The worst fight in TV history re-enacted for your benefit – Captain Kirk versus The Gorn

30 September 2013 Rob Buckley US TV Post a comment

Possibly – indeed probably – the worst TV fight ever was in the Star Trek episode Arena, which featured Captain Kirk in the slowest hand-to-hand fight with anything, let alone a giant lizard-like Gorn, in recorded history.

Well, praise be! William Shatner and a Gorn were reunited earlier this year to re-enact that fight and it’s even more awesomely bad now.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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