Before Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner appeared in this classic series

In the episode “The Man from Uncle” “The Project Strigas Affair” (November 24, 1964), he explained that Laslo Kurasov (Werner Clemember of “Hugan Champions”A diplomat -like diplomat from the Balkan state aims to disrupt his name, to disrupt arms talks between the United States and the nations behind the iron curtain. Napoleon Solo’s agents (Robert Wagner) and Ella (David McCalaum) are charged with removing Laslo from his position without his assassination (which makes him in the martyr). Instead, they formed a very complicated plan to embarrass Laslo and discredit his reputation in the eyes of the audience.

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The plan begins with a factor of his Uncle PlayCting in his death in front of Laslo, and the Cryptic (Stargas YL893) is shouted. This is surprised by Laslu and causes him to appoint his assistant, a man named Vladic (Leonard Nimoy), to investigate what this kohr might mean. Uncle Sara feed Vladic some fake information, explaining that “Strigas” is actually the code name for an American chemical engineer called Michael Donfield (William Shatner), who has not yet enjoyed the Uncle’s scheme. Only then, Elijah and Napoleon recruited Donfield to help them.

The plot also includes Elijah, which disguises and infiltrates the internal circles in Laslo. In addition, there is a scene in which Donfield pretends to be drunk at a luxury cocktail party, which leads to Laslo to believe that it is reckless enough to sell the secrets of the (fake) state. Then there is an attempt to sell to the Russian agents … Look, the episode’s plot is very complicated, and it will take everything for a long time. There is a blackmail plot, and some new characters working as mediators. The important point is that “Strigas” is fake, and the uncle wants to see whether they can overthrow a buyer, as well as evidence criminalization of the plant on the laslo, and thus finally distort it as they originally want.

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The most attention about “The Project Strigas Affair” is that it features some scenes with both William Shaatner and Leonard Nimoy, two years before they become stars participating in “Star Trek”.

Shatner and Nimoy had a strange parallel career, and it seems almost inevitable that they should eventually behave. Both began their professional profession on the screen in 1951, with Shatner appeared in “The Butler’s Night Off”, and Nimoy appears in “Queen for a Day”. Shatner had distorted classic, as he behaved in “Oidipus The King” and “The Brothers Karamozov”, while Nimoy was taking the B-Movies Road, appearing in “Zombies of the Statosphere” and “Francis AT West Point”, one of Francis images Super. The two actors also starred in their first TV shows in 1954, where Chatner Koboy Bob played on the Canadian version of “The Howdy Doody Show”, and Nimoy appears on “Dragnet”.

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Both actors appeared on various episodes of “Gunsmoke”, “The Twilight Zone” and “External Borders”. They were all actors working hard on their way across the same system, and they often get the same jobs. In 1964, though, their paths eventually crossed when they were thrown in the same episode of “The Man from Uncle”, the actors have only a few scenes together, and they do not interact much inside those scenes, but they already appeared on the camera at the same time. There is a great moment when Nemoy refers to a pistol in Shatner and takes a bag of it by force.

In 1966, of course, Shatner and Nimoy will become major actors on “Star Trek”, playing the role of Captain Kirk and Commander Spoke. Their relationship with “Star Trek”, as well as infinitely reported, was not very rosy, because they constantly tried to steal each other’s lines. It took an angry speech from “Star Trek” Creator Gene Roddenberry To return them to the line.

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Shatner and Nemoy have widely wrote about their relationship to individual CVs and CVs. In the book “Shatner”, written by Michael Seth Star, Nemoy said that and Satner had a wonderful acting chemistry on “Star Trek” because Shatner was playing a very passionate character in Kerk, and Nemoy had to be very cool like Spok. He also said that they head a lot, most of them for the causes of the ego. Spow became a intermittent character, angered Shatner, hired outwardly to be the “Star Trek” leadership. Nemoy said:

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(We were very competitors, with a brother competing here, and after the width was on the air a few weeks and started getting a lot of mail around Spok, then the saying fell from NBC: “Oh, we gave more of this man! They love this man! “Well, this could be a problem for a leading man appointed as the star of the show.”

The co-star “Star Trek” George Taki in his own autobiography “, to the stars”, Nemoy and Satner all the time, both of whom-both of them-both- Shatner in particular – The children of Donnas were of the highest ranking. Shatner said in a direct event (this author attended) that he and NIMOY were not really friends even after the end of “Star Trek”, and they started seeing each other in the events of live fans and “Star Trek” agreements. By the time Nemoy died in 2015, he and Satner became very soon. Shatner recently celebrated his birthday 94.

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On the “Man from Uncle” collection, in 1964, one of the actors could not have predicted his future, but it is a great example of crossed paths before being launched at the pop culture company.