The feud between Shatner and Fisher, which WebProNews covered last month, began when Shatner proclaimed Star Trek, the sci-fi television show he starred in, as superior to Star Wars, the sci-fi vehicle that Fisher was a part of. Fisher replied with a playful prod to Shatner’s declaration along with a couple of good-humored jabs at Shatner himself, but then Shatner accelerated the debate into a territory of pure venom with a very invective video he recorded for YouTube. In his video response, he launched insult after insult towards Fisher. Fisher, at least publicly, never dignified his attack with a response.

Although the issue seemed to have simmered down following Shatner’s last response, Takei, who co-starred next to Shatner in Star Trek, has possibly resurrected the feud but with the mission of peace. In a video address released last night, Takei implores Shatner and Fisher to call a truce and focus on the greater threat of “vampires that sparkle and mope and go to high school.”

“Sci-fi fans be warned,” Takei declares, “there are no great stories, characters, or profound life lessons to be had in Twilight.” He follows up with a campy appeal to take up arms against pithy supernatural creatures and hopefully “rid the world of this vampire menace.” The full address can be viewed below:

It remains to be seen if Takei can broker peace among the embattled sci-fi stars, or if they even care enough to continue this dispute. While Takei presents the olive branch between Shatner and Fisher, what I really wanna know is if that painting he’s standing in front of in that video is a portrait of himself. If so, then forget about his “Star” Friends. He wins.

It’s usually easy to dismiss these debates and arguments because the contributors are almost always anonymous. Almost.

This would be a wonderful exception.

William Shatner and Carrie Fisher have been engaged in a spirited (if not a little hostile) disagreement about the age-old argument that occupies many nerd disagreements: Which is better, Star Wars or Star Trek?

Shatner opened his silo first in this interview:

Carrie Fisher then responded to his comments in this interview:

A pretty playful jab, sure, but even that was too much for Shatner to swallow. He slashed back with this wild retort on Monday (it’s so mean at times that it’s kinda awkward):

So anybody wanna comment and speculate how long it takes for one of these two to resort to Godwin’s Law?

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Shatner, accompanied only by stand-up bass and bongos, brought his "unique" style to the reading. Check it out for yourself below:

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Blip.tv has been in the news in connection with William Shatner, and our own David Utter covered a censorship controversy (which had nothing whatsoever to do with Mr. Shatner) about ten days later.  Yet the video-sharing site may be best known for its practice of sharing revenue with content creators, and there will, of course, be money at stake with this FYI development.

“With the new deal between FYI and blip, the network . . . gets exclusive sponsorship for the second season of ‘Break A Leg,’ running overlays and post-roll ads for ‘The Smart Show,’ a new web program being produced and underwritten by HBO\AOL, and Holiday Inn Express,” reports Kristen Nicole.  “Blip will also grant access to FYI show archives.  As blip.tv has recently been added as a distributed channel through Sony Bravia, the deal with FYI should be good for the producers of the show and the execs behind blip.tv.”

Blip.tv’s users could also benefit – the more attention the site gets, the more money might wind up in their pockets.

It’ll be interesting, then, to see how things progress.  Most of FYI’s shows aren’t exactly household names, but they’re also not complete nonentities.  A lot of people and important companies may be watching to see if they can achieve a successful run on Blip.tv.