Shatner showed up at Comic-Con in a wheelchair. Turns out, he was recovering from a horse riding accident. Apparently the horse was uninjured.
I suspect this wouldn’t have happened to Picard.
Shatner seems like the kind of guy who’d ride with Western tack. Picard would ride English.
I can’t even picture Patrick Stewart in a wheelchair.
Is that a whoosh?
Brian
You’re thinking of the doors on the Enterprise.
How many people approached him and said, “Captain Pike?”
One? Two?
It would be hilarious if Patrick Stewart ended up in a wheelchair for awhile. He’d have to make sure…it didn’t look like that.
Shatner has been riding since he was a teen and owned many champion horses. Interview. He’s been thrown a few times and broken bones over the years. He’s a real horseman.
I imagine when you are in your mid-80’s getting thrown might be a quite traumatic experience.
For a 70 - year-old man it would indeed be traumatic. But I feel for Shatner for a different reason: In 1965 I was attracted, however furtively, to a girl in my second-year French class, named Ruth. She and I argued now and then. A month before the school year ended, she fell off a horse and was seriously injured. I was actually happy about that, and said “Qu’elle meurt” (“may she die”) for which the teacher reprimanded me. Shortly after school let out, my conscience got to me; her birthday was coming up and I sent her a card with a profuse apology. I didn’t have any further contact with her until the middle of the senior year, by which time she had long since recovered–and forgiven me.
Of course Patrick Stewart wouldn’t be injured riding a horse. He’d send Jonathan Frakes to ride the horse for him.
Ah, William Shatner. My neighbor!
No, Stewart would insist on riding the horse and Frakes would attempt to stop him.
“Captain, it’s too risky. I insist that you let me ride. Starfleet orders state that the captain must not put himself at risk.”
"Nonsense, Number One. It’s perfectly safe. And the captain must set an example for his crew if he’s going to be an effective leader. "
You need to look up “Slight”. 
Standing up might be quite traumatic.
Shatner has taken amazing care of himself over the years, hasn’t he? He doesn’t seem like he’s a day over 60.
Nah, Picard would have ended up needing an artificial spine to go along with his artificial heart.
Can you picture him in a lobster suit?
Seriously, how can you not love this guy?
Frakes would mount and dismount the horse in an odd and idiosyncratic fashion.
“ride”
What happens on Risa stays on Risa.
heh. “mount” as well.