Spaced Out - The Very Best Of William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy - William Shatner

This is a compilation of the recorded works of the two leads in Star Trek, namely William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, who between them brought out six albums in the late 1960's / early 1970's on the obscure US label Dot. Shatner's legendary "Transformed Man" LP from 1968, a bizarre half-spoken half-sung list of epic tunes and Shakespeare readings, is more fondly remembered than Nimoy's sizeable output, novelty value at first before later switching to covering modern C&W standards. Let's face it you ain't gonna get this for its music, only for its kitsch. Bill, alias Captain Kirk alias T J Hooker, the man who puts the Shat into ...  Read the complete review

Leonard Nimoy is not Spock. ‘That’s right, I Am Not Spock,’ he protested in his 1970s autobiography, adding, ‘unless someone is offering me money to cash in on that character I played for three lousy years.’ ‘You are so Spock,’ the world persisted. ‘I Am Not Spock, I have done other things. Don’t you remember, I was Mr. Paris in thirty episodes of Mission: Impossible, replacing Martin Landau’s character.’ ‘That’s interesting,’ said a man in a home-made Star Trek uniform, ‘Landau was the original choice to play the Spock character in 1964.’ ‘Ah... get-a-life!’ yelled William Shatner. During the ...  Read the complete review