William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy having a very candid conversation about why the Star Trek franchise will continue. I howled. Yes it’s gutshot, but this every last bitter dollar will be squeezed out of it.
SHATNER: So you want Paramount to say we’ve made enough money?
NIMOY: Let’s stop making money. Yeah.
SHATNER: Yeah, yeah.
NIMOY: The stockholders won’t mind.
SHATNER: No, and we’ve –
NIMOY: We should stop making money.
SHATNER: Folks, we’ve made enough money, we’re walking away –
NIMOY: We’re going to take a break –
SHATNER: Yes. It’s been a wonderful ride –
NIMOY: We’re going on vacation –
SHATNER: And no more money.
NIMOY: Right. Off to an island someplace and just …
SHATNER: We’ll just handle the books in a different way and make it look like we made something.
NIMOY: Watch the sunset and forget about money…
SHATNER: Yes.
NIMOY: And your investment? Oh, don’t worry about it, you know.
SHATNER: It’s going to be OK.
NIMOY: We’ll get around to that someday.
SHATNER: You’ll have some other shows.
NIMOY: Yeah, we don’t want to make any more money. No.
CNN.com – Shatner, Nimoy and 40 years of ‘Star Trek’ – Sep 7, 2006
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Ooops, I meant the above comment to go to the previous entry.
Okay, about this entry: We all knew this was why Star Trek was still around, but I guess it’s good to get verification that all our suspicions are correct and that the people on the inside (or some, who at one point were)realize we’re smart enough know the truth.
We can only hope that one day the actors playing Mr. Windsor and Mr. Topper will be discussing the very same dilemma
Only recently discovered HtSiE whilst slumming on podiobooks.com. I love this series.. devoured all the episodes in two days! Please keep the episodes coming as my evil tutelage has just begun.
In Evil we trust,
Carmen
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QUESTION. WOULD IT BE POOSIBLE TO STILL ORDER THE CD’S FOR THE SERIES. IF SO , HOW MUCH ? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME