William Shatner's $250,000 space suit, a bold move for Star Trek's most ambitious film.
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$30 million sci-fi epic? Verify. Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, at the helm? Double check. But here's the shocker: a single space suit costs a quarter of a million dollars! Shatner, always the bold leader, pushed boundaries on and off screen in this Star Trek film. This wasn't your typical phaser-firing adventure; it was a gamble on cutting-edge storytelling, where even costumes defied expectations.
Shatner's extravagant costume became a symbol of the film's daring spirit, a reminder that sometimes it takes a leap of faith and a very expensive space suit to venture into the unknown.
William Shatner, a nonagenarian workhorse who continues to defy age with his acting and space travel, plays tea on his biggest career regret: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Ambitious to a fault, this film saw Shatner not only as Captain Kirk, but also as the director who gave it his all for a single, outrageously expensive space suit (via THR ). When he asked the special effects team how much the costume would cost, they said,
