Read one of the funniest, best, and on-target assessments of Shatner right
here. An exerpt: "Most stars are lucky to have a three-phase career: young heartthrob; blowsy superstar; Austin Powers cameo. Or some careers play out this way: heartthrob; handshakes; U.S. President. By that yardstick, Shatner's had ten careers. He's had twenty. He's had entire careers before breakfast. You could tell your life story twice in the time it would take him to tell the story about that one time he pantsed DeForrest Kelley. "
Here's a Shatner story for you. He's one of the only guests I've ever heard shut Howard Stern up (Seinfeld's the other one). In Shatner's case, Stern started asking him uncomfortable questions about the various women he had dated. This was during the time the FCC was starting to go after Stern, so Stern was very sensitive to guests using obscenities on the air.
Shatner's response to the questioning was to let loose an obscenity. So Stern and Robyn jumped on Shatner and told him he couldn't cuss on the air. Shatner said he was sorry and Stern started in on the girlfriends again.
Shatner then let out another obscenity. This time Stern explained to Shatner all of the trouble he was in with the FCC and he asked Shatner pretty forcefully to cut it out with the obscenities.
Shatner then said to Stern (paraphrasing here): "So Howard, let me see if I understand this. If you ask me questions I don't like and I then let out a string of cuss words, you'll get fined? Hmmmm." At that point, Stern knew he was in trouble and told Shatner he would stop asking the uncomfortable questions. Bottom line, Shatner is a pretty clever guy.