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Re:Obviously this never happens
"The prefix giga- is from the Greek gigas, meaning "giant." In English, it's a scientific prefix meaning "billion." And its pronunciation is acceptable beginning with either a G sound or a J sound. Check a nice, thick dictionary if you don't believe me. In fact, many individuals who have worked with computers and electronics for the last several decades will confirm that they used to pronounce gigabyte as "jigabyte." A few still do." http://www.bigwaste.com/bttf/twin_pines_mall.shtm
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I don't care
... as long as however they change Google, searches for steaming load still return William Shatner as the number one hit.
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I heard William Shatner...
..was burned for saying that exact same thing.
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Tell me Doctor, Where are we going this time?
On The Back to the Future Tour of course!
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Puente Hills has a mall that was shown in BTTF...
FYI. The Twin Pines Mall (name replaced Puente Hills Mall), in the first movie of Back to the Future Trilogy, is located in this area.
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You guys are SO charitable
You guys are SO nice! Calling his answer "brief" is tactful. How about terse, concise, laconic, dismissive, flippant, hasty, or good old rude? (I have more suggestions, more profane.)
I could have written the replies for him -- and been more interesting. He phoned this in.
Review the Q&A and it's obvious he simply ducked most of the questions or gave his equivalent of "no comment." Only on the topic of Nerine Shatner did he seem engaged.
This confirms everything I have heard about him being a sophomoric self-centered jerk. It's disrespectful -- the editors probably spent ten times to time preparing the Q's as he did ansering them.
Yeah, I know the whole bit about how he shouldn't be chained to a role from 25 years ago, and how he really isn't blowhard James T. Kirk, but he doesn't have to give interviews, book signings,, and the like except to promote himself -- and make money. He's milked the Trek thing for every penny while complaining all the while how oppressed he is. Contrasted with actors like Patrick Stewart, by all accounts a 24/7 class act, or Avery Brooks, who wants no part of the Trek typecasting and so doesn't do the interviews, book signings, and the like. I respect either choice and not Shatner's.
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Re:TrekkiesA friend (6'3" and a little over weight) is the kind of guy that is always stopped and searched buy security (even before 9/11) because he looks like trouble, (in reality he is a gentle giant), Anyway he was on a plane from Kentucky to Florida with Mr Shatner and after the plane took off he walked up to Shatner and asked him to sign his barf bag. Mr Shatner who rarely does autographs for free, took one look at my friend and decided it was easier to just sign the bag.
He keeps the barf bag in a framed star trek movie poster.
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As long as we're counting...I figure TNG and DS9 each had recurring Asian actors (the nurse and O'Brien's annoying wife). And of course there was Sulu/Takei who, like Chekov, was mostly silent but had a fine episode half-naked (even more skin than Kirk) in "The Naked Time."
The omissions are odd because, remember, Roddenberry was incredibly enlightened by 1960's standards even to cast Nichelle Nichols (whom, yes, he was reportedly dating at the time), let alone to broadcast TV's first interracial kiss. Perhaps he just didn't evolve much. At the time I think it had been just a year since the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws in 15 states. Like the other team-of-5 actors Nichols wasn't given much to do, but neither was she singled out. She relates that she was tempted to quit the show out of frustration, but was persuaded to stay partly by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who told her Star Trek was one of the few TV shows he would let his children watch.
As for American Indians, well that's a little tough. I'm not one myself, but I sometimes questioned whether Chakotay and his religion were entirely flattering portrayal. At least, I wanted to jump out a window when Wesley went on his viscion quest.
Off-screen, by all accounts, Stewart has the best non-virtual personaility. (Avery Brooks might be the most intense.) I came across dozens of anecdotes of people happening upon Stewart -- and he must be one of the most recognizable characters -- and his being the perfect gentleman. This was a guestbook entry, mostly
about Shatner
I don't have a Shatner story, however a co-worker of mine,who is a huge Star Trek: TNG fan, waited on Patrick Stewart in our shop. He was very amicable. As it turned out, my associate ended up going out to Stewart's house to do an in home estimate and then installing an entertainment system for him. He was beside himself that he had Capt. Picard's phone # in his cellphone. He had to restrain himself from calling Mr. Stewart and checking up on it every other day. One day he swung by again to make sure everything was working. Patrick Stewart opens the door, looks my friend in the eye and says (with his trademark delivery)...
"I do believe you've gone beyond the call of duty."
Needless to say, my buddy Shatnered his pants.
Not a Shatner story, just an affirmation of how a Starfleet officer should conduct himself.
On the other hand, should Stewart be forgiven for participating in "Lifeforce"? The jury's out.