Star Trek legend William Shatner was taken to a Los Angeles hospital on Wednesday after suffering what sources described as a medical emergency linked to his blood sugar.
The 94-year-old, who famously played Captain James T. Kirk in the cult sci-fi series and its films, called emergency services as a precaution late in the afternoon.
According to TMZ, a Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance attended his home and transported him to a local hospital, where insiders say he is now “resting comfortably” and “doing good”.
The Standard has contacted William Shatner’s rep for comment.
Despite his age, Shatner has remained a lively public figure, regularly appearing at conventions and working on projects tied to his Star Trek legacy.
Earlier this month he revealed to The Telegraph that he earned nothing from the show’s lucrative re-runs.
“Nobody knew about re-runs,” he said of the original series, which aired from 1966 to 1969.
“The concept of syndication only came in after Star Trek was cancelled when someone from the unions said, “Wait a minute, you’re replaying all those films, those shows.
“There was a big strike. But in the end, the unions secured residual fees shortly after Star Trek finished, so I didn’t benefit.”
Shatner said the series paid him “very well for me in my experience up to that time” but admitted that by Hollywood standards it wasn’t much”.
The actor, who shares three daughters, Leslie, Lisabeth and Melanie, with his first wife, actress Gloria Rand, added: “But by the standards of Hollywood, not very well – and with a dissolving marriage, with three children, I was broke at that point.”
Aside from Star Trek, Shatner made history in 2021 by becoming the oldest person to travel to space on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket.
However, the trip to space gave Shatner a David Attenborough-esque crisis of confidence in the world.
He told Variety: “Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna… things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind.
“It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.”
