| William Shatner's Biography
William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931 in
Montreal, Canada. He studied commerce at McGill
University in Montreal, later switching to acting.
While there he was in many student productions, and
went on to perform with the Stratford (Ontario,
Canada) Shakespeare Festivals, playing a number of
Shakespearean roles. The 'Shatner Building' at
McGill is named after him. In 1956, he moved to New
York, and worked in live TV dramas and on Broadway,
where he attracted the attention of TV
producers. His first TV appearance was in the
Goodyear Television Playhouse, episode - 'All Summer
Long' on October 28, 1956. His onscreen debute
was in, The Brothers Karamazov, in 1958, as 'Alexi
Karamazov'. The first TV series he starred in
was, For the People (January 31, 1965 - May 9, 1965),
as 'David Koster'. The next TV series was Star
Trek - The Original Series (September 8, 1966 -
September 2, 1969), and he also played the voice
of Captain Kirk in Star Trek - The Animated Series
(September 8, 1973 - October 12, 1974). He played
'Jeff Cable' in The Barbary Coast (September 8,
1975 - January 9, 1976), 'Captain Harrison' in
How The West Was Won (1978), 'T.J. Hooker' in T.J.
Hooker (March 13, 1982 - September 17, 1987),
Himself in Rescue 911 (1989), and 'Bascom' in the
TekWar series (1994). Movies he's been in include:
The Intruder, Judgment at Nuremberg, The
Explosive Generation, The Outrage, Incubus, Star
Trek (Pilot), Comanche Blanco, Sole Survivor
(TV), The Andersonville Trial (TV), Owen Marshall
Counsellor at Law (TV), Vanished (TV), The
People (TV), Incident on a Dark Street (TV),
The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV), Horror at 37,000
Feet(TV), Go Ask Alice (TV), Pioneer Woman (TV),
Indict and Convict (TV), Pray for the Wildcats
(TV), Impulse, Big Bad Mama, Land of No Return,
The Devil's Rain, The Barbary Coast (Pilot), A
Whale of a Tale, The Tenth Level, Perilous Voyage
(TV), Kingdom of the Spiders, Testimony of Two
Men (TV), The Third Walker, Crash of Flight 401
(TV), The Kent Chronicles (TV), Little Women
(TV), Disaster on the Coastliner (TV), Reil,
The Babysitter (TV), Kidnapping of the President,
Airplane II: The Secquel, Visiting Hours, T.J.
Hooker (Pilot), Secrets of a Married Man (TV), North
Beach and Rawhide (TV), Broken Angel (TV), Happy
Birthday Bugs!: 50 Looney Years (TV),
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon, Family of Strangers
(TV), TekWar Movies (TV), Janek: The
Silent Betrayal (TV), Trinity and Beyond, Prisoner
of Zenda (TV), Dead Man's Island (TV), Land of
the Free, and of course, Star Trek (I-VII). He
has made guest appearances in many TV series: Thriller,
Dr. Kildare, Twelve O'Clock High, The Nurses,
Mannix, The Music Scene, Barnaby Jones, Medical
Center, Studio One, Alfred Hitchcock Presents,
The United States Steel Hour, The Twilight Zone,
Naked City, The Defenders, Route 66, The Outer
Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Virginian,
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater, The Fugitive,
The Big Valley, Gunsmoke, The F.B.I., Cade's
County, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, Dr.
Simon Locke, The Amazing World of Kreskin, The
Six Million Dollar Man, Kung Fu, Police Story,
The Magician, Petrocelli, Columbo, Police Squad,
Madame's Place, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Saturday
Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show,
SeaQuest DSV, Eek! the Cat, The Fresh Prince
of Bel-Air, Muppets Tonight, Perversions of Science,
Space Cadets, Dateline NBC, and Politically Incorrect.
Some of his other works include TV
commercials: 'Commodore Computers' (1982), Oldsmobile
(1989) with his daughter, Melanie, Web
TV (1998), 'NFL on Fox' (1998), and a Radio commercial
for priceline.com (1998). His daughter
Lisbeth wrote the script for the T.J. Hooker
episode 'Partners in Death' (1986). He is active in
conservation and environmental causes and loves
horses. He breeds and shows his many American
Saddlebreds and Quarter Horses. He is also an
avid tennis player. He has written several books,
including the TEK series. He appeared in the
music video and sang in the choir on the song 'Voices
That Care'. He married and divorced Gloria Rand
in the 50's. He married Marcy Lafferty in 1976, but
later divorced. Since 1997 he's been married
to Nerine Kidd. He has 3 daughters, Lesley, Lizebeth,
and Melanie, and 1 son, Daniel. He lives in Southern
California and also has a 360 acre horse farm in
Kentucky. |
Captain James Tiberius Kirk's
Biography
Background
Birthdate - March 22,
2233
Birthplace - Riverside,
Iowa, Earth
Hair - Light Brown
Eyes - Hazel
Father - Unknown (dead)
Mother - Unknown (alive
on Earth)
Brother - George Samuel
Kirk (Research Biologist - killed by flying parasites while living on
Deneva, Stardate 3287)
Nephew - Peter Kirk
(raised by his grandmother after losing his parents on Deneva)
Son (by Carol Marcus)
- David Marcus (born 2261) (Research Biologist - killed by Klingons on
Genesis)
Unmarried
Rank - Captain/Admiral/Captain
Service Number - SC
937-0176 CEC
Assignment - U.S.S.
Enterprise NCC-1701/NCC-1701A
Weight - 159 lbs
Height - 6 ft 0 in
While he visited relatives
on Tarsus IV in 2247 Kodos the executioner invoked martial law and
slaughtered 2000 colonists;
was one of the two surviving witnesses
Awards and Commendations
Palm Leaf of Axanar Peace
Mission
Grankite Order of Tactic,
Class of Excellence
Prentares Ribbon of
Commendation, Classes First and Second
Medal of Honor
Silver Palm, w/cluster
Star Fleet Citation
for Gallantry
Karagite Order of Heroism
Three Times Wounded,
Honor Roll
Accomplishments
Entered Starfleet Academy
in 2250 at age 17
Assigned to Training
Vessel U.S.S. Republic as Midshipman, part of Starfleet training from 2250
to 2254
Majored in Interplanetary
Relations under Professor John Gill
Participated in the
Axanar Peace Mission
Promoted to Ensign in
2252
Graduated Starfleet
Academy in the top 5 percent of his class in 2254
Prevented a near-fatal
explosion on the U.S.S. Republic in 2254 and was promoted to Lieutenant
Assigned to Starship
U.S.S. Farragut as Lieutenant from 2254 to 2259 under Captain Garrovick
Participated in the
initial planetary survey of Neural in 2256
Received a Commendation
for bravery on Tycho IV in 2258, where half the crew was killed by a
cloud creature
Assigned to Destroyer
U.S.S. Alexander as Executive Officer in 2259
As Lieutenant Commander,
received his first command position in 2260 when the Captain was
killed in a battle with
the Klingons
Subsequently awarded
the Medal of Honor and promoted to Captain in 2260
Cultivated a romance
with Carol Marcus from 2260 to 2263 that resulted in the birth of David
Marcus in 2261
Assigned to Starship
U.S.S. Enterprise as Captain (the youngest academy graduate ever to be
assigned the command
of a Starship) of a five year mission from 2263 to 2268, replacing Fleet
Captain Christopher
Robin Pike
Promoted to Admiral
in 2269 and assigned to Starfleet Headquarters as Chief of Fleet Operations
Reassigned to U.S.S.
Enterprise in 2271 to solve the V'ger crisis, replacing Captain Willard
Decker
Returned to Starfleet
Headquarters as Chief of Operations from 2271 to 2281
Retired in 2281
Cultivated a romance
with Antonia from 2282 to 2283
Returned to Starfleet
in 2284 as Chief of Inspection and Training Operations
Assumed command of U.S.S.
Enterprise in 2285 during what was to be a training cruise
Fought off a ruthless
surprise attack from the U.S.S Reliant commanded by the eugenics genius
Khan Noonian Singh,
but at the cost of his dearest and closest friend, Spock
Disobeyed Starfleet
Command orders and stole the Enterprise to return to Genesis and retreve
Spock's body; lost his
son, David, due to an unprovoked Kligon attack
Brought Spock's body
to Vulcan where the refusion between Spock and McCoy took place
After three months of
Vulcan exile returned to Earth in 2286 and enroute went back in time to
1986 to retreve two
humpback whales which saved Earth from a damaging probe; brought back
with him Ceatation Expert,
Gillian Taylor to care for the whales
Charged with nine violations
of Starfleet Regulations, but all were dropped except for disobeying
direct orders of a superior
officer; reduced in rank to Captain (permanent)
Assigned to U.S.S. Enterprise
(NCC-1701A) in 2286
Ordered off shore leave
in Yosemite to rescue hostages on Nimbus IV in 2288
Assigned on a diplomatic
mission to the Klingons in 2290
Wrongly charged, conviced,
and jailed by the Klingon high command for murdering the Klingon
Chancellor Gorkon
Rescued and exonerated
upon the discovery of a Bird of Prey that could attack while cloked;
saved the peace mission
Retired in 2293
Believed killed in an
accident aboard the NCC-1701B during a ceremony being held in his honor
Emerged from the Nexus
in 2371 and helped save the lives of billions of people on Veridian III,
but was killed as a
result, however, the rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated
Significant Romances
Ruth Bonne - assistant
professor at the Academy
Lieutenant Areel Shaw
- attorney in the Judge Advocate's office at Star Base 11
Dr. Janet Wallace -
endocrinologist on Earth
Janice Lester - Research
Planetologist, now undergoing psycotherapy
Miramanee - descendant
of ancient American Indians he met on the planet Amerind
Dr. Carol Marcus - Research
Biologist, with whom he also had a son, Dr. David Marcus
Antonia - No information
available
Medical History
Contracted Vegan Choriomeningitis,
and the microorganisms are still in his blood
Contracted the Dramian
Plague (Stardate 5276)
Contracted Rigellian
Fever (Stardate 5843)
Much of his leisure
time spent in the ship's gymnasium, excercising in null-gravity
Tendency to become overweight,
and periodically placed on a special diet
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