Jack Lord as Captain Kirk

[Phoenix219]

Yes I too thought Jack Lord was far too stiff and serious - too similar to the character of Spock.

I think Lord would have been more suited to say Picard, Pike or the Commander from Space 1999.

Kirk's too passionate for Lord. But then again they might have changed the writing to suit Lord more than Shatner.

Random thought; with everything TNG took from unused Cage and Phase 2 content, I wonder if Picard was spun from Pike phonetically.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

So far as I know, it was a nod to the Piccard (note the double-c) family of explorers of balloon and bathyscaphe fame.

 

[VR518]

Yeah I never knew that he was such a hated figure on that show and that he picked on poor old Danno played by James McArthur! No wonder McArthur left the series some time later maybe it took a Falconetti type of actor like William Smith to keep Lord on his toes?
JB

Wrong on all counts. Jack never picked on James. I knew people who worked on the show, and they never Jack picking on James. The two had arguments about acting methods, and James took some things personally, but there was no schoolyard bullying on a daily level that some people implied. If James was being picked on by Jack so much, why even stay for 11 years? He didn't need the money. James got tired of the storylines, he claimed.

William Smith did not keep Jack on his toes. A friend of Jack's with whom I work now was on the set during Seasons 11 and 12 did not see any discord between Jack and William. They didn't speak to each other, but they did not argue. William has a burr under his saddle because Jack didn't talk to him, like these guys are in elementary school!

 

[johnnybear]

Fair enough, but like you've said that's what people have said and written in numerous magazines! Wonder why Jack Lord didn't speak to ol' Falconetti..err I mean William Smith? Maybe he was jealous of his big muscles and his ability to speak six languages?
JB

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Thanks for the link, Ryan but I'm in the UK and Hulu doesn't work here!
JB

Oh darn!

 

[Spock's Barber]

I cannot picture Lord bringing the sort of range Shatner brought to Kirk.

I can just visualize Lord saying Kirk's line in "Mirror, Mirror".......

"I order you...let-me-go!"

 

[Esteban]

Hawaii 5-0, for the first few years, was one of the best shows on television and really groundbreaking, not just because of its diverse cast (though still focusing mainly on the Haole characters), but because it really pushed the envelope in style and concept. It did a lot of location shooting and used the handheld camera to personalize many scenes; it did episodes on topics avoided by or only sensationalized on TV at the time: rape, drug use, homosexuality, interracial relationships, post traumatic stress, and so forth, along with confronting racism (though from an Asian and Pacific Islander point of view), poverty, organized crime, the Cold War, and medical fraud. In many ways, it was far more topical than Star Trek when dealing with social issues while at the same time being a very engaging program.

You speak truth. Well done.

 

[VR518]

Fair enough, but like you've said that's what people have said and written in numerous magazines! Wonder why Jack Lord didn't speak to ol' Falconetti..err I mean William Smith? Maybe he was jealous of his big muscles and his ability to speak six languages?
JB

What they write in magazines is nonsense. Most of it is made up. I knew a woman who was friends with David Hedison. She worked with him on three books, and when she used some information from those movie magazines, David cut it all out, calling some words she couldn't repeat to me. He told her most of what is printed in those magazines is false and made up by the writers and editors. I even noticed some information was plagiarized from other magazines. Some would take bits and pieces of articles or whole articles and reprint them as though they were brand new information.

William Smith did not speak 6 languages any more than Jayne Mansfield spoke 7. Jack knew Hawaiian and some South Pacific languages because of his time spent sailing around them. I don't know why they hired William Smith, but Jack was done by Season 12 and didn't care anymore.

 

[1001001]

What they write in magazines is nonsense. Most of it is made up. I knew a woman who was friends with David Hedison. She worked with him on three books, and when she used some information from those movie magazines, David cut it all out, calling some words she couldn't repeat to me. He told her most of what is printed in those magazines is false and made up by the writers and editors. I even noticed some information was plagiarized from other magazines. Some would take bits and pieces of articles or whole articles and reprint them as though they were brand new information.

William Smith did not speak 6 languages any more than Jayne Mansfield spoke 7. Jack knew Hawaiian and some South Pacific languages because of his time spent sailing around them. I don't know why they hired William Smith, but Jack was done by Season 12 and didn't care anymore.

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