# Shatner in wheelchair **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397 "2014-07-30T03:40:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/21 "2014-07-30T19:15:19Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 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. For not using the subjunctive, I assume. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/22 "2014-07-30T19:19:56Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Shatner seems like the kind of guy who’d ride with Western tack. Picard would ride English. A friend completed several times in some fancy show style (not dressage, but it looked like it to me) with Shatner. She didn’t like him. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/23 "2014-07-30T19:36:51Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > She didn’t like him. I suspect the number of people who do like Shatner is quite short, once you weed out anyone making money from/because of him, and discount those who only know him as an image. Which is sad. He was given a path to an uncountable number of friends and didn’t seem to know what to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/24 "2014-07-30T19:58:42Z")
I think this might be my new exclamation. ‘Shatner in a wheelchair! Now I’ve seen _everything!_’ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/25 "2014-07-30T20:26:54Z")
What color shirt was Shatner wearing? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/26 "2014-07-30T20:31:16Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > For not using the subjunctive, I assume. I thought that \* was \* the subjunctive. In any case, that wasn’t why he was angry with me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/27 "2014-07-30T21:17:35Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I suspect the number of people who do like Shatner is quite short, once you weed out anyone making money from/because of him, and discount those who only know him as an image. Well, he’s friends with Henry Rollins; if you can be friends with Henry, you can probably get along with anyone.😃 ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/28 "2014-07-30T21:47:27Z")
My grandma shat n’er wheelchair once. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/29 "2014-07-30T22:27:59Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > In any case, that wasn’t why he was angry with me. ☹ Dint care for the angle of your beret, I assume. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/30 "2014-07-30T23:51:13Z")
What does … GOD … need with a wheelchair? :dubious: “I’ve always known I’ll dine alone.” :smack: “Yes. I love Italian.” “Scotty! Wheel me out!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/31 "2014-07-30T23:56:13Z")
“Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a – oh, yeah, I’ll get right on it.” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/32 "2014-07-31T01:26:23Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > 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. So if Shatner was riding Picard, Patrick Stewart would be butt hurt 😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/33 "2014-07-31T01:42:17Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Dint care for the angle of your beret, I assume. I didn’t wear one! He was angry with me for what I said about Ruth being injured and that I said “May she die.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/34 "2014-07-31T02:38:36Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I didn’t wear one! He was angry with me for what I said about Ruth being injured and that I said “May she die.” Pas de béret? Païen! ---
**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:** [July 31, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/35 "2014-07-31T03:04:37Z")
So now George Takei can say, “FUCK YOU AND THE WHEELCHAIR YOU RODE IN ON!”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/36 "2014-07-31T04:37:55Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Pas de béret? Païen! Quel fromage! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/37 "2014-07-31T11:13:27Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Quel fromage! Merde! J’ai oublié ou se trouve le mouton, mais j’ai vu Dougie dans cette autobus-ci. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/38 "2014-07-31T14:23:57Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Merde! J’ai oublié ou se trouve le mouton, mais j’ai vu Dougie dans cette autobus-ci. 😃 Et pourquoi voulez-vous du mouton? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/39 "2014-07-31T15:03:41Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I thought that \* was \* the subjunctive. In any case, that wasn’t why he was angry with me. ☹ “Qu’elle meure” would be the subjunctive, which sounds the same anyway. Anyway. _Revenons à nos moutons._ ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397/40 "2014-08-04T17:41:10Z")
[NASA likes Shatner.](http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/nasa-star-trek-shatner-tweet) (Ok, they probably only know him as an image) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-in-wheelchair/694397.md?page=1)