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  • Wow, what a great mini-essay. I’d love to see it posted such that more ST fans could enjoy it.

    He is a different person at the end of the movie than he was at the beginning (or throughout the TV show). Less cocky, more aware of the consequences of his actions, because it literally cost him his best friend.

    Hmm, the idea of ‘cockiness’ is an interesting one that seems to meet the eye test, but I’m not sure I really agree with. That is-- altho he could indeed bluff, boast and ‘exert his personality’ here and there in the series, it felt to me like there was almost always a stone-cold, calculating nature behind it.

    TWOK has what’s arguably Shatner’s finest performance - certainly in Star Trek, maybe ever.

    I’m tempted to agree, altho reading something like Shatner’s Toupee, I was impressed by how many strong performances he turned in over the years. For example, I’d never heard of Incubus nor The Defender before, but that amazing blog introduced those and many other interesting acting he’d done.

    I also feel that in the series proper, Shatner showed an amazing versatility in terms of ways to react and play various scenes, to the extent that I can’t imagine how much more dull the show would have been with Jeffrey Hunter as lead. So I think it’s fair to say that while his TWOK performance was great, he also turned in a load of other great performances as Kirk and other characters. Which was ‘finest?’ I suspect that’s a pretty monster and/or nebulous debate, really.