# Captain Kirk Hit with $170-Million Paternity Suit **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679 "2016-03-30T23:56:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/41 "2016-03-31T17:52:09Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Being rude to him on social media is worth $170 million. > So if I sent him a friend request and he doesn’t friend me or like any of my statuses, is that worth $50,000? Or $25,000 maybe? > Cause I’m not a greedy man, I just want a new car. I’ve “shat” before. Does that make me 57% Shatner, and thus part of the family? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/42 "2016-03-31T18:02:26Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Unrelated, but- I didn’t realize that he and Nimoy weren’t speaking at the time of Nimoy’s death. This is by Shatner’s own admission in his book about Nimoy. Does anybody know what the falling out was about? Well, according to _Hollywood Reporter_, [as of last month Shatner still didn’t know why Nimoy stopped speaking to him late in his life.](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/william-shatner-opens-up-deathbed-864547) > [@](#): > > “I just don’t know, and it is sad and it is permanent. I don’t know why he stopped talking to me.” [NY Sun sez](http://nypost.com/2016/02/14/leonard-nimoy-wasnt-speaking-to-william-shatner-when-he-died/) that Shatner included footage of Nimoy in a film without Nimoy’s permission, and that was the cause. > [@](#): > > 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.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/43 "2016-03-31T21:12:50Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Well, according to _Hollywood Reporter_, [as of last month Shatner still didn’t know why Nimoy stopped speaking to him late in his life.](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/william-shatner-opens-up-deathbed-864547) From what we know of Shatner, I’m betting it was more than that and I’m betting Shatner knows exactly what he did. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/44 "2016-04-06T23:41:33Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > No, that’s not the reason private paternity testing is banned in France. The French have no problem with acknowledging that sometimes women lie, or with allowing individual men to accuse individual women of lying. > > The ban is based in the (IMO dubious) position that family relations are determined socially rather than biologically, so a man who voluntarily undertakes a paternal relationship with a child should not subsequently undermine it by questioning the child’s biological parentage. There’s a way to accomplish non-biological relationships, it’s called adoption, not refusing to allow paternity tests. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/45 "2016-04-06T23:55:45Z")
“We, the Jury, find for the plaintiff. Here’s a dollar. Now put on your big boy pants, suck it up and get on with your life.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/46 "2016-04-07T01:05:25Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > This can’t be true, because: > > “Klingon bastard killed my son.” The movie before that is where I think he probably got the idea in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/47 "2016-04-07T15:38:25Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > Is the child green? Joke already made in post 30. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/48 "2016-04-07T18:34:17Z")
How many quatloos is that? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/49 "2016-04-07T18:39:53Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Story [here](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/30/entertainment/william-shatner-paternity-suit-feat/index.html). > > I believe Shatner is not the father, because … wait for it … he only ever went where no man went before. **Captain Kirk Hit with $170-Million Paternity Suit**. No, sorry, Captain Kirk\* is a fictional character.\* No one is suing him. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/50 "2016-04-07T18:58:45Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > **Captain Kirk Hit with $170-Million Paternity Suit**. No, sorry, Captain Kirk\* is a fictional character.\* No one is suing him. You mean my Klingon wedding was a sham!? I wish you told me that before I killed her other suitors in battle! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/51 "2016-04-08T00:53:08Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > **Captain Kirk Hit with $170-Million Paternity Suit**. No, sorry, Captain Kirk\* is a fictional character.\* No one is suing him. I’ll bet you’re the guy who pulls the beard off of Santa Claus in the shopping malls, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/52 "2016-04-08T01:28:06Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > **Captain Kirk Hit with $170-Million Paternity Suit**. No, sorry, Captain Kirk\* is a fictional character.\* No one is suing him. Thanks for clearing that up. I’m sure it was a source of confusion to many. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/53 "2016-04-08T01:58:49Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > **Captain Kirk Hit with $170-Million Paternity Suit**. No, sorry, Captain Kirk\* is a fictional character.\* No one is suing him. No duh. Everybody knows they don’t even use money in the Federation. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/54 "2016-04-08T02:04:25Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > **Captain Kirk Hit with $170-Million Paternity Suit**. No, sorry, Captain Kirk\* is a fictional character.\* No one is suing him. Explain as you would a child. It’s difficult to explain. On our planet, we, uh… we pretend to… to entertain. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/55 "2016-04-08T02:22:05Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > **Captain Kirk Hit with $170-Million Paternity Suit**. No, sorry, Captain Kirk\* is a fictional character.\* No one is suing him. Seriously, why do you do this? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/56 "2016-04-08T03:22:18Z")
**DrDeth** you’ve been told to knock this behavior off before. It’s deliberate, it’s disruptive, and it’s time for it to stop. > [@DrDeth](#): > > **Captain Kirk Hit with $170-Million Paternity Suit**. No, sorry, Captain Kirk\* is a fictional character.\* No one is suing him. **Everyone else** , please drop the discussion of this behavior, as frustrating as it is. Next time, please just report it. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/57 "2016-04-08T03:51:03Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Explain as you would a child. > > It’s difficult to explain. On our planet, we, uh… we pretend to… to entertain. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/58 "2016-04-08T15:35:16Z")
I for one has a sad that the Great Captain must deal with these types of crazy people. Hopefully the suit will get tossed before Kirk has to actually do anything. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/59 "2016-04-08T17:15:22Z")
Does The Federation even have any good Lawyers? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679/60 "2016-04-08T17:30:22Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Does The Federation even have any good Lawyers? Sam Cogley. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-kirk-hit-with-170-million-paternity-suit/750679.md?page=4)