Whatever went down between William Shatner and George Takei on the set of the original 60's TV series "Star Trek" - it ain't ova yet. The Boston Legal star says he is disappointed and bitter that Takei, whom he has know for 40 years, didn't invite him to his same-sex wedding to partner Brad Altman in September.
In a recent video interview, Shats says, "The whole thing makes me feel badly. The poor man, there's such a sickness there. It's so patently obvious that there's a psychosis there. I don't know what his original thing about me was; I have no idea. I didn't read his book that was printed many years ago but apparently I didn't let somebody have a close -up."
Shatner was by and large referring to a book Takei had written some years ago about his three years on the Star Trek series, in which he blasted the show's star for ... well, lots of things including being an egomaniac.
But even though Takei obviously isn't close to Capt. Kirk, Shatner fails to see the obvious reason that he wasn't invited to the wedding - because he isn't a close close friend to this day - even though they've had that Star Trek fame tying them together for over 40 years.
"I literally don't know him. I didn't know him very well on the series; he'd come in for a day or two..," Shatner remembers. "...but he's continued to speak badly about me for all these years.
"You'd think there would be an epiphany at some point where George might have said, 'Poor Bill Shatner, he is such a lonely, desperate, unhappy man that he did all these terrible things to me...' when I said hello or something... but instead what he does is he makes this big deal about not inviting me to his wedding.
"There must be something else inside George that is festering, and makes him so unhappy that he takes it out on me, in effect a total stranger. It's sad the man can't find enough peace in his life to either be positive and say 'I forgive him for whatever those hurts were,' or to shut up about it... I feel nothing but pity for him."
And Shatner urges his former castmate to reconsider his bitterness towards him: "He and I don't have many years left on this world."
