XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: invalid@address.com   
      
   > I've been watching Trek for over 35 years, and he doesn't owe me a thing.   
   > He deserves to be well-paid if they want him to sign on for something like   
   > that.   
      
   I'll tell you what it is. Shatner's a professional actor. The   
   acting profession is cutthroat. You're only popular as long as you   
   have some fans and some name recognition. As soon as you turn   
   cold, agents and producers and directors don't even want to know   
   that you are alive, because they are scared to death you will come   
   asking them for a favor. When an actor is fired in Hollywood, they   
   usually don't even know it until their name is removed from their   
   dressing room door. Nobody has enough decency to tell them.   
   Everyone is out for himself or herself. It's dog eat dog.   
      
   Shatner has made a good living in this world for the past fifty   
   years or so. He knows it inside out. He's a part of it. He plays   
   by its rules. And one of its rules is that you don't do any   
   favors, unless there's something in it for you. Shatner must not   
   see any advantage to him, personally, if he appears on   
   "Enterprise" -- and I agree with him, it is not to his advantage.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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