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:   
   >>  Wickeddoll 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.   
      
   They all did - I think that's because of Nimoy being the director.   
      
   >    
   > 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.   
      
   I don't think they're talking about the movies - seems to be the show.    
   I guess they think they'd be bigger stars *now* if they had more face    
   time *then* but I say any of the original cast of TOS are much bigger    
   stars than they would have been if they had any other roles.  Honestly,    
   I can't imagine any of the secondary cast really breaking out, except    
   Takei and maybe Koenig.   
      
   Natalie   
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