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Shatner Seeks Representation
What's Ray Bradbury doing these days?
We ask because William Shatner happens to be looking for the "most talented sci-fi personality in the United States."
The former captain of the starship Enterprise launched an online contest Friday to find a new spokesperson for the William Shatner Science Fiction DVD Club. (Apparently Shatner himself is too busy. Or maybe Shatner singing the praises of his own club is too obvious.)
Trekkies, Vulcans, Klingons, Borgs and anyone looking to boldly go where no man has gone before is welcome to submit a short video clip demonstrating why he is Kirk-worthy via the competition Website, shatner.blip.tv. Wannabes have until Sept. 30 to get their stuff online.
As on American Idol, only with aliens and time travel, fans will help decide who gets to be the next face of Shatner's DVD-of-the-month club, a service from which you can obtain classic sci-fi romps ranging from The Butterfly Effect to Virus. Um, yeah.
Seven sci-fi experts chosen by Shatner are also going to weigh in on who they think should represent the actor's latest enterprise. The celebrity judges and at-home fans will whittle the pool down to 17, after which the man himself will choose his spokesperson.
"This is an opportunity for new faces and new voices in the science fiction world to be seen and heard," Shatner said in a statement. "Plus, this is a chance for passionate fans to be the first to discover the next M. Night Shyamalan [pre-Lady in the Water, we presume] or Brandon Routh, and help propel them into stardom."
Entries uploaded and available for viewing so far include a black-and-white clip of a guy sticking a Captain Kirk action figure up his nose; a girl sitting in what looks like her office cubicle saying she's the girl for the job because she thinks Shatner is the sexiest man alive; and a delightful photo slideshow, set to a jaunty score, announcing the lineup for a William Shatner All-Star Roast.
The proposed guest list for the unfortunately fictional roast includes a variety of Star Trek figures, such as Data, the reptilian Gorn creatures, Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine, and the Khans--including Chaka. Not to mention the Harlem Globetrotters, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Fab Five, Rip Taylor, Heather Locklear in T.J. Hooker mode, Kermit the Frog, the Predator of Predator fame, Josie and the Pussycats (the cartoon version) and Whoopi Goldberg.
May the best video win.
A real-life (yet far less star-studded) roast, put on by Comedy Central, is set for Aug. 13, with the cable telecast premiering Aug. 20. This lineup isn't so bad, either, actually: among others, Sharon Stone, Andy Dick, George Takei, Betty White, Fred Willard, Patton Oswalt and Kevin Pollack are on tap to skewer Shatner.
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