TORONTO – Canadian actor William Shatner doesn’t think there’s anything funny about a Star Trek parody by employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The Montreal-born star, who portrayed Captain James T. Kirk in the original TV series, used social media to express his disgust at the five-figure price tag for the video.
“So I watched that IRS video,” he tweeted on Monday night to his 1.4 million followers. “I am appalled at the utter waste of US tax dollars.”
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In the six-minute video, IRS workers play characters from Star Trek and vow “to boldly go where no governmental employee has gone before” as they approach the planet Notax.
The video, and a Gilligan’s Island parody, reportedly cost as much as $60,000 to produce.
It was screened at a training and leadership conference in 2010. After it surfaced last week, the IRS has issued a statement acknowledging the video should not have been made.
“The IRS recognizes and takes seriously our obligation to be good stewards of government resources and taxpayer dollars,” the agency said in a statement. “There is no mistaking that this video did not reflect the best stewardship of resources.”
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