Posted on 09/05/2006 2:34:13 AM PDT by red flanker
Their partnership anchored a TV cult phenomenon and inspired films, parodies, even a genre of homoerotic fiction.
Capt. James Tiberius Kirk and Spock, or rather the actors who played them, were welcomed to Toronto like gods yesterday on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the first televised episode of Star Trek.
A sold-out crowd of 500 trekkies at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre gave William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy a standing ovation as the men made a lively joint appearance, their first together in Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
Roasts have gone WAY downhill since the days of the Dean Martin Roasts. Shatner's roast was almost all blue (bleeped), with silly and predictable jabs at George Takaei, etc.
George Goeble could run rings around what passes for "comedy" today, much less the rest of the folk on the old show.
Then, they had wit. Today they have potty mouths. Don't waste your time.
That episode (Darmok) may have been the most intelligent of all the ST episodes.
Dino Vino. There will never be another.
Yep -- the best. The least of that group was better than the best we have to offer today.
Huh? The 'least of that group' was Buddy Hackett -- a notoriously foulmouthed individual!
Five hundred years from now, little American boys and girls living on Terra Nova (11.9 light-years away in the Tau Ceti system) will know the names Kirk and Spock and Scotty and McCoy. As with Superman, Paul Bunyan, Santa Claus, and Uncle Sam, Star Trek has left the realm of mere entertainment for the storied halls of folklore.
Mazel tov to the world's favorite 'Jews in Space' Shatner and Nimoy!
Fun fact: the tune for "Jews in Space" was recycled for "Men in Tights."
LOL
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