Manowar are such a guilty pleasure of mine. They have a lot of very silly material, but hard to deny that Dark Avenger is anything but absolute art.

He also did work with Rhapsody of Fire from 2004 to 2010, where his contributions were of much higher quality.

I'd heard of this movie before and had to check it out - the scene I watched where he was speaking to who I assume is the female lead sounded like an American and an Italian both speaking perfectly passable Esperanto. If I were to nitpick his i's were a little soft - Esperanto i's are canonically pronounced ee - but Esperanto was made to accommodate lots of different accents without losing comprehensibility and it did that here. I actually found his Esperanto easier to follow than the girl's, but that's probably because I learned Esperanto from people speaking it with Canadian accents.

Shatner speaks Esperanto with a perfect native accent. Everyone else is pronouncing it wrong.

When I watched Incubus I remember him sounding very much like he was trying to speak Italian. My only basis for comparison are some podcasts in Esperanto I've listened to, and completion of the duolingo course (I've forgotten everything).

Thank you. 100% agree. I would love to hear Shatner work with John Cooper Clarke

I honestly couldn’t stop thinking about it. People around here eat plates of pasta in cars and throw them out the window.

And Shatner's cover was covered by Family Guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZL4pNtI9nM

I have to say, the brass arrangement is pretty good - would have loved to be there when they recorded that staccato part.

This is very well done, thanks

Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge! That always blows me away. What a life's journey.

100 is the new 80... I hope!

In a thread full of attractive links, this was the one that got me to break discipline and click. Thanks!

Well, thanks for cutting another one and a half hours from my already too short period of sleep at night and making me waste more time tomorrow at looking up more stand up shows from Henry if available.

Apparently more than 100 registerd users with voting rights thought it interesting and few to none felt it flag worthy.

So, much the same bar was cleared as every other article that makes the "interesting to HN community" grade.

Rack that up to more Trekkie-adjacent and metal-heads than you might have expected.

A lot of those non-tech get flagged from the homepage. It’s interesting to see what is allowed to stay and what is not.

...Yes. We're all fucking nerds.

/s

Yup, I am a fan and watched that concept video when it came out. I'm hoping he makes some sort of return, perhaps involving the Star Trek Picard Season 3 reveal that Kirk's body is being kept on ice at Section 31, on Daystrom Station. I would imagine that there are many ways that Kirk could be brought back, perhaps Kirk's body could have ended up being stored in a transporter's buffer similar to how the episode "Relics" from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Montgomery Scott (Scotty) is discovered alive in a transporter buffer after being trapped for 75 years on a Dyson sphere. The transporter has been rigged to sustain two life signals, allowing Scott to survive by maintaining a diagnostic cycle. His pattern remains intact, allowing him to be rematerialized after being rescued by the USS Enterprise. Another possibility is being back due to meddling from the Q or an evolved V'Ger. There's been published a comic where some of the old crew from multiple TV projects have been brought back to help solve the killings of some of Star Trek's Gods by an unknown figure. Emperor Kahless is eventually revealed to be Star Trek’s god-killer. Among the many cameos in the series are Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko, Kira Nerys, Odo, Worf, Alexander Rozhenko, Spock, Scotty, Uhura, B'Elanna Torres, Tom Paris, Ro Laren, and others like Q, Kahless (clone/Emperor), and crossovers with Picard-era or TOS characters. It does not have to be a TV series but could be a limited TV mini-series. The Star Trek financial gods wasted big money on a badly done Section 31 movie. I don't see why they don't do something more similar to Star Trek comic and Television canon.