From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   Steven L. wrote:   
   > Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   >>  "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.   
   >    
   >    
      
   OK that's a reasonable gripe, but it's *way* in the past - can't be    
   changed, certainly not by Shatner.   
      
   Natalie   
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