Nimoy Shunned Shatner for Five Years

Star Trek Enterprise

When Leonard Nimoy died, he hadn’t spoken to William Shatner in five years. Nimoy shut him out after Shatner filmed him without permission for a documentary he was making about the captains of the Starship Enterprise.

“I thought he was kidding;” Shatner writes in his new book, “Leonard.” “It was such a small thing.…”