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In reply to the discussion: William Shatner sets record in space with Blue Origin spaceflight [View all]NullTuples
(6,017 posts)9. He's an actor. He also played a deceitful conservative lawyer.
I hate to break it to you but he's not actually a starship captain. It was quite literally one job of many for him for three years + the trek movies, and one he was not particularly skilled at performing, in most critics opinions. He made much of his 100 million by riding a wave he was very, very lucky to catch.
This is part of the problem - celebrities, especially wealthy ones, are boosted to a position in our society that often they simply don't deserve. As an example he - the real life actor Shatner, not the character he played at work - advocates for putting autistic children through conversion therapy so they appear more "acceptable".
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William Shatner sets record in space with Blue Origin spaceflight [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Oct 2021
OP
Is the media going to do this every time multi-millionaires buy a new experience?
NullTuples
Oct 2021
#1
Shatner is different imo. He was the main / co-main character in the TV series that basically
Calista241
Oct 2021
#5
He may be a miserable hoomahn, but his character is an incredible legend
getagrip_already
Oct 2021
#11
too type cast for me and I did not like his curly hair in that show, I thought it was a wig
Shellback Squid
Oct 2021
#34
That show was the one that finally broke him out of the typecast "Kirk" character
BumRushDaShow
Oct 2021
#56
But his role in Boston Legal was to me intentionally over the top to mock conservatives.
LT Barclay
Oct 2021
#37
Shatner's Star Trek run represents what MAGAts hate: blacks, immigrants, progressivism
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2021
#10
I know someone who is a fundamentalist xian, Republican T**** supporter AND a long time Trekker.
progressoid
Oct 2021
#26
I'm willing to bet this person's fandom doesn't include anything made in recent years.
cab67
Oct 2021
#46
yep and we are all supposed to be all google eyed and moaning in patriotic ecstasy. nt
yaesu
Oct 2021
#19
I think so too. And when he was first trying to tell Bezos how overwhelming the experience was, Bezo
chia
Oct 2021
#72
William Shatner had an epiphany moment from the experience. Not only was it a life
JohnSJ
Oct 2021
#7
This was actually a brilliant PR move. Bezos didn't get much public admiration
70sEraVet
Oct 2021
#14
My wife and I were moved to tears on seeing Shatner talk about what he experienced, but really?
Doodley
Oct 2021
#30
Awesome launch, flight, booster and capsule landings, now lets start mining them asteroids!
Shanti Shanti Shanti
Oct 2021
#38
Star Trek was truly groundbreaking TV in its day. For many, it was Capt James T Kirk ...
Hekate
Oct 2021
#43
NASA is currently using Atlas V rockets for satellites and other orbital/extra planetary craft
BumRushDaShow
Oct 2021
#63
You do know that Americans are flying to the ISS in the Dragon Capsules now, right?
OnlinePoker
Oct 2021
#67
Well, if some really rich guys want to shoot their rich white asses into space, OK.
CTyankee
Oct 2021
#89