I can't remember the show in which Shatner playe a cop (Hooker, Booker, somethin' like that). Anyway, I saw three episodes or so and decided to call it a night. (It was on when Hil Street Blues was still being shown.) HSB often had the phrase 'scumbag' in it. I guess that Shatner was a fan of HSB, because in one of the episodes of his shows he trampled a line: "Put down the gun you dirty (then a pause for a second while he shook his head and--as far as I could tell-- thought hard about how he was going to convey the 'feeling' of scumbag yet not say it on his 'family' police show: To repeat, "Put down the gun you dirty . . . . . . . . BAG!"

Pure Shatner, and some of you folks think he can't act?