{"id":10591,"date":"2010-10-26T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10591"},"modified":"2010-10-26T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:25:36","slug":"bennett-on-shatner-nimoy-and-roddenberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/10\/bennett-on-shatner-nimoy-and-roddenberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennett On Shatner, Nimoy And Roddenberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harve Bennett<\/strong>, the man credited with reinvigorating the <em>Star Trek<\/em> movie franchise after the disappointment of the first movie, <em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em>, shared his thoughts about some of the people associated with <em>Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Southern Oregon Film and Television organization at Varsity Theater in Ashland, Oregon, Bennett explained that <strong>William Shatner<\/strong>&#8216;s ego was a cover-up for something else.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Bennett082410.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10592\" title=\"Bennett082410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Bennett082410.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;[Shatner] is what you see,&#8221; said Bennett. &#8220;If you wanted to define a matinee idol, it would be Bill Shatner. He&#8217;s got a wonderful ego; there is nothing he can&#8217;t do; he&#8217;s physically brave and will dare to do anything. He is stubborn; he thinks the world of himself as a cover-up because he is really like every other actor, scared shitless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong>&#8216;s decision to be an actor was a puzzlement to Bennett. &#8220;I never understood why Leonard became an actor, he is a pure intellect,&#8221; said Bennett, &#8220;very bright, very gifted, and there is something about his non-acting that makes him an authority figure. You put the ears on him and it all came together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bennett didn&#8217;t particularly like <strong>Gene Roddenberry<\/strong>, but he acknowledged his abilities. &#8220;I did not like Gene Roddenberry, he did not like me,&#8221; said Bennett. &#8220;I found him to be egocentric and difficult to work with. That does not diminish his contribution, his genius and that special ability that Gene had which I would call promotional genius. He knew how to take things and make them instantaneously important.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harve Bennett, the man credited with reinvigorating the Star Trek movie franchise after the disappointment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2972,2421],"tags":[3039],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-movies","category-star-trek-tos","tag-bennett"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-movies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Movies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10595,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions\/10595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}