Though I have never meet in person Mr Shatner, I have had the good fortune to be in the same room as him a couple of times.
First times was back in 1994 at a convention at the Royal Albert Hall (also there was George T, Walter K, Jimmy D as well as Will W, Jennifer L and Ethan P. The TNG cast were filming first contact). Lenoard Nimoy was supposed to appear with him but could not make it.
The second time was in 2008 whilst on Honeymoon in LA we got so free tickets to see the Tonight show with Jay Leno.
Other guests were Gene Simmons and Tricia Helfer.
When she came on she was bigging up Battlestar as the best sci-fi show, dismissing all other sci-fi shows right in front of James.T.Kirk himself and that they had decided to finish after 4 seasons. Shatner cool as brass turned to her and said "So you got cancelled then" She did not know how to responed. I bet she wished she has a quater of the career Sir William of Shatner has had. And yes as a Canadian and a memeber of the Commenwealth he could be knighted too. That would be so cool.