@Chuck the plant: Yeah, Shatner has been doing a lot of parodies of the characters he used to play, but I'm pretty sure he was still taking himself seriously back when he did this song. He has released a couple of cd's btw, and on the early one, several of the tracks consist of Shatner reciting Shakespeare...priceless.
@efthimios: You think Shatner is
cool? And you love the song? Damn. Oh well, different people, different tastes, I guess.