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
Fiction
- 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
- 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