From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: sdlitvin@earthlink.net   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   Anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >  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    
   > WILL TRAVEL where Paladin teamed up with Hey-Boy.   
      
   And it got corrected in the movies to some degree.   
      
   Nichelle Nichols had some good moments in ST III: TSFS.   
      
   James Doohan had good moments in ST IV: TVH.   
      
   George Takei had a *major* role as the Excelsior captain in ST VI: The    
   Undiscovered Country.   
      
      
   --    
   Steven L.   
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