Manowar are such a guilty pleasure of mine. They have a lot of very silly material, but hard to deny that Dark Avenger is anything but absolute art.

He also did work with Rhapsody of Fire from 2004 to 2010, where his contributions were of much higher quality.

Shatner speaks Esperanto with a perfect native accent. Everyone else is pronouncing it wrong.

I'd heard of this movie before and had to check it out - the scene I watched where he was speaking to who I assume is the female lead sounded like an American and an Italian both speaking perfectly passable Esperanto. If I were to nitpick his i's were a little soft - Esperanto i's are canonically pronounced ee - but Esperanto was made to accommodate lots of different accents without losing comprehensibility and it did that here. I actually found his Esperanto easier to follow than the girl's, but that's probably because I learned Esperanto from people speaking it with Canadian accents.

When I watched Incubus I remember him sounding very much like he was trying to speak Italian. My only basis for comparison are some podcasts in Esperanto I've listened to, and completion of the duolingo course (I've forgotten everything).

Hand to heart honest, I had a listen to this, and this is the only version I know. This was a very popular song when I was in university in 15 years ago.

I did not realize it was shatner!

Ben Folds co-composing the album and songs featuring Henry Rollins, Lemon Jelly, etc, as well as having Nick Hornby (and I believe Aimee Mann?) on That's Me Trying is incredible, and also probably my favorite song on it.

Thank you. 100% agree. I would love to hear Shatner work with John Cooper Clarke

And Zapp's scene in the restaurant was a parody of Shatner's spoken word covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfbsu1bbQE

And Shatner's cover was covered by Family Guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZL4pNtI9nM

Thanks! That was actually really good. His performance matches the emotions underlying the song.

Something all the covers of Behind Blue Eyes by The Who seem to miss is the slowly rising anger and frustration.

I have to say, the brass arrangement is pretty good - would have loved to be there when they recorded that staccato part.

This is very well done, thanks

There's no time dilation at warp. What are they even teaching at Starfleet Academy these days?

Seem to be. Commercials here https://youtu.be/qN-uzwFYckg?t=3

I honestly couldn’t stop thinking about it. People around here eat plates of pasta in cars and throw them out the window.

His style seems quite Shakespearean which was done in a slightly over the top way to entertain the live crowds at the time, rather than the realistic style popular nowadays with close up filming.

I didn't know there was even a sequel.

Alien 3 is my favourite in the Alien franchise, so I'm a chance to see it your way. But then I love American Psycho and the portrayal by Christian Bale, so maybe I'm already out of the running.

Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge! That always blows me away. What a life's journey.

100 is the new 80... I hope!

Exactly!

Well, thanks for cutting another one and a half hours from my already too short period of sleep at night and making me waste more time tomorrow at looking up more stand up shows from Henry if available.

In a thread full of attractive links, this was the one that got me to break discipline and click. Thanks!

A lot of non-hackers also like Star Trek, and a lot of hackers don't like it. Liking Star Trek isn't indicative of or relevant to being a "good hacker".

By this logic being old and probably white and male is also what it takes to be a good hacker.

Apparently more than 100 registerd users with voting rights thought it interesting and few to none felt it flag worthy.

So, much the same bar was cleared as every other article that makes the "interesting to HN community" grade.

Rack that up to more Trekkie-adjacent and metal-heads than you might have expected.

A lot of those non-tech get flagged from the homepage. It’s interesting to see what is allowed to stay and what is not.

Do star trek and boston legal really fall outside of stereotypical HN interests?

...Yes. We're all fucking nerds.

/s

Yup, I am a fan and watched that concept video when it came out. I'm hoping he makes some sort of return, perhaps involving the Star Trek Picard Season 3 reveal that Kirk's body is being kept on ice at Section 31, on Daystrom Station. I would imagine that there are many ways that Kirk could be brought back, perhaps Kirk's body could have ended up being stored in a transporter's buffer similar to how the episode "Relics" from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Montgomery Scott (Scotty) is discovered alive in a transporter buffer after being trapped for 75 years on a Dyson sphere. The transporter has been rigged to sustain two life signals, allowing Scott to survive by maintaining a diagnostic cycle. His pattern remains intact, allowing him to be rematerialized after being rescued by the USS Enterprise. Another possibility is being back due to meddling from the Q or an evolved V'Ger. There's been published a comic where some of the old crew from multiple TV projects have been brought back to help solve the killings of some of Star Trek's Gods by an unknown figure. Emperor Kahless is eventually revealed to be Star Trek’s god-killer. Among the many cameos in the series are Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko, Kira Nerys, Odo, Worf, Alexander Rozhenko, Spock, Scotty, Uhura, B'Elanna Torres, Tom Paris, Ro Laren, and others like Q, Kahless (clone/Emperor), and crossovers with Picard-era or TOS characters. It does not have to be a TV series but could be a limited TV mini-series. The Star Trek financial gods wasted big money on a badly done Section 31 movie. I don't see why they don't do something more similar to Star Trek comic and Television canon.