From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
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    Wickeddoll  wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   And it's how 1960s TV was handled, anyway.  When was the last time you    
   saw a BONANZA episode featuring Hop-Sing?  Okay, there was one HAVE GUN    
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