Shatner from everything I have ever read was a pretty stand up guy who worked and still works very hard all of his life.
If I were him I would not have even considered trying to get money from this.
If some lawyer told me I should, I would say “Get thee behind me shyster”
Basically because you can’t get compensated for satire.
I can satarize every Dismey movie and there isn’t a thing that Disney can do about it and Disney is one the most litigious of companies.
The mask was on a mission to boldly go where no mask had gone before.
I never knew it either until I watched a Horror documentary series, and they talked about how they went out to a store, and bought a William Shatner mask, brought it back, and painted it several times until they got the look they wanted.