XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: wickeddoll1958nofeckingspam@yahoo.com   
      
   "Al Smith"  wrote in message   
   news:FPP3d.135642$Np3.5653936@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...   
   >>>>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.   
      
   Good point, but actors seldom believe they deserve scale, when they've been   
   the star of a series in the past.   
      
   Natalie   
      
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