In less than three weeks, Somara and I will be meeting William Shatner at Austin’s Wiz World. One of the ultimate wedding anniversary presents a couple nerds can give each other! This year’s convention has numerous great guests too. I’m trying to arm twist Jose down here for John Ratzenberger. We all know him for being Clayton for 11 years on Cheers but he’s invited to the gathering because he was the deck officer in The Empire Strikes Back.
I liked the Brian May collage I did six months ago enough that I tried again for Shatner. These images cover his career pretty well. From left to right: as a guest on Match Game back in the Seventies; his obviously best-known role; his Eighties comeback to TV in TJ Hooker; and everyone’s fave, the frightened passenger on The Twilight Zone‘s “Terror at 20,000 feet.”
Ridicule the man all you want yet even his harshest critics have to respect the helluva career he has. I’m seriously (without irony), really looking forward to meeting him.