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[marlowe1]

I remember reading the script to City on the Edge of Forever and thinking that Harlan Ellison was right. Roddenberry screwed with the script. Shatner is a blowhard and television sucks the life out scripts. Then I read The Glass Teat and Ellison's awful melodramatic crap script for a show called The Young Lawyers - and his next dozen articles on why the actors screwed it up (because it was so great from the beginning). And now there's this boob grabbing incident. He's not a gay fashion designer.

After innumerable anniversaries, interviews, conventions, books, press junkets, red carpet arrival lines, DVD featurettes and commentaries, it's abundantly clear: They are so over "Star Trek."

If you ask them what still gets them fired up about the late producer Gene Roddenberry's creation after all these years, you get an answer that -- underneath the glibness -- is very telling:

SHATNER: Money.

NIMOY: Yeah. The big, the big bucks.

SHATNER: Money. The money gets you fired up.

TOGETHER: The biiiig bucks.

Seriously?

SHATNER: Yes, that was serious. We were very serious about that.

NIMOY: Yeah. But seriously, folks.

They aren't the only ones whose affections are waning.

It's official. I like Shatner better.