holy shit does paul wesley have the shatner look down in the new snw teaser, damn
like look at him, that's a shatner face
a shatner face if I've ever seen one! I'm not the biggest fan of snw but casting paul wesley as kirk was an impeccable choice
yeah, shatner also spoke about that (source)
im so sorry Kevin Riley, you would've loved the SNW musical episode 😔😔
Text from Nichelle Nichols’ biography “Beyond Uhura”
Usually, though, Leonard remained Vulcan-cool. Perhaps the most elaborate hoax involved his son, Adam, who about eight years old while we were filming the original series. It required that Adam be fitted in a child-size Starfleet uniform and be made up, ears and all, to look just his daddy.
The script called for a scene on the bridge in which Spock would be sitting in the captain’s chair with his back t o the elevator door. A yeoman was supposed to enter and say some lines, at which point Spock was to spin around in his chair, so he was facing the yeoman, and continue their brief exchange.
They had Leonard’s son, in his Vulcan disguise, waiting in the elevator. The door opened, Adam delivered the yeoman’s lines, then Leonard turned to him and answered without breaking a smile or missing a beat.
We couldn’t get so much as a Spockian arched eyebrow out of Leonard. The real kicker came when Adam “stepped out of character,” so to speak, to say, “But, Daddy, I love you.”
“Thank you, Adam,” Leonard said evenly. As the whole cast and crew stood around in breathless anticipation of Leonard’s big crack-up, which never came, by the way, the joke was on us.
SIDDIG: A lot of gay men at that time, and maybe even gay women, kinda responded to the Bashir character. I think that was because of (Garashir), and maybe the bravery of not only that, but also an implicitly Muslim character being potentially gay, potentially bi, potentially gay if they’d explored that route. That is something Garak brought with him to the party, a bottle of implied homosexuality…
LLOYD [interviewer]: So were you aware in the 90s that it was homoerotically charged and on board with that? SIDDIG: I was aware of it in the back of my mind, yes, absolutely, and encouraged it. At my first meeting with Garak I became visibly flustered. That was entirely my choice. It wasn’t written into the script. So I set off in that direction right from the get-go. And Andy (Andrew Robinson) obviously loved it, and that character became a series-long character because of that first scene…
LLOYD: That’s really cool. We’ve heard a lot of times about how Andy and Garak were on board from the start but I don’t know that I’ve heard before that you were on board from the start. SIDDIG: I subconsciously keep that door open with just about every character that I play, and I always keep it as ambiguous as possible. One of my first roles was in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia with Ralph Fiennes and I played Feisal and again, not in the script, but that was charged with homoerotica and implied homosexuality. I’d just come fresh off that project. And I’ve done it numerous times since, characters that are written straight I just make sure are not quite straight. That’s just one of my things, probably because I’m not quite straight myself and that’s probably perfect.
Starting off the year with a banger in my own personal opinion
Based on this post ⤵️
Wait, that's a kazoo!!? I thought it was like a big trumpet!! (though that would have probably gone over-budget).
Thanks for this amazing art for an episode which would have been, simultaneously, "most loved" and "most hated episode" in TOS history.
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen Captain Kirk drive a computer to suicide I’d have 15 cents.
@favvn here is what I learned from These Are The Voyages for "The Conscience of the King". It looks like the idea of Kirk's father being one of Kodos' victims was rejected very early in the process, April 1966
You know it is funny how Roddenberry was like “no we can’t kill Kirk’s dad offscreen, this could screw us over for future episodes.” And then never even brought up Kirk’s family again after his brother was murdered by aliens.
As a side note, I find it interesting that earlier in the script process Spock was given the role of Horacio, yet in the final product that got moved to Bones, while Spock got to be Ophelia. In the actual episode, Spock is the one who is ready to arrest Karidian/Kodos once he goes over what evidence they have and tells Kirk he’s needlessly putting himself in danger.
Meanwhile Bones is the one stressing Jim needs to figure out what he’s really after here. Justice or vengeance?
one time when i was 17 i watched an episode of doctor who (tennant years) that made me so inconsolable that i went upstairs to my mom and i sobbed like, "please don't make fun of me, i'm so upset about a fake person from a tv show right now i can't stop crying." she let me sit in her lap and tell her all about the episode and i stopped crying and said i felt so stupid and she started laughing and she said, "i once cried this hard in college over a star trek episode. want to hear about it?" i said yes and then while she told me about the episode she got upset all over again 30 years later and she started crying and then i started laughing about it so hard i started crying again
I love these moments in star trek so much lmao those bitchy men love each other
at least spock is gay
at least we have gay spock
it’s like the old saying goes: spock’s gay
even when all hope seems lost. Spock is still gay
