Comments on: Boo – “Catspaw” Remastered Airs This Weekend

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:06:16 +0000

I forgot Shatner’s pronunciation of “the roots and herbs” and his way of saying Kanutu woman in the one with Tyree and the Mugato. Forget it’s name. And I’m betting he influenced Deforest Kelly’s and rest of the crew’s pronunciation of Mugato.

By: starfall42

starfall42 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:41:01 +0000

At little more Googling gives several possible sources. The IMDB trivia for “Mystery Men” says it’s from a TAS episode. (There is a TAS clip on YouTube of him saying “sabatage” (right after Nimoy’s carefully enunciated “sabotage”), but not this line.

Another source says its from voice work for the “Star Trek: 25th Anniversary” computer game. And on one board, someone claims to be the sound engineer and that the clip is a hatchet job — Shatner was joking around but his “just kiddings” were edited out to make him look bad.

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:00:29 +0000

Yes,…seems to me they did similar things to Patterns of Force in the scene in the cell. …..”broad side of a barn”

By: Engon

Engon — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:53:48 +0000

Too bad they cut the best line of the enitre episode and one of the best exchanges of the series….

Kirk: Spock. Comment.

Spock: Very bad poetry, Captain.

Kirk: A more useful comment, Mr. Spock.

By: FredCFO

FredCFO — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:14:49 +0000

In “The Empath”, Shatner said “The best defence (sp) is a good OH-fence (sp).”

By: Engon

Engon — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:40:29 +0000

Of course, in Canada, at least two major languages are spoken which no doubt results in a variety of regional accents and pronunciations. It would be fairly surprising if all Canadian actors sounded alike.

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:30:12 +0000

And as far as being a product of Canadian pronunciations – I had a friend who reads these boards point that out to me just yesterday. But I think that’s just Shatner being unique and being well….Shatner. Maynard Ferguson, James Doohan, Oscar Peterson, Michael J Fox and the entire cast of SCTV are Canadian and I’ve never heard them speak that way.

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:06:47 +0000

I guess I should clarify…that’s how this friend from Malaysia was taught and that’s how I always saw Spock’s English. As something he not only learned from Mom but what was being taught in school.

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:05:03 +0000

I always took Nimoy’s pronunciations as a conscious decision on his part to be a product of his schooling in learning English. I had a friend in college from Malaysia who had learned English with a British accent. I always thought that was part of the character he created.

Then there’s David Letterman, who during his NBC show days, would play cuts from old Nimoy albums like his version of Sunny(which is a killer arrangement by the way…I can’t believe it was written just for Nimoy…but I digress)…and all the while Letterman, whoagain is supposedely playing cuts from his personal record collection, would introduce the song as sung by Leonard Ni-MOY.

By: Engon

Engon — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:11:43 +0000

I think you have to make a distinction between Shatner’s Canadian pronunciations, like “sabotage,” and his dramatic enunciations for emphasis like “An-Ti-Bah-Dies!”

As I recall, Nimoy was prone to pronouncing “formidable” “for-MID-able.” DeForest Kelly could male “essentially” sound like E-sen-CHU-ally,” though that may have been part of his on/off southern accent.

How many ways did they pronounce “Balok” anyway?