menuBarBack
Beam Up News | Join | Your Account
Home
Advanced Search
boxBottom
News Tribblets
boxBottom
Stardates Calendar
News Story

Features

"Bridge on the Captain" - William Shatner Tells His Own Story Up Till Now

Features

By Steve Krutzler / 16:40, 11 May 2008 / People

Star Trek's William Shatner tells his own life story, up till now, in a book entitled Up Till Now. The Daily Mail has some compelling excerpts:


The executives believed they might make more money with Patrick Stewart's Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his Next Generation crew.


As I prepared for Kirk's final scene, I had to remind myself that this was just another performance. And I was able to do that right up until the morning of the shoot.


Kill Kirk? What are they, out of their minds? Why did I agree to this?


Gradually, I calmed down.


I die saving the universe. For my final scene I had to leap from one side of a collapsed bridge to the other. The bridge collapses and Kirk falls to his death.


My last line, was: "Oh ... my... " but I had written some other lines.


When I leapt on to the bridge I said: "Captain on the bridge," which was the way I had always announced my presence on the bridge of
the Enterprise.


And when the bridge collapsed on me I said: "Bridge on the captain." Those lines were cut.


I went home that night with a great sense of satisfaction. I didn't feel it was the end of an era, just the end of a character.


And then I sat down and wrote a 40-page treatment for a story in which Kirk comes back from the dead.


[...]

I guess the question asked most often was why did I call 911 before diving into the pool to try to save her?


It took me years to fully understand, and even then it was only because of my fourth wife, Elizabeth.


Every year on August 9, Elizabeth and I would go up to the pool in the evening. The moon is in the same position, the lights are the same.


On one of those nights I suddenly knew. The water in the pool had been still.


And somehow I had known that whether I dived in and rescued the body and then called 911, or called 911 and then did so, it would have made no difference.


[---]

Read more here.






More Top StoriesComments
Nov 23J.J. Abrams and Chris Pine Talk How Gratifying That Star Trek was Well Received, Working with Leonard Nimoy and Star Trek XII0
Nov 23Chuck returns to NBC with a special two-hour show on Sunday, Jan 10, 2010, before returning to its regular time slot, Mondays at 8pm on the following night. It's return to prime time television can be attributed to a successful fan renewnal campaign last year. CHUCK is a one-hour, action-comedy series that follows Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi, "Less Than Perfect") -- a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. This upcoming season will include some special guest stars, including Brandon Routh of "Superman Returns" who will play CIA agent Daniel Shaw in an episode, and the addition of SUBWAY restaurant as a major advertiser to the show. Chuck averaged a 4.0/6 rating last season, about eight percent better than the recently cancelled "Trauma". Ratings-challenged Heroes moves back an hour when Chuck returns on Monday nights. STAR TREK VOYAGER's Robert Duncan McNeill serves Chuck as a supervising producer and director.0
Nov 235-Page Preview of Third Issue of Galactica 1980 Comic Book  0
Nov 22Quinto, Urban, Saldana, Cho and Greenwood on Their Hopes for Star Trek XII3
Nov 22Exclusive Digital Content Now Available With New Star Trek Movie on iTunes
1
Story Archives...Browse:   

Talkback

11 comments Post New | Help
View:

RE: Huh? | Report this post to moderator
By: Capricorn Two (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:04:33 on May 12, 2008

Quote:
WORST line ever. WTF?

Mad Cow Disease.



Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
Parent
Parent
Talkback Top
Top

RE: Huh? | Report this post to moderator
By: Terry212 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 07:17:27 on May 15, 2008

Quote:
"Bridge on the Captain."

WORST line ever. WTF?


It clearly shows that he doesn't know why STV was a box office failure. Humor has always been GREAT in Trek and TOS movies in particular, but there's such a thing as being too corny. This is a little too silly to say while dying at the bottom of a ravine.


That said, I hope Denny Crane has a health scare in the final ep of Boston Legal. I could just see Spader hovering over his hospital bed as Denny says Oh, my!" and his eyes go wide. Spader looks a little stunned. And then Denny says..."My Viagra just kicked in." And you know he's okay.

--------

Click here to check out my band, ego tree , and the Ego Tree site at myspace. Listen to/buy the CD for $9.99! ALSO AVAILABLE ON iTUNES!!

Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
Parent
Parent
Talkback Top
Top

RE: Huh? | Report this post to moderator
By: lnformed (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:35:09 on May 14, 2008

Quote:
WORST line ever. WTF?

I think that's just Shatner doing his typical joking around for the readers.

And even if he DID improvise that line, he did it for laughs and knew it would be cut. A look at the blooper reels shows how he ad-libs funny lines to make the cast crack up.

Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
Parent
Parent
Talkback Top
Top
Promenade










TrekWeb Merchants
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.ca
Amazon.de
Barnes & Noble

Get Firefox!
Privacy Policy | About Us | Legal Notice | Contact Us | | Get Firefox!
© 1996-2009 TrekWeb.com and Steve Krutzler. All rights reserved.