Captain ordered Mr. Sulu to swing the Enterprise by KFC window a bit too many times it seems.
Going back to that Shatner thing...
William Shatner has such a big ego that he got himself written out of the new Star Trek movie. And, that's the thing that makes me like JJ Abrams. He pretty didn't change his mind and stuck to his guns.
The new Trek film is not really a reboot but a lane change, in a sense. Spock from the TNG era universe goes back in time to stop someone from killing young Kirk. In doing so, another time line is formed and has its own track. In the TNG era, Kirk is dead and the story would only allow for a cameo/flashback for Shatner.
As Ron Moore stated during his time writing ST Generations, Shatner had many conferences with Braga and Moore to make sure his character had enough screen time. Abrams wasn’t going to have it and he shouldn't have to deal with Shatner. Of course Shatner cried like a little baby when they simply wrote him out.
And, I think Shatner’s interference with scripts harmed the original series more than it helped. Whenever there was a strong male actor on the show, Shatner felt threatened by their appearance.
Shatner was such a pighead during Star Trek II, that Nicholas Meyer wouldn't confront him. Meyer's would order Shatner to do take after take until he got bored and quit overreacting. Leonard Nimoy had a few problems with Shatner during ST III. Shatner demanded that he get the same deal as Nimoy as a director after ST IV. And we all know how ST V turned out.
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