William Shatner was rushed to the hospital after a medical emergency on Wednesday, September 24, reports TMZ.
The Star Trek icon, 94, called emergency services from his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon after experiencing an issue with his blood sugar, according to the outlet. He was taken to a local hospital to be checked out.
TMZ cited a source who said the actor was “resting comfortably.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Shatner’s representative for comment.
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Earlier this year, the Captain James T. Kirk actor opened up to Us about his late-night television habits. “I have so many bad habits. Staying up too late at night,” he shared in February.
“Sometimes I’ll record something during the day [that] I want to watch at night, and by the time I’ve finished watching, it’s two o’clock in the morning,” he explained. “I think the trick is, apparently, to get six [or] seven hours of sleep, hopefully at a regular time.”
Shatner also reflected on the enduring legacy of Star Trek, which first premiered in 1966.
As well as starring on Star Trek: The Original Series, Shatner appeared in seven Star Trek movies, ranging from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, released in 1979, through to 1994’s Star Trek Generations. He also directed and cowrote 1989’s Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
“Everybody wanted to make it larger in scope because it was transitioning from a small screen to a large screen,” Shatner described the initial transition from television to movies. “So the script had an interesting novel idea where an instrument, a machine, is sent out as a probe from Earth to probe the universe. And it’s essentially captured by a machine planet that reverses it and follows it back to destroy earth.”
Shatner said it was a “wonderful” and “advanced” idea for a movie, though he had no idea the first film would spawn so many spinoffs.
“Nobody knew that 60 years later, you and I would be talking about it. This show is just phenomenal,” Shatner said. “It’ll be really in our lifetime, impossible to repeat, because it would take some entertainment to exist for 60 years from now to equal what Star Trek has done. We won’t be alive then.”
In February, Shatner received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd Annual Saturn Awards.
“It’s an honor that I’m delighted to receive,” he told Us at the time. “I’ve watched with delight how the organization has grown [over the years] and for them to go back and do a lifetime achievement award, that’s great.”