Oh, I wouldn't say completely talentless. He is a decent actor. It's just that he wasn't a great actor. But I'll always love his Captain Kirk from the original series and some of the movies. I thought he did a fine job on the crews final outing together in ST 6: The Undiscovered Country.
(Which, in my opinion, has quite possibly the most humorously self-referential line in all of Star Trek. In the prison, when the alien shapeshifter comes on to him late at night, he seems - once again - to have used his charms on alien women to get himself out of a tight situation.
McCoy, who has been overhearing all of the goings on from the next bunk over, leans over after she has left and whispers in sotto voice, the immortal line, "What IS IT with you, anyway??"
In the theater, when I saw this, I pumped my fist in the air and said, "YES!! I've been waiting 25 YEARS to hear that line!!" My friends around me died laughing. ^_^ )
But yes - the fact that he doesn't take himself seriously counts for a lot of my renewed like for him. He wasn't always that way. There was a time in the not too distant past when I couldn't stand the man he was so full of himself. But he seems to have mellowed out a lot.
BTW, I recommend the John M. Ford authored Star Trek novel, "How Much For Just The Planet?" for a wonderful send up of Kirk. And one of the funniest books I've ever read. I wish they could have made this one into a movie!
-Logan
(Which, in my opinion, has quite possibly the most humorously self-referential line in all of Star Trek. In the prison, when the alien shapeshifter comes on to him late at night, he seems - once again - to have used his charms on alien women to get himself out of a tight situation.
McCoy, who has been overhearing all of the goings on from the next bunk over, leans over after she has left and whispers in sotto voice, the immortal line, "What IS IT with you, anyway??"
In the theater, when I saw this, I pumped my fist in the air and said, "YES!! I've been waiting 25 YEARS to hear that line!!" My friends around me died laughing. ^_^ )
But yes - the fact that he doesn't take himself seriously counts for a lot of my renewed like for him. He wasn't always that way. There was a time in the not too distant past when I couldn't stand the man he was so full of himself. But he seems to have mellowed out a lot.
BTW, I recommend the John M. Ford authored Star Trek novel, "How Much For Just The Planet?" for a wonderful send up of Kirk. And one of the funniest books I've ever read. I wish they could have made this one into a movie!
-Logan