These uniforms were a lot better than the ones that they were in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", and much easier for the cast members to wear In an interview with George Takei, George had described the TMP uniforms as being so awkward to get into to the point that the cast members couldn't even go to the bathroom to relieve themselves without being accompanied by the costumers and that they'd said that if had to go through that indignity again, there wouldn't have been a Star Trek II
@@karlsmith2570 The first Star Trek film was experimental on several points, the uniforms were part of these points. For the second film they kept the right things and changed what was wrong. We owe these uniforms to producer Harvey Bennett.
Shatner’s interview gave me goosebumps, especially at the end and his poignancy and observations of the brevity of life and how precious it is, he is quite a remarkable man.
this man used to be the most famous canadian on earth, and had touched the lives of so many in such a postive way now we have other canadians touching the lives of so many in a negative way ((looking at you bieber))
Not much time left. It's amazing. This must have been 1990. He's still with us, 34 years later. Give or take a few years, half the life again he'd lived up to the point he felt this way.
Those words touched me in a way i wasn't expecting. Shatner is an amazing man and his words strike home more then i would like. Hold the ones you love as this could be the last day you live because no one can say tomorrow is coming.
@@chrisarseneault5617 Three years from now I would not be surprised if someone were to come back here and write something like “Bill Shatner makes history as first centenarian to travel faster than the speed of light on Elon Musks experimental space craft”.
So sad that he’s lost both Kelley and Nemoy. Glad Bill’s still going strong. Star Trek has lost a little bit of the struggle associated with getting older and has become a little overly political for my tastes but I still feel many of us can find inspiration in Roddenberry’s vision of the future.
Bill Shatner is the same age that my father would've been if my dad were still alive, in fact, William Shatner is about 7 months older than what my father would've been if he was still alive
Star Trek The Undiscovered Country should have been the "last" original crew movies I was very sad when Captain Kirk dided on screen in Star Trek Generations.
Especially since it was a lame pointless death. Unlike Spock’s death in ST 2. I get they couldn’t go there again with Kirk but they writing for that whole film was incredibly weak.
@@davidc.2878 I don't understand why they felt they had to write his death anyway. I would've been ok with the idea of Kirk passing away after enjoying a nice long retirement from his many years in Starfleet. But since the writers were so intent on answering the unasked question of Kirk's final fate, the only way for him to have gone out properly would've been on the bridge of a starship - preferably one named Enterprise..
@So Angry I'm quite aware of the mishandling of our beloved franchises by Hollywood. The the so-called woke agenda has also all but killed the comic book industry. The problem is not with diversity itself, but rather with representation as an agenda OVER good storytelling. All of that said, I don't feel that the needless showing of Kirk's death applies here. It's not like his character was replaced by anyone. There just wasn't a point in telling us that story. I was never a fan of Brannon Braga's writing and of course, he was mostly responsible for it. What's odd is that I had heard that Kirk would die as far back as ST6, and that was before the internet age. Maybe Shatner wanted to hang it up?
@@steakslave Shatner said they told him the character would die offscreen if he refused to return to play him. They wanted to "pass the torch" to Patrick Stewart. So Shatner came back and played the death scene brilliantly. And Kirk was not even brought home to be buried with honors! It was a disgrace.
He doesn't even appear like he is in his mid-to-later eighties. By quite an extent, he appears as though he is in his seventies, or maybe even his sixties.
Something tells me that in the last part of the interview Bill was referring to Dee's death more than other people. They spent most of the time together filming and DeForest looked more fragile than the rest of the crew (not only because of his age given the fact that Doohan was around the same age). Hope to see him long live and prosper!!
Sorta. It was done more for financial reasons. The studio had shaky feet about whether or not a Next Gen movie could hold it's own at the Box office without at least some of the original cast there. Hence, why if you watch the trailer it almost seems to imply Shatner's going to be on board the D and actually involved with the TNG cast in a much larger way.
Rotard12a Unfortunately Leonard has passed on since you left your comment. As I write this, the U.S. and several parts of Europe can’t seem to hold themselves together let alone humanity (to use your word). Bummer isn’t it? :-(
@@briandeschene8424 As I write this four years later. Things might seem dark, but there are rays of light, in the end even in Star Trek. It took a lot worse than we have now to get where they are. And I think the same will continue on into the future, we will get to the better future. I know it.
🎆🥳🤳🎂🥂🎁💥🪐 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 ✨ a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to WILLIAM SHATNER!! b. March 22, 1931 Ninety years old! Still raising and riding horses. 🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎 🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎 Still witty and charming. Still very much loved. 💞 We'll celebrate his 100th birthday!
In real life, he outlives Leonard and Deforest which is opposite within the show. Is kind of weird. And he kinda predicted him outliving them there. :O
Technically we don't know if he outlived McCoy or not... as he died after leaving the Nexus many, many years after his 'death'. We don't know McCoy's fate.
Agree. He kind of predicted it In Star Trek 5 during the campfire scene. He makes a double entendre prediction. Without realizing it of course. Since it was dialogue for the scene. In this case it's life imitating art. He tells McCoy and Spock at one point that he knows * he'll die alone* . Referring to a Valhalla hero type of demise in the Trek universe. In the case of the 3 comrades Kirk, McCoy & Spock, he will indeed die alone. Outliving his friends. With both De Kelley and Nimoy now gone, he stands alone.
@@j.f.monahan3589 I think that he was referring to the real-life deaths of Leonard Nimoy and Deforest Kelly, the fact that they've died and Shatner is still alive and well
Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley at the Star Trek VI water cooler: "Hey Leonard did you see Bill's new interview?" "No what did he say?" "He said we were his dear friends and other nice things." "That's nice" (Nimoy takes a drink of water). "He also said he's imagining our deaths." Nimoy spits out water.
@@stephenbastasch7893 oh shush im not criticising him. I love Shatner with all my being. His cast mates seemed to be consumed by bitterness and jealousy aimed at Bill. And what makes it even better is he didn't even notice.
That’s probably the LEAST of things that they’d discuss. I tried to watch the cartoon, but it pales in comparison to Star Trek TOS. Bluntly speaking, IT SUCKED! I say that because James Doohan did most of the voices but it wasn’t until later on in the series that most of the original cast did some voice work. I did, have some Star Trek LPs on the other hand, loved them!
i too like oberstinky wasent even expecting this either :D n its this same man that was the reason Gene Rodenberry made star trek a big hit over the years.
I know a lot of folks say these uniforms were some of the best that Star Trek has ever had. That’s true, but I think my favorite were the short mini dress uniforms the guys wore in the next Generation. A timeless design those were.
i think they should of done a startrek 7 with the entire original crew and made that one the last one where the original crew and the next generation all work together in the story
Everytime i take an airplane somewhere, someone asks why i chose that airline: one of my answers are: Captain Kirk got me a good deal on it. William Shatner used to make priceline.com commercials for travelling by air. As a little kid I'd watch all of the original series, he was my super hero, as an adult; someone whos advice you can trust, even if he gave it to you in a commercial. There's only 1 James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE, William Shatner is that captain Kirk. I love the cast of the J.J Abrahms seroes..... i guess I'm just old going on ancient.
@@JGG1701 "Whom Gods Destroy", season 3, episode 14. Marta, the Orion girl, was played by Yvonne Craig, probably best known for playing Batgirl, and a real cutie. The episode before that was "Elaan of Troyius", the title character being played by France Nuyen (born France Nguyen Van Nga), a French/Vietnamese actress, which seems like it could have been controversial, being three years into the war, and technically interracial, but it wasn't. Mind you, this was only a year after Chekov came aboard, and some people were complaining because he was a Ruski. According to the web, nineteen women in total, and though the rest were white, about a half dozen or so were aliens technically, and no one said anything about interspecies nookie either. But yeah, I don't like JarJar Abrams version either.
@@JGG1701 They did kiss, but the choreography was severely limited by the need to not get her makeup on him. Kirk's reputation around green women is exaggerated due to the iconic still of Susan Oliver in the closing credits every week, from the pilot Shatner was not in.
Grow up? Shatner? Watch some of the appearances he made with Leonard Nimoy -- they're on utube -- when they were both well past middle age. Shatner remains a child at heart.
Notice how Shatner makes comments about how they were all friends, that's because when it was going on no one ever told Shatner what they wanted they just expected him to do it. The whole Star Trek bickering is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.
They should never have ended TNG and instead have renewed it for Season 8 (which is was really supposed to be) and instead made a 7th a final TOS movie if they had to make another Star Trek movie.
Out there…*points vaguely * Thata way. *Uhura turns* Captain we have received new orders, we are to put back to Spacedock immediately….to be decommissioned. *blinks tears back*
I'll never know why they killed off Kirk, for he could have been in TNG or DS9. But to kill off a starship captain who we knew from the start, to find out he would end it all in the last one he did? Why the hell would you do that for it isn't fair at all! They end it that way, that upset me big time. But you can bring him back before he died, because to me if you watch the last one he did, he's out there still hopping around like a galactic yo-yo from place to place where no man has gone before.
@kippytango Im sorry. My Universal Translator is having a problem with your speech pattern. Can you please repeat your statement, in a more uniform manner?
I liked these uniforms. They look timeless.
One4All All4One Designed in 1981, and revealed in 1982. They’ve aged like the finest wine. 🖖😀
These uniforms were a lot better than the ones that they were in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", and much easier for the cast members to wear
In an interview with George Takei, George had described the TMP uniforms as being so awkward to get into to the point that the cast members couldn't even go to the bathroom to relieve themselves without being accompanied by the costumers and that they'd said that if had to go through that indignity again, there wouldn't have been a Star Trek II
They were my fave
@@karlsmith2570 The first Star Trek film was experimental on several points, the uniforms were part of these points. For the second film they kept the right things and changed what was wrong. We owe these uniforms to producer Harvey Bennett.
Yes, the best uniform.
Shatner’s interview gave me goosebumps, especially at the end and his poignancy and observations of the brevity of life and how precious it is, he is quite a remarkable man.
this man used to be the most famous canadian on earth, and had touched the lives of so many in such a postive way
now we have other canadians touching the lives of so many in a negative way ((looking at you bieber))
You forgot two positive Canadians, Alek Trebek and Michael J. Fox
Pammy made many touch themseleves
Don't forget the late Christopher Plummer as well
Not much time left. It's amazing. This must have been 1990. He's still with us, 34 years later. Give or take a few years, half the life again he'd lived up to the point he felt this way.
Those words touched me in a way i wasn't expecting. Shatner is an amazing man and his words strike home more then i would like. Hold the ones you love as this could be the last day you live because no one can say tomorrow is coming.
He's almost 88 now and still works and has tons of energy! Amazing!
He is now 90 and has been to space
@@chrisarseneault5617 Three years from now I would not be surprised if someone were to come back here and write something like “Bill Shatner makes history as first centenarian to travel faster than the speed of light on Elon Musks experimental space craft”.
Now, at 93, still a great and amazing man! June 20, 1924
I always got a kick out of Shatner on Boston Legal when he would make references to Star Trek. Really funny stuff.
William Shatner is very honest and real.
My favorite!!!!
It so hard to believe that the youngest actors on the series are 78, Shatner, Nichols and Whitney are pushing mid 80s Wow where did the decades go?
Just 4 more years and this comment will be a decade old.
Shattner is AWESOME!!!! :)
Almost 60, listening to one of my childhood favs, talking about, the end of life, in such a profound manner...Just wow.😯
"It was fun.."
Completely awesome actor
Shatner at 4:07: "There isn't that much time left."
And here he is still alive and kicking some 33 years later.
This is one of the reasons I like Bill Shatner, as a human being he's unafraid to envision and explore the realities of existence.
MarkOates ok
That’s the main theme of the whole Star Trek franchise, so it was good original casting
So sad that he’s lost both Kelley and Nemoy. Glad Bill’s still going strong. Star Trek has lost a little bit of the struggle associated with getting older and has become a little overly political for my tastes but I still feel many of us can find inspiration in Roddenberry’s vision of the future.
Excuse me we Lost too James Doohan- Scotty.. 🖖🌹
I've learned so much from shatner, kirk, and star trek.
Interesting guy, and he's still around with energy and over 80 years old!
Bill Shatner is the same age that my father would've been if my dad were still alive, in fact, William Shatner is about 7 months older than what my father would've been if he was still alive
10 years on and hes just been into space!
Shatner lasted longer than the planet Pluto.
Serious deep stuff!, wow
Star Trek The Undiscovered Country should have been the "last" original crew movies
I was very sad when Captain Kirk dided on screen in Star Trek Generations.
Especially since it was a lame pointless death. Unlike Spock’s death in ST 2. I get they couldn’t go there again with Kirk but they writing for that whole film was incredibly weak.
@@davidc.2878 I don't understand why they felt they had to write his death anyway. I would've been ok with the idea of Kirk passing away after enjoying a nice long retirement from his many years in Starfleet. But since the writers were so intent on answering the unasked question of Kirk's final fate, the only way for him to have gone out properly would've been on the bridge of a starship - preferably one named Enterprise..
@So Angry I'm quite aware of the mishandling of our beloved franchises by Hollywood. The the so-called woke agenda has also all but killed the comic book industry. The problem is not with diversity itself, but rather with representation as an agenda OVER good storytelling.
All of that said, I don't feel that the needless showing of Kirk's death applies here. It's not like his character was replaced by anyone. There just wasn't a point in telling us that story. I was never a fan of Brannon Braga's writing and of course, he was mostly responsible for it. What's odd is that I had heard that Kirk would die as far back as ST6, and that was before the internet age. Maybe Shatner wanted to hang it up?
@So Angry It's true, look what happened to Luke Skywalker..
@@steakslave Shatner said they told him the character would die offscreen if he refused to return to play him. They wanted to "pass the torch" to Patrick Stewart.
So Shatner came back and played the death scene brilliantly.
And Kirk was not even brought home to be buried with honors! It was a disgrace.
Love that fact the he wanted to kiss Ms. Nichols, so it was not a big deal to him.
All I can say is, WOW!
You're a good man Mr. Shatner.
Unless the news comes out tomorrow that he's died, I think Shatner will be the last crew member to pass away.
He doesn't even appear like he is in his mid-to-later eighties. By quite an extent, he appears as though he is in his seventies, or maybe even his sixties.
Nuh! My money's on Takei being the last. (And Ringo, the last Beatle.)
Captain is the last one to abandon the ship, yes.
Something tells me that in the last part of the interview Bill was referring to Dee's death more than other people. They spent most of the time together filming and DeForest looked more fragile than the rest of the crew (not only because of his age given the fact that Doohan was around the same age). Hope to see him long live and prosper!!
Best people we have seen in the...SPACE NAVY!
loved when timelines emerged. picard kirk meets up. may the future be with you in movie after st darkness. pretty cool capitans together.
The Best and One of the Greatest (Picard - TNG/Movies, Sisko, Janeway and Archer) captain in Starfleet and Star Trek, and Great actor.
That. Was lovely
Man, the end of that got a bit dark and wistful. Perhaps because at my age, I really understand and relate to what the man said....
Sorta. It was done more for financial reasons. The studio had shaky feet about whether or not a Next Gen movie could hold it's own at the Box office without at least some of the original cast there. Hence, why if you watch the trailer it almost seems to imply Shatner's going to be on board the D and actually involved with the TNG cast in a much larger way.
Hope to God that Walter, William, Nichelle, and Leonard are around to see humanity bring itself back together the way Gene dreamed it would
Rotard12a
Unfortunately Leonard has passed on since you left your comment. As I write this, the U.S. and several parts of Europe can’t seem to hold themselves together let alone humanity (to use your word). Bummer isn’t it? :-(
@@briandeschene8424 As I write this four years later. Things might seem dark, but there are rays of light, in the end even in Star Trek. It took a lot worse than we have now to get where they are. And I think the same will continue on into the future, we will get to the better future. I know it.
🎆🥳🤳🎂🥂🎁💥🪐 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 ✨
a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to
WILLIAM SHATNER!!
b. March 22, 1931
Ninety years old!
Still raising and riding horses.
🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎
🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎
Still witty and charming.
Still very much loved. 💞
We'll celebrate his 100th birthday!
In real life, he outlives Leonard and Deforest which is opposite within the show.
Is kind of weird.
And he kinda predicted him outliving them there. :O
worldowarguru how is that weird ?
Technically we don't know if he outlived McCoy or not... as he died after leaving the Nexus many, many years after his 'death'. We don't know McCoy's fate.
Agree. He kind of predicted it In Star Trek 5 during the campfire scene. He makes a double entendre prediction. Without realizing it of course. Since it was dialogue for the scene. In this case it's life imitating art. He tells McCoy and Spock at one point that he knows * he'll die alone* . Referring to a Valhalla hero type of demise in the Trek universe. In the case of the 3 comrades Kirk, McCoy & Spock, he will indeed die alone. Outliving his friends. With both De Kelley and Nimoy now gone, he stands alone.
I'd hardly call a 50 / 50 (or 1 in 3 even) outcome 'weird' :-\
@@j.f.monahan3589 I think that he was referring to the real-life deaths of Leonard Nimoy and Deforest Kelly, the fact that they've died and Shatner is still alive and well
That's what Star Trek is all about.
"I'm already imagining their deaths"
WOW.
Someone should show this clip to him and get his take on it, 29 years later.
Yes, as you get older, death is heard of more frequently and passes ever closer until it comes to your door.
man this is great. normally shatner is a clown but this is some serious stuff
Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley at the Star Trek VI water cooler: "Hey Leonard did you see Bill's new interview?" "No what did he say?" "He said we were his dear friends and other nice things." "That's nice" (Nimoy takes a drink of water). "He also said he's imagining our deaths." Nimoy spits out water.
This comment made me piss.
Imagining their deaths and not his own has served him well though!
@@marksomers8126 He did acknowledge the approach of his own death in this very interview. Sheesh.
@@stephenbastasch7893 oh shush im not criticising him. I love Shatner with all my being. His cast mates seemed to be consumed by bitterness and jealousy aimed at Bill. And what makes it even better is he didn't even notice.
Wow.
I find it interesting how none of the cast mention the animated series.
they are old they could have forgotten
Do not say i am not a start trek fan because i am
That’s probably the LEAST of things that they’d discuss. I tried to watch the cartoon, but it pales in comparison to Star Trek TOS. Bluntly speaking, IT SUCKED! I say that because James Doohan did most of the voices but it wasn’t until later on in the series that most of the original cast did some voice work. I did, have some Star Trek LPs on the other hand, loved them!
i too like oberstinky wasent even expecting this either :D
n its this same man that was the reason Gene Rodenberry made star trek a big hit over the years.
He’s talking about the end of life yet is still alive 30+ years later
I know a lot of folks say these uniforms were some of the best that Star Trek has ever had. That’s true, but I think my favorite were the short mini dress uniforms the guys wore in the next Generation. A timeless design those were.
i think they should of done a startrek 7 with the entire original crew and made that one the last one where the original crew and the next generation all work together in the story
4:35 That's what I do all the time...
Everytime i take an airplane somewhere, someone asks why i chose that airline: one of my answers are: Captain Kirk got me a good deal on it. William Shatner used to make priceline.com commercials for travelling by air. As a little kid I'd watch all of the original series, he was my super hero, as an adult; someone whos advice you can trust, even if he gave it to you in a commercial. There's only 1 James T. Kirk of the U.S.S. ENTERPRISE, William Shatner is that captain Kirk. I love the cast of the J.J Abrahms seroes..... i guess I'm just old going on ancient.
Oh my...😢
Your comparing Bieber to Shatner? Lol Bieber will be long forgotten when Trek still is. Bill isnt a idiot either.
You're*
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Legends are far beyonds fads....
an idiot*
Shatner is every bit a cool as Kirk is. Maybe more so.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
John Donne.
Were the same people who were upset when Kirk kissed Uhura bothered when he kissed green women?
Please tell me exactly what episode do you see Kirk kiss a green woman? And J.J.TREK doesn't count.
@@JGG1701 "Whom Gods Destroy", season 3, episode 14. Marta, the Orion girl, was played by Yvonne Craig, probably best known for playing Batgirl, and a real cutie. The episode before that was "Elaan of Troyius", the title character being played by France Nuyen (born France Nguyen Van Nga), a French/Vietnamese actress, which seems like it could have been controversial, being three years into the war, and technically interracial, but it wasn't. Mind you, this was only a year after Chekov came aboard, and some people were complaining because he was a Ruski. According to the web, nineteen women in total, and though the rest were white, about a half dozen or so were aliens technically, and no one said anything about interspecies nookie either. But yeah, I don't like JarJar Abrams version either.
@@patsyleeoswald3178
I don't remember Kirk kissing her, just sedusted by her. He didn't kiss her. Did he?
@@JGG1701 They did kiss, but the choreography was severely limited by the need to not get her makeup on him. Kirk's reputation around green women is exaggerated due to the iconic still of Susan Oliver in the closing credits every week, from the pilot Shatner was not in.
@@MagicAl5F4781 Rubbish! Everyone knows that Kirk left a string of little green babies all across the Alpha Quadrant. 👽👽👽👽It's part of his legacy.
I think he was a jerk when he was a younger actor and simply grew up....
Grow up? Shatner? Watch some of the appearances he made with Leonard Nimoy -- they're on utube -- when they were both well past middle age. Shatner remains a child at heart.
They weren't even retirement age when star trek VI came out
wow. thats fucking deep.
Notice how Shatner makes comments about how they were all friends, that's because when it was going on no one ever told Shatner what they wanted they just expected him to do it. The whole Star Trek bickering is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.
They should never have ended TNG and instead have renewed it for Season 8 (which is was really supposed to be) and instead made a 7th a final TOS movie if they had to make another Star Trek movie.
I have you for that Liutenant
SO SKINNY :)
was this tapped like 20 years ago?
it was filmed in 1991
That kiss was originally written in the script for kirk to kiss sulu but evil Shatner again wanted George Takei to have less screen time.
☺😂🤣😊
What Course Captain?
Out there…*points vaguely * Thata way. *Uhura turns* Captain we have received new orders, we are to put back to Spacedock immediately….to be decommissioned. *blinks tears back*
@VWVVWVVWV Yes, on the special edition DVD releases and on the latest blu ray releases
Ah crap! What was said at the end.
denny crane
I'll never know why they killed off Kirk, for he could have been in TNG or DS9. But to kill off a starship captain who we knew from the start, to find out he would end it all in the last one he did? Why the hell would you do that for it isn't fair at all! They end it that way, that upset me big time. But you can bring him back before he died, because to me if you watch the last one he did, he's out there still hopping around like a galactic yo-yo from place to place where no man has gone before.
The hell kind of drug are you on man
in Trek canon his character died first (properly) out of the main cast
Whereas in the real world..
@kippytango Im sorry. My Universal Translator is having a problem with your speech pattern. Can you please repeat your statement, in a more uniform manner?
He should do a reboot of TJ Hooker
Shatner really cares for his fellow cast members? I thought George Takei said Shatner was a jerk?
George Takei has made a career out of whining about William Shatner. His sniveling says more about him than it does about Shatner.
I heard the kiss with Uhura was written as Spock kissing Uhura but Shatner raised a stink so they rewrote it as Kirk kissing Uhura.
Mito
yeah know when uniform are white he is offline of duty.
It’s KELLEY....NOT KELLY....FIX IT!!!
Your spelling hurts my eyes..
Wow, he's a boring interview.
No, the way you listen is boring.
Very slow
Boring
Are you a goldfish?
a shame this man is such a disappointment outside the character.
George Takei has entered the chat. 🤣
That. Was lovely
That. Was lovely