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Shatner's $170m lawsuit from 59 year old claiming to be his son.

Memos at UCLA confirm that Shatner had 5% profit participation in Star Trek, at least in 1965 (I have no idea how his 1969 divorce may have affected this percentage, for example). Page 500 of David Alexander's Roddenberry biography details how Shatner and Roddenberry successfully pressured the studio into paying up for the first time after threatening an audit in 1986. Roddenberry's portion of the profits at the time was $851,000; Shatner's portion would have been less than that.

In other words, valuable, but not hundreds of millions of dollars valuable.

Shatner was able to hold onto his stake in ST? I wonder where I heard otherwise. There's a lot of bull on the Internet, it turns out, and I picked some of it up. Somebody really should fact check the subject! :techman:
 
The really bizarre thing is on his Facebook, this guy has a picture of himself and Bill at a Florida convention 5 years ago. Of course Shatner has posed with fans thousands of times. But I wondered if the guy ever mentioned this to him in person at all? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1321376452458&set=t.1772247574&type=3&theaterE

Here is another photo of the two. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4471633766922&set=t.1772247574&type=3&theater With him linking to William Shatner's IMDB biography. Where he claimed there was trivia mentioned about him being Bill's son. Well that is no long there. As many know anyone can add things to IMDB. Its obvious he himself added that, to try to continue his story. Before someone deleted it. How strange.
 
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Let's say for the sake of argument that he is Shatner's son...


Really? Is this how you want to go about it? Be a huge internet douchbag that sues our beloved Shat for $170 million dollars in an internet age?

A bazillion more nerd daggers for you than Wesley Crusher ever got.
 
He's suing him for what reason exactly? IF Shatner is his father, and the kid was legally put up for adoption, why does that give him a right to sue. Babies are put up for adoption on a regular basis and I've never heard of one suing their birth parents. Clearly this guy isn't looking to have a relationship with dear ol' alleged dad.
 
Let's say for the sake of argument that he is Shatner's son...


Really? Is this how you want to go about it? Be a huge internet douchbag that sues our beloved Shat for $170 million dollars in an internet age?

A bazillion more nerd daggers for you than Wesley Crusher ever got.

He certainly deserves a classic Kirk-style dropkick to the face.
 
Karate CHOP!
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YOU...are NOT...MY...SON!!!
 
A douche with severe daddy issues. The guy's 59 years old and he's doing this - still acting out like a petulant child??

He needs to get a damn job and stop trying to write himself into history by harassing Shatner.

Yes, frivolous lawsuits have been running rampant in the US, really since the 90's, from what I recall. Here's a cute little infographic on the subject.

That is true--you smell a fart in the wind, and its a lawsuit for "respiratory assault" / you shove assorted hot things in your mouth--less than a minute after it was removed from a cooker, and its "McDonalds seared my flesh!! Pay mmeeeeee!" or some nonsense along those lines.
 
He's suing him for what reason exactly? IF Shatner is his father, and the kid was legally put up for adoption, why does that give him a right to sue. Babies are put up for adoption on a regular basis and I've never heard of one suing their birth parents. Clearly this guy isn't looking to have a relationship with dear ol' alleged dad.

He claims that Shatner's assertion that they are not father and son constitutes some kind of defamation/slander/whatever. :wtf:

Kor
 
Well they do look similar facially and have the same hairline! :lol:
JB

But if The Shat has known about this guys claims since 1984 why has it taken so long to get to this point?
 
Anybody know if "Shatner" is this guy's original last name, or did he (likely) change it to that at some point?

 
He's suing him for what reason exactly? IF Shatner is his father, and the kid was legally put up for adoption, why does that give him a right to sue. Babies are put up for adoption on a regular basis and I've never heard of one suing their birth parents. Clearly this guy isn't looking to have a relationship with dear ol' alleged dad.

Yeah, I don't understand it, too. His adopted parents are his legal parents now. His genetic parents are practically only egg and sperm donors. They have no legal rights to him and it is true the other way around, too. Even if Shatner is genetically his father, it is not wrong of him to say, that this guy isn't his son, because that is legally completely true. It is not slander, defamation, etc. to tell the truth.
 
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