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TIL that the MTV show Celebrity Deathmatch once planned to have a showdown between Captain Kirk vs. Captain Piccard with William Shatner even blessing the episode. Paramount was unhappy and pulled the plug because they didn’t want MTV “F***ing with their billion dollar franchise”.

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