Friday, June 19, 2009

Dueling Hand Gestures

William Shatner left a bold statement Wednesday night on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Evidently, the former Star Trek star couldn't do the "live long and prosper" gesture so O'Brien teased Shatner, who reasoned that Leonard Nimoy's Spock and not his character Captain James T. Kirk is famous for the signal. Still, O'Brien mocked Shatner's inability to the Vulcan hand gesture, driving Shatner to flip the bird at O'Brien.
video HERE

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Behind the Missing Shatner Scene

This past weekend, $76.5 million worth of people saw Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy onscreen in J.J. Abrams' blockbuster "Star Trek" reboot. The one person they didn't see, however, is larger-than-life "Trek" icon William Shatner. During the course of the film's production, a bizarre battle of words erupted between Abrams and the 78-year-old original Captain Kirk over a never-filmed, top-secret scene.
more HERE

Related:
Kirk meets Kirk

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