From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  "Steven L."  wrote:   
   >    
   >> Maybe the fame has just gone to their heads.  They think Shatner    
   >> upstaged them?  What kind of "stage" would they have had without Star Trek?   
   >    
   > That's the thing.  There are almost no stories of him treating them    
   > badly; at worst, he was apparently indifferent.  It's like they blurred    
   > the line between work friends and real life friends.  I'm sure there are    
   > incidents where he took away somebody's lines; that's how these things    
   > work.  It's not like he ever got somebody fired; hell, they were all    
   > there to the end, even in the one he directed.   
      
      
   Perhaps it's because they had hoped to focus on each of the minor actors    
   in a rotating way, similar to the "centric" episodes on today's "Lost."   
      
   You saw some of that in season 1:  "Charlie X" focused on Yeoman Rand,    
   for example.  And "Naked Time" had a big part for Sulu.   
      
   But Shatner had written memos to the producers "reminding" them that the    
   show "has to center around Captain Kirk and his decisions."   
      
   And as the series continued, the show focused more and more on the    
   Kirk-Spock-McCoy troika.   
      
      
   --    
   Steven L.   
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