Star Trek Pronounciations

[scotpens]

Shatner’s pronunciation of “sabotage” is well known, but how did he pronounce “electricity”?

With emphasis on the first syllable. L-ectricity.

Pronouncing “electricity” and “electrician” that way is very British. And presumably Canadian as well.

In Shore Leave, Nimoy mispronounces the word "definitely" and his line comes out as "DefiniteME a MEchanical contrivance" with odd emphasis on the two "me" sounds.

Was that Nimoy’s fault or the sound editor’s? Since that episode was filmed almost entirely outdoors on location, I assume most of the dialogue had to be looped.

 

[cblmc1296]

^^^I'm not really sure. It was definitely a slip of the tongue on Nimoy's part but if he were in an ADR studio looping his dialogue, you'd think they'd have just had him do another take.

 

[FormerLurker]

Shatner’s pronunciation of “sabotage” is well known, but how did he pronounce “electricity”?

With emphasis on the first syllable. L-ectricity.

And then in Catspaw Shatner pronounced telekinesis "teleKINesis".

 

[SheliakBob]

"I say to-MAY-toh and you say...whatever the hell I tell you to say, 'cause I'm holding a Varon-T Disruptor to your head!"

Ah. filking gone terribly wrong in the 1990's...