TV Quote of the Week

One is liable to hear almost anything on television these days, Lieutenant, none of it necessarily true.
--William Shatner, Columbo, “Butterfly in Shades of Grey”

TV Quote of the Week

Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before, or since, tall words proudly saying, "We the People". That which you call Ee'd Plebnista, was not written for the chiefs of kings, or the warriors or the rich or the powerful, but for ALL the people! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty, to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution". These words and the words that follow, were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well! They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing!
--William Shatner, Star Trek, "The Omega Glory"*

* A tip of the sombrero to John Kenneth Muir for suggesting this week's quote. Muchas gracias.

TV Quote of the Week

Be gentle. It's not a one-way street, you know. How you feel and that's all. It's how the girl feels, too.
--William Shatner, Star Trek, "Charlie X"

TV Quote of the Week

Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one quite adequate.
--William Shatner, Star Trek, "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

TV Quote of the Week

With all that's going on in the world these days, who among us hasn't wanted to take an axe to a priest?
--William Shatner, Boston Legal, “Legal Deficits”

Hey, I Remember This Show: Star Trek

One of these days they really should make a movie based on this series. I bet it would be great...

TV Quote of the Week

Mind your own business, Mr. Spock, I'm sick of your half-breed interference. Do you hear?
--William Shatner, Star Trek, “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”

All the Things That I Have Seen

1. Bones: The First Season.

Self-hating geeks. Temperance “Bones” Brennan and her FBI partner want madly to be the new Mulder and Scully but they're not quite there yet. And trying a bit too hard to get there as it is. The type of show in which the character who flashes a clerk at the airport is considered “normal.”

2. Boston Legal: The First and Second Seasons.

AKA The James Spader Show. Okay enough as long as actor James Spader is on the screen but often boring when it comes time to hear another of William Shatner's endless Viagra jokes.

3. Grey's Anatomy: The First and Second Seasons.

The new Ally McBeal. Sandra Oh has a nice sense of comic timing but unfortunately, many of the show's funniest scenes are meant to be taken to be seriously.