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Set your phasers to stun, Scotty

William Shatner (Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)

It used to be good advice to count to 10 before you mailed an angry letter. Then that same advice was applied to phone calls. And, more recently, e-mails.

Add Web-site posting to the list.

William Shatner posted a video on his Web site Wednesday, lashing out at former “Star Trek” fellow cast member George Takei for not inviting him to his wedding last month.

The 77-year-old Shatner said that Takei seems to harbor a grudge against him: “The whole thing makes me feel badly. Poor man. There is such a sickness there. It’s so patently obvious that there is a psychosis there. I don’t know what his original thing about me was. I have no idea.”

Takei, 71, and Brad Altman, 54, were married on Sept. 14. Other members of the “Star Trek” cast Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig did attend the wedding. Takei claims Shatner was invited to the ceremony but never responded.

Dancing’s hard to stomach

Julianne Hough, 20, was feeling fine after being hospitalized Tuesday with stomach trouble following her “Dancing With the Stars” performance. “With stomach problems, you never know what’s going on,” Hough wrote online. “It could’ve been appendicitis. It turned out just to be a bad stomach.”

A professional dancer who’s partnered with “Hannah Montana” actor Cody Linley on the ABC show, Hough said she hadn’t been feeling well all day and “curled up in a ball” backstage after the show.

Things could always be worse

Speaking of health issues, Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole may need a kidney transplant. Cole, 58, made the announcement in a two-part chat with Mary Hart on “Entertainment Tonight,” the second half which is set to air tonight. She had said in July that she has hepatitis C and that doctors told her her kidney was damaged.

Who, though, is on the attack?

Bill O’Reilly, 59, has signed a pact to keep “The O’Reilly Factor” at Fox News through the end of the next president’s term – at a reported $10 million a year. O’Reilly, at Fox since 1996, told the Washington Post the new contract will mean he’ll have “to put myself through all the attacks and smears” for several more years.

Just right for basketball

Charlie Sheen’s mother-in-law, Moira Fiore, says Sheen, 42, and wife Brooke Mueller, 31, are expecting twins. “Brooke has had all-day morning sickness but is coming to the end of the first trimester, so she hopefully will feel better soon,” Fiore says. Sheen has two children with ex-wife Denise Richards and a 22-year-old daughter, Cassandra Estevez, via ex-girlfriend Paula Profit.

There’s money in that sweet pain

Kenny Chesney’s new CD, “Lucky Old Sun,” inspired in large part by the country singer’s breakup with actress Renée Zellweger, debuts this week atop the Billboard album charts, moving 176,000 copies in the United States.

The birthday bunch

Actor-producer David Nelson (“The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”) is 72. Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman is 72. Actor F. Murray Abraham is 69. Actor Kevin Kline is 61. Actor B.D. Wong is 48. Singer Monica is 28. Actress Shenae Grimes is 19.