Happy Birthday William Shatner - Captain Kirk!

by Deep Space

- Sun, Mar 28 2010

Captain Kirk nearly 80 years old? You bet your phasers on stun! No, not Chris Pine, the young buck who plays Kirk in the blockbuster JJ Abrams film. I mean the Canadian actor who is the most famous American starship Captain in Gene Rodenberry's original Star Trek TV show and movies.

This one year shy of an octogenarian is the Priceline pitch guy or Denny Crane in Boston Legal, of course in truly iconic pop culture terms, there can only be one guy who utters "Scotty, beam me up!" or "Khaaaaaan!" Shatner's a flexible performer, excels at drama, comedy or even really bad singing - his Rocket Man is so bad it's good. Ask anybody on the street what Bill Shatner means to them, and you're likely to get Captain Kirk, or that Star Trek guy.

Bill Shatner, Mr. Shatner or just Shat to friends, fans and all manner of galactic creature out there in the vast cosmos, is always marketing. Shatner knows how to sell himself and make serious gold pressed latnium. Quark approves! His latest venture is the website My Outer Space.Com - a place where sci-fi fans gather and mingle to a spacey, geeky beat all their own. It's billed as a social networking site and doubles as a creative outlet for writers, artists, musicians - anyone who's watched multiple episodes of Star Trek, or considers Yoda a real person - not a puppet or a photo plump with pixels.

Madonna, Al Gore or Lady Gaga are masters at reinventing themselves. These types can't sit still to be pegged in one way or for one thing. They must keep upping the ante, and changing the background music to score their dynamic personalities. Bill Shatner is the same. He may not have as many wigs as Lady Gaga, as many fashion changes as Madonna, or be 'father of the Internet', but pound for pound Shatner dazzles us as much a chameleon as them. But if you count toupees as wigs, Lady Gaga must be worried.

Happy birthday, William Shatner! I met you at a Star Trek convention, you signed my DVD - and hundreds more - after just flying in on the red eye. Yeah, you were paid nicely, but that professionalism impressed me. You're a pro, Mr. Shatner!

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