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De Kelley was fairly successful at character work prior to Trek-- I believe I heard him say that he wasn't sure if he was typecast or not because he had not intended to go on working after Trek ended anyway.
Really, I think that's a bit shortsighted. Shatner has only become that way in the last decade or so. Prior to that, he's tried to distance himself from the Trek fans as much as possible.
It is true that it appears Shatner has only become that way in the past 15 years or so. It might be because he has determined that this is the way to milk it, but if you listen to Shatner talk about it, he seems sincere in that he regrets the poor relations with Doohan and Takei, who hate his guts. As far as his relations with Trek fans, from what I have always heard he was always gracious, but it is true that he didn't attend conventions and tried to distance himself from Kirk.
As further evidence that the guy is at least a little warm blooded, he does a tremendous amount of charity work, and donates a lot of money.
As far as Roddenberry's funeral goes, I don't know anything about that, but he and Roddenberry did not have a good relationship. Roddenberry is one person who actually had more poor relationships due to his ego or work than Shatner did. Roddenberry was also very close to Doohan (and I think Takei), and that would have worsened the Shatner relationship. It might be that Shatner thought it would make things worse if he did show up too.
In 96-97, I worked in a similar capacity as these plaintiffs did, for Manpower Technical, on a week to week contract with HP. All along, the dividing line between employees and contractors was that if HP did not hire you permanently, you would be removed from the contract within two years.
While true HP employees did get benefits and vacations, I never saw a HP employee to be happily working that 50th or 60th hour in a week, on the other hand, I was earning big $$ in OT.
When it came time to accept or reject an offer from HP for permanent emploment, I believe that even with a generous valuation of the HP benefits, I was still going to take over a 20% cut in compensation. I passed, now have a permanent salaried job elsewhere, and was happy with my HP time, and happy with my decision to pass on permanent employment too.
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Except for: De Kelley was fairly successful at character work prior to Trek-- I believe I heard him say that he wasn't sure if he was typecast or not because he had not intended to go on working after Trek ended anyway.
In 96-97, I worked in a similar capacity as these plaintiffs did, for Manpower Technical, on a week to week contract with HP. All along, the dividing line between employees and contractors was that if HP did not hire you permanently, you would be removed from the contract within two years. While true HP employees did get benefits and vacations, I never saw a HP employee to be happily working that 50th or 60th hour in a week, on the other hand, I was earning big $$ in OT. When it came time to accept or reject an offer from HP for permanent emploment, I believe that even with a generous valuation of the HP benefits, I was still going to take over a 20% cut in compensation. I passed, now have a permanent salaried job elsewhere, and was happy with my HP time, and happy with my decision to pass on permanent employment too.