Some actors use publicists to supervise their social media feeds.
Others, like Christopher Lloyd of “Again to the Future” fame, acknowledge members of the family assist flesh out their accounts.
Not William Shatner.
The “Star Trek” legend appears absolutely in control of his X musings. You possibly can really feel his persona in each submit.
This week, Shatner took intention at a cultural scourge a lot of his friends ignored for a lot too lengthy. The 94-year-old focused the erasure of historical past throughout the post-George Floyd period, a time when progressives tried to throw the previous into the dustbin.
Traditional TV episodes received memory-holed for sharing inappropriate jokes. Statues received vandalized and torn down. Beloved authors like J.Ok. Rowling received attacked for sharing the “incorrect” opinions.
Even when stated opinions are held by the bulk.
That effort has faltered in recent times The election of President Donald Trump partly mirrored that. We’re additionally seeing the return of ribald comedy, a lot to the media’s chagrin.
Shatner hasn’t forgotten about what he dubbed the “wokies.” And he has a private stake within the matter.
It’s referred to as Presentism and it was used wreak havoc on historical past a number of years in the past when statues had been torn down, books had been banned and issues renamed to show how progressive the world had grow to be. Simply take heed to my opening monologue on Star Trek TOS on Paramount+. They deliberately… https://t.co/HJhG8PrqFM
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 9, 2025
He’s proper and most Hollywood stars stood down reasonably than take a stand in opposition to it. Heck, Stephen Colbert laughed when a number of Dr. Seuss books received reminiscence holed in 2021.
Woke is not any laughing matter, and Shatner is aware of that higher than anybody. He’s not taking a political stand, per se. His X account even reads, “NOT POLITICAL” in all caps. It’s frequent sense, and he flexes simply that on social media.
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Shatner additionally cited a library eradicating Laura Ingalls Wilder’s identify because of “problematic” parts in her traditional yarns.
Clearly you weren’t round when the wokies (to not be confused with Wookiees 😉) coerced the Library Affiliation to alter the identify of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Literary Award to a generic identify due to presentism & their objections on how Native People had been depicted in… https://t.co/gChoasPFAv
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 9, 2025
Naturally, just a few of his followers pushed again in opposition to his commentary, however he didn’t buckle.
Others famous that Paramount+, in its present incarnation, doesn’t “garble” his iconic line from the “Star Trek” opening sequence – “to boldly go the place no man [emphasis added] has gone earlier than.”
Later “Trek” iterations tweaked the road to say “the place nobody has gone earlier than,” beginning with “Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology” within the Nineteen Eighties.
X customers advised Shatner his immortal phrasing stays intact.
