Lots of people say that William Shatner must have been possessed by the actual spirit of the real Jim Kirk when acting as him, and that’s definitely true.
But if that was true, could Leonard Nimoy also have been possessed by the spirit (or katra, I guess) of Spock?
Like, he knew and understood his character so well, better than some of the show’s writers even. In his autobiography I Am Not Spock, he discusses having conversations in his head between himself and Spock.
And some people may not like this, but I feel that now that same spirit has moved on to inhabit Ethan Peck, who plays the character almost equally well if you ask me.
(As for Zachary Quinto, I’m talking specifically about the spirit of Spock Prime, so a different character and therefore spirit in his case.)
Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, William Shatner guest stars in "A Time to Kill," episode 18 of the first season of The Big Valley (original air date January 19, 1966). Nobody kills or gets killed in this episode, so I can only assume they picked the episode title by playing that game where you open the Bible to a random page and point to a line without looking.
Shatner plays Brett Schuyler, Jarrod Barkley's old law school roommate, who comes to visit with stories of having made his fortune in shipping and real estate. The truth, however, is that without family money or connections, and being unwilling to start at the bottom of a legitimate business, he has fallen in with a gang of counterfeiters and bank robbers. They're using the visit as a pretext to swindle the local bank, where Jarrod has vouched for Schuyler's good character and credit. In the end, he can't go through with betraying his old friend and attempts to put the bank's money back. But when the rest of the gang tries to stop him, he sounds the alarm so they'll all be caught. The episode ends with Jarrod agreeing to represent him at the the trial.
Other Trek connections: Bill Quinn, who played Dr. McCoy's dying father in one of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier's flashback sequences, plays a Secret Service agent pursuing Schuyler's counterfeiting ring.
william shatner is kind of like a sith lord because he was born with the divine and incredible power of being incredibly cunty yet he only uses it for evil (being annoying on twitter and going to space for no reason) like we know he has astronomical levels of pure cunt coursing through his veins (we’ve all seen kirk)imagine if it was used for good.
In another, better world i know the Shatster is fulfilling his true destiny of being a guest judge on drag race