[Hyperion]

If I remember Nimoy's book right, Shatner pranked him with the Dobermans bit, and while Nimoy was a bit annoyed by it, he didn't hate Shatner for it.



Shatner, even by his own admission, was an egomaniac, and while Nimoy and he were generally friends and Nimoy could look past it, most of the other cast members really didn't like him.

Nichelle Nichols rarely agreed with the guy (except for screwing up the kiss scene in that one episode so they'd have to film a black woman kissing a white guy, they agreed to make the TV execs film that for syndication even if they had to bungle every take that tried to cut away to force them to), and they eventually mended fences.

James Doohan really didn't like Shatner while liking the character he played due to the ego thing, but they eventually mended fences too, shortly before Doohan had Alzheimer's, fortunately.

Most of the other cast had similar relations with Shatner, all eventually letting bygones be bygones save George Takei, who Shatner tried to make amends with at one point, but Takei apparently wouldn't reciprocate.

Shatner didn't know Takei was gay until he got married, despite 30 years of bringing various boyfriends to cast parties. That dude was only in the closet when the cameras were rolling.

I'm not surprised tbh

 

[BF 388]

I've met Shatner, and when I say met, I mean paid to stand next to him.

He's a boss.

 

[TiggerNits]

Didn't he keep stealing his bike over and over again on set? Or I'm thinking of someone else?

Man, I run the risk of :powerlevel: here but Im gonna tell a personal story

When I had just finished my freshman year of college I went home for the summer and my dad took my kid brother and I to a Star trek convention a few hours away. My dad, a MASSIVE trekkie, was pumped because Shatner and Nimoy were both gonna be there and it was a small convention, under 4k people.

So we get there and my dad heads off to get shit signed by Shatner because Nimoy is running late due to his flight being delayed. I spend a few hours walking around looking at all the crazy shit and decide to go grab a sandwich with my brother at the nearby Subway while my dad goes to some panel with a few writers from DS9 which was only a few seasons old at the time iirc.

So we go to Subway and get sandwiches and sit down to eat, and it's dead, only us and some guy alone at a table drinking a soda and finsihing off a bag of chips. My brother realizes that it's Shatner in a ball cap and sunglasses and I tell him to leave the guy alone. Shatner hears me and says from about 10 feet away "Nah, you can say hi"

So I take my brother over to say hello and we don't wanna interrupt his meal and he asks us "So you guys like Star Trek?" and my kid brother, about 11 at the time, honestly replies with "Not really, dad takes us to these things" and Shatner smiled and said "Good. I don't either" and signed my brother's Star Trek hat my dad had got him. He was super nice and funny the few minutes we talked to him before he left to go back to the convention hall.

After that my dad flipped when my brother gave him the hat and told him the story. Later that day, during one of the panels he spent the entire thing just telling stories about all the pranks he pulled on Nimoy and vice versa over the years before talking the people selected to ask Nimoy fan questions to make their questions really odd personal just to mess with him (What brand of deodorant do you use, sheepskin or latex, etc), which most of them did and you could watch Nimoy kinda panic before Shatner lost it on stage and explained what was going on.

My dad still uses it as his one up card when talking to his fellow trekkies at work

 

[AnOminous]

Most of the other cast had similar relations with Shatner, all eventually letting bygones be bygones save George Takei, who Shatner tried to make amends with at one point, but Takei apparently wouldn't reciprocate.

The general impression of him is that at the time of Star Trek, he was an egomaniacal asshole who treated people like shit. The general impression of him later is that he mellowed with age. I think he improved greatly as an actor and as a human being, at least in part because in the years immediately after Star Trek, he descended nearly to the level of being a total lolcow, but wised up and got his shit together and decided to have a sense of humor about himself.

 

[kcbbq]

The general impression of him is that at the time of Star Trek, he was an egomaniacal asshole who treated people like shit. The general impression of him later is that he mellowed with age. I think he improved greatly as an actor and as a human being, at least in part because in the years immediately after Star Trek, he descended nearly to the level of being a total lolcow, but wised up and got his shit together and decided to have a sense of humor about himself.

He's been pretty cool for at least 20 years. It should be a requirement for everyone to spend a few hours and a few beers with him. He's a hoopy frood.

Lots of actors go all srs bsns when they're young-ish. At some point he realized he got famous for a cheesy 60s scifi show and a cheesier cop show and rolled with it and stopped being a cunt.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Man, I run the risk of :powerlevel: here but Im gonna tell a personal story

When I had just finished my freshman year of college I went home for the summer and my dad took my kid brother and I to a Star trek convention a few hours away. My dad, a MASSIVE trekkie, was pumped because Shatner and Nimoy were both gonna be there and it was a small convention, under 4k people.

So we get there and my dad heads off to get shit signed by Shatner because Nimoy is running late due to his flight being delayed. I spend a few hours walking around looking at all the crazy shit and decide to go grab a sandwich with my brother at the nearby Subway while my dad goes to some panel with a few writers from DS9 which was only a few seasons old at the time iirc.

So we go to Subway and get sandwiches and sit down to eat, and it's dead, only us and some guy alone at a table drinking a soda and finsihing off a bag of chips. My brother realizes that it's Shatner in a ball cap and sunglasses and I tell him to leave the guy alone. Shatner hears me and says from about 10 feet away "Nah, you can say hi"

So I take my brother over to say hello and we don't wanna interrupt his meal and he asks us "So you guys like Star Trek?" and my kid brother, about 11 at the time, honestly replies with "Not really, dad takes us to these things" and Shatner smiled and said "Good. I don't either" and signed my brother's Star Trek hat my dad had got him. He was super nice and funny the few minutes we talked to him before he left to go back to the convention hall.

After that my dad flipped when my brother gave him the hat and told him the story. Later that day, during one of the panels he spent the entire thing just telling stories about all the pranks he pulled on Nimoy and vice versa over the years before talking the people selected to ask Nimoy fan questions to make their questions really odd personal just to mess with him (What brand of deodorant do you use, sheepskin or latex, etc), which most of them did and you could watch Nimoy kinda panic before Shatner lost it on stage and explained what was going on.

My dad still uses it as his one up card when talking to his fellow trekkies at work

Lol that's a great fucking story and makes me like the guy even more

 

[XYZpdq]

Shatner would probably be a careercow nowadays, and I'm saying that as one of his fans lol

This is like Christmas tbh. I get to sperg about William Shatner.

Nowadays?
I was under the impression that his bovine days were

in the years immediately after Star Trek, he descended nearly to the level of being a total lolcow.

I've heard legends he narrated educational/work shorts and other Prelinger bait, but I've never actually seen one.

 

[Transvaalan]

Most of the other cast had similar relations with Shatner, all eventually letting bygones be bygones save George Takei, who Shatner tried to make amends with at one point, but Takei apparently wouldn't reciprocate.

And now we know why. Kinda sad too, either they'll both hit 100 or they'll be dead soon. Takei wants to take this to his grave.

 

[millais]

Zyklon Ben has concisely captured the essence of the Shatner/Takei dichotomy in the visual medium

 

[CervixHammer]

the AV Club did their copy-pasted article, which I'm not using an archive link for because the best REEEEEEing is in the comments, which don't show up on archive. most of it is this guy, who repeatedly insists that if you don't like SJWs, you are a racist misogynist homophobe bigot etc etc etc., that only alt-right nazis with anime avatars use the term and so on.:

>"Militant far left"
uh, like Antifa?

apparently if you don't like SJWs, you automatically do like racism, misogyny and homophobia. and it's impossible to oppose any of those things without being an SJW, at least according to the guy with the Transformer avatar. (I thought it was a Transformer made out of dildos and am very disappointed that it's not.)

Spoiler: probably NSFW but for all 1 of you who haven't seen the famous one

 

[usernames can change now!]

Takei: I'm gay and proud! Down with Trump! To arms, my legion!
Shatner: Hi Gay, I'm Captain