54 Years Ago Today; Star Trek (TOS) airs for the first time on US TV 🖖

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26. I've met him several times, guy's a dick

I remember him meeting with eight or ten kindergarten teachers who wanted to use Trek to teach and wanted to ask Shatner to visit into their classrooms. They were from all over the country and paid their own way to get to this con in NYC. His answer to them was to ask them how he could make money from this. He was met with Stoney silence from the group. Eventually, one if the teachers spoke up about trying to maybe make a video they could sell to make money. It was a good idea, but he totally failed to read the room. It was written all over his face, he knew he screwed up. People were upset.

In another situation, again at a con, I saw him sign an autograph piling letters one in top of another to an unreadable mess. The girl he signed that one for was in tears when she tried and failed to read it. She was about to ship out to the Air Force Academy that summer.

Although it’s much denied, the bathroom scene in Galaxy Quest appears based on a real-life event at a con, involving Shatner. If you want to see who he really is, find the movie Free Enterprise.