[thechat] Bill Shatner's voice
William Anderson
neuro at well.com
Tue Oct 5 00:51:04 CDT 2004
Madhu Menon wrote:
> I know there are plenty of nerd Trekkies on this list (Hi William!), so
> let me ask you this:
Bah.
> If you've seen ST:TOS (and I know you have), you might notice that
> there's a BIG difference between the voice of William Shatner (Capt.
> Kirk) in the 1960s and his current voice (or even in the ST movies.)
>
> In the 60s, he sounds like he was on helium. Now, he's got that deep
> voice going.
>
> So what changed? Did he get surgery? Was sound technology bad in the
> 60s? Did he just take vocal lessons?
Dude, he's *old*! Shatner was in his mid-30s when he did the Trek show, now
he's in his 70s - did you expect his voice to remain the same through 40-odd
years? Hell, look at what happened to Julie Andrews :(
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