77 year-old former Star Trek star William Shatner has an autobiography out called Up Till Now that the publisher promises is “touching and very funny.” Among the anecdotes Shatner provides in his book is the fact that a lot of female Star Trek fans wanted to sleep with Captain Kirk, not him. He also hinted that those kind of situations didn’t do much for him in the performance department:

[William Shatner] insists he couldn’t enjoy flings with the series’ most devoted followers because he was so turned off by their bizarre bedroom behaviour.

In his new autobiography, Up Till Now, Shatner explains how women would pretend they were being “beamed up” by the Starship Enterprise commander, shrieking: “So, this is what it’s like to
be in bed with Captain Kirk!”

He writes: “You can’t imagine how much of a downer that is in every sense of the word.”

[From Contact Music via Fark]

Captain Kirk on the Star Trek TV series was hot. He was always wearing that tight yellow uniform shirt and seducing the 60s minx female aliens. I could see asking him to pretend he was Kirk in bed. You want to get with the guy with the piercing eyes who saves the day, not the actor who does bad cover versions of hit songs.

Among Shatner’s other relevations in his autobiography is the fact that the actress who played Lt Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, told him she hated him. Their interracial kiss on Star Trek in 1968 was a big deal at the time. Nichols jokingly told Shatner during his Comedy Central roast “Let’s make TV history again… and you can kiss my black ass!”

In a January, 2008 interview with Details Magazine, Shatner said that after Star Trek ended in the early 70s he was going through an expensive divorce and had to live out of his pickup truck. He also talked about the painful loss of his third wife, Nerine Kidd, who drowned in 1999.

Shatner has played lawyer Denny Crane on ABC show Boston Legal since 2004. He told Details that it was a “stupid oversight” that JJ Abrams didn’t give him a cameo in the latest film version of Star Trek although Leonard Nimoy has a part. His future plans include ideas for a talk show and animated films. He has been married to his fourth wife, Elizabeth Anderson Martin, since 2001.

William Shatner and his wife Elizabeth are shown below at the “Star Trek: The Tour” Press Conference and Preview on 1/17/08, thanks to PRPhotos. You can learn more about “Star Trek: The Tour” on their website.