SHATNER SUNDAY: Shatner and Nimoy interviewed in 1966

My fellow Trekkies, I have a treat for you today. This clip, shot during the production of the original Star Trek series, features short interviews with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy in costume as their iconic characters Kirk and Spock. (Actually, if you'll pardon me for dropping some serious dork on you, Shatner is in costume as his own android double from the episode What Are Little Girls Made Of?)

The clip is fascinating, for a number of reasons. Over the decades Shatner and Nimoy have of course been interviewed endlessly about Trek, but I've never seem them interviewed when they were this young. It's weird to see them break character, with Shatner answering questions in that 1966 James Tiberius Kirk voice, and Nimoy in full, original series Spock gear, smiling and talking about playing gangsters. It's also weird to see an interview from an era when Trek itself was an unknown quantity and sci-fi in general was generally dismissed as kids stuff. Shatner and Nimoy both seem a little embarrassed about the whole thing.


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