In recent weeks, William Shatner has emerged as a social media icon of sorts.
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Yet Priceline.com , best known as the name-your-own-price booking company with the goofy William Shatner ads, is defying the trend.
Geoff Edwards, Jack Narz and William Shatner were all supposedly under consideration.
Other celebs taking part in the auction for the RFK Center include Robert DeNiro, Alex Trebek, Carrie Underwood, Peyton Manning, William Shatner and David Letterman.
William Shatner is the hottest thing going on Apple iTunes today.
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Even when we all watched the first lunar landing on Intelsat, only William Shatner and his crew on the Enterprise or the Man From U.N.
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It has 5.3 million customers in the US. It has been helped by the launch of an advertising campaign fronted by William Shatner, Star Trek's Captain Kirk.
The Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN) Negotiator has come back from the dead as William Shatner is returning to the travel discount commercials, according to The Los Angeles Times.
One of the names from the list often evokes images of William Shatner rather than a stock chart, but Priceline.com ( PCLN) has doubled in price since June.
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Everyone from David Hasselhoff to Jennifer Love Hewitt to William Shatner has tried to boldly go where hordes of celebrities have gone before: to the concert stage.
Star Trek actor William Shatner, who portrayed the Enterprise's captain James Kirk, had previously called on the vote organisers to add Vulcan and Romulus to the list of names in contention.
Not only does a geriatric Kirk karate-chop him, but the Gorn only gets to grunt, while William Shatner steals all the dialogue (then again, Shatner did that to his co-stars on Star Trek).
Trusting the wisdom of Spock (Leonard Nimoy), the Federation (read: Free World) selects Captain Kirk (William Shatner) to escort a contingent of Klingons (read: Soviets) to a peace conference (read: end of Cold War).
The two men concluded their conversation with Hadfield alluding to the end of every Boston Legal episode, where Denny Crane (played by William Shatner) would discuss life with his friends over a cigar and a glass of whiskey.
Would Trekkies be satisfied with simply watching re-runs of the original Star Trek featuring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, or The Next Generation (Star Trek spinoff) with Patrick Stewart without all of the consumer products (including collectibles) that continue to be available at retail?
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Once William Shatner returns to commercials, consumers may begin to remember why Priceline was the leader in online travel bookings and feel confident in using the service once again, rather than traveling through competitors like Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE), Orbitz (NYSE: OWW), Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO) and Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP), all of which have been trending upward recently (with the exception of Orbitz, which traded down seven percent during Wednesday trading).
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