William Shatner

William Shatner

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William Shatner is a Canadian actor and author who has been working in the entertainment industry for over fifty years.^[1] He is perhaps best known for his role as Captain Kirk in the classic science-fiction television show Star Trek. His starring role in The Twilight Zone episode Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (Oct. 11, 1963) is a classic.^[2] He has also appeared in a number of movies, including the only movie ever made in esperanto. Additionally, he has been in a number of advertisements and television shows, including Encore in the Mission: Impossible series (season six episode two, and season seven episodes six and seven). Shatner then stared as a rather bungling and eccentric lawyer in the television show Boston Legal.^[3]

Shatner has frequented the Tonight Show where he would ridicule Sarah Palin's Twitter posts and book by reading them in a spoken word style. Palin has since been on the show, mocking Shatner's own works and experiences, especially the fact that he "confronted an elephant on a moonlit night in his underwear." ^[4]

Although Shatner is the primary author of a number of books, he used coauthors and ghostwriters.

Bibliography[edit]

Fiction[edit]

• The TekWar series, co-written with Ron Goulart
  • TekWar (1989) ISBN 0-399-13495-6
  • TekLords (1991) ISBN 0-399-13616-9
  • TekLab (1991) ISBN 0-399-13736-X
  • Tek Vengeance (1993) ISBN 0-399-13788-2
  • Tek Secret (1993) ISBN 0-399-13892-7
  • Tek Power (1994) ISBN 0-399-13997-4
  • Tek Money (1995) ISBN 0-399-14109-X
  • Tek Kill (1996) ISBN 0-399-14202-9
  • Tek Net (1997) ISBN 0-399-14339-4
• Star Trek series, with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
  • Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden, 1995, ISBN 0-671-52035-0
  • Star Trek: The Return, 1996, ISBN 0-671-52610-3
  • Star Trek: Avenger, 1997, ISBN 0-671-55132-9
  • Star Trek: Spectre, 1998, ISBN 0-671-00878-1
  • Star Trek: Dark Victory, 1999, ISBN 0-671-00882-X
  • Star Trek: Preserver, 2000, ISBN 0-671-02125-7
  • Star Trek: Captain's Peril, 2002, ISBN 0-7434-4819-7
  • Star Trek: Captain's Blood, 2003, ISBN 0-671-02129-X
  • Star Trek: Captain's Glory, 2006, ISBN 0-7434-5343-3
  • Star Trek: The Academy—Collision Course, 2007 ISBN 1-4165-0396-X
• War series
  • Man o' War, 1996, ISBN 0-399-14131-6
  • The Law of War, 1998, ISBN 0-399-14360-2
• Quest for Tomorrow series
  • Delta Search, 1997, ISBN 0-06-105274-4
  • In Alien Hands, 1997, ISBN 0-06-105275-2
  • Step into Chaos, 1999, ISBN 0-06-105276-0
  • Beyond the Stars, 2000, ISBN 0-06-105118-7
  • Shadow Planet, 2002, ISBN 0-06-105119-5
• Believe (with Michael Tobias), 1992, ISBN 978-0-425-13296-8
• Comic book adaptations
  • William Shatner's TekWorld (129 pages, February 1994, ISBN 0-87135-985-5)
  • Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden, DC Comics graphic novel, 1995, ISBN 1-56389-235-9

Non-fiction[edit]

• Captain's Log: William Shatner's Personal Account of the Making of "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", as told by Lisabeth Shatner, 1989, ISBN 0-671-68652-6
• Star Trek Memories, with Chris Kreski, 1993, ISBN 0-06-017734-9
• Star Trek Movie Memories, with Chris Kreski, 1994, ISBN 0-06-017617-2
• Get a Life!, with Chris Kreski, 1999, ISBN 0-671-02131-1
• Star Trek: I'm Working on That: A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact, with Chip Walker, 2002, ISBN 0-671-04737-X
• Up Till Now: The Autobiography, with David Fisher, 2008, ISBN 0-283-07058-7
• Shatner Rules, with Chris Regan, 2011, ISBN 0-525-95251-9
• Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man, with David Fisher, 2016, ISBN 0-316-38837-8

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• WilliamShatner.com