Why Bill Shatner speaks the way he does

[Phoenix219]

I don't know about William Shatner, but this humorous cartoon postulates why Kirk speaks the way he does.

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Is that Zap Brannigan?

 

[Christopher]

There is a segment going around; not sure if its from Better Late Then Never, of Shatner talking about how Captain Kirk NEVER said "Beam me up Scotty"..... Winkler looks confused as all hell, and the crazy underbelly of the internet is using it as proof that Henry is suffering from the "Mandela Effect" - becaues, don't you know, someone has erased that pop culture phrase right from history, which means we are in another Universe! :eyeroll:

What people tend to forget is that Kirk did say "Beam us up, Scotty" twice in the animated series, and several variations of "Scotty, beam us up" in TOS, as well as "Scotty, beam me up!" in The Voyage Home. I don't understand why the popular meme latched onto the "Beam me up" version; if you think about it, beam-ups in TOS usually happened in groups, so the plural pronoun was much more common. I suspect it originated with the T-shirt that read "Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life here."

 

[Kronos]

Is that Zap Brannigan?

Nah, he's wearing pants.

 

[Timewalker]

I suspect it originated with the T-shirt that read "Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life here."

I have a button that says, "Beam me sideways, Scotty; nobody here knows which way is up."

 

[johnnybear]

The Shatner pause was definitely more prevalent in the third season I'd say! Although he did it during Return To Tomorrow to great effect!
JB

 

[Phaser Two]

That cartoon is magnificently funny!