Nicholas Brendon

CAN’T ... OVERCOME ... EFFECTS ... OF SOLAR ... ALIEN: William Shatner recently made headlines with his reality series Invasion: Iowa — in which he told a small town that he was shooting a cheesy sci-fi movie there, but was actually punking them. Meanwhile, the once-and-future Capt. Kirk has been talking for months about directing Alien Fire, a "drive-in style" Saturday night flick for the U.S. Sci-Fi channel about evil aliens from the Sun (no, not the one you’re reading, the one that makes you go blind if you look at it during an eclipse).

Well, Fire Serpent / Alien Fire is underway in Hamilton with Nicholas Brendon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) starring, but Shatner is not involved. John Terlesky is directing the film, which was written by Judith Reeves-Stevens, an ex-writer-producer for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Three possibilities: (a) creative differences, (b) Shatner was punking us, or (c) solar aliens got him.