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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: Captain's Blog (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:44:23 on Jun 07, 2008

I watch Voyager reruns...

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"...I think it would be wonderful years from now to see Star Trek come back with an equally talented new cast playing Spock and Kirk and Bones and Scotty and all the rest, as they say tomorrow's things to tomorrow's generations..." - Gene Roddenberry

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RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... | Report this post to moderator
By: Captain Chris (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:33:11 on Jun 10, 2008

You forgot the techno-babble

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RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... | Report this post to moderator
By: NCC-1701 (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:57:58 on Jun 07, 2008

Voyager rules

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By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 04:25:09 on Jun 07, 2008

the next series (when and if) holds to one plot and avoids the A and B formula. There are too many commercials these days to try and have two separate story lines.

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These are the trips of the Star Trek Enterprise. Its five year plan calls for us to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly fly where no man has gone in space. Live long, and be happy."


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RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... | Report this post to moderator
By: VoR (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:18:41 on Jun 06, 2008

Absolutely right.



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Spock: I call them ears.
Flavius: Are you trying to be funny?
Spock: Never.

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RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... by GustavoLeao @ 01:48:38 on Jun 07
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