William Shatner Says He 'Didn't Earn a Penny' From Star Trek Re-Runs (telegraph.co.uk)
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The now 94-year-old actor said he's actually only seen a "few" episodes of his work and has "never seen" any of the spinoffs. "I'm gonna tell you something that nobody knows. I've never seen another 'Star Trek' and I've seen as few 'Star Treks' of the show I was on, I've seen as few as possible," he [3]told Entertainment Tonight . "I don't like to look at myself, and I've never seen any other. I love it, I think it's great. I just don't, you know, I don't watch television, per se."
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/bills/news/william-shatner-star-trek-paid-well/
[2] https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/william-shatner-has-earned-zero-dollars-from-star-trek-reruns-despite-decades-syndication
[3] https://www.etonline.com/william-shatner-shares-why-he-doesnt-watch-star-trek-and-if-hes-open-to-a-possible-return-exclusive
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The original series was very woke (to use your terms). The show was the first to feature an interracial kiss and Shatner intentionally flubbed different takes so they would have to use the kiss. Tv stations in shitty southern states refused to air the episode. Please tell me more about this socialist inclusive utopia without a need for money.
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The real dispute should be between Unfettered Capitalists, and middle class and poor people. It has been re-cast as the "woke" against the conspiracy theorists.
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Seems like only a dog would say that. I say again, the fight is against the ultra-rich and the rest of us. The fight is between conspiracy theories and lies against the middle and poor class. We could have a great "star trek" type of a society except for greedy scumbags who feed hate and greed.
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> We could have a great "star trek" type of a society except for greedy scumbags who feed hate and greed.
Well, you are in fact othering unnamed people and feeding hate against them. More than half of the people living in the United States are among the top 1% of global incomes, both in absolute terms and in terms of disposable income, which I guess qualifies half of this country as ultra-rich, but who has the authority to set that arbitrary goalpost? Last I checked, I haven't been fighting with anybody else, and nobody has been fighting with me. Nevertheless, you're apparently coveting my income, which makes y
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I respect that question. When you earn your salary, do you feel grateful for the circumstances that surround you? and.. I don't believe that 50% of Americans earn the top 1% of income. I think it would take some wicked math and statistics to show that. Would you include the Richest Man in the World, Vlad Putin in your math?
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That kiss wasn't woke, if anything it was an HR violation. And don't get me started on Orion slave girls.
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> No wonder he is the way he is. He's never been brainwashed by the wokeaganda of TOS/TNG. fedieration more like wokeistan
Yeah, nothing "woke" (whatever that means) about a [1]white guy reporting to a black flag officer [imgur.com] before it existed in reality.
[1] https://i.imgur.com/WGdnbqQ.jpeg
Per se... (Score:2)
He's not a singer either, per se...
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*giggles*, but he seems like a good guy that was raised in another age. He started as an actor that played many parts in a movie studio, and back then you were under a contract to kind of take any acting job that they gave you... and got paid a very low wage by today's standards..and he kind of "stumbled into" star trek, and maybe thought it was just like any other part where he put in long days, and did hard work. Then Bingo! a world wide phenomenon, a hero to many.
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> He's not a singer either, per se...
You can't say he didn't boldly go.
Shatner is great (Score:2)
I love when he took time just to fuck with a recording engineer. [1]https://youtu.be/XMV1bwXyi54 [youtu.be]
[1] https://youtu.be/XMV1bwXyi54
Most actors of the 1960s didn't get residuals. (Score:5, Informative)
I've been called a liar many times because I tried to tell people that most TV actors in the 60s didn't get residuals. Dawn Wells (Maryann on Gilligan's Island) did because her manager/husband asked for them and the studio thought it would flop so they said OK as they didn't expect to pay them. Don Adams of Get Smart was offered 30% ownership if he would take the lowest wage the unions would allow and he took it, his estate is probably still collecting, again the studio thought it would flop.
Others with popular TV shows never saw a dime from reruns. Which is one of the reasons such shows are still on TV, the studios not needing to pay residuals can offer them for less money than newer shows.
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How are they a scam?
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Let's look at blue collar example. An star engineer worked to make a toll road. He was paid a good wage to make it and his agent also negotiated to get 1% of each car's toll payment.
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That's called profit sharing or some other name in other businesses, it does exist. If nobody was making money off the show the actor wouldn't be making money.
Actors also have a strong union so take that into account. All blue collar folks should too.
Doesn't seem all that unfair (Score:2)
He got paid a wage for doing the work on the show.
Why should he get paid for doing that over and over again into the future?
They guy who installed the tables in the local restaurant doesn't get paid a residual for every meal sold there into the future either.
Get a Life! (Score:3, Funny)
"You know, before I answer any more questions there's something I wanted to say. Having received all your letters over the years, and I've spoken to many of you, and some of you have traveled... y'know... hundreds of miles to be here, I'd just like to say... GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show! I mean, look at you, look at the way you're dressed! You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME!"
/for the humor-impaired, the individual making this post is wearing a STTOS enameled tie-pin to work to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the show
The Enemy Within (Score:2)
Publicist faces stunned fans and tells them, "Calm down everybody. That was the "evil Captain Kirk" from Episode 5."
(Fans restart their chatter and demand for autographs as if nothing has happened.
Glad he's not on a worldwide apology tour (Score:2)
It is good to see an actor/public figure not going a worldwide apology tour just to legacy build late in the day.
Maybe we could convince "journalists" to stop writing "(famous singer X) hated these bands and would never tour with them..." articles.