He’s in no hurry to boldly go anywhere

Ordinarily, a cemetery is the last place you'd expect to find William Shatner.

Outer space, yes. The man's iconic status as the original captain of the original USS Enterprise has forever enshrined him as a geek god.

But Shatner has never been one to rest on his laurels. The improbably robust 80-year-old actor - and director and author and entrepreneur and pitchman and horse breeder and sort-of singer - currently has a talk show and a reality show (and until recently, a sitcom) on the air, not counting reruns of Star Trek, T.J. Hooker and Boston Legal, yet another ubiquitous ad campaign, a bestselling autobiography still on the shelves and a wildly popular "vlog" on the web.

The Montreal-born former Stratford spear-carrier, whose first series role was as Ranger Bob on The Canadian Howdy Doody Show, has recently earned stars on the both the Hollywood and Toronto walks of fame, an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, McGill University, and a Governor General's Award.

The latter, which he and the NFB celebrated online with hilarious rendition of "O Canada", was preceded by a not entirely insincere write-in campaign for the Governor General-ship itself.

Suffice it to say, William Shatner (BCom'52) is no hurry to go boldly into that good night...

Read full article: The Star, July 26, 2011