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Ask William Shatner
At long last William Shatner has volunteered himself to be strapped into the Slashdot Interviewee Victim Chair. You know the gig: Post your questions for the man, the moderators do their thing, and in a week or so we post the answers. So here's your chance to ask questions to the star of Iron Chef USA, Miss Congeniality and TJ Hooker!
Where did you go to school for acting?
WTF? Over?
Why...do...you...talk...so.........slowly?
Do you think you take Patrick Stewart in a fight? =)
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
Mr. Shatner, do you ever participate in sexual role playing with your wife, with you as James T. Kirk or T.J. Hooker? What roles does your wife play?
Wil Wheaton asks William Shatner questions on SLASHDOT?! It'd be like... Slashdot: Generations! My head might explode!
...about being reponsible for the nickname 'captain' being given to all of us named Kirk in real life?
Who bagged more babes in the 60's, you or Roddenberry?
Table-ized A.I.
the Priceline.com server? Judging from all those lights and monitors it must be wicked powerful!
LETS DECOMPOSE & ENJOY ASSEMBLING
Did you get to keep any tribbles? Or did they just burn them?
Does Starship Command run Open Source? How about the Klingons? I think we need to know who we should be rooting for.
Virtually serving coffee
or a bricklayer?
When you said on episode #18739 of Saturday Night Live: 'Get a life ... will ya, people? I mean, for cryin' out loud, it's just a TV show.', were you really reprising 'Evil Kirk' as Phil Hartman's (RIP) character suggested or did your motivation run deeper than that, say to 'Amok Time' when you had to battle Spock? ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
when bare-chested?
Kirk
Pickard
Sisco
Janeway
Archer
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
Seriously who's idea was it to come up with the new-guy-in-the-red-shirt dies every time you, Bones, and Spock went to the surface?
Was it one of you guys or was it a writer? If so, which writer/writers was it?
Are you planning on releasing any new songs soon?
(Anyone ever heard him sing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?)
Do you find the priceline commercials that you do just as annoying as we do? ;-)
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..how was the green chick?
Trolling is a art,
Who are you, really?
Look a monkey!
Is it real, fake, transplanted?
Did you really mean those things you said in that famous SNL skit?
It took several years of therapy to get over those horrible comments.
Mr. Shatner,
Do you ever look back on your show with regard to how your character treated women and find it offensive? Kirk boinked anything with 2 legs and a pretty face, often pursuing them in a cave man-like fashion.
And if you didn't find it offensive, do you think you're cursed to have been born way too early and not had your chance to lay the kirk-mack down on 7 of 9? Hell, cursed my ass, God singled you out for that heinous joke.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
..is it true you were found performing a "Richard Gere" with a tribble during the filming of Trouble with the Tribbles
Thank you.
Trolling is a art,
If so how did you get over it? Was it years of personal "therapy"? Or did you have an epiphany one day that brought you through?
"Never trust a computer you can't throw." -- The Mac
Damn,you know its been a while since i saw you put out an album.I dearly treasure the old solo stuff you did and the duet with Leo Nimoy.Is there a techno,metal,industrial or rap album on the drawing board? I NEED Wild Bill Shatner to melt the voice coils in my speakers.Everytime i hear your "rocket man" i can feel it down in my spleen.PLEASE tell us theres more music in your soul and funk in your butt.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
He would probably rate them:
-1 : Troll
-S
We Apprentice Developers and Designers
...of all these beeping lights and flashing buttons? That's all we have here are beeping lights and flashing buttons and no one knows what they're FOR and they're BEEPING and THEY'RE FLASHING AND BEEPING AND FLASHING AND BLINKING... I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE! Will there be an Airplane III?
...what are your thoughts on perhaps the most popular fanfiction slash pair around, Kirk x Spock? Is there any truth behind it, or are you going to spoil the dreams of thousands of fangirls the world over?
You drink too much coffee, I drink too much stout.
What was the locker combination in episode 25 after you left your quarters the last time and opened your safe?
You're mixing up "Star Wars", which is imaginary, with "Star Trek", which everybody knows is real!
That's like saying Superman can beat up Jesus! It's a total non-sequiter.
You know what was great? In his first appearance on 3rd from the Sun as the Big Giant Head, he tells John Lithgow's character Dick about the airplane flight he had, and he saw a creature on the wing! And Dick says "I saw that too!" It's hilarious since they both played that role (Lithgow in the movie).
Another of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes also stars Shatner. It has to do with a little fortune machine at a diner. Entertaining.
I thought geeks who need to get a life were obsessed with Na ^H^H Wil Wheaton?
Remember when you were elected weakest link by the rest of the Star Trek cast, and you put the moves on Anne Robinson? On the fineness scale of 1-10 where 1 is fine and 10 is supah-fine, where would you rate her?
was she green
It's a well known fact that all women are pink on the inside. I saw that on Nova a few weeks ago.. or maybe it was in Hustler magazine.. whatever..
Trolling is a art,
What was your personal favorite episode of the Original Star Trek series and why?
Oh, please. He's probably been asked this question a billion times. He'll probably give you some bullsh*t answer just because he's sick of it.
How about: What was your favourite T.J. Hooker episode, and why?
(Yes... this is a joke.)
Accountability on the heads of the powerful.
Power in the hands of the accountable.
Ask him. Go on. I dare you. I double dare you.
Hey Bill,
Are we cool, or what? I mean, I always thought you didn't like me, but I had a good time with you at Weakest Link watching the World Series.
So are we cool, or was that just pre-game strategy?
Wil
I figured the real reason the M-5 went nuts in "The Ultimate Computer" wasn't because of Dr. Richard Deystrom's psycho engrams, but because Microsoft has a habit of engineering incompatibilities with competitor's products. Also, Spock must have known when he asked the computer to calculate the absolute value of PI in "Wolf in the Fold" that only a Microsoft OS could be crippled by a runaway process like that.
If you search for "william shatner" "wil wheaton" in google, the first hit is ... indeed the WWDN T-shirt!
Can Wil send CmdrTaco a T-shirt so he can pass it on to Shatner during the interview?
...and seeing as how you are The Man, if you want one, you can have one. I'll even autograph it for you. ;-)
Wow- this is great! There are so many knowledgable Trek fans who know most of the answers from personal anecdotes that Shatner has talked about or that they witnessed at conventions that I won't even bother to wait for his replies!
Which brings up the next question:
Would William Shatner appreciate a signed T-shirt from Wil Wheaton?
Would Wil Wheaton appreciate a signed T-shirt from William Shatner?
And if they were on Celebrety Boxing - who would win?
This is what I think about when I'm home alone and the TV is broken.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
Mr. Shatner,
Are blue skinned chicks pink inside?
I hate to break the news to you, but I don't think it'll be a problem...I think getting a virtual Liv Tyler is a bit higher on the priority list than Will Shatner.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
Shatner gets off an airplane and comments how he thought he saw something outside on the wing. Lithgow says Yeah, the same thing happened to him.
For that and much more, it was all around one of the best 3rd Rock episodes.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
Do you use priceline.com to book all of your flights?
Or do you no longer fly due to the whole "There's something out on the wing!!" thing?
This is just too funny.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Aargh!
Free Enterprise was farking AWESOME! Remember, it came out around the same time as Galaxy Quest, so it didn't get nearly the attention that it deserved, but I've always considered it Galaxy Quest's "Evil Twin." It actually had Shatner AS Shatner, doing a much better job at skewering himself than Tim Fucking Allen.
(If I live to be a thousand and have extensive electroshock therapy, it won't be enough to get "the Artist Formerly Known As Shatner" - as he was credited along with The Rated R - RAPPING Mark Anthony's funeral oration out of my head! "Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -- For Brutus is an honorable man, So are they all, all honorable men ")
It was at once "pee yourself funny", and (if you're a big honking Star Trek geek like me) kinda painful to watch. This movie is for you if you get the reference:
"Coming Soon: The Artist Formerly Known as Shatner in "William Shatner vs. the World Crime League""
Carthago delenda est!
You're new here, aren't you?
He expressed dissapointment that the top effects studio went on strike during the filming of "Final Frontier". He felt it would have done better at the box office if they had full effects. Hmmmm. Perhaps they can re-release it and edit in better effects, like Lucas did to Star Wars. Should I ask him if that has ever been considered?
At the same time ask him if he can have it completely rewritten and redone with a new director. That *might* actually improve the movie.
G.
how many dem *alien* hos didja jam witcha prime directive?
There are a lot of rumors that NASA and the Russian space program have investigated this, but no one is talking on the record yet. For example, Newton's 3rd law- "for every action, a reaction" complicating movement in zero-G. You are the most famous libidous space-amn and must know the answer :-)
Everything Wil Wheaton says gets modded up +5! Why you ask? Because he is famous. This then causes his karma to go up! Since when can fame bring you karma? This a true butchering of the concept of karma, and I will not stand for it! Kick Wil off slashdot! Who is with me?
Ps. The preceding mesage is just a joke.
What signature defines me as a person?
Star Trek made many wonder whether there was intelligent life in the universe. Did Rescue 911 ever make you wonder if there was intelligent life on this planet? A lot of the people on that show were rescued when they did some awfully dumb and dangerous things ...
You have NEVER seen a vagina, have you? You poor, god-forsaken bastard.
This has bugged me ever since STII: Wrath of Kahn came out. When Chekhov and his CO are surveying that planet for suitability for the Genesis trial, and they come across the shuttle craft, Chekhov realizes who the thing belongs to and tries to hurry the hell out. Unfortunately, they end up running into the arms of Kahn and his merry crew of castaways. Kahn fails to recognize Chekhov's CO, but he recognizes Chekhov. How can this be? In the episode "Space Seed" in which the Enterprise encounters Kahn and his gang of genetically engineered supermen (and women), Chekhov had not yet joined the crew of the Enterprise. Why couldn't the producers and director of STII take this glaring bit of reality into account???
Oh, wait....(sheepish grin)
Yeah, maybe I should get a life, huh?
__
The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this may be true.
He would probably rate them:
.... One. Troll.
-1 : Troll
Wouldn't it be:
Minus!
Do you like the Star Wars movies?
Mr Shatner,
What is the scariest experience you have ever had with one of your adoring fans?
Not counting some of these questions...
I have two questions:
* How.. did you decide... on... your enunciative style? Was it... like a flash of light, suddenly you knew... that Kirk... did not know... how to enunciate? Or were you... coached? Did it seem... innovative? Do you feel... trapped, unable to break through... to become free... from your type-casting.
* When are you going to finish that one-man production of Julius Caesar?