The 91-years-young star of the original Star Trek series has criticised newer additions (see here, here, and here) to the Sci-Fi universe, declaring, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, would be ‘turning in his grave’.

William Shatner made the comments at this year’s Comic-Con International held in San Deigo over the weekend.

The Hollywood Reporter recalled how the actor – whose Hollywood CV includes decades of work in TV and cinema – ‘closed out the first night’ of the popular, pop-culture conference by telling Trekkies:

‘I got to know Gene Roddenberry in three years fairly well, he’d be turning in his grave at some of this stuff.