The Captains Page #9

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he stood up for me and...

I didn't come to

you because I thought,

you know, Bill's not

gonna help at all,

So at least the director stood

up for me and I got my way,

I didn't have

the long hair,

- The omelet,

- I looked... Yeah,

To be or not to be,

I'm a native of the planet Risa

which was the planet

that everybody went on vacation

when they had time off,

It was the spring break planet,

Yes, basically,

- Spring break planet,

- Risans gone wild,

- Yes,

- Woo!

from TOS to TNG to DS9

to Voyager,

it's pretty much

also inspired my life,

I study mechanical engineering,

The next generation

right here,

I've always been

a ''Star Trek'' fan,

Humanity has settled its

differences with each other

and that's what I really would

like to...

I'd like to live,

Well, he is about the most

ultimate ''Star Trek'' fan

that every lived,

He came from

AIbuquerque and had...

Drove up 12 hours, so...

In a van,

and it was quite a...

quite a difficult trip

for him,

but it's worth it,

He's had like two hours

of sleep,

He doesn't care,

It helps his mind,

he says,

It's, I think, something

that's positive and creative

and it brings a lot of

meaning to him,

for a long time,

Bill had no interest

in going to the conventions,

He and Leonard both had issues

with getting away

from that character,

only being identified

with one role,

They were actors,

they wanted people to

appreciate their ability for

other things,

not just for the one character

they'd played,

They finally did a convention in

New York in 1 976,

He was very nervous,

I don't think he realized what

it would be like

to get on stage and have,

in this case,

thousands of people

who absolutely adored him,

just that love that hits you

when you get on that stage

and he started going to

conventions after that,

Um...

I'm doing a documentary called

''The Captains,''

Avery Brooks,

What a great guy,

But he's kinda out there,

He's doing jazz things

in his head,

Captain,

Avery, are you there?

Yes, I'm here,

And that phony accent that

Patrick Stewart puts on,

I had the best time

with Patrick at his house,

It was...

He's got a great house

in the country,

Can't tell you where, can't even

tell you which country!

Kate Mulgrew in New York,

So she's on her way

down to the location

and I sat in a packing box

and people start passing by

and they're looking at me,

and I'm in the...

I'm like a homeless guy

in a packing box,

Isn't that

Captain Kirk in there?

What's he doing?

Yes!

What's your favorite dramatic

scream, Spock or Khan?

You gotta help me,

Scream Spock like I did,

Spooock!

Okay,

Now scream

''Khan'' like I did,

Khaaan!

That's pretty good, kid,

Which is my favorite scream?

Screams of ecstasy, but you

wouldn't know about that,

Goodbye, goodbye,

You don't mind, do you?

Oh, mind, my friend?

My dear friend,

I love you so much,

But...

And you know it's mutual,

- I know,

- I know,

Where are we going now?

You have a backstage

meet-and-greet...

A backstage meet-and-greet,

- How are you?

- fine, how are you?

What's your name?

My name's Dawn,

I met you in San francisco,

I recognized your

pretty face, Dawn,

- Thank you,

- Hi,

- Hi, I'm Debra,

- Hi, Debra, how are you?

Pleasure to see you,

Hi, how are you?

she told me a lot

about you,

Really?

Pleasure to see you,

I'm Amy,

it's nice to meet you,

Hello, Amy, pleasure

to meet you,

Hi, Blair,

nice to meet you,

Blair, nice to see you,

Andy, nice to see you,

Hi, Scott, how are you?

- Pleasure to meet you,

- Pleasure to meet you,

Hi there,

How are you today?

William Shatner,

this is Captain Dave,

Hi, Captain Dave,

How are you?

- He's one of your biggest fans,

- It's a pleasure to see you,

How are you?

- He's speaking now,

- There you go,

I understand you're fine,

Are you excited?

That a boy,

It's good to see you,

Are you having fun?

Must be quite

an experience, huh?

It's good to see you,

Take care of yourself,

So I am on this

Bombardier airplane

and I'm watching for the first

time, you,

I'm looking

at the dignity

and the seriousness

and the application of your

talent to this role,

and I'm thinking,

this is really good,

And I know the quality

of your talent,

I've recognized

a long time ago

what a fine actor you are,

and then I plumbed a note

inside me

that I want to

talked to you about,

and that's this,

When I did Captain Kirk

and we opened up

in the first season,

the notices were not

particularly good about the show

and not particularly

good for me,

Whatever they said about me

was not as laudatory

as it had in the past

and what I was able to

get sometimes in the future,

In fact, Leonard Nimoy, who

played Mr, Spock so well,

so uniquely,

that although he didn't have

spectacular things to do,

that we would

think of for an actor,

he played the thing

so differently,

that it caught the attention

of people and the critics

and he had a nomination

for an Emmy

and none of that came my way,

Then as the show continued,

I would get things like,

''Hey, beam me up, Scotty!''

A sort of, what had seemed

to me as sort of derisive tone,

And then when the...

my series was over

and a few years later,

there began conventions,

I was asked to do the first

convention,

and I thought,

I'm not gonna do a convention

with all those people

in costumes

and makeup and all this,

and then after a few

conventions,

15000 people would attend,

And I thought,

well, 15000 people,

I guess you can't ignore that,

So I went on and I would

do these conventions

and there'd be all these

people in wardrobe and costume

and, ''What's it like to be

Captain Kirk?''

and, ''Yay, Captain,''

You know, they're taking me

as Captain Kirk,

and I'm not Captain Kirk,

I'm William Shatner,

More, and I think

the right word is ''derisive,''

I realized on that airplane

that I was slightly embarrassed

about playing Captain Kirk,

I never thought of it

in that way, but I thought,

all these people that would come

up to me

and one who came up to me

in Toronto when we landed

to pick up Canadian crew,

the head of Bombardier said

what a fan he was of me

and that he had become

an aeronautical engineer

because of what...

of my appeal to him,

and as I know and I want to

hear about it,

so many people have come up

and said my life has changed

as a result of seeing your work,

and what I have done

always in the past

was go, ''Oh, yeah,''

I'd say to myself,

''Yeah, right,

Not really,''

I mean, you're...

I'm part of this Hollywood

mystique, you guys think...

and you think I affected you,

but not really,

I would deny it,

even if I

didn't so in front of them,

''Yeah, sure,''

And for the first time, when...

when the head of...

the CO of Bombardier,

said, ''I was affected,''

The first time, because

I'm doing research on you,

I looked at him and I thought,

is it possible that what

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