Today would have been Leonard Nimoy’s 84th birthday. When he died last month, news outlet after news outlet, in its search for appropriate footage, seemed to reach for Spock’s death scene from the end of…
I confess: Today, I’m cheating. Instead of sticking to one great Shatner and Nimoy Star Trek moment, I’m recommending three. Watch these clips one after the other, and then we’ll talk (sans “colorful metaphors”). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPztpGBrfD8…
It’s the episode that established the goatee as the tell-tale facial hair of evil doppelgangers everywhere! An ion storm causes the transporter to swap Kirk and the rest of his landing party with their sinister…
In “This Side of Paradise,” scripted by the incomparable D.C. Fontana, alien spores infect the crew, enticing them to abandon their posts for an idyllic but stagnant life on a failed Earth colony. Not even…
I’ve always thought the cosmic coincidence that William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were born only four days apart—March 22, 1931 and March 26, 1931, respectively—ought to be cause (or excuse) enough for some sort of…
The sci-fi geek community seems “thrusters on full” over this video of William Shatner reading Maurice Sendak’s then-groundbreaking children’s book Where the Wild Things Are to a group of youngsters at the recent Denver Comic Con. His…
What has Queen’s epic rock hit Bohemian Rhapsody been missing all these years? William Shatner, that’s what. http://youtu.be/1XpfTjLSPVk It’s a little bit Monty Python, a little bit Kubrick’s 2001, and even a little bit Star…
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