William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor.  In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 1966 debut as the captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the first Star Trek television series to his final appearance as Captain Kirk in the seventh Star Trek feature film, Star Trek Generations (1994).  Shatner began his screen acting career in Canadian films and television productions before moving into guest-starring roles in various U.S. television shows.  He appeared as James Kirk in all the episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, 21 of the 22 episodes of Star Trek:  The Animated Series, and the first seven Star Trek movies.  He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences before, during and after his time in a Starfleet uniform.  He has also co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe and a series of science fiction novels, the TekWar sequence, that were adapted for television.  Outside Star Trek, Shatner played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker (1982–1986), hosted the reality-based television series Rescue 911 (1989–1996), guest starred on the detective series Columbo, and acted in the comedy film Miss Congeniality (2000).  In seasons 4 and 5 of the NBC series 3rd Rock from the Sun, he played the alien "Big Giant Head" to which the main characters reported.  From 2004 until 2008, he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the final season of the legal show The Practice and in its spinoff Boston Legal, a role that earned him two Emmy Awards, one for his contribution to each series.  In 2016, 2017 and 2018, he starred in both seasons of NBC's Better Late Than Never, a comical travel series in which a band of elderly celebrities toured east Asia and Europe.  Aside from acting, Shatner has had a career as a recording artist, beginning in 1968 with his album The Transformed Man.  His cover versions of songs are dramatic recitations of their lyrics rather than musical performances:  the most notable are his versions of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man", and Elton John's "Rocket Man".  His most successful album was his third, Seeking Major Tom (2011), which includes covers of Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly", David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".    Shatner's television career after his last appearance as Captain Kirk has embraced comedy, drama and reality shows.  In seasons 4 and 5 of the NBC series 3rd Rock from the Sun, he played the alien "Big Giant Head" to which the main characters reported.  From 2004 until 2008, he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the final season of the legal show The Practice and in its spinoff Boston Legal, a role that earned him two Emmy Awards, one for his contribution to each series.  In 2016, 2017 and 2018, he starred in both seasons of NBC's Better Late Than Never, a comical travel series in which a band of elderly celebrities toured east Asia and Europe.  Aside from acting, Shatner has had a career as a recording artist, beginning in 1968 with his album The Transformed Man.  His cover versions of songs are dramatic recitations of their lyrics rather than musical performances:  the most notable are his versions of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man", and Elton John's "Rocket Man".   His most successful album was his third, Seeking Major Tom (2011), which includes covers of Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly", David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".  Shatner made several guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, including in cameos in which he made fun of the Republican politician Sarah Palin.  He opened mock-hostilities on July 27, 2009, with a poetry slam inspired recitation of the speech in which she had resigned the governorship of Alaska.  Two days later, he ridiculed some of the tweets that she and Levi Johnston, the father of her grandchild, had published on Twitter.  On December 11, 2009, he returned to Palin once more to read excerpts from her autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, and she, taking his teasing in good part, responded by reciting extracts from his own memoir, Up Till Now.  (Co-written with David Fisher, later to collaborate with Shatner on a book about Leonard Nimoy and Shatner's relationship with him, Up Till Now had been published in 2008.)  Shatner also contributed to O'Brien's recurring "In the Year 3000" feature, which began with Shatner's disembodied head floating in space and delivering the segment's portentous tag line:  "And so we take a cosmic ride into that new millennium; that far off reality that is the year 3000.  It's the future, man".  In May 2012, he was the guest presenter on the British satirical television quiz show Have I Got News for You, earning a footnote in the history of neologisms by melding "pioneer" and "pensioner" into the portmanteau coinage "pensioneer".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner    

Pepper Pie

Sprinkle seeded chopped peppers, shredded cheddar cheese, and beaten eggs into well-greased pan.  Cover with cheese.  Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool, and cut into squares.    

Hack House on 775 County Street, Milan Michigan   In April 1888, Olive Friend and her young son, William, moved into the house she had just built.  It was a gorgeous "stick style" Victorian house on County Road east of Milan.  Olive had bought 40 acres from her Uncle Henry Hack and his wife, Mary, to use for the house and farm.  When she moved into the house, Olive was a recent widow.  Her husband, Prof. Henry Friend, had died in New York March 10, 1888 just before a terrible snowstorm hit.   Since he was a major figure with the New York Electric Sugar Refining Company, the company kept his death a secret to prevent people from selling their stock.  Olive knew it was a good time to leave New York and come back to her home town of Milan.  She knew that the stock investors in New York and in Europe would find out that their investments in the Electric Sugar Refining Company were worthless.  Olive knew the investors would want to punish Olive and her family for tricking them with their "Electric Sugar Refining Machine."  (There was no such machine.  It was all a fraud.)  Olive lived in her house, and soon afterwards put an addition on the back which more than doubled its size.  Olive's mother, Emily Burnham Howard, had a nearly identical home built on the northeast corner of Arkona and Platt Roads north of Milan.  When Olive moved out of the beautiful house, she sold it to her Uncle Henry Hack.  After Olive left the house, it was owned by James and Daisy Hack, and it was known locally as the "Hack House."    

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