The Kickstarter Shatner is mad about would have been right around the time they were getting ready to prep for that episode, if I'm not totally mistaken?
Shatner's Twitter feed is pretty saturated... I'm guessing that someone is ghosting for him as I can't imagine Bill would waste so much of his time responding to all those tweets and re-tweets.
That's true. Whoever runs his social media is not consulting with him on any of this, from what I've heard.
Marina Sirtis has declared exactly the opposite: https://twitter.com/Marina_Sirtis/status/937716717798559745
Maybe there's a list of associates who he personally tweets to, but it could be that the rest of the content is outsourced.
Personally I would stick to posting pics of space shots of the enterprise just to avoid any of what just happened there.
Doesn't seem to have been mentioned here, but Mr Shatner has taken to blocking members of the STC cast on Twitter. Vic, Chris, Michele, possibly more... https://twitter.com/MicheleSpecht/status/958575202207715328
I would say 99% that the Twitter account is not Shatner. The amount of times that Twitter account has referenced very niche 4chan injokes and linked to /tv/ and /pol/ makes me think it's a social media staffer who posts on 4chan. Does anybody actually believe Shatner posts on 4chan?
Further down in the comments to Michele's tweet, STC director Julian Higgins said he was blocked, too. I wouldn't be surprised if Shatner's social media intern looked up everyone's name on IMDb and did a sweeping block of the cast and crew.
I actually *have* heard rumors / buzz that Shatner has posted on 4chan or reddit, but it may have all been part of the hoax or whatever.