Shatner is just Kirk, but Adam West is the God-damned Batman!

Kirk had a green blooded alien sidekick with pointed ears and telepathy.

Batman had a boy for a sidekick ;)

I could try to keep this going, but it's week.

I hate drunken spelling.

Lest my history of Alexander the Great is off, but wasn't he gay?

So that means West would be Alexander and Shatner would be his sidekick.

/cause nobody can make Shatner Gay

I'm dating myself here, but I remember watching this movie on TV as a kid.

And the original Star Trek and Batman series too.

/What was the first Star Trek episode to air on TV?
//Hint: It wasn't one of the two pilots.

That reckless television pilot will surely bankrupt the studio, old chum!

*ssshh*



/not obscure

Wow, I just love that in the first minute or two, it's obvious that their 'Persia' is just the American southwest. Yeah, it's just a pilot, but still. Have some pride, men.

That would have been a very popular show with all the closeted gay men back in that era. Sweaty oiled muscular men in skirts getting into sword fights and wrestling matches.

Just think, if this show had been picked up, there might never have been a series about humanity boldly going where no man had gone before...!

So, who topped who?

Adam West has impressive thighs.

I'm reading Shatner's autobiography right now, so this is...in... good timing.

So...

Spock/Batman

dead Klingons/Jokers everywhere.

Wow, watching this thing.. They certainly recycled EVERY prop they could find....sorta nostalgic

LosinMySenses: Lest my history of Alexander the Great is off, but wasn't he gay?

So that means West would be Alexander and Shatner would be his sidekick.

/cause nobody can make Shatner Gay

No.

There is no conclusive evidence that suggests Alexander was gay.

Now, there is plenty of speculation in various primary sources, especially over his relationship with Hephaestion (they were very close friends), and there were rumors and slanders.

He did enter into relationships with women, and did father a child.

So based on what we know, he was heterosexual, with a possibility of bisexuality, but not gay.

No, as for the pilot. Historical mistakes aside, am I the only one who enjoyed it?

Billy, do you like movies with gladiators?

LOOKWELL

Swampthing in Korea: He did enter into relationships with women, and did father a child.

So based on what we know, he was heterosexual, with a possibility of bisexuality, but not gay.

That would sound complete bizarre to anyone from that time.

He had sex with women for procreation, and with men for fun - a not uncommon arrangment, they didn't really have "gay" back then.

And reality agains fails to deliver true greatness.

glwtta: Swampthing in Korea: He did enter into relationships with women, and did father a child.

So based on what we know, he was heterosexual, with a possibility of bisexuality, but not gay.

That would sound complete bizarre to anyone from that time.

He had sex with women for procreation, and with men for fun - a not uncommon arrangment, they didn't really have "gay" back then.

You misunderstand

There is no evidence to suggest that Alexander did have relationships with men.

It was interesting. Not necessarily good, but interesting none the less. A "Wagon Train to Ancient Greece" if you will.

Here's something else people might of forgotten William Shatner was in.
Link (new window)

Shatner and West in "Alexander the Great".

All they'd need would be Gil Gerard, and the combined egos would have sunk most of So Cal without even the need for The Big One.

/Gerard is the biggest asshole I ever met, bar none.
//and no sense of humor, either.

^^^ "All you need to know thanks to Maiden" (new window). WTF don't know what happened there.

At the Shore Leave con in Baltimore, several of the Trek novel authors do Mystery Trekkie Theater each year. As the name implies, they usually riff on a Star Trek episode.

Three years ago, they did Alexander. This made the whole thing doubly hilarious. It's probably the only way I could have sat through the entirety of this pilot.

Pashc: it's obvious that their 'Persia' is just the American southwest.

my first thoughts too. hilarious.

Pashc: Wow, I just love that in the first minute or two, it's obvious that their 'Persia' is just the American southwest. Yeah, it's just a pilot, but still. Have some pride, men.
Pers
And since the 60s, Westwood Los Angeles has become Little Persia, or Irangeles.

John Cassavetes and Joseph Cotten are in it too. Amazing.

No love for the time that Shatner and Nemoy were in the same TV show episode together pre-Star Trek?

Man from U.N.C.L.E. ftw!

runningscared: Here's something else people might of forgotten William Shatner was in.
Link (new window)

Have. Might have.

The show it's a pity wasn't picked up is Lookwell (pops). Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel wrote it for Adam West because only he could pull off the comedy.

Bill Maher says the pilot (clicky above) is the funniest half hour he's ever seen.

I love this show more than I love taffy ... and I'm a man who enjoys his taffy.

AirForceVet: I'm dating myself here, but I remember watching this movie on TV as a kid.

And the original Star Trek and Batman series too.

/What was the first Star Trek episode to air on TV?
//Hint: It wasn't one of the two pilots.

Where No Man Has Gone Before

kilgorn: Where No Man Has Gone Before

Nope, that was the second pilot. The first Star Trek episode to air on TV was "The Man Trap."

At 11, I was amazed by the phasers, transporters, the starship Enterprise design, and the storyline that evening. I became an instant fan.

TheNyquilKid
I love this show more than I love taffy ... and I'm a man who enjoys his taffy.

Strangely, this arouses me more than thinking of Bill as a gladiator on horseback.

I'll be in my bunk...

That was actually entertaining. Wow, too bad it wasn't picked up.