Shatner sans hairpiece?

[Werewolf]

Yvonne Craig said she pulled out Shatner's hairpiece during the filming of "Whom Gods Destroy", I think she described it as being somewhat small.

Yep, his hair loss was never as pronounced as many have wanted or claimed it to be. Plus, like I mentioned earlier, he got hair plugs a long time ago and now has a full head of hair.

[MysteryWho]

Shatner probably has a few stray tufts of hair on his noggin', but he's been going bald since the Sixties. During the original series of Star Trek he has a receding hairline with a bit of a Friar Tuck in the back. A couple of my friends went bald this way in their late twenties/early thirties. In Turnabout Intruder, when he's kinda spinning around, the thing almost flies off his head. By the early seventies he is wearing one terrible rug after another, presumably 'cause he couldn't afford to get something better or it just wasn't available at the time (i.e. transplants) I think the people who made the first Star Trek movie probably advanced him and said "Get yourself a new wig, my friend".
At the time Shatner went bald, it actually might have harmed his career. Aside from a few defiantly bald guys like Brynner and Savalas, a full head of hair was a must have to be a leading man. Especially in the seventies when hair was big, literally as well as figuratively. I can't blame him for wanting to cover it up. People still do it now, look at Nicholas Cage or Travolta. I don't know if it was entirely a personal hang-up or a job thing or both. But the man's bald.
The Shatner/hair thing that's always perplexed me much more is the chest shaving. His chest just looks creepy on the old show sometimes, bald and covered in make-up. What was that about?

[JediJaida]

Maybe they didn't want him and Leonard Nimoy competing as to who had the most chest hair! LOL!

It could have been worst, he could have gone shirtless with a serious case of body hair, and REALLY grossed out people on the set and those watching.

[mego73]

And it's nothing unusual as well. Jack Klugman wore a piece for Odd Couple (but he didn't wear it for interviews and awards). I bet Tony Randell had one too. Richard Anderson wore one for Oscar Goldman (I saw him in a Cannon made before 6mill dollar man recently where he didn't wear a piece). Martin Landau wore one in Space 1999 (I don't know about Mission Impossible) but didn't wear one in 1979's "Meteor".

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

I don't really care about world peace or saving the whales. . . .just so long as we can get to the root of these really important Issues, Like Will Shatners Toupee! J/K.

[MysteryWho]

We don't need to to save the whales! If we run out later and need some, Shatner will just go back in time and get us some!

[Hector]

Plugs are only effective when you still has some hair on top.

If you are completely bald...plugs are not an option....toupees are.

[JPkempo]

Those first photos seem to have Harry Mudds hair on Kirk.

[Meule]

Those first photos seem to have Harry Mudds hair on Kirk.

Definitely looks that way

[Nostalgiabuff]

Shat hadf more hair in the Motion Picture than he did in the series so he definately had wigs and eventually plugs.

the makeup on the chest was so that his skin all looked even toned on film, they have to do that or skin looks too pale

[Werewolf]

Plugs are only effective when you still has some hair on top.

If you are completely bald...plugs are not an option....toupees are.

I dont get this NEED some people seem to have for Shat to be bald, lol.

I'm just teasing, Hec.

He had thinning hair but wasn't ever bald. He has since had hair plugs and now has a full head of hair.

[Meule]

Shat would be so proud: almost 4 pages on his hair

[fallensaviour]

Sean Connery is bald and wore wigs and toupes nobody cared!?!?!
I'm just saying is all.

[Joe90]

You. Guys. Are. All. Crazy!

He. Never. Had. A. Hair. Piece. Or. Plugs. That. Was. A. Lie. Started. In. Hollywood. By. Those. Jealous. Of. His. Acting. Skills. The. Man's. A. God. A. Genius. Unrecognized. In. His. Time. Mocked. By. Lesser. Mortals. Like. You. All. You. Should. All. Move. Out. Of. Your. Parents'. Basement. Suites. And. Get. A. Life.

[thunderbolt]

That's Roger C. Carmel's hairline on the Shat!!