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By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:30:28 on Aug 17, 2008

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As shocking as this may sound to many of the Shatner fans here...


This is old hat among Shatner fans, so again you speak in ignorance of what others understand.

The common phenomenon (which is now all too poignant for Shatner) isn't tied to any vocation -- it's about anything and everything that's essentially taken for granted in life, particularly throughout one's youth.

Shatner again touches upon this in the "You'll have time" track of his Has Been album, in which hindsight regrets not having lived life fully in the moment, too late when comes the maw of death...

Maybe you won't suffer; maybe it's quick
But you'll have time to think
"Why did I waste it?"
"Why didn't I taste it?"
You'll have time
'Cause you're gonna die

(complete lyrics)


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By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:48:01 on Aug 17, 2008

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He's a complete stranger," he says. "Not only is he physically foreign, emotionally I don't know where I was at that time. There's also a certain amount of revulsion involved - how could I have looked that young? What happened? I should have taken more vitamins. It's totally science-fictional.

As shocking as this may sound to many of the Shatner fans here, his opinion of his performance is not all that uncommon. Many actors and actresses are completely detatched from their perfomances on screen - seeing themselves during the premier and then never again. Shatner is probably the epitomy of this way of thinking. From refusing to see themselves during the dailies, to being revulsed at the final image of themselves on screen? Many of you will just have to accept the fact that 77 year-old William Shatner is completely removed from the TOS Kirk character he pioneered.

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