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WS: Something I said has turned you off.
LN: You must be careful what you are saying because someone who has been
recording might play it for you. (laughter from the audience)
WS: I hope so.
So, George, I called George one day, see, I do this show called Raw Nerve.
(Shouts and applause from the audience). I wanted him to be on ...
LN: I was on this show, I quoted you, remember?
William Shatner looks puzzled: No. (laughter from the audience)

Leonard reaches out to do the mind meld. (laughter from the audience – there is
a great mood in the hall)
William Shatner moves back and returns the gesture. Now Leonard moves back. (The
audience laughs hilariously).
William Shatner now puts his arm around Leonard.
LN: There
is a rumor around that you've tried to drown me in Star Trek IV. (laughter from
the audience; William Shatner gives the audience a straight blank stare.)
WS: I tried to drawn you?
LN: Yuh, I don't know where these rumors come from.
WS: So, looking at you, I obviously succeeded. (laughter from the audience)
Leonard looks straight on hiding a laugh: Forty four years I have listened to
this. (laughter from the audience)
WS: And it is getting more and more difficult to hear me. (Everybody is
laughing)
Talking about electronics, we are wired here, we are wired there (pointing to
various microphone connections and wires) we are going to be wired with George
Takei's ...(laughter from the audience)
LN: Tell me, have you seen any good movies lately? (laughter from the audience,
both wait a moment to catch the mood)
WS: You are in the movie and I am not, o.k.
LN: Wait a minute; I was not referring to any particular movie.
WS: Oh, sure, it was just casually coming out of your mouth: Have you seen any
GOOD movie lately? Well, I understand the Star Trek movie is good. (Great shouts
of support from the audience) And I understand that you're very good. (Great
shouts of support from the audience). And I even have heard that it's a very
good thing that I am not in. (Shouts of disagreement from the audience)
LN: No, no, no!!!!!
WS to the audience: You say that to J.J. Abrams.
LN: No, nobody is saying that it is good that you are not in the movie.
WS: I was just looking for sympathy.
LN: Someone talking like that is a dickhead.
WS and LN exchange a look. WS: Did you say "dickhead"?
LN: You said that.
WS: Did you call me a dickhead? (lot's of laughter from the audience)
We have reached a new level in our friendship. My best friend calls me a
dickhead.
LN: I wasn't calling you, but I was referring to a person who would say it is
good that you are not in the movie.
WS: How could you even suggest that?
LN: It
wasn't me who suggested that, it was you. (to the audience) He doesn't
remember what he was bringing up. (laughter from the audience)
15 seconds ago you brought it up, you don't remember? (laughter from the
audience)
(Both laugh)
WS: All right, enough of that stuff, let's get serious. Have you seen any good
movies lately? Do you have some idea why I am not in the movie and you are?
(laughter from the audience)
LN: I have nothing to do with the writing. There was some discussion about the
possibility that you have died some time ago? (laughter from the audience)
WS: The first book I wrote, when ...
LN: Wait a minute. The first book of how many?
WS: 20, o.k.?
LN: What is it called?
WS:...
(From the audience the title is shouted and Leonard asks: Who said that? And
gives the person thumbs up)
They joke about the title "down before" and WS says: That's the title for you
now.
LN: You are in deep, deep trouble, (waits a moment) because you are getting mean
now.
WS: Leonard, why aren't I in the movie? Why does J.J. Abrams decides, .. I have
been coming down from the set of Boston Legal, for which I am nominated for an
Emmy this year. (applause from the audience)
LN: How many times have you won it?
WS: How many times have I been nominated?
LN: No, how many times have you won it?
WS: Twice.
LN: And how many times have you been nominated?
WS: 5, 6 times.
LN: What's it like? I never won.
WS: It is glorious. You feel everybody's for you. The joy of victory and (with a
move towards Leonard) the envy of the defeated. (Leonard laughs)
WS: Why aren't I in the movie?
LN: I have been nominated four times and I never won. Why have I never won?
WS: Even your best friends don't tell you. (now shouting) Why am I not in the
movie?
LN: I said if you saw the movie, you'd liked it.
WS: I don't know why I didn't see the movie. I didn't see Patrick Steward in The
Next Generation,...
LN: He is very upset about that, too. He talks about that all the time.
WS tells a story about a dinner with his wife, Patrick Steward and his then
wife, when his wife, Elisabeth, asked Patrick Steward: "How can you be the
captain when he is the captain? (laughter from the audience)
And we both started laughing because it was glorious to meet somebody who didn't
have the answer.
Why I haven't seen the movie (grapping Leonard's arm)
LN: Why are you holding me like that?
WS: Because I need strength and assurance. I don't know why I haven't seen the
movie. I haven't really had the opportunity.
LN: Tell the airlines, they'll put it on for you.
All you have to do is press the button. (Showing Bill Shatner how to press a
button and how the screen will appear in front of him)
(laughter from the audience)
WS: That would cost me money. (Leonard is shaking his head) I don't know why. I
have things to do on the airplane. I have a speech to prepare. I have a movie to
direct. I have got work to do. It gets in the way of seeing Star Trek.
Leonard and Bill joke about the correct pronunciations of "Star Trek".
LN: Did you really never see Patrick Steward as the captain?
WS: That's funny, I've already said that. (laughter from the audience, both are
laughing, too)
WS: I was saying
LN: If you think it's interesting, tell me
(WS looks frustrated, he is keeping quiet)
LN: These people are interested in what you have to say.
WS: They are, but you are not.
WS: I think
LN: Say something funny
(WS is fed up again), laughing he says: Everything I say is funny. Everybody
laughs and I really am sad.
LN: Oh, go ahead. (laughter from the audience)
WS: Oh, thanks. (WS starting to speak)
LN: Are you ready now? (laughter from the audience)
WS: No
(WS starting to speak again)
LN: I just sit back and listen. (laughter from the audience)
WS: What about George Takei or is it Tiku?
LN: Takei.
WS: Is that the same as decay?
LN is quietly shaking his head while William Shatner acts as a monster shouting:
He is a human wreck. LN: Now, welcome on Raw Nerve. (laughter from the audience)
WS: Now, that eh, that eh, .. how is his name on the radio?
LN: Howard Stern
WS: Robert Stern. How did you know I was going to say that?
Robert Stern offered to referee. How did you know that?
LN: You told me that. (laughter from the audience) You don't remember?
Leonard reaches out to do the mind meld and Bill comes closer and allows it.
In pain Leonard backs off shouting in pain "au, uh, uh!!!"All what's in there,
you wouldn't believe.
WS: I am glad you said "would". I wanted Robert Stern to be on Raw Nerve.
...
WS: Pretending for a moment, ... the realization of your wildest dream (Leonard:
Okay.) That you are me (laughter from the audience) and you
are going to see the new Star Trek movie.
LN: Okay. I am Bill Shatner and I am going to see the Star Trek movie.
WS: There are a lot of people because it is a popular movie.
LN: Okay.
WS: What are people going to say when they see you?
LN: Why aren't you in the movie?
WS: That's why I haven't seen the movie!
You get it?
LN: I get it.
WS: I release you from the dream: You are no longer me.
(Leonard wipes off
sweat from his forehead)
WS: Do they have questions?
LN: They probably are going to ask you why you are not in the movie. (laughter
from the audience)
WS talks about memory, then turning to Leonard. LN: My memory is still very
good.
WS: Now it is ... what did you say?
LN: You are a lot older than I.
WS: I don't look it though.
LN: That may be true, but you are. Four days. That's true.
WS: But the difference between us is: You finish this thing here, you go back to
bed, I am riding my horse towards the sunset.
LN: Riding towards Kentucky
WS: I am serious
Question and answer session:
B ill makes fun of an accent of a person asking a question (What's your most
famous blooper?) by overdoing "bloopuur". Leonard: You can make all the fun you
want, but I have a daughter who is born here.
Leonard explains that he is
familiar with this place.
WS responds pressing out the words: I have a friend who had lived in Georgia for a year. (laughter from the audience)
LN explains that his daughter, Julie, was born here in Georgia in 1956 and he had
lived here 1 ½ year when he was stationed at Fort McPherson. (applause and
shouts from the audience).
WS: Do you remember what you did in the army?
LN: My job was entertainment specialist. I created shows where we used army
talent. Army singers, dancers, .... It was aired in ALL the army posts across the
United States. I figured out these shows, I directed them. And I was the
director of a production A Streetcar Named Desire.
WS: You are practically a native son.
LN: I am just careful how you treat the people of the planet.
And there are people from other countries. How you treat them as well. You are
not always a nice guy. (laughter from the audience)
WS: I am I mean well, but the people of Atlanta will only take me to the heart.
LN: They are going to love you.
WS: They are going to. They will. About the favorite blooper, turning to Bill.
What's your favorite bloopur? (by purpose) (laughter from the audience)
WS: Why don't you tell them about the history of the bloopers?
Why don't you start? I mean: Because you have the most animosity about them.
LN: Have I?
WS: It was a turning point in your life.
LN: You are talking about me? You must be talking about me because there is
nobody else here.
(Both reach for a bottle of water)
WS: We are reaching for water at the same time. You were waiting for my signal,
were you? [Leonard had had several sips before] (laughter from the audience)
William Shatner is struggling to open the bottle: This is getting harder and
harder.
LN: Did you also have some difficulties opening some packages?
WS: I used to rip them apart when I was younger. (laughter from the audience)
LN: Do you need a knife, scissors, a hammer, ..
Talking about hammer ...
LN: It's the hammer museum in Los Angeles. My wife and I are collecting
contemporary art. My wife is on board of trustees of the hammer museum.
WS: A little advertising?
LN: A little advertising.
WS: Los Angeles. Why advertising it here?
LN: Some people from here have been in Los Angeles. (Shouts of agreement from
the audience) and I would Also bet that some time in the future some people will
be in Los Angeles and
WS: And ...
LN: I am talking, don't interrupt me. (laughter from the audience)
WS: I am sorry. (Both laughing)
LN: And some of the people might want to know where to go in Los Angeles. And I
would say: The hammer museum and the Griffith Observatory.
WS drinks some water and coughs. Leonard hits him on the back. WS: No, no! Don't
worry about me.
WS: And go to your theatre in the, in the, in the
LN: Griffith Observatory
WS: Let's get that right. Your foundation does the hammer museum and does the
Leonard Nimoy theatre in the, in the
LN: Griffith Observatory. WS: Anything else?
LN: Yuh. And the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre in New York. [http://www.yelp.com/biz/thalia-theatre-leonard-nimoy-new-york] Have you been there?
WS: No! I do not go anywhere. (laughter from the audience)
I try to get to that movie still, right? The bloopers..
LN: Definitely, very important.
WS: The series lasted three years.
LN: Only three years?
WS: Yes. Three years.
LN: Reruns over and over and over again.
...
WS: At Christmas the producers take together what we call the outtakes, yu?
LN: Yes, where doors don't open, people forget their lines,
WS: Mostly me. Due to my nature, playing the fool.
Playing before the camera, a joke just between us that we thought was funny,
then they edit all these outtakes together
LN: The funny stuff
WS: The funny stuff. At Christmas we sit around, having Christmas meal, and
watch the outtakes. Some of them were silly.
The next Christmas again, some 15, 20 minutes ... and then it was good bye. The
show was cancelled. Good bye!
LN: The show is cancelled; we don't like you any more, go away.
WS: 6 or 7 years later I am skiing in a ski area in California. And somebody
shushes up to you.
LN: Shushes (laughter from the audience)
WS: Yeah, it's called a shush.
LN: I know ..
WS: Shhhhhh, shush! (laughter from the audience)
They come up, they go (Holding up his finger in front of his mouth) Shhh!!!;
and says: "Have you seen.."
LN: Shush
WS: Exactly.
LN: As the doors open (laughter from the audience)
WS: This is why I kept hitting the doors which wouldn't open because you weren't
making the noise. (laughter from the audience)
You're ready? (Holding up both hand to resemble the doors)
LN: Shhhhhhh and Bill Shatner moves both hands apart. (laughter from the
audience)
WS: Have you seen the funny film at the bar in .. . I said: What are you
talking about?
6, 7 years later I was asked about the films.
That deepened my relationship with George Takei.
And I see that these funny films which should have been destroyed are being
played at a bar.
LN: On TVs
WS: On TVs? That was my first experience with the bloopers. What was your's?
LN: There was somebody going around the country advertising lectures called
The World of Star Trek featuring the famous bloopers, charging admission to
see it. WS: And who was that person?
LN: The name just went out of my head. (laughter from the audience)
...
LN: There are people charging admission for something
WS: So, that was your first experience?
LN: Yu. And my worst experience. It is not the right thing to do. My concern and
my complaint was that it was not authorized. We were being paid to give a
performance. And what happened at the set was okay to shoot and to edit and to
show to us as a "family" as part of our internal experience, but to take it out
to the public and charge people for seeing it, was not appropriate. So, I
complained to our union, to the Screen Actors Guilde.
And they passed a contract that said that it was only for the actors being paid
to perform and not to the others.
WS: Did they stop it?
LN: They stopped it.
WS: So, nobody has ever made money out of the bloopers ever again?
LN: I can't give the facts to the public, but I can say what was my concern. For
example if a writer is hired to write a script and he is typing the script and
he (when they used to work on the typewriter, it is computers now), and he does
not like a part of the script and rips it out and throws it in a waste basket. And when somebody comes and takes it out of the basket to sell it,
that's ...
WS: I had
LN: Why are you getting so serious? We just were laughing. (towards the
audience): Are you interested in this? Audience: Yes!!!!
WS: Since I am part of this I absolutely agree with you. The same thing happened
to me where I was on rehearsal and I said: this thing should be here, no, over
here, I don't like this thing in the first place. And then it was lifted and
played for an audience and played on the air, rehearsal tapes where you were in
the middle of a discussion. Not only that it is not right, it is unlawful. It
shows you in a light you don't necessarily want to be in.
LN: No, that's right.
I understand the audiences' interest in seeing them because it gives them a look
at the process that we go through to do our work. From the audience's point of
view I understand, I get it. But from the authors' point of view, the actors, it
is not right. (applause from the audience)
WS: Next question!
The person at the microphone says she just wants to have a comment: The iconic
characters that you and Nichelle portray in the story lines and really cross
cultures and generations. My experience was, my father was a police officer.
Obviously in a different time and a different generation. But one of the things
we are connected together is our love for the classic Star Trek. He is retiring
and I was wondering whether I could get you on film saying "Hello" to him?
WS shouting: Hey, officer, congratulations!
LN: What is his name?
Person at the microphone: His name coincidentally is Jim.
Both wave at her camera and wish him well.
Next question: I am a big fan of both of your works. Mr. Nimoy, In Search Of
changed my life (applause from the audience), Leonard is all ears. Mr. Shatner I
had more enjoyment from Has Been than I had from the rest. I have a question for
both of you and I will talk to Mr. Nimoy.
Bill pretends to be shocked and then gestures to make way: Go ahead, don't think
about me at all. I'll listen, hope, he has something to say.
LN: If you stop bubbling. (laughter from the audience)
...
William Shatner turns around in his chair and shows Leonard and the audience his
back. Leonard laughs hard.
(laughter from the audience) Bill had loosened his microphone stand by the move
and holds it in his hand: I'll pack up.
The question is asked: What is your favorite In Search Of episode?
LN: 17 (laughter from the audience)
LN: we had a lot of interesting episodes and to some of the subject matters we
came back several times, I think, four, five or six times.
There were very interesting episodes about telepathy. We had these very special
designed cards for the ideas. And I am looking at them and I had five or six
people sitting opposite to me looking what card I had. One got it right every
time. No tricks at all. And the objects I had was millions to one. None of us
ever figured out how he did it.
WS makes a gesture with his hand: Overhead camera.
LN: No, no, no! It was just impossible to do it. He was always getting the card
right I had. No, there was no explanation except that he was able to read my
mind, that would be the theory.
WS: Those moments were absolutely fascinating.
LN. Yu, really. Did you say fascinating? (laughter from the audience)
WS: Just because this is a word you use, does not mean you own the word.
(laughter from the audience, Leonard is laughing a lot)
WS: Live long and prosper, I can say that, too. (laughter from the audience)
LN: You can say it, but it doesn't mean the same as with me then.
(laughter and hilarious shouts from the audience)
WS: It's true that I am fascinated by what you just said.
LN: I knew you were going to say that. (laughter from the audience)
WS: You followed up with this guy?
LN: No, we went on with our business.
WS: What?
A guy responds to six cards on your hand, no way he could possibly know and you
say: Thanks, that's great, bye! (laughter from the audience)
Is that what's happened? (laughter from the audience)
LN: That's what we did. (laughter from the audience)
WS: I would have...
LN: What would you have done?
WS: I don't know.
LN: You would have written a book about it. (laughter from the audience)
WS: Here's a guy that could do telepathy
William Shatner approaches Leonard again and Leonard moves back. Now William
Shatner reaches across to Leonard's seat and gets very close. Leonard moves away
with his chair and Bill gets up, bends over him and hugs him.
WS: Look, that is fascinating.
LN: You are right, we probably should have exploited that further, but I had
forgotten about it obviously. You know that happened thirty years ago.
WS: Leonard...
LN: Sorry to disappoint you.
You are making such a big deal about it.
WS: It is a big deal! ...
Let's go In Search Of that guy!
LN: He was a young boy, maybe fifteen, sixteen.
WS: Are you serious, did you say "good bye"?
LN: I don't know what he does, I don't know where he is. I am sorry.
WS: Oh!!
LN: Wow!
WS: Because the history of telepathy
LN: Let it go! (laughter from the audience)
WS: Oh my god!...
LN: Brawbrawbraw (laughter from the audience)
WS: Are you going at me gnagnagna? Richie Roberts: Gnawgnaw
LN: I was a big fan of his
WS: Gna
...
LN: Okay, we have a question
Question: Mr. Shatner ...
WS: Thank god, someone is addressing me.
Q: I have a question about something which I firmly believe is the finest work
of your entire career.
LN: Oh!!
Q: do you have any brain stories from the set of Incubus?
It's a fantastic movie.
LN: You did it in a strange language.
WS. We did it in Esperanto.
LN: Esperanto. And you speak Esperanto?
WS: I can.
LN: Speak some
WS: I have been (laughter from the audience)
Esperanto was invented by
...
[correction:
Dr.
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof; 1887]
and was designed to be the international language. Greek, German, Latin, and
roots of the words, so that all the Roman languages and other languages so you
at least would be able to figure out what the person was saying. An
international language, that was the big deal about Esperanto. That was the big
deal about Esperanto. And a guy, Stevens or so, was the writer and producer and
he gave me a script about Incubus.
A very basic story about good and evil and devils, that's all.
... we got into the movie, and before we did the movie we got the script: English
on one side and Esperanto on the other.
LN: Have you learned Esperanto?
WS: From the phonetics. You have English on the other side. I said: Why do you
want to do this on Esperanto? He said: 17 million people speak Esperanto. An
audience of 17 million people. And it's true. It's what I have. (laughter from
the audience)
There are two in Cincinnati, five in Chicago.
LN pointing in direction to the micro: This person saw that movie?
WS: Let me just .. the funny...

LN:
Here is the person who saw the movie. (laughter from the audience)
WS: That's right. We finished the movie in Esperanto. It's gonna go to the
Cannes film festival. So, they put subtitles in Italian. (laughter from the
audience)
So, now it's the actors are speaking Esperanto, the subtitles are Italian. So,
they invited us to come and see the movie, half a year after it was finished.
So, I have forgotten what's the movie is about. I don't remember what I said.
So, I go into the screening room with this large audience and we are all looking
at this movie and I have no idea what it is about. (laughter from the audience)
I never understood the movie from Jimmy Abrams.
LN: Seriously, was it an interesting movie, was it a good movie?
WS: No. (laughter from the audience) That's a movie I did, I wasn't in the
movie.
LN: Even great artist slightly wept when involved in lesser projects.
WS: Yes. (laughter from the audience)
What can I be involved with a mayor project like
...
? I do one every ten years.
From the audience: Priceline. (laughter from the audience)
Very slightly WS' middle finger emerges from the fist.
Now both are quite serious. WS: Priceline is a very fine project.
LN: Wait a moment, we are on to something.
WS: We are on to something. Let's get Shatner!
LN: No, no, no. On the contrary. I've seen your Priceline commercials, they are
unavoidable.
WS: You are jealous, aren't you?
LN: No, I am hardly jealous. If one watches TV, you see a Priceline commercial.
And I think they are very good.
WS: They are. (Applause from the audience)
LN: Why am I sensing negative animosity? What is that all about?
WS: From her?
LN: I don't know.
WS: Or from him?
LN: You
WS: Me?
LN: Yeah. Aren't you happy with the Priceline commercial?
WS: Yeah, absolutely. First of all it's a great company, they are very generous,
they have a very good product, the commercials are funny, I am there for almost
eleven years.
LN: Yeah, it's a great thing. Somebody here..
WS: Jealousy?
LN: How do you feel about a competition like Travelocity for example?
WS keeps quiet, looks straight ahead.
LN: No?
WS still keeps quiet, doesn't move a muscle. WS: Nothing but Priceline.
LN: I felt that I sensed some strange animosity when the person mentioned Priceline and you made a gesture.
WS: I tried to scratch my face.
LN: Okay. I think the Priceline commercials are very good, they are bold and
brave and the atmosphere is funny and there is no laughing matter (acting a
pretended laugh). And your work on Boston Legal is excellent of you. (applause
from the audience)
WS: Thank you
LN: And you do a great job on Raw Nerve.
WS: Hey!! I haven't told you, you are in for a thrill. Rush Limbo and Larry
Flynt on the same day hours apart. Unbelievable?
LN: What's in for me?
WS: Well, you share my ... I had both those guys in at the same day.
LN: I bet you had a great time.
WS: I had the best time, it was incredible.
LN: Yu.
WS: Doing an interview and that most conservative was like a bright, brilliant
mind. ...
and Larry Flint turns out to be a guy with a soul inside. ...
LN: I think it is wonderful. Did you tell the people it was wonderful having me
on the show?
WS: I do. Actually it was wonderful.
WS: You told us a story..
LN: I worked to get a compliment here
WS: You told us a story that has not been told in years.
LN: Which was?
WS: The leather shoes.
Leonard tells the story of how his father checked on his shoes to see how well
he was doing.
WS: It was a great story.
And you hadn't told that to yourself for a long time.
.... Someone carries a sign which tells the audience the time which is left for
the panel.
WS makes fun of him, talking about a step dance and imitating him: Like in a
fight: Round 3, 3, 3, 3, ...
LN: You have brought the subject of talk show people. I want to take just 12
seconds I Want to say that I am very concerned and I am greatly disturbed by
some of the talk show people who are on the air who inflame the American ...
(Applause from the audience). What we need is a civil debate in this country.
(Applause from the audience)
WS: I agree, I said that to them both.
LN: I am not talking specifically about him or including him but there are
others and even worse in terms of being famous saying those inflammatory and
dangerous things. I think that is wrong. (Applause from the audience)
LN: Where were we before talking serious..
WS: We were talking about George Takei ....
Question: Which of you is going to be in the next Star Trek movie?
(Laughter from the audience)
WS turns to LN: If you tell me you are going to be in I will leap upon you and
be on your throat.
LN: There are no plans yet for me, (emphasizing) for me, to be in the Star
Trek movie. Seriously. They are working on a story idea right now, a long
way before they are going to have the script and know whom they are going to
need. I am afraid I will be asked again, the Spock character has been
established well and I have no idea where ... (Applause from the audience). You
(turning to Bill Shatner) will probably say the same thing about Chris Pine and
(Applause from the audience)
WS: I don't know.
LN: I think they are very good and this is very important, I am serious: You
have every right to be proud of the character that you established (Applause
from the audience) that gets on in the new movie.
...
The person showing the sign "5 Minutes" dances a step dance in front of the
audience, he and all others are laughing. It is a great mood and great fun.
Now Bill makes fun of the person's beard. Again the man comes back and uses a
hair brush brushing his beard in front of them all. Again the good mood and fun
is there.
Question: Mr. Nimoy (William Shatner looks upset), in Star Trek you play a
character that suffers a lot of internal conflict because of the differences his
parents
WS: You do?
Question: and this had a lot of impact with those who have seen the show who are
somewhat in the situation themselves because of how their parents are. How do
you feel about the influence Mr. Spock has had on the fans?
LN: A very good part.

Question: All the people who, during the show, have come to terms with..
LN: Some of us work for money. Some of us work to make a positive impact on the
audience. (Leonard presses his lips together and nods. Applause and shouts of
appreciation from the audience)
WS: And what of those do you work for? (Laughter from the audience)
LN: I agree with you. A lot of people tell me that Spock was very useful, had a
lot of impact in their lives, I think a lot of people go through that dynamic
that Spock has gone through, trying to figure out logic against emotion, trying
to find a dignified and useful life, a meaningful life. Everybody feels alien in
some time or another in their lives, I certainly have. I don't know if Bill had,
but I have. (Laughter) I think that Spock had a useful influence, people often
tell me about that, I am pleased by that and I am touched by that. Thank you for
the question, seriously. (Applause from the audience)
WS: I am with you.
LN: It's true. I am sure people are here who say that Kirk has influenced their
lives. (Laughter from the audience)
WS: No, nobody said that to me at all. They say: Hey, fool!
LN: No, that's not true, you have set a very wonderful example for people who
get themselves educated to be useful citizens and get to be leaders and get bold
steps to resolving problems that are out there in the unknown and beyond as far
as the galaxy (Laughter from the audience)
WS: That's what I am.
(People are shouting at the same time. )
I tell you what I do: here's the question: In a couple of weeks I am going to
the red carpet in the Emmy Award show and usually the supporting actor is up
first or second. ... and I will not get it because mad men and authorized ones ...
we've been cancelled, so we are not in the air any longer. (boohoo! Shouts from
the audience) So, I will not get it. So, do you prepare a speech because lightly
it may strike? Or would you not prepare a speech because you know you're not
gonna win. So, I have not prepared a speech I am going to be the winner. Except
I tell you what I would have said incase I won.
LN: What would you say?
WS: I would say... (the person indicating the end of the show takes place besides
Bill Shatner)
WS: The thing about a beard is that it gets in your way no matter what you are
doing.
The man asks: How do you know?
WS: By observation.
LN: What would you have said?
WS: I would have said: Thank you that would have been a great plague that rests
aside the body of a dead show.
LN: That's profound.
WS: That's what I would have said.
LN: Okay. Of course, if you win, you could say: This is a big surprise. I didn't
expect this, I didn't come with a prepared speech. But this would make a great
plague.. (Laughter from the audience)
Both get up and receive a standing ovation.
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