024 - No Sh*t, Shatner!
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In this episode, we discuss:
- Abbie and I had an opportunity to watch Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and a Q&A session with William Shatner
- For a 92-year-old man, Shatner was ranting and raving and moving around pretty well
- An education in COPD and lung disease
- The impact of the Actors’ Strike on the show
- Stories about bow hunting and pranks on DeForest Kelley
- Getting pulled over dressed as Captain Kirk
- No shit, Shatner!
- Shatner was what we expected. A master of his craft
- Curiosity
- Seeing the movie in the theater was a trip
- A better appreciation for the movie on a second viewing
- The experience of watching this kind of movie in that kind of setting
- A great movie in its own right. But even better for a Star Trek movie
- Felt like Star Trek
- Shatner’s thoughts about Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Space Seed holds up
- Movie reshoots after leaks
- Gene Roddenberry intrigue
- Kirk’s forgotten plots
- Leonard Nimoy was ready to be done as Spock
- Why is the Genesis technology a threat in Khan’s hands?
- Vulcans can cry?
- Learning why things work on a Starship. If you don’t know why, you can’t adapt. You can’t be creative
- William Shatner and George Takei don’t get along
- Ricardo Montelban’s real chest
- Character names changed because of clerical errors
- Continuing voyages of ongoing missions…
- Original story proposal
- TV in the ‘90s
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