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Siwsan

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4. My brother was his driver during the first Star Trek movie

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Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:52 AM

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Got off to a kind of rocky start (no surprise, given Shatner's reputation) but they ended up on a friendly basis. Bill even wrote him a very nice letter of recommendation.

My brother used to work in the 20th Century Fox Research Lab so Shatner is one of my near degrees of separation from Hollywood.

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