… lend me your plastic tipped ears;
I come to bury Shatner, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them in reruns,
The good is oft interred with their bones and DVD’s,
So let it be with Shatner ... The noble Abramus
Hath told you Shatner was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Shatner answered it ...
Here, under leave of Abramus and the producers and writers,
(For Abramus is an honourable man;
So are they all; all honourable men)
Come I to speak in Shatner's Trek funeral ...
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Abramus says he was ambitious;
And Abramus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many fans home to Trekdom,
Whose ransoms did his Captain Kirk coffers fill:
Did this in Shatner seem ambitious?
When that the fans have cried, Shatner hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Abramus says he was ambitious;
And Abramus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Boston Legal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown and golden globe,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Abramus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Abramus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish Klingons,
And men and Vulcans have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Shatner,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
I come to bury Shatner, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them in reruns,
The good is oft interred with their bones and DVD’s,
So let it be with Shatner ... The noble Abramus
Hath told you Shatner was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Shatner answered it ...
Here, under leave of Abramus and the producers and writers,
(For Abramus is an honourable man;
So are they all; all honourable men)
Come I to speak in Shatner's Trek funeral ...
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Abramus says he was ambitious;
And Abramus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many fans home to Trekdom,
Whose ransoms did his Captain Kirk coffers fill:
Did this in Shatner seem ambitious?
When that the fans have cried, Shatner hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Abramus says he was ambitious;
And Abramus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Boston Legal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown and golden globe,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Abramus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Abramus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish Klingons,
And men and Vulcans have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Shatner,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
