Santa Claus? Nope. Sorry. He came later, some time after the Christians managed to convert the Germans from their ancient Norse mythology. I think he was a Druidic figure or something. Anyway, he got remade into Saint Nicholas, and there you are. Bob's yer uncle.

Getting back to Shatner, I suspect that a great many of the passages in Holy Writ which begin, "And the Lord said................" refer to a certain person now walking among us...

Well, you know where I'm going with this, don't you?