Good Morning America - 1989, March, 1st   


Host: Chantelle
 

Chantelle: Your fans are on the edge of their seat sitting like this (improvising the posture) wondering whether it is the final movie. Is this the last one we are going to see?

(Bill Shatner imitating how to sit on the edge of a chair shouting): Please, don't let them do the final… !
LN. No, no, no, no. It is not. You should explain the title, it is your picture.
WS: I had a story I sold to Paramount for Star Trek V. They proceeded to change the story and changed the name. And some of them came up with "The Final Frontier" for whatever reason.

I don't quite know why. My original story was called "An Act of Love". .. I don't know. The Final Frontier has a very nice sound.

Ch: It does.
LN: There is no intend to suggest that this is the last movie.
CH: Is he calm, centred, a nice man

(William Shatner is strangling Leonard Nimoy,
both are laughing)

 

 

as a director?

LN: The first week as a director he did something I can totally identify with because I had done the same. He was overscheduled. And we all really knew that there was too much work for the time allotted. And he has, I recognize this because I have, too, such a sense of responsibility, trying to really get it done, so, he assumed, that if he talked fast enough giving direction (agitating, quickly moving and fast talking: you go there,  ….) ….  (Bill Shatner is laughing)
And we say: A little bit slower! (both laughing)
CH: Will this movie be funnier than or as funny as the last one?
LN: It has humour. If you ask me, the difference between what Bill has done and me, I think his is a different kind of Film making, it's, ehm, he puts a kind of energy to it. If people ask me about the difference between a Nimoy or a Shatner film, I say: There is a lot more running and jumping. (Laughing; 
Leonard points and gives directions: Up there, around there and…      "O.k., right behind you."
)


WS: The three of us, De Forest Kelley, Leonard and I have some classic playing to do together. The three studios ... (Leonard is laughing)


The three … (Leonard is laughing still and Bill teases him.

Leonard pretends to fight him and both play a personal joke)

 

 

 

BS: Let's get serious here.

LN: Yes, let's get serious.


Chantelle is asking about high tech in the movies.

 

 

 

 

BS: That's a big aspect because we never know, we don't know, what it is exactly what makes Star Trek so well. None of us connected with Star Trek can say specifically what it is. We know the elements. There is humour. But I have seen in this film and I watch it again and again for various reasons, the interplay between the three of us is so neat, we each bounce off of each other more and more as the years go by. We relax more in our given roles, if you will. We play with each other a great deal and there are some wonderful moments of warmth and humour and generosity between us that you will be able to enjoy.