Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
Skyjedi - I respectfully disagree.
The rest of you seem a little humor-impaired. Isn't it obvious that most of the time Shatner is joking? Or at least engaging in hyperbole just to be fun? A lot of the time he's struggling to keep a straight face. There's nothing to be so sensitive or offended about.
Shatner does enjoy trolling the trekkies, he has been doing it for a long time.
He does not see star trek as sacred anymore than Roddenberry both were in it to make money.
Its cultural icon status is firmly outside of the workaday world of television and film production.
Its beyond some people that they do it to earn a living and as a job.
Star Trek and Star Wars have been creepily elevated to quasi religious or cult status.