Subj : Re: Nimoy on Night Gallery, Shatner at Wal Ma To : All From : Wiseguy Date : Sun Jul 13 2014 02:51:39 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: epwise@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Nimoy on Night Gallery, Shatner at Wal Mart Your Name wrote in news:130720141004537613%YourName@YourISP.com: > In article , Bast > wrote: >> Daniel wrote: >> > On 12/07/14 10:04, Your Name wrote: >> >> In article , D. Stussy >> >> wrote: >> >>> "Will Dockery" wrote in message >> >>> news:e5851c23-5a65-4edd-8729-531126c361a6@googlegroups.com... >> >>>> Leonard Nimoy's big Night Gallery turn, he sure was convincing >> >>>> at playing smugly corrupt characters, it seems. This one is so >> >>>> much like his role in a Columbo episode I recently caught. >> >>>> >> >>>> Shatner's T.J. Hooker is at Wal Mart, several seasons at low >> >>>> prices. >> >>>> >> >>>> A shame all of the 1970s passed with these guys missing doing >> >>>> Star Trek in their mid-prime of life. >> >>> >> >>> Not all. Wasn't the first Star Trek movie filmed in 1979? IMDB >> >>> thinks so.... >> >> >> >> Released in 1979, but probably filmed in 1978. Either way they >> >> were trying to cash-in on Star Wars in 1977. :-) >> >> >> > Either way, that means "A shame all of the 1970s passed" from above >> > isn't exactly correct!! :-) >> >> What the shame really was, was the script and storyline the actors >> were forced to use. >> I still love that movie, but only that it brought back Star Trek, >> with the characters we all missed. >> >> But as a movie alone,...it stunk. > > Likely because it was a rush job for the cash-in bandwagon-jumping. Of > course it's not the worst one ... that goes to the pointlessly silly > Save the Whales movie. :-\ > Not at all. It took many years of evolution from a new TV series ("Phase 2") to a movie. It wasn't a rush job. But still not a good movie. --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp * Origin: TeraNews.com (1:2320/105.97) --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .