With a career spanning more than 50 years, it's not surprising that Shatner's appeal has cut across so many age groups, from long-time Trekkies introduced to the actor by the '60s sci-fi show, through to fans of his turn as David E. Kelley's eccentric lawyer Denny Crane in Boston Legal.

Shatner's one-man show took us through his entire career, starting from his childhood and his love of vaudeville comedy, through to his joining Canada's premier Shakespearean company (where he was the understudy for Christopher Plummer) and on to his casting as Kirk.

Actor William Shatner during his one-man show.

Throughout, Shatner's distinctive voice – sonorous, with that unique cadence of long pauses followed by a rush of words – filled Hamer Hall, whether at a whisper or a booming shout.

Although he came on stage to the sounds of the Star Trek theme, fans of the show may have been a little disappointed he didn't spend more time talking about it. Then again, as he pointed out, that first TV series ran for just three years, and perhaps his time on Trek has been covered so thoroughly elsewhere that revisiting it in detail here felt redundant.