7 New Things We Learned From William Shatner’s Revealing Memoir ‘Live Long and…’

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On September 4, a new book will hit stores by none other than William Shatner, the original Captain James T. Kirk, called Live Long and… What I Might Have Learned Along the Way. We have a full review coming next week, full of rich Shatner wisdom, of which there is plenty. In the meantime, we are whetting your appetite for the book with a round-up of new Shatner facts we didn’t know before.

The opening night of his one-man show on Broadway was the stuff of every actor’s nightmare[/b]

In March of 2012, Shatner realized a dream he’d had for 50 years: he was doing a one-man show on Broadway called Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It … , which was followed by a national tour and a film. The night before his Broadway premiere, he got food poisoning. He managed to forget about it as he started the show, but it hit him hard while he was still onstage, and unbeknownst to the audience and the critics in attendance, “about halfway through the show, I crapped in my pants.” He remembers it vividly.

I remember standing onstage thinking, Someday I will tell this story from a historical point of view and people will laugh at my embarrassment. It will make a wonderful story—but not tonight.

[b]He admits that directing Star Trek V was not the best choice he could have made

He talks about his original story idea, with which many Trek fans are already familiar, and says that Gene Roddenberry thought it was objectionable, so they compromised. “I had a choice,” he writes. “I could accept the compromise or refuse to direct the movie. I made a mistake; I accepted the compromise, which doomed the picture from the beginning.”

He uses the experience to talk about how we change as people, and how his decision was “consistent with who I was at the time.”