OT. How Star Trek Changed the world

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Ok, maybe how Shatner wishes he changed the world.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/16/apontv.williamshatner.ap/index.html

He's got an ego, but he might have a point too.
Trek, I thought of ye on this one.
-Ed

[Mr_Vindictive]

I meant to post about this a few days ago.

Caught this on the History channel last Sunday.  Fantastic way to spend a couple of hours until Grey's Anatomy came on.  When we first started watching, my wife was making fun of my geekiness and couldn't understand how I could watch two hours of Shatner.  Well...now she's a fan as well.

Great program if you get a chance to catch it again.  It was priceless to see Shatner explain wormholes while using pizza dough as an example.

[Ash]

I saw this too.
It was pretty good but I missed the first 45 minutes.

Hopefully the History Channel will re-air this soon so I can record it on DVD.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

With those endorsements I shall watch.
-Ed

[trekgeezer]

Yes, the OTS (One True Shatner for you unbelievers) was at the top of his form.  The most holy toupeed and bloated one did a superb job with tongue firmly planted in cheek. I like the way he "picked" up the realtor lady at the end.  That was a little more Denny Crane than Kirk.


I had watched  about the first hour of a  movie called The Terror Within with George Kennedy and Andrew Stevens.  It is a late comer to the Alien ripoff genre, complete with little monster jumping out of it's human mom and running into the air ducts only to grow up in about ten minutes. That's about the time I decided to check the channel guide, and there on the History channel they were reshowing this special.  I had missed the first showing, so not only did I have an entertaining two hours I was saved from the Terror Within.

Oh yes , I read somewhere that the reason they called it How William Shatner Changed the World is because Paramount wouldn' t let them use Star Trek or Captain Kirk in the title.

[raj]

I meant to post on this too.  Just, um, never got around to it.  It was pretty good, I'm sure it will be repeated a lot.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

It was good.  I, like Trek, was sucked into the George Kennedy film, then remembered Shatner.  I'm glad I switched.   I thought all the foam boulders flying about in the first part was hilarious.  
-Ed

[plan9superfan]

The thing is: nomatter how big a phenomenon a TV show/movie/comic book gets, it will NEVER achieve the kind of die-hard fanboyism that "Star Trek" generated.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "The Lord of the Rings", Marvel comic books... all came close, but none of them racked as many fanboys as "Star Trek".

"Star Trek" became a cultural phenomenon. There are people who worship it as a religion. There are some that want to marry some of the actors, and some so crazy they actually belive themselves to be actual Starfleet officers.


And that following started in the '60s, and never ended. the "Star Wars" following died with the prequels, the Marvel following died with Ultimate Marvel and the recent s**tty movie adaptations, the "X Files" following died when they replaced Mulder and Scully...

But, no matter how hard UPN tried, the "Star Trek" following never died.