William Shatner Speaks Out About Former ‘Star Trek’ Co-Stars Publicly Criticizing Him: ‘It’s Like A Illness’

William Shatner is slamming his former co-stars for his or her unfavourable feedback.

The actor spoke with The Instances in regards to the damaging feedback his former “Star Trek” co-workers have mentioned about him over time, which he now alleges is for “publicity”.

“Sixty years after some incident they’re nonetheless on that monitor. Don’t you suppose that’s a bit of bizarre? It’s like a illness,” he mentioned.

He added, “I started to know that they have been doing it for publicity.”

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Previous “Star Trek” alum who’ve spoken out about him embrace George Takei, who made veiled feedback about Shatner’s participation in an area launch.

Final 12 months he instructed Web page Six, “He’s a guinea pig, 90 years previous and it’s essential to search out out what occurs.”

“So 90 years previous goes to point out a terrific deal extra on the damage and tear on the human physique, so he’ll be an excellent specimen to review,” Takei continued. “Though he’s not the fittest specimen of 90 years previous, so he’ll be a specimen that’s unfit!”

Apparently the insult wasn’t the one time Takei had taken photographs on the actor.

“George [Takei] has by no means stopped blackening my title. These individuals are bitter and embittered,” Shatner mentioned. “I’ve run out of persistence with them. Why give credence to folks consumed by envy and hate?”

He’s additionally expressed his shock at Nichelle Nichols calling him “chilly and conceited” in his memoir Boldly Go: Reflections on a Lifetime of Awe and Surprise.

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“I used to be horrified to study this, ashamed that I hadn’t realised it,” he mentioned of her opinion, by way of DailyMail.

Previous to his dying, Leonard Nimoy and Shatner’s friendship had cooled down, a flip which can have been the results of a documentary.

In accordance with Big Freak Robotic, the actor was engaged on a 2011 documentary titled “The Captains” which instructed the story of all of the captains within the “Star Trek” universe, but additionally included interviews with former forged members.

Nimoy refused to interview for the film, regardless of Shatner’s persuasion, and so he allegedly employed a cameraman to secretly comply with Nimoy at a conference for footage. The actor was sad with the choice and the 2 by no means spoke after that regardless of makes an attempt on Shatner’s aspect.