He is brilliant. The one and only!!

And why is that😆. But I love him too 😆

@@NashvilleTuneStream Is right. Kirk had charisma in spades.

No its not

***** Indeed, my good sir!

hahaha Nimoy was probably used to seeing Shatner chew scenery like this! All in a day's work!

I was thinking the same thing!

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He probably thought of other things to avoid noticing Shatner. Like laundry

+Ates Goksu He toured theatres with a one man show called 'Shatner's World, at the age of 81. I travelled from London to San Francisco to see it. It was everything you'd want, and more.

also he has few cds out, they are great!!

He's been doing these shows since the late 1970s. People would show up expecting to hear his ideas on Star Trek but instead got lectures and dramatic readings on other subjects. It didn't help that the posters had "STAR TREK Show" all over them & promised he'd screen the original "The Cage" (very rare at the time) and then when the print wasn't available, he didn't have it corrected. People demanded (and got) their money back! (Thanks and a tip o'the hat to the Cazenovia Collection stores.ebay.com/Cazenovia-Collection?_trksid=p2047675.l2563)!

What people don't understand is Bill Shatner is a performance artist.

He's the worst ham actor in history. There's nothing artistic about him and that isn't anything remotely resembling any type of performance.

You have to admit, he's pretty good

I'd love to see him play a Vulcan.

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He's okay. Pollack is better. LOL!

@@lesyayandfilksongs In a way, he did. The Romulans are an off shoot of the Vulcans, check out the third season episode, The Enterprise Incident.

Nearly lost him :D

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Well, he was under control of an alien entity, wasn't he? The director -- who undoubtedly told him to play it that way.

And they want us convinced they aren't gay

He knows how to calm his boyfriend down

You people always have your mind in the gutter.

@@Aivottaja a loving relationship is from the gutter?

@@LSDeadly If it's cornholing.

William Shatner is a superb actor. He can say anything with his face and his voice is always pitch-perfect. When the script calls for great subtlety and nuance, he provides it. If the script calls for him to scream, he screams.

You might be interested fanlore.org/wiki/Shatner:_Where_No_Man...

I'm afraid I don't find him fun to watch. I find him embarrassing and annoying.

Ygor Blasko I agree, he's was conveying "PANIC" not "CALM" over losing the capacity to Command Of The "Enterprise" as Captain!!!

+Ygor Blasko-According to his book Get a Life, he claims it was intentional. That due to his experience in theater, he figured since the budget for the show was so minimal, it was important to stress the dialogue, and draw attention. Obviously. . .that worked. :*D. As for his dramatic pauses, he admitted that it was the unfortunate side effect of not being used to to working underneath the stressful demands of tv and that he often forgot things. . .So points to him for being nakedly honest about it. . .

@@Trev359 Then why watch him? We who love him to bits will soldier on without you.

Totally on point. You nailed it

Alrighty then.

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He started off as a Shakespeare stage actor. You had to over act and annunciate so the people in the back could hear you. I think he carried that over into his tv and film career.

breasthound Spock is a Vulcan and does not have emotions, that’s why he doesn’t convey emotion

Together they act on average

@Kathrina oh I’m sorry, he’s half human. However his Vulcan side is the side which prevails, and his emotions are suppressed and controlled by it. He is a conflicted character, however in most cases he is disciplined and does not show emotion

@Kathrina theres no need to insult me, if you want to insult me for some shit I forgot to mention then go ahead but it takes away from your argument. It’s honestly pathetic that you called me a dumb bitch over a Star Trek character

Mosquera Joseph lol they rly called you a dumb bitch huh. you literally didn’t even say he doesn’t have emotion. don’t let ridiculous ppl on the internet get to you they don’t know you personally just like we don’t know them

Picard would have done the 'must not fap' face.

I agree. It's easy to mock this scene when it's taken out of context.

They could have always gone to a rip off of Spocks "Horta" performance: "Pain... Agony... DEVILS!"

@@Aroer- It's even easier to mock it in context!

All the alien did was make him think he was losing command. Quivering like a cowardly, simpering, jackass, was Shatner's take on how Kirk would behave. (Along with the writer, assuming he wrote it that way, and the director, assuming he approved of that behavior. Everyone involved should have had their honorary Star Fleet memberships suspended, and Shatner should have been reprimanded by the Screen Actors Guild!

Yeah, who knows how many times they had to shoot it to keep Nimoy from busting out laughing... Three times? Seven Times? Or maybe Nimoy, remembering his mind meld with the Horta performance, thought this was great acting on Shatner's part.

Well, it wasn't a nervous breakdown; it was alien mind control, and when it was broken, Kirk was free of it. This is sci-fi, after all.

@@williamanthony9090 Odojang advises that: "In Canada ... they have all been shown on cable TV in both French and English. Canadian viewership numbers show STD lost half its audience by the end of S1, then only went further down afterwards. "Picard lost half its audience by episode 5 and never recovered. "Lower Decks lost it right after the first episode and went down after that. "I don't know about Short Treks except that, just like the others, they were aired once and then never again. "Meanwhile, all classic Trek series have been on air every day of the week for more than a decade non-stop; still are." And now that Warner Brothers is dumping all their output directly onto streaming, the other major studios will follow suit. JunkTrek will be OBLITERATED.

@@williamanthony9090 You have never read Nimoy's books. He was a very method actor, especially when playing Spock. He would NEVER laugh on set while in character. In fact, he spoke about how it became a running gag for Shatner and the other cast to an extent, to try and make him laugh. However, it just ended up annoying him, thus making it difficult for him to be close to his castmates in those early years.

@@jayvardy -No, I have never read his books. I have, however, seen dozens of outtakes of him laughing it up with his castmates when things went wrong. Perhaps he wrote his books before those outtakes became readily available for public viewing.

***** Exactly.

Stage actors are supposed to be better xD

Do you really think the director of this scene wanted Shatner to be subtle and restrained? The context of this scene is that his mind was being taken over by an alien force! This was a sci-fi adventure series where viewers expected to see a lot of strange things, including from the actors.

+Gloucon X Strange is one thing, but this is ludicrous. When I first saw it, I honestly thought it was a joke, is the scene that spawned a thousand ​impressions of him, and cemented his reputation as king of the ham-actors. I bet this one scene restricted his career to about a quarter of what it could have been.

I'm sorry to hear that one minute out of 79 hours from a 60s tv show has scarred you for life.

Dont forget a good dose of cheese

+Freddy Joe and a bit of corn never hurt anyone.

Shatner gives a subtle and nuanced performance when the part calls for it. Here, his character is possessed by an alien entity, and what Shatner does is exactly what the script calls for.

Shatner doesn't overact here. Several of the characters are affected by an alien entity which can induce irrational behavior and panic attacks, and Kirk is one of them. This is a man having a complete panic attack and Shatner had the integrity to play it effectively without worrying that it would damage his image to appear weak, irrational, hysterical, out-of-control. It actually took a lot of guts for Shatner to be willing to perform this scene as it was written and as the director wanted it to be done. He could have insisted it would spoil his image, but he behaved like a dedicated actor and played the scene. Much respect is due to him for that.

Season 3 was not as good as the first 2.

He doesn't overact here. Several of the characters are affected by the alien entity which can induce irrational behavior and panic attacks, and Kirk is one of them. This is a man having a complete panic attack and Shatner had the integrity to play it effectively without worrying that it would damage his image to appear weak, irrational, hysterical, out-of-control.

Stop doing drugs

Absolutely. If that combo of actors never came together Star Trek likely would've gone the way of Lost in Space. There would've been a fan base for it, but it wouldn't have been the cultural phenomenon it is today.

Agree with all that you have written. Wish others would see this as well to.

You don't need to cherry pick the scenes. He's like this all the fucking time.

I love the people who feel they have to defend Shatner's ridiculous scene. And it is RIDICULOUS!

@@williamanthony9090 He did act ridiculously in some ridiculous scenes, but, usually, he did exceptionally well in all kinds of other scenes. But all this is just a matter of opinion and taste.

Shatner as Captain Kirk produces a beautifully nuanced performance. He can do anything with his face, and you can follow Kirk's moods and thoughts without him speaking a word. And when he does speak, his voice is pitch-perfect. The Star Trek scenes Shatner-haters like to point out are always the ones where he is mentally deranged for some reason -- another person or an alien in control of him, a virus which affects his ability to control himself. In those cases, the "over-the-top" performance is what the script calls for and what the director wanted.

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Thank fuck for that.

@@Trev359 You know, we get it. You have opinions. However, that's no reason to reply to every comment just to criticize Shatner. It's obnoxious.

@@Trev359 You are telling the world that you are an obsessive with psychological problems.

I wonder if you have wet yourself, when you wrote this seemingly extra ""clever"" comment. 🤣

Actually, Shatner has a couple of EMMYs and a Golden Globe. He was a member of the Canadian National Repertory Theatre in Ottawa. He acted in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. He was Christopher Plummer's understudy in Henry V.

Yes, and he is all three. As is Leonard Nimoy's Spock.

Shatner is a superb actor and he knew what he was doing.

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Only slightly better than his singing.

@@AidanSvensk His singing - or rather, speaking the lines to music -- is remarkably effective.

Shatner is a superb actor. He is playing a man whom an alien entity has made demented, and he is doing it the way the script and the director called for it to be done.

AGREED! Much better than that cheesy next generation stuff, that's for sure.

I would add Deep Space Nine and Voyager. Together with TOS, they make a very magical trio.

@@kitcat7538 For my money, STNG has been the 2nd best thus far. Still enjoy those you mentioned, though would have preferred to see the original, planned "Voyager" w/ Catherine Deneuve!

The elevator had carried him out of range of the alien who was influencing his mind. That's why Spock dragged him into the elevator.

Agreed! Absolutely ridiculous and fun to watch everytime.

In two countries! Shatner is a national treasure of Canada, which made him an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's second highest order and the Canadian equivalent of a knighthood. He is an honorary national treasure of America.

It does kinda look like Spock hallucinated that.

Shatner's a national treasure in two countries!

This was in the TV show, you know, that right??

Tobey Starburst So bad.

An oscar for the worst ham acting ever.

This was television. You mean an Emmy.

@@daniellavaladez9538 you ok?

BlackHoleSun1921 I was just about to say.. Was anyone else expecting a kiss?

That's because there isn't one. A man is going out of his mind and is trying to turn to a friend.

Charles 22 exactly. I hate how people have to spear sexuality into fucking everything. There is no homoerotic tension. This is a man on the brink of insanity being reassured by his closest friend

The homoerotic tension is there, but only if that's what you look for. Another thing, you said Spock reassured him (you will note that I said Kirk was TRYING to turn to a friend). Yet, before I played the clip again just now, I would had told you Spock did nothing. Yet what did he do? Virtually nothing, but it helped Kirk nonetheless it would seem. I would say his being bodily there alone made the difference, but other than that he said only two words before Kirk recovered, which were firstly "Captain" and lastly "Jim". They couldn't had written Spock better there. Spock basically doesn't react at all. You might think Spock is in shock (Spock Shock) but actually he's just not reacting, being non-emotional and all. Plus, he probably has no idea what to do, since he isn't exactly a guy that understands emotion very well, let alone when somebody is losing their mind. Spock not reacting, schools Jim to not react any longer to his panic.

@@charles2241 That is a really perceptive analysis.

It's also a perfect example of went wrong with the third season. Kirk got weaker, and Spock got more human. As for taking it out of context... I've probably seen this episode over fifty times. I never get tired of mocking this silly scene!

Shatner has a couple of EMMYs and a Golden Globe. As Captain Kirk, he produces a beautifully nuanced performance. He can do anything with his face, and you can follow Kirk's moods and thoughts without him speaking a word. And when he does speak, his voice is pitch-perfect. The Star Trek scenes Shatner-haters like to point out are always the ones where he is mentally deranged for some reason -- another person or an alien in control of him, a virus which affects his ability to control himself. In those cases, the "over-the-top" performance is what the script calls for and what the director wanted.

@@williamanthony9090 Clearly something wrong with you if you watch something you don't like 50 times. What was it Shatner once said about getting a life?

@@kitcat7538 As if I live or die on what Shatner says... Or you for that matter.