Star Trek's William Shatner blasts US tax video

Star Trek actor William Shatner has accused US tax authorities of wasting tens of thousands of dollars on a spoof video based on the cult television space show. Shatner -- who played the Starship Enterprise's commander Captain James T Kirk in the series -- took to Twitter to lambast the video, which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has now apologized for. "So I watched that IRS video. I am appalled at the utter waste of US tax dollars," Shatner wrote to his 1.4 million followers on the microblogging service.