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Shatner on Shatner: William Shatner Reviews Impressions Of Him As Captain Kirk
Trek Movie ^ | September 17, 2021 | Trek Movie Staff

Posted on 09/17/2021 4:52:00 PM PDT by White Lives Matter

William Shatner’s role as Captain Kirk in Star Trek is iconic and his unique style has been been the source of a number of impressions and spoofs for years. Now the man himself assesses how they’ve done. Shatner on Shatners

Vanity Fair has posted a video featuring William Shatner reviewing a number of impressions of himself, including from Seth MacFarlane, Jason Alexander, John Belushi, Jim Carrey, Bruce Campbell, and even Bill Nye “The Science Guy.” He even weighs in on Chris Pine’s SNL skit. And for the most part, he just doesn’t think he talks that way. Check it out…

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TOPICS: Humor; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: jimbelushi; jimcarrey; johnbelushi; shatner; startrek; williamshatner
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To me, Jim Belushi did the funniest impression in the old SNL skit.
1 posted on 09/17/2021 4:52:00 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: White Lives Matter

John?


2 posted on 09/17/2021 4:53:30 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: White Lives Matter

he just. doesn’t think. he talks. that way.


3 posted on 09/17/2021 4:57:07 PM PDT by null and void (No jab/no job = Only the compliant can work, they won't spread dangerous ideas around the workplace!)
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To: White Lives Matter

Shatner has gotten about 50 years of Fame Millage from that one role on Star Trek, but it turned out to be a very influential show. Nobody could have predicted it at the time. I’m generally not a Sci-Fi fan, so I never made time to watch it. Of course I’d heard about it.


4 posted on 09/17/2021 4:57:50 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: White Lives Matter

Shatner is probably the youngest 90-year-old in the world. He even has a new series.


5 posted on 09/17/2021 4:58:29 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: White Lives Matter

Well, he sorta does but since it’s a lampoon his mannerisms are greatly exaggerated.


6 posted on 09/17/2021 4:58:34 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: lee martell

Shatner has had a ball being Shatner.


7 posted on 09/17/2021 4:59:21 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: White Lives Matter
This guy is 90 years old, and he still has all the stamina and energy of someone half his age.

It's all about the genes folks. George Burns smoked cigars like a chimney and lived to be 100, while 1970s runner Jimmy Fixx literally had a heart attack and died while running in his 40s.

8 posted on 09/17/2021 5:00:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: White Lives Matter

SNL - Star Trek: The Last Voyage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx0xOgFDXFg


9 posted on 09/17/2021 5:00:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: White Lives Matter

Chris Pine portrayed Captain Kirk as a whiney impulsive adolescent who couldn’t keep his pants on, couldn’t control his own subordinates, with a ‘just do it don’t think about it’ strategy in most things. Not the Kirk I remember from the original series.


10 posted on 09/17/2021 5:00:44 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Magnum44

Yes! I stand corrected.


11 posted on 09/17/2021 5:02:31 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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My brother and I like to point out that Shatner has had several television series. The dude gets work.

He will always be the real captain of the Enterprise for me.

12 posted on 09/17/2021 5:03:04 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: lee martell

Shatner was a comic hero as Denny Crane on Boston Legal too, my favorite episodes focused on his character.


13 posted on 09/17/2021 5:04:44 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: Telepathic Intruder

It wasn’t Pine doing that. He was taking his instructions from the Star Wars franchise killer, director J.J. Abrams.


14 posted on 09/17/2021 5:06:31 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: White Lives Matter

Trust me on this, it’s a must-see Trek parody w Carol Burnett..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-tAyQAS6JY


15 posted on 09/17/2021 5:06:57 PM PDT by Bobalu (The plan must be to distract from Afghanistan by doing something even more stupid )
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Abduction From the Seraglio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAs9RHHi89U


16 posted on 09/17/2021 5:08:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

No, not all about the genes.

Fixx smoked cigarettes like a chimney and had an enlarged heart. He also had experienced weight gain after his divorce.

Burns smoked between ten and fifteen cigars a day. Is that smoking “like a chimney”?


17 posted on 09/17/2021 5:08:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: null and void

Brian Cheney “Star Trek” Abduction from the Seraglio Opening Aria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcDw4Pd1bcA


18 posted on 09/17/2021 5:09:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Yes, and I think Pine’s portrayal of Kirk better matched Jar Jar Abram’s actual juvenile mentality.


19 posted on 09/17/2021 5:10:14 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He’s also always kept himself physically active all his life.


20 posted on 09/17/2021 5:10:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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