Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

William Shatner (Captain Kirk) turns 90!
Mental Floss ^ | March 22, 2021 | Jake Rossen

Posted on 03/22/2021 11:12:28 AM PDT by White Lives Matter

Born March 22, 1931 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, William Shatner has been an indelible part of popular culture for a good portion of a century. Though he’s most recognizable as Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek film and television franchise, Shatner’s career has encompassed everything from the earliest days of television to spoken-word recordings to his own sci-fi book series (TekWar).

The nonagenarian will have a birthday celebration the weekend of July 23, 2021, in Ticonderoga, New York, when he attends a gathering at a replica Enterprise set. In the meantime, we’ve compiled 90 of the more compelling facts and details of the actor’s life and career

(Excerpt) Read more at mentalfloss.com ...


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: captainkirk; didyousearch; entertainment; startrek; tobodlygo; toboldlygo; williamshatner
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-82 next last
To: White Lives Matter

He played CPT Byers in “Judgment at Nuremberg”..


61 posted on 03/22/2021 4:09:50 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bimboeruption

I take it you don’t like Shatner?


62 posted on 03/22/2021 4:32:40 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

William Shatner impersonation:
Hap..py bir..thday Cap..tain Kiiirk


63 posted on 03/22/2021 5:42:18 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: carriage_hill

“Thank God for guns!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DEpOoiWk_c

_________

My favorite Denny Crane/ Shatner clip in the Universe!


64 posted on 03/22/2021 6:58:57 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: White Lives Matter

He’s OK. It’s the ad I can’t stand.


65 posted on 03/22/2021 7:45:20 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Trump = The best President since Washington. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: Magnum44

I agree 10,000%


66 posted on 03/22/2021 7:57:04 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Magnum44

Janice Rand is on that montage twice. But that’s not a bad thing. And where is Vina?


67 posted on 03/22/2021 9:52:45 PM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: White Lives Matter

I was not much of a Star Trek fan...

But, I did like watching T.J.HOOKER during 1980s...On ABC...

William Shatner is 90 years old...Really? I am getting old...

I did like watching Heather Locklear on T.J. HOOKER as well...She is now 59 years old...Her daughter is 23 years old...

In any case, happy birthday to Mr. Shatner...

68 posted on 03/22/2021 10:33:45 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: White Lives Matter

OK Star Trek fans. My boasting time about Shatner and friends.

* Have his autographed card from the first season of “Twilight Zone” cards. No. A-1, “Nightmare at 20,000 Ft”.

Eat your heart out, Trekkies!!

Also have TZ first series cards for George Takei, 5th season, “The Encounter” which he signed for me.

Leonard Nimoy card, TZ, “A Quality of Mercy”.

Julie Newmar, TZ, 4th Season, “Of Late I Think of Cliffordvile”. (She was in ST as an queen).

Capt. Kirk - “original series uniform insignia”, # 012/350, 2006

* Official Star Trek Paramount autographed color photo of Shatner/Kirk

* A 1979 Star Trek three-page, double sided poster from “Star Trek The Motion Picture”, with headshots of the original Enterprise crew, Steve Collins and Persis Kambata. Signed by Shatner, Takei and Nichols.

On the panels are all the space ships featured in that movie, with specs, information, etc.

Nobody I know has ever seen this poster. It goes to my grandchildren along with all my ST cards, including at least 20-25 signed cards from packs and a few signed in person at scifi shows (William Windom).

Don’t even ask about my cards from ST:TNG; ST DS9; Babylon 5; ST: Voyager, and my other favorite space show “Farscape”. I’ve got several autographs of Gigi Edgely (in person).

Also have photo autographs of James Doohan (in person); DeForest Kelly - bought rare photo from a dealer friend); Nichelle Nichols; Takei, a great signer - also his book “To the Stars”, Leonard Nimoy - in person photo autograph as well as bid/won on a dual picture photograph signed by Nimoy and Brent Spinner.

Please don’t hate me for this folks. We Trekkies have got to band together, and if we unite with the Star War fans, we can conqueror the world.


69 posted on 03/23/2021 12:29:34 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: drSteve78

Just hilarious. Never get tired of seeing it.


70 posted on 03/23/2021 5:29:56 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: ShadowAce

I never get tired of seeing it.


71 posted on 03/23/2021 5:31:52 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: White Lives Matter

He hasn’t asked Scotty to beam him up yet.


72 posted on 03/23/2021 5:33:09 AM PDT by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dead
William Shatner also covers Pink Floyd songs...

William Shatner - Learning To Fly

73 posted on 03/23/2021 5:39:06 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: White Lives Matter

Like clint taught us......... don’t let the old man in


74 posted on 03/23/2021 5:41:46 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ShadowAce

Boston Legal showed up on IMDB and we started watching it.......Denny Crane!


75 posted on 03/23/2021 5:43:26 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: bert

Always be moving!


76 posted on 03/23/2021 5:43:35 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Also have TZ first series cards for George Takei, 5th season, “The Encounter” which he signed for me.

George Takei also was on an episode of MIAMI VICE...He played a guy who laundered drug money...

77 posted on 03/23/2021 8:25:41 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

I can’t believe I didn’t know about that! Fantastic!


78 posted on 03/23/2021 8:43:39 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPC8zB-JPSg)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

Thats funny. Whatever one thinks of Shatner’s acting ability, he doesnt seem to have let anyone hold him back from enjoying some fun even where he lacks talent. Good for him.


79 posted on 03/23/2021 8:51:57 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: White Lives Matter
I wonder what he thought when he signed on for the Star Trek gig in 1965. I am sure becoming a cultural icon wasn't one of them.

Happy birthday Captain. You have boldly gone where no man has gone before.

80 posted on 03/23/2021 3:26:24 PM PDT by fhayek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-82 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson