![]() ![]() One of the founding stories of the Star Trek mythos is how the two original leading men locked horns on meeting in their mid-30s, soon got over their “feud”, and went on to be the most unlikely of best friends, even when the camera was turned off. What was that Nimoy had just said? That he was no longer in touch with Shatner? It felt like the mother of all phaser stuns. But for those of us steeped in Star Trek, which means not simply knowing every one of the 79 episodes almost verbatim but also its many backstage narratives, we had stopped listening by this point. We used to.”įrom there the conversation tacks off into Nimoy’s favourite episode ( “Amok Time”), and the weirdness of the early Trek conventions at which thousands of fans would descend on some provincial hotel dressed in bri-nylon pyjamas in an approximation of their favourite Enterprise crew member. ![]() Without missing a beat, Nimoy says: ‘Not in a while … we don’t have that kind of relationship any more. After sprinting through a few tired jokes about Vulcan nerve pinches and beaming up, Morgan asks Nimoy about how often he sees the old gang, William Shatner in particular. Morgan was just as you’d expect – polite enough about COPD and its ghastly consequences, but bursting to talk Star Trek (Morgan is exactly the right age to have been captivated by the programme – it arrived in Britain in 1969, and ran on a continuous loop throughout the early 70s). Although he had quit 30 years earlier, he had recently been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and, to make the point of how horrible it was, had brought along his oxygenator as a fearful warning. Nimoy, then 82, had agreed to the gig in order to publicise the dangers of smoking. On 10 February 2014 Leonard Nimoy appeared on Piers Morgan’s CNN chatshow for what would be the final interview before his death 12 months later.
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