Those people named by 1001001 are certainly more friendly and accessible, but that doesn't make Shatner a dickhead. It just means that they go the extra mile. An extra mile which is not required, btw. They are there -- all paid so no one is doing it just because they love us -- for the business of a stage appearance and autograph signing. Anything else is gravy. When someone has a few thousand pictures to sign, they would understandably be about the business of getting them done. That's Shatner. But whenever I have spoken to him he has always smiled and said "thank you".
Want to talk about dickheads? Then I would offer up a young Terry Farrell, who peppered her onstage Q&A with an obviously mixed audience with vulgar language. (Though she is much better now that she has matured a bit.)
Or Jennifer Lien, who in my presence during an autograph session asked a convention staffer, "Do I have to talk to these people?"
Or Manu Intiraymi, who made homophobic remarks about Voyager's costumer and one of the other Borg child actors and sexual remarks about Jeri Ryan. He also insinuated that George Takei is an alcoholic (questioning his glass of wine at dinner every night when George remarked that he should give up smoking) and that Tim Russ is a prick womanizer simply because he dedicated a song to "all his women" on the TrekCruise in front of his wife. Borg Boy then went on in the autograph room to give me a poor-mouth story and hound me to buy a second autograph from him, greased by his stoner girlfriend's tears.
So if you consider the whole spectrum of convention guests, Shatner is right in the middle, a professional there to do a job. You can't blame an actor for not being as into the genre as we are. For many of them it is just a job, just as yours probably is to you.
Want to talk about dickheads? Then I would offer up a young Terry Farrell, who peppered her onstage Q&A with an obviously mixed audience with vulgar language. (Though she is much better now that she has matured a bit.)
Or Jennifer Lien, who in my presence during an autograph session asked a convention staffer, "Do I have to talk to these people?"
Or Manu Intiraymi, who made homophobic remarks about Voyager's costumer and one of the other Borg child actors and sexual remarks about Jeri Ryan. He also insinuated that George Takei is an alcoholic (questioning his glass of wine at dinner every night when George remarked that he should give up smoking) and that Tim Russ is a prick womanizer simply because he dedicated a song to "all his women" on the TrekCruise in front of his wife. Borg Boy then went on in the autograph room to give me a poor-mouth story and hound me to buy a second autograph from him, greased by his stoner girlfriend's tears.
So if you consider the whole spectrum of convention guests, Shatner is right in the middle, a professional there to do a job. You can't blame an actor for not being as into the genre as we are. For many of them it is just a job, just as yours probably is to you.
