| How William Shatner Changed The World [message #150139] |
Mo, 24 Oktober 2005 02:05 |
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I just saw an ad for a new show (How William Shatner Changed The World) on
the Discovery Channel and larfed my ass off....
With Shatner saying something along the lines of, "Before people were
talking on cell phones I had a communicator, before we had MRIs I had a
tricorder and I was using them all to save the universe..."
His cell phone rings (with an analog bell) and keeps ringing as he keeps
trying (unsuccessfully) to flip it open in that Kirk-esque type way....
looks entertaining......
http://discoverychannel.ca/megabuilders/feature7.shtml
Premieres Sunday, November 13 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT
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Qa'pla
Kweeg
Ten of Canadian Clubs in the Eeeevil Trek Cabal
http://members.shaw.ca/iksbloodoath
"Half a gallon a'scotch!" Scotty (Spectre of the Gun)
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| Re: How William Shatner Changed The World [message #150145 ] |
Mo, 24 Oktober 2005 03:40 |
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He made it a smaller place ... by taking up so much damn room.
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| Re: How William Shatner Changed The World [message #150146 ] |
Mo, 24 Oktober 2005 03:55 |
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 01:40:43 GMT, Al Smith <invalid [at] address.com> wrote:
>He made it a smaller place ... by taking up so much damn room.
The Giant Squid are taking over!
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| Re: How William Shatner Changed The World [message #150147 ] |
Mo, 24 Oktober 2005 05:16 |
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"Kweeg" <kweeg [at] nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:szV6f.275612$1i.49007 [at] pd7tw2no...
>I just saw an ad for a new show (How William Shatner Changed The World) on
> the Discovery Channel and larfed my ass off....
> With Shatner saying something along the lines of, "Before people were
> talking on cell phones I had a communicator, before we had MRIs I had a
> tricorder and I was using them all to save the universe..."
> His cell phone rings (with an analog bell) and keeps ringing as he keeps
> trying (unsuccessfully) to flip it open in that Kirk-esque type way....
> looks entertaining......
>
> http://discoverychannel.ca/megabuilders/feature7.shtml
>
> Premieres Sunday, November 13 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT
He has a remarkable way of laughing at himself which leads to laughing with
us.
I miss the commercials with he and Nimoy.
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> --
>
> Qa'pla
> Kweeg
> Ten of Canadian Clubs in the Eeeevil Trek Cabal
> http://members.shaw.ca/iksbloodoath
> "Half a gallon a'scotch!" Scotty (Spectre of the Gun)
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>
>
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| Re: How William Shatner Changed The World [message #150153 ] |
Mo, 24 Oktober 2005 08:18 |
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"Kweeg" <kweeg [at] nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:szV6f.275612$1i.49007 [at] pd7tw2no...
> I just saw an ad for a new show (How William Shatner Changed The World) on
> the Discovery Channel and larfed my ass off....
> With Shatner saying something along the lines of, "Before people were
> talking on cell phones I had a communicator, before we had MRIs I had a
> tricorder and I was using them all to save the universe..."
> His cell phone rings (with an analog bell) and keeps ringing as he keeps
> trying (unsuccessfully) to flip it open in that Kirk-esque type way....
> looks entertaining......
>
Gotta love old Bill...... come closer.... "DENNIE CRANE"
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JK Sinrod
Sinrod Stained Glass Studios
www.sinrodstudios.com
Coney Island Memories
www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories
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| Re: How William Shatner Changed The World [message #156015 ] |
Di, 25 Oktober 2005 00:54 |
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I look forward to watching that show.
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| Re: How William Shatner Changed The World [message #156033 ] |
Di, 25 Oktober 2005 19:05 |
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Kweeg wrote:
> I just saw an ad for a new show (How William Shatner Changed The World) on
> the Discovery Channel and larfed my ass off....
I have accepted Shatner as my own personal Starship Captain.
Do they at least have an episode for the Church of Shatnerology?
> With Shatner saying something along the lines of, "Before people were
> talking on cell phones I had a communicator, before we had MRIs I had a
> tricorder and I was using them all to save the universe..."
"Before LSD became the 'cool' drug on campus I was ALREADY seeing
strange beings on the wings of airplanes..."
> His cell phone rings (with an analog bell) and keeps ringing as he keeps
> trying (unsuccessfully) to flip it open in that Kirk-esque type way....
> looks entertaining......
>
"We're sorry; all of our Starship Captains are currently saving other
planets. Please hold, your world is important to us. If you are being
assimilated by Borg, press 'One' now. If you are suffering an
infestation of tribbles, press 'Two' now..."
> http://discoverychannel.ca/megabuilders/feature7.shtml
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> Premieres Sunday, November 13 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT
>
They've got to at least address the military applications of his
weapons-grade singing. "Row row row your boat..."
"Voyager to alien fleet- Hold your fire! Hold your fire!! I promise
that WASN'T a kamikaze attack; that's the way Chakotay ALWAYS lands his
shuttles!!"
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| Re: How William Shatner Changed the World [message #166104 ] |
Sa, 19 November 2005 07:46 |
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"Al Smith" <invalid [at] address.com> wrote in message
news:QDtff.126118$Ph4.3868954 [at] ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> > Anyone see the premier show? Shatner's narration was a hoot. Defiantly
a,
> > have friend or two over for a beer or two show.
> >
> http://discoverychannel.ca/on_tv/how_shatner/shatner_home/
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> I saw most of the show. I caught the last ten minutes on one
> night, and the first half hour on another night.
>
> My thoughts ... man, there were a lot of commercials in that
> sucker! Every five minutes, they broke away for three minutes of
> commercials.
>
> Shatner is a whale. I thought he was going to fall over and roll
> down that hill where he fought the Gorn. Then it would have been a
> mercy, had someone come along and crushed his head with a big rock.
Yer point? The man *is* 74 is there some reason *everybody* has to look like
they did 20 or 30 years ago?
> I was surprised at just how poorly written and how badly conceived
> the show was. It didn't seem to focus closely enough on the really
> important Trek contributions to the modern world. Where was the
> hypo-spray? The automatic doors were under-examined -- those were
> possibly the most important of all Trek innovations, and they got
> around twenty seconds. What about the concept of a starship that
> never lands on a planet? Warp drive? (mathematicians and
> cosmologists are looking at the idea) Force fields? (we've got
> magnetic bottles now) Phasers? (we've got beam weapons) Maybe I
> missed all that stuff.
>
> Summary: I didn't like it. Shatner wasn't interesting or funny,
> and the show was badly done. If the folks at Nova had done it,
> maybe using Patrick Stewart as a voice-over actor, it would have
> been ten times better.
Geez Al, sounds like your defiantly suffering from a bad case of nofunitus.
I believe the whole point was to do it very tongue in check. Tell me, how
would it be called "How William Shatner Changed the World" if Stewart did
it?
--
Qapla'
Kweeg
Ten of Canadian Clubs in the Eeeevil Trek Cabal
http://members.shaw.ca/iksbloodoath
"Half a gallon a'scotch!" Scotty (Spectre of the Gun)
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