I’ve mentioned already that I thought Star Trek was awesome, but one thing that seemed off about it to me and many others was the scene in which young Kirk goes joyriding in a hot rod (you can see the scene at the beginning of the first trailer). In the car, Kirk pops in a tape of ‘Sabotage’ by the Beastie Boys – an odd choice of music for a kid living in the 24th century.

Topless Robot offers a possible explanation: ‘Sabotage’ was a reference to Shatner’s infamous mispronunciation of the word sabotage (when Bill says it, it rhymes with ‘badge’) as in the clip above. It actually seems plausible.  This sound clip is pretty famous, and if you listen to Howard Stern you’ve probably heard it a few times.  Still, I think it’s a little too subtle to be an effective diss.  I think a better way to do it would’ve been, at some point in the movie, to have Kirk turn to Spock and say:

KIRK: Spock! I think they’ve sabo-tadged us!
SPOCK: Did you just say ‘sabo-tadge’?
KIRK: Yes. That’s how I pronounce it.
SPOCK:  What are you, a f*cking idiot?

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Here’s the real Bill Shatner giving JJ Abrams a piece of his mind vis a vis the design for the new enterprise. Holy shit, this is gonna be so controversial!

“To me it looks very much like the old Enterprise, which is terrific. It was a great design, a great, imaginative design. I gotta tell all of you, whether a window is blue or green, whether it’s up here or down there, it really doesn’t matter. What matters is that… it’s ship shape.”

And he continues, in a similarly nonsensical fashion. Basically, he says the new Star Trek will be good if it’s like old Star Trek. Hey! You know what this post could use? A fight scene from the original Star Trek!
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Here’s a fun little video of Bill Shatner watching the trailer for the new JJ Abrams’ Star Trek movie. Oh Bill. What an actor. This is why when people complain about new Star Trek stuff not being faithful enough to the original, you should probably just back away slowly.

[via GorillaMask]