Curious, consider France doesn't believe in champagne outside of their region. XD

I went to school in LA with a kid who’s dad was a good friend of Koenig. As in he came to his house several times a month. He got me an autograph from him.

"The show must go on " Man's a true professional

He had some great moments in this film. Karl Urban does a great job capturing his spirit.

He was also apparently a stud with the ladies.

I met him several times and he was the sweetest, most generous (with time and caring) person. Just a lovely human being. 💕

secondlastnameleft You mean Walter Koenig.

joke.. you...

Wrong, it is Alfred Bester

And Leonard Nimsy!

You mean John Koenig !

His parents were born in Russia so he grew up in a Russian speaking house.

Djarra That's right, a lot of people don't realize that.

not phased but definitely stunned

That's an enormous brain fart, to forget the name of someone you'd been working with for 22 years. I don't buy it.

@@DamienDrake Totally agreed. Given the numerous stories of Shatner's boorish behavior over the decades, this is just one more example. I love Star Trek, and I *WANT* to love William Shatner, but the guy's just a massive dick, there's no way to spin in.

William and Walter, get on very well these days, William has even interviewed him a couple of times, he always go on with deforest, and mostly got on with Leonard. I did meet William in 2005, he was OK.

I'm late to this, but this is sadly funny and not funny at the same time. They are the ultimate cast on screen. Off screen not so much.

Yep. Everyone knows what it's like to draw a blank at an inopportune time. But we also all know what it's like to say "Sorry about that!" afterwards.

@@johnnyw525 When they worked as guest stars on an episode of Columbo (in the time between the original Star Trek TV series and the movies), William Shatner also did not remember Walter Koenig's name, according to the following interview kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aLaom7Zo1bKbpWg.html

I think that feud was very one way. I think Takai was mad at shatner, and shatner had no idea why. An often excited event is the excelsior incident, where shatner threw the scene that would have given Takai a promotion. I've heard the audio of the scene, and shatner's performance sounds fine. Apparently it was the director's decision to remove the scene, and had nothing to do with shatner. George was mad at him for decades over something that wasn't even his fault.

They’re not really buddies. It’s not like the TNG cast were everyone is friends. The original cast were mostly just coworkers. I imagine they’re hanging with loved one rather than “that guy from work”

you mean Vostavour or beyond the barrier ridge.

After 12 years at the same job I've no desire to find any co-workers in the afterlife (assuming there is one). Unless they got free beer.

As just a casual Trek watcher, it's so amazing to see how profoundly it impacted so many fans lives!

@@SilentKnight43 Some of mine would get glassed if i bumped into them when i was dead!

As did Ronnie Reagan....but at 75.

and the guys is still going strong ...than most 90 years olds

@@issiewizzie Shatner may be an egomaniacal jerk but he has stayed AMAZINGLY young. I hope I am in that good of shape if I even make it to 89-90.

I bet you apologise when you forget someone's name.

I’m not even 30 and have blanked over basic words in my native language. It happens!

No, it wasn’t. William probably just had a brain fart.

​@@imfsresidentotaku9699 Man makes one mistake!! Shatner always respects his colleagues even when in all the pressure he knows he's flawed, he pushes thru.

My Dad just made a portmanteau of my brother's and my name (Trevor & Kyle) and just shout Tryle!!! (but he probably spelt it 'Trial' in his head) when he didn't know who he was calling or who was there.

Mine too. He would run through all four of our names.

After 30 years of knowing them???

@@royfr8136 Yes. And my grandmother when she was no older than Shatner is in this video would sometimes momentarily forget the names of her own children... people that she knew for 30+ years. Sometimes people draw blanks. Especially if you have to fire off multiple names back to back while on camera.

Mary Jane Smith : possibly, but that's a good point

It wasent Shatner knows Koening very well they had a rough past but he knows Koening. If you saw they both started laughing after Shatner turned away from Awhoreuh

It wasn't the first time Shat forgot Koenig's name. When they did a Columbo back in the 70s Shat forgot his name then too. Koenig talks about it in another video.

People just love to attack Captain Kirk...because he is so Cool and the others are walking their own path.

This is actually a compliment. It's a tribute to Walter's masterful acting that he throws himself so fully and effortlessly into the Chekov character that even his close friends are baffled by the stunning transformation into a completely different person. I got your back, Shat.

She could have been making a joke in reference to him being Admiral Kirk then getting demoted back to Captain in the movies.

To be honest, she was just lucky to get included in the movies and she knew it. Her character was always seen on the bridge, of course, hovering on the edge of background. But she had very little screentime - she didn't even have a first name. Even guest stars and redshirts got more attention.

@@pwnmeisterage Yeah, no ... she was in more episodes than Koenig or Takei. She was underused on the show but her inclusion was a big deal and specifically part of the cast that Roddenberry laid forth.

@@pwnmeisterage Apparently they rectified this in 1991/92 with a short film and a video game. Her name is Nyota Uhura. But then Zoe Saldana never got the word and she has no first name. Whoopsie.

@@pwnmeisterage She was part of t.v.'s first "interracial kiss." She got to display her singing talent in at least two episodes. Spoke Swahili in two episodes. Kirk once order her to take over the helm. I'd say she got to display her acting chops more than, say, Sulu. And she had considerable range as an actress (though Star Trek didn't allow her to show much of it).

I forget my children's names. I've called each one by all the other names...🤣

You forget the names of your sisters and brothers? Can’t even imagine that happening

@@jameswhitfield6220 Everyone does this. If you have kids named Jonah, Mary, Theodore, and Suzy, you will call your youngest child Jonamatheosuzy. Seen it a million times. Bill Cosby made a joke of this. He said, "Don't worry, I'll find out your name. I know where you live."

yeah, very common among parents (after around 45 or 50). My old man often calls me my brother, and vice versa. Always catches it though, then takes about 5 seconds to get it straight.

Dude, if Bill was that way the ENTIRE caste was even worse. You do understand what jealousy is right, you do understand bkw absolutely petty and pathetic actors are and how important they think they are. Shatner is always doing something while nearly the rest of them were bitter "NO I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THIS AND THAT" while Bill is working. Making a career off of bitching about someone is how people like Jim Cornette still have a home, because they can't let go of something petty years ago. When you get older you may understand your list of friends gets smaller because those "friends" of yours weren't your friends at all. Hollywood is a place of lies filled with liars who will do and say ANYTHING to get a scrap of limelight. A very dark and nasty place

Absolutely! My father is a Narcisisst, they're toxic people and can be very mean towards others, because of their lack of empathy. I broke up contact to my father since many years now.

Djarra That's cool..I really need to get all those Columbo episodes.

Um i dont think so, not sure where u are getting ur info. He didnt even play scenes with shatner on columbo and they never talked and rode a golf cart to lunch together once. Koenig said this himself

Uh no...Shatner and Koenig didn't have any scenes together and I don't think they saw each other more than once or twice, during filming.

I'd like to think so, but Walter said in an interview that only saw each other once and that was in a golf car on the way to lunch and they didn't talk, and he said he thought Shatner had forgotten his name anyway.

you make it sound like they lived together, alone, on a desert island for 22 years...I think shatner worked a little MORE that koenig those 22 years since they met......he might have had a little more on his mind, as it was NOT his only claim to fame, unlike the other supporting actors in the series....takei, koenig, nichols, etc (not Nimoy or the other 2 co stars)

@@andycasting If you think living alone on an island for 22 years is a reasonable metric by which to expect one co-worker to remember another co-worker's name (after 22 years)... that speaks more about you than my "unreasonable" expectations. I am as staunch a Shatner defender as anyone but his inability to remember his co-stars name after all this time does reinforce the perception that his dismissive attitude of his co-stars is not due to limited bandwidth but that he truly doesn't regard or respect them.

@@Limited-Hangout are you an actor? have you ever worked on a set? a commercial? a film? Koenig was basically an under 5 actor....He was probably on the set 1/2 to 1/3rd the time Shatner and Nimoy were, and Shatner was BUSY focusing, do you get that? He wasnt hangin out by the kraft service table with Koenig....Koenig probably sat in his dressing room half the time until he was needed. Shatner did this for what? 2-3 years? he then MOVED on doing other roles, he was a leading man, Koenig was at best a character actor or a supporting actor....Shatner interacted with hundreds of other actors before and after star trek...he DOESNT sit at home watching star trek reruns...this is just more of the professional victim posturing thats so popular these days.....what a joke. He should just talk about his successes and stop complaining...

​@@andycasting Yes I assure you I know much more about TV/Film production than you. As well as about Star Trek. You know your argument might make sense if they only worked on a show together for 2 years 20 years prior but you clearly are unaware that this video is from their FIFTH movie together (5 movies made from 1979 to 1989) with 2 more to come after that (in 91 and 94). And in between are endless press circuits and junkets that the main 7 cast attend usually together on each and every movie, not to count the conventions or public events (like the NASA christening of the Enterprise). These people were entwined in each others lives for better or worse up to and including the making of this 5th movie, a movie by the way that SHATNER DIRECTED. You're telling me a director can't remember the name of one of his lead actors, let alone one he has been working on and off with for (to that point) 22 years, someone he has appeared on lunch boxes with, if not for some overwhelming trouble with narcissism? You might want to get your timelines in order because you clearly don't know how much or how long these 2 worked together nor do you recognize the difference between footage shot in the 60's and the 80's.

@@andycasting And I am aware that Shatner was infamously not CLOSE with the 4 main cast members outside of Nimoy and Kelley, hence his discomfort working alongside only Koenig and Doohan on Generations two movies later, but just because he wasn't socially close with the other cast doesn't easily explain away not knowing Walter's name.

I talked with someone at work every day and forgot their name when we were at a coworkers wedding. Next level getting old moment.

It’s just so funny when you added the shops name 😁

He's not close friends with the guy.. Chill out..

@@timewarpdrive77 Shatner's a dick. Kinda like you.

@@colehara He's supposed to know every one of his on-&-off co-workers name? You're the real dick for jumping to that so hastily..

You remember hearing him through your tears of pain, huh?

There is nothing unusual about that. When I have sex I call out Bill's name too.

Alan Frost I call out "William" because I don't know him aswell as you do!

haha

hahaha

So Dave - Thank you the for deep analysis of Star Trek Casting...now lets turn our attention to the Communist Takeover of the Democrat Party and it effects on Freedom and Liberty. Can not wait to hear your wisdom Sir.

@@hankgarza4975 We'd rather hear your thoughts on the Fascist infiltration of the Republican party instead.

​@@mdteletom1288 I'm an Independent can't stand the Rep and Dem's you POS

@@mdteletom1288 BTW... Communist Men are Weak and Fragile. Extremely easy to eradicate... and fun too!

@@hankgarza4975 Where, in my statement, do I say anything provocative enough to elicit your responding by calling me a POS? Answer, nowhere. Therefore you negate your statement that you are an Independent because only a Trumpublican is so thin skinned and short tempered to react like you did and so stupid they can't argue a point without resorting to petty name calling. I'm not even going to respond to your second post since it's totally senseless.

That was a great interview/conversation.

Yes that was a great ep. A lot of props to both, it was goid watching both own up to their failings. Also the ep with Leonard Nimoy, covered these issues.

No one gives a fuck. Shatner is the man!

Many of the claims by the cast members have actually not too turned out to be true

@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES no, they all back each other’s story.

Yeah, he and Nichelle Nichols are there saying to each other: "who the hell decided to offer us piss for a beverage instead!" Lol.

Walter Koenig didn't appear on the show until the second season.

Neil, you wouldn't perhaps be the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and sole member of the 'My Name Is Walter Koenig...not Chekov' fan club, would you?

Take a screen shot yourself and print it

Yeah, i don't doubt for one second Shatner forgot his name. Human nature would have made him make a joke of it if he had. He probably found upon arriving at the studio that Walter was parked closer or some other event that he felt kicked his ego in the nuts!

@@koitorob You have a fascinating imagination.

And I'd say you're an idiot.

@@minners71 That I am pal.

Um, no, we can't.

lol clearly you don't know the history of the show then

kiely 456 jealousy plain and simple

Its all in your mind

I think so, too. William Shatner has a great & kind of crazy sense of humour.

He could of just said "KAHN!!!!!!!!"

It was a special feature on the Star Trek V Double Disc DVD, where there is more.