William Shatner, aka Captain Kirk to the legions of Star Trek fans, was in New England over the weekend and appeared at Rhode Island’s Comic Con.
However, before his flight out of Boston from Logan Airport the longtime Star Trek actor dined at the famed Boston Italian Restaurant Rino’s Place on Saratoga Street.
Shatner, who also played TJ Hooker and hosted the long-running reality TV show “Rescue 911” in the 80s and 90s, ordered grilled octopus, littlenecks in red sauce, stuffed eggplant, and pasta primavera before departing for his flight out of town.
Rino’s manager Cheryl Breault said Shatner was the ‘nicest man’ and posed for photos with staff and fans after coffee and dessert.
Shatner played the beloved space captain James T. Kirk alongside Boston native Leonard Nimoy as Spock during the original Star Trek TV show in the 1960s. Shatner reprised his role during several motion pictures from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
Shatner was recently back in the news as he became the oldest person in space during the Oct. 13 flight aboard a fully automated capsule built by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company.