XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
      
   On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:25:41 GMT, Al Smith  wrote:   
      
   >>>>Original Star Trek star William Shatner told TV Guide Online that his   
   >>>>> > rumored guest appearance on UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise is on hold in a   
   >>>>> > dispute over money. "When I talked to [UPN] about money, they blinked,"   
   >>>>> > Shatner told the site.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Good old Bill Shatner. Why do something for the franchise, and for   
   >>>> the fans, when he can do something for himself?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I don't blame him - he has to eat, and the guy who cleans his pool and   
   >> cleans his stables don't work for free, so why should he?   
   >>   
   >> He'd add the only spark of life that the dreadfull joke that ENT has become.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >I wouldn't expect him to work for free, but he might consider   
   >working for scale, whatever that might be, as a gesture to the   
   >franchise that has allowed him to buy his horses and house and   
   >wife and whatever else his money has bought him. Can there be any   
   >doubt that Shatner would be a third-rate, mostly forgotten actor   
   >were it not for Star Trek? Chances are, he wouldn't even have   
   >gotten "TJ Hooker" without his Trek history. I read his   
   >autobiography. After the Old Series ended, he spent years doing   
   >crappy stage work, and living in a tiny secondhand trailer. He'd   
   >probably still be in the damned trailer if the Old Series hadn't   
   >attracted such a strong fan following, that the first movie was made.   
      
   How much money do you think Shatner has made from the world wide syndication of   
   the original Trek?   
   Shatner doesn't owe anyone, they owe him and the rest of that cast MILLIONS.   
      
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