Comments on: William Morgan Sheppard In New Star Trek

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:41:07 +0000

He reminds me of an old moonshiner

By: I Love My Moogie

I Love My Moogie — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:12:20 +0000

#87: “Yeah, it only took Shat 30 years to learn how to be thoughtful, even
generous, to his fellow thespians”

30 years??? DougE57’s beautiful experience working with The Shat is from 1991.

This succeeds in confirming what a wonderful person Shat is & his generosity on the set. Takei loves to tell the story how Shat ruined the takes for Sulu’s captain promotion scene in TWOK, but as Shat later explained, if Sulu is captain then how could he be in a film taking place on the Enterprise? When Sulu finally became captain in TUC, if you add up his screen time, he’s in the film for under 5 minutes—-Shat was right & was sincerely looking after George’s career interests. That’s a helluva guy in my book!

By: Losira

Losira — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:57:27 +0000

#86

Yeah, it only took Shat 30 years to learn how to be thoughtful, even
generous, to his fellow thespians.

By: I Love My Moogie

I Love My Moogie — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:50:11 +0000

#84: “it was Shatner who gave me a smile and polite applause after the take was finished”

This clearly dispels the propaganda that The Shat wasn’t thoughtful to his fellow actors. There is no actor more generous to fellow thespians than Shat.

By: Mr. Poopey face(formerly known as Closettrekker)

Mr. Poopey face(formerly known as Closettrekker) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:49:04 +0000

#83—Yes, Katie. You have me pegged. I am most definitely a Kor fan.

I enjoyed DS9 quite a bit, but I’m just partial to the Klingons in TOS. I like Kang as well. Koloth was okay, as was the unnamed Klingon in “Friday’s Child” (one of my favorite episodes), but Kor is the best, IMO. He seemed every bit Kirk’s intellectual equal.

By: DougE57

DougE57 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:38:34 +0000

#68 – KDoug: I played the Prisoner At Rura Penthe, the unfortunate prisoner who gets thrown out to die as Mr. Shepard welcomes the arriving prisoners. My role had the distinction of being the last of the scripted roles to be cast. I had the unique opportunity to work with Nicholas Meyer, met Leonard Nimoy, and after I recorded a “wild track” on the Rura Penthe set while actors and crew stood and watched, it was Shatner who gave me a smile and polite applause after the take was finished. It was an April in 1991 that this fan will always remember fondly.

By: Katie G.

Katie G. — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:04:36 +0000

Re: #82 Mr. Poopey face (formerly known as Closet-Trekker)

“You aren’t one of those guys from the Geico commercials, are you? If so, I apologize for offending you.”

LOL!! Those were clever commercials…

Did you like ANY of the post-TOS Klingons? What about Gowron? Did you like Worf at all? His being raised by humans make him a little less barberic and more dignified although he still went by the old ways (the wedding customs, the killing of the brother customs, the right of vengeance customs) in some instances.

This is very interesting to me because, as I said, I haven’t really thought too deeply or too much about it. It was more or less entertainment. Of course, some of the more obvious flaws stuck out but I didn’t really delve beneath the surface. Being on this website has been a real eye-opener for me.

My guess would be Kor was your favourite (”fools!! Will I have to kill them all??). Priceless line from TOS “Errand of Mercy” (Season 1, Ep. 26).

By: Mr. Poopey face(formerly known as Closettrekker)

Mr. Poopey face(formerly known as Closettrekker) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:29:24 +0000

#80—”BTW, Neaderthals weren’t necessarily the savage wildmen that their species often is used to invoke. For 250,000 years they thrived without major incident, until more “advanced” men showed up, along with climate change and the end of the wooly rhinoceros herds.”

I watch the discovery channel/ history channel too. I knew someone would say that. It was just a figure of speech. You aren’t one of those guys from the Geico commercials, are you? If so, I apologize for offending you.

I still like my Klingons more dignified.

By: Mr. Poopey face(formerly known as Closettrekker)

Mr. Poopey face(formerly known as Closettrekker) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:20:53 +0000

#79—Yes, I did feel that they regressed. Again, I don’t care so much about their appearance (I understand wanting to physically distinguish them more from humans), but their behavior went from clever Imperials with technology and efficiency to rival that of the Federation, to Neandethals in space who would rather slay you with a bat’leth and eat one of your organs. Kang and Kor were as intelligent and evolved as they were ruthless and bent on conquering. TNG-era Klingons were almost mindless thugs whose political system was feudal and completely unstable.

I understand the Soviet metaphor, but geez, even late 20th century Russians didn’t regress that far after the collapse of the Soviet machine.

You don’t see Vladmir Putin reduced to feudalism, non-hygenic living, consuming live food, and eating the hearts of slain enemies. Are we to believe that “Praxus” did that to Klingon culture? It was just a bit much for me.

By: K.M.Kirby

K.M.Kirby — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:18:16 +0000

Regarding Klingons (mainstream turtlehead or silvervest subspecies) their amorality was in juxtaposition to federation codes of conduct and honor; but viewed from the perspective of some of the more advanced beings, both are essentially of the same coin. It’s no wonder that the two eventually combined after the Klingon’s moon disaster.

BTW, Neaderthals weren’t necessarily the savage wildmen that their species often is used to invoke. For 250,000 years they thrived without major incident, until more “advanced” men showed up, along with climate change and the end of the wooly rhinoceros herds.