XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: graham@ditl.org   
      
   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.   
      
   This would be the franchise that became successful in large   
   part because of him, and which has netted Paramount, what,   
   a couple of BILLION dollars?   
      
   And now he should take a pay cut to work for them so they   
   can make a few million more?   
      
   I don't know about you, but if my boss came and said that   
   he's been paying me for a long time now and so I should   
   do a few days for nothing as a gesture of thanks, I'd   
   tell him to stuff it.   
      
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