William Shatner is completely in the right. Why should he sign something for somebody whose only purpose is to sell it?

That’s why Shatner’s policy at appearances is to personalize autographs. If you think about it, why would any true-blue Trek/Shatner fan want a non-personalized autograph, anyway? The whole point is the idol-fan connection.

And truth be told, Shatner has every right to sell his non-personalized autograph at whatever price he sets. It’s his name, after all. If anyone profits off his name, it should be him.

However, I don’t see why Shatner couldn’t have personalized those phone-order autographs. Just like he does at his personal appearances, he could have taken the time by himself to personalize the autographs based on the phone orders. It would be even quicker for him because he wouldn’t be personally greeting each autograph seeker.

I suspect that Book Soup was too lazy to take and keep track of personalization orders for those phone orders. They just wanted to make as much money as possible as quickly as possible by selling non-personalized autographs.

I don’t blame Shatner for cancelling those orders.

Really tired of this supposed feud making news.

No complaint, really, just a suggestion. I loved the article this week. I think I lingered too long at JoBlo’s site, though.

Patrick Stewart rocks! He should get the ” Overall Great Person” award.

No surprise about what an ass Shatner can be to autograph seekers. Kirk will always be my favorite character and I have a soft spot for Bill but I’m well aware that he’s as self-absorbed as ever. You would think he’d mellow with age.

Glad to see Stephen Collins on Broadway(maybe I’ll finally make time to see the play). I’m amazed there hasn’t been a TMP sequel in novel form where we would see what kind of lifeform came of the merging of Decker-Ilia-V’ger.

The trouble with Jo Blo’s article is that they are looking for headlines and news stories – preferably scandal – in order to make a judgement on the likes of ‘personality’ and ‘career’. It’s sad that if you’re a nice person who quietly gets on with the job at hand, that somehow makes you unremarkable!

Actually, she’s appeared in shows like the massively-reworked The Inside, which was cancelled abruptly after seven episodes, although the ratings were growing week by week and her performance was considered good enough that she was the only castmember held over from the original pilot.

She had a good story arc in Alias and, given a direct follow-up to Alias is unlikely, I’d love to see a spin-off following her Rachel Gibson character.

After a few other film appearances, she’s now playing Scarlett in GI Joe, which is a pretty big role for someone Jo Blo rather bitchily dismisses. Roll on her appearance in Star Trek!!!

Didn’t think the pics were particularly NSFW: I’ve seen worse around the office! But Jo Blo’s title of the section, ‘Body Shop’, is pretty offensive in that context.

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