William Shatner Criticizes New Star Trek Shows - and Star Wars - at Comic-Con

"William Shatner closed out the first night of San Diego Comic-Con in style - with plenty of cursing and a look back at his storied career," writes the Hollywood Reporter:In an hourlong chat with emcee Kevin Smith, the 91-year-old actor talked about aging, space travel (both real and fictional) and his place in the pop culture consciousness.... He took time to address the importance and power of fandom to his career, and specifically to Star Trek, which 56 years ago introduced the world to James T. Kirk, his most enduring character. When asked to address the fans of that other major sci-fi franchise, Shatner quipped, "fuck Star Wars.... But not Mark Hamill." "We love Mark Hamill," Smith agreed. When asked by a fan if there were any new Star Trek series he thought rivaled his own, Shatner replied, "none of them." "I got to know [creator] Gene Roddenberry in three years fairly well," said Shatner, "he'd be turning in his grave at some of this stuff...." The article also quotes Shatner's more serious comments about his own recent trip into outer space courtesy of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. "I went, and I vowed that every moment that I spent in space, would not be playing around in weightlessness, but looking out the window and trying to get an impression."

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