{"id":2241783,"date":"2026-01-20T06:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2241783"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:57:23","slug":"william-shatner-pokes-fun-at-stephen-miller-for-calling-on-him-to-control-star-trek-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/william-shatner-pokes-fun-at-stephen-miller-for-calling-on-him-to-control-star-trek-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner Pokes Fun at Stephen Miller for Calling on Him to Control \u2018Star Trek\u2019 Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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William Shatner<\/a> had a fascinating response to Stephen Miller<\/a>\u2019s suggestion that the star\u2019s insight was needed to improve the Star Trek<\/a> franchise.<\/p>\n

Last week, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy shared a post from the X account End Wokeness that featured a viral clip of new series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy<\/a>. The clip showed castmembers Tricia Black<\/a> (playing Lt. Rork), Gina Yashere<\/a> (Lura Thok) and Holly Hunter<\/a> (Nahla Ake), and the End Wokeness post added the message, \u201cStar Trek 2026\u2026 Beyond parody\u2026,\u201d seemingly reflecting unhappiness over the performers\u2019 looks.<\/p>\n

Miller<\/a> wrote, \u201cTragic. But it\u2019s not too late for @paramountplus to save the franchise. Step 1: Reconcile with @WilliamShatner and give him total creative control.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, Shatner responded by joking about the supposed problem with the scene, focusing on the fact that Hunter\u2019s character uses glasses. \u201cI am so on the same page with…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Shatner had a fascinating response to Stephen Miller\u2019s suggestion that the star\u2019s insight was needed to improve the Star Trek franchise. Last week, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy shared a post from the X account End Wokeness that featured a viral clip of new series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2241784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2241783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/William-Shatner-Pokes-Fun-at-Stephen-Miller-for-Calling-on.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241785,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241783\/revisions\/2241785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}