# William Shatner vs. Jason Nesmith **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011 "2006-02-04T19:16:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/1 "2006-02-04T19:16:51Z")
Who’d win? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/2 "2006-02-04T19:19:49Z")
Even pudgy william Shatner could take [this guy](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/4757/jason.htm). ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/3 "2006-02-04T19:21:16Z")
Not that Jason Nesmith, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/4 "2006-02-04T19:23:35Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Not that Jason Nesmith, my friend. Help us out, who is Jason Nesmith? Jim ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/5 "2006-02-04T19:25:48Z")
Trust me. Knowing the SDMB, somebody knows exactly who I mean. (Heck, they’ve referenced him often enough.) ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/6 "2006-02-04T19:41:30Z")
[This](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/) Jason Nesmith. Quoted somewhere on the SDMB as out William Shatner-ing William Shatner. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/7 "2006-02-04T19:47:29Z")
Does Shatner have his shirt ripped? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/8 "2006-02-04T19:48:32Z")
> [@Achren](#): > > [This](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/) Jason Nesmith. Quoted somewhere on the SDMB as out William Shatner-ing William Shatner. I’ll give 1970’s convention circuit Shatner the advantage over his spoofy doppleganger in that case. Shatner had several action roles and was in pretty good shape despite the pudge factor. On the convention circuit I give the edge to Shatner, he actually has a good sence of humor and good comic timing in telling jokes. For acting, I will of course give it to Nesmith, Tim Allen isn’t a good enough actor to make Nesmith as bad an actor as Shatner. Jim ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/9 "2006-02-04T19:50:20Z")
Shouldn’t it be James T. Kirk vs. Jason Nesmith?? Kirk wins of course. The question is, who has the better hairpiece? Shatner or Allen…? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/10 "2006-02-04T19:54:28Z")
> [@HelloKitty](#): > > Shouldn’t it be James T. Kirk vs. Jason Nesmith?? > > Kirk wins of course. > > The question is, who has the better hairpiece? Shatner or Allen…? I thought the same this but then realized the Nesmith is the actor that plays a Kirk like character, not a Kirk like Character. So **JThunder** ’s competition is actually fair. Jim ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/11 "2006-02-04T20:03:46Z")
I am not a mod, but I can’t for the life of me think of anything more mundane and pointless than these “versus” threads. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/12 "2006-02-04T20:07:58Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I am not a mod, but I can’t for the life of me think of anything more mundane and pointless than these “versus” threads. > > That is all. Don’t ever visit [here](http://www.grudge-match.com/current.html) then. 😉 Jim ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/13 "2006-02-04T20:11:52Z")
I don’t not enjoy them, I just don’t think they belong in Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/14 "2006-02-04T22:22:22Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I am not a mod, but I can’t for the life of me think of anything more mundane and pointless than these “versus” threads. > > That is all. Thanks, God. Let us know if we can continue posting on your message board. I’m taking Nesmith, but only because I’m hoping for a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/15 "2006-02-05T00:52:38Z")
> [@HelloKitty](#): > > Shouldn’t it be James T. Kirk vs. Jason Nesmith?? No, then it’d be James T. Kirk vs Peter Quincy Taggart. And Kirk would win that easy. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/16 "2006-02-05T04:53:03Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I don’t not enjoy them, I just don’t think they belong in Cafe Society. Since it’s right there in the title there is an easy solution. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/william-shatner-vs-jason-nesmith/343011/17 "2006-02-08T21:18:59Z")
Gotta vote for Nesmith, if only he proved himself capable of doing something other than overacting beyond the limits of his ego. 😉