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William Shatner Remembers His Days as Captain Kirk in The Original Series

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By GustavoLeao / 16:45, 6 June 2008 / General Star Trek

Denver Post posted a new interview with Star Trek star William Shatner, in which he revealed that he recently watched the second season TOS episode "A Piece of the Action". Here are few excerpts.

"I haven't seen myself playing Capt. Kirk in a long, long time," he says. "And I watched it now, from my perspective of 40 years later, and I thought, 'You know, that's rather good.' It's a starship captain trying to do the accent, the Noo Yawk accent, trying to play tough, trying to be one of the guys. It's not quite right, but it's what a starship captain would have done - a decent imitation, enough to fool those guys but not the audience."

"The actors were wonderful. And I didn't care about the sets or anything like that or the cheesy spaceship," Shatner says. "I think that's what happens in 'Star Trek.' Your eye goes past all the faults because you're concentrated on the actors and the plot."

More from Shatner on the character of Kirk can be found here.



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RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... | Report this post to moderator
By: captainkoloth (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 06:49:01 on Jun 07, 2008

Anyone who criticizes Shatner's acting hates themselves.

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RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... | Report this post to moderator
By: Terry212 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 08:29:14 on Jun 07, 2008

Ed Norton has played greater variety than Shatner. Robert DeNiro, too.

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RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... by msspurlock @ 14:10:12 on Jun 07
    RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... by Terry212 @ 01:30:45 on Jun 08
       RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... by msspurlock @ 12:47:58 on Jun 10
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