From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds
In article ,
Wickeddoll wrote:
> Anim8rFSK wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> "Steven L." wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> Maybe the fame has just gone to their heads. They think Shatner
> >>>>>>>>>> upstaged them? What kind of "stage" would they have had without
> >>>>>>>>>> Star Trek?
> >>>>>>>>> That's the thing. There are almost no stories of him treating
them
> >>>>>>>>> badly; at worst, he was apparently indifferent. It's like they
> >>>>>>>>> blurred the line between work friends and real life friends. I'm
> >>>>>>>>> sure there are incidents where he took away somebody's lines;
> >>>>>>>>> that's how these things work. It's not like he ever got somebody
> >>>>>>>>> fired; hell, they were all there to the end, even in the one he
> >>>>>>>>> directed.
> >>>>>>>> Perhaps it's because they had hoped to focus on each of the minor
> >>>>>>>> actors in a rotating way, similar to the "centric" episodes on
> >>>>>>>> today's "Lost."
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> You saw some of that in season 1: "Charlie X" focused on Yeoman
> >>>>>>>> Rand, for example. And "Naked Time" had a big part for Sulu.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> But Shatner had written memos to the producers "reminding" them
that
> >>>>>>>> the show "has to center around Captain Kirk and his decisions."
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> And as the series continued, the show focused more and more on the
> >>>>>>>> Kirk-Spock-McCoy troika.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> OK that's a reasonable gripe, but it's *way* in the past - can't be
> >>>>>>> changed, certainly not by Shatner.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Natalie
> >>>>>> And it's how 1960s TV was handled, anyway. When was the last time
you
> >>>>>> saw a BONANZA episode featuring Hop-Sing? Okay, there was one HAVE
> >>>>>> GUN WILL TRAVEL where Paladin teamed up with Hey-Boy.
> >>>>> And it got corrected in the movies to some degree.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Nichelle Nichols had some good moments in ST III: TSFS.
> >>>> They all did - I think that's because of Nimoy being the director.
> >>>>
> >>>>> James Doohan had good moments in ST IV: TVH.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> George Takei had a *major* role as the Excelsior captain in ST VI: The
> >>>>> Undiscovered Country.
> >>>> I don't think they're talking about the movies - seems to be the show.
> >>>> I guess they think they'd be bigger stars *now* if they had more face
> >>>> time *then* but I say any of the original cast of TOS are much bigger
> >>>> stars than they would have been if they had any other roles. Honestly,
> >>>> I can't imagine any of the secondary cast really breaking out, except
> >>>> Takei and maybe Koenig.
> >>>>
> >>>> Natalie
> >>> KOENIG?????
> >>>
> >>> Have you ever seen something that featured him, like Moontrap? He's one
> >>> of the singulary least talented people in show business.
> >>>
> >>> If he hadn't stumbled into Star Trek, he'd be asking if you wanted fries
> >>> with that -- if he was lucky.
> >>>
> >> I thought he was great as the loathsome Mr. Bester in B5
> >>
> >> Natalie
> >
> > I agree, he fit well into that one part, but only that one part.
> >
>
> You didn't like his Chekov? I always thought he was sweetly naive.
>
> Natalie
No. I thought Chekov was an annoying twit, and they should have space
him. Chekov was only good when being tortured or burned or maimed in
some way. Substituting "W" for "R" and "L" isn't a Russian accent, it's
an Elmer Fudd speech impediment.
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